Cabinet Card of Arizona Territory Home

N.D.. Territorial Arizona photograph of a frontier home with four children and six men posing in front of the home. Photograph measures 7 ½" x 4 ½" and is mounted on a buff cabinet card. Image was likely taken near Prescott, Arizona circa the 1880's and 90's. Printed on verso in black lettering is "Views in Arizona - E. M. Jennings, Photographer, Prescott, Arizona" with other locations in the Arizona Territory where he took photos. Also on verso is a purple rubber stamp for "Chas. R. Allen - View Photographer". Photograph is in good condition with light foxing to upper half of image, minor dampstaining to upper left corner, and a ¼" piece missing from the upper left corner of the cabinet card. E. M. Jennings was an active photographer in Prescott from 1870 to 1890, owning a studio and producing photo catalogues. This catalogue allowed other photographers, as well as the public, to order his photographs. This could be why another photographer's name stamped on the card. At the time this photograph was taken the railroad was just arriving to Arizona, and copper, gold and silver mining was still of major economic importance. Not only a rare photograph of territorial Arizona but an intriguing one with only men and children present, and a particularly amusing one with a small child perched so confidently on a burro. .