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1859-60/1862. Earliest photograph of House of the Turtles, showing center section and both ends partly collapsed.
Taken by Desiré Charnay 1859-60, mounted in the lavish folio volume of Cités et ruines américaines, Vol. 1, Paris, 1862. Scanned from a 35mm slide taken of an original photograph in the volume at the AMNH (RF-106-D). Reproduced Courtesy of The Library, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History.