Frame
Top Mat
Bottom Mat
Dimensions
Image:
5.50" x 8.00"
Overall:
7.50" x 10.00"
Severed car Dos Cabezos Mountains ghost town Dos Cabezos Arizona 1967 Poster
by David Lee Guss
Product Details
Severed car Dos Cabezos Mountains ghost town Dos Cabezos Arizona 1967 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
Design Details
Dos Cabezas's post office was established April 8, 1879 and discontinued January 31, 1960. First settled in 1878, the town had a barber shop, a... more
Ships Within
3 - 4 business days
Additional Products
Poster Tags
Photograph Tags
Comments (0)
Artist's Description
"Dos Cabezas's post office was established April 8, 1879 and discontinued January 31, 1960. First settled in 1878, the town had a barber shop, a brewery, a general store, brick yard, hotel, blacksmith, and about 300 people.
The mines were worked at a snails pace over the next 80 years and the town finally lost its post office in 1960. Today the ruins can be seen right off the highway on AZ 186 south of Willcox."
The Dos Cabezas (Spanish for two heads) Mountains are in the background. Only 5 families still reside in Dos Cabezas so it is on the cusp of being a ghost town.
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
$22.56
There are no comments for Severed car Dos Cabezos Mountains ghost town Dos Cabezos Arizona 1967. Click here to post the first comment.