[Cabinet Card Albumen Photograph]: View from the Grave of Helen Hunt Jackson

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Vintage albumen print photograph. Measuring 6.5" x 4.5". Mounted on thick unprinted cardstock mount with beveled edges ruled in gilt. .The photograph is very good, with nice contrast and sharp focus in the fore-ground, but background has less contrast due to light skyline. The photograph titled in the negative which depicts the "View from Grave of Helen Hunt Jackson," near the summit of Cheyenne Peak, Cheyenne Mountain, near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The cardstock mount is slightly bowed, corners lightly worn and nicked on mount only else very good. Jackson, American novelist and activist for the rights of Native Americans, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was a classmate of Emily Dickinson. She is best remembered for her novel, *Ramona.*' She was originally buried in San Francisco, but then her body was moved to a private grave near the summit of Cheyenne peak in Pine Hill Forest, on the northern slope of Cheyenne Mountain about four miles from Colorado Springs. Because of the number of tourists visiting her grave site and in order to avoid damage to the area's natural beauty, she was exhumed a second time and moved to her current spot in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs. There are a few photographs and postcard views of Jackson's Cheyenne Peak grave site, including five photographs held by Brigham Young University, but we have been unable to find another example of this particular image. N° de ref. del artículo 519867

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