Actual Photographs of LOS PENITENTES

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Denver, Co., Cosner Selling Co., 1931, Stapled

Small oblong softcover 5 1/2" by 3 1/2" Stapled beige wraps with black titles. Contains four photographs of Hermanos Penitente members during Holy Week as they walked the stations of the cross. The original photographs were taken in the mid 1890s by a cameraman concealed at a distance. Embossed mark and small historical society ink stamp inside front cover.

Los Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno ('The Brothers of the Pious Fraternity of Our Father Jesus the Nazarene), also known as Los Penitentes, Los Hermanos, the Brotherhood of our Father Jesus of Nazareth and the Penitente Brotherhood, is a lay confraternity of Spanish-American Catholic men active in Northern and Central New Mexico and southern Colorado. They maintain religious meeting buildings, which are not formal churches, called moradas.