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Woman and Child Climbing Ladder
Woman and Child Climbing Ladder
Woman and Child Climbing Ladder

Woman and Child Climbing Ladder

Dateca. 1950
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 1/2 × 9 3/8 in. (19.1 × 23.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Terms
    Object numberPA1982.181.1256
    DescriptionA woman carries a small child on her back and climbs a ladder from the ground to an upper story of an adobe pueblo in New Mexico. The child is wrapped around the woman's back with a cloth and the woman wears a dress and white leg wraps. She is half-way up the ladder The ground floor of the pueblo building has a window and door and the chiles are hung in ristras along the upper floor. A doorway is open beneath the flat roof on the upper floor. A ceramic pot is on the flat roof.
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