Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Trout Lake, Western Family, Ludlow , Russian Germans, Kremmling and more ...



Thing of the past ...
Trout Lake, Colorado
Detroit Photographic Co.
Created / Published: [between 1898 and 1905]
Headings
- Mountains
- Lakes & ponds
- United States--Colorado
Photochrom prints--Color.
Notes
- Title from item.
- Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51031".
- Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection.
- More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Medium
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
LOT 13923, no. 45 [item] [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp NP-5-C, Barracks No. 5, CCC Camp Historic District at Chapin Mesa, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Corbeil, Donald W, delineator
McArthur, James, field team
Hutchison, Sayre, project manager
Wegman-French, Lysa, project manager
National Park Service, Intermountain Support Office, Cultural and National Register Program Services, sponsor
Created / Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
Headings:
- barracks
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Colorado -- Montezuma County -- Cortez
Notes:
- Significance: Mesa Verde National Park played host to three separate CCC Camps at various time between 1933 and 1942. The first camp opened in Prater Canyon in 1933 and closed in 1934. That same year, two new camps opened on Chapin Mesa. These two camps merged in 1937. The remaining camp, know by the designation NP-5-C, continued top operate until the CCC program disbanded in 1942. The buildings and landscape features remaining from NP-5-C are now designated as the CCC Camp Historic District. The CCC Camp Historic District contains two sections, the upper (north) section, and a lower (south) section. The lower section includes the features of the CCC Camp itself. These features include the CCC Recreation Hall, Barracks No. 5, and a labyrinth of trails that once connected various buildings in the camp. This lower section still retains some semblance of its original "U" shaped configuration of buildings. The predominate architectural style of the historic district can perhaps best be described as utilitarian. The buildings exhibit architectural characteristics typically associated with CCC camps, that is, they were constructed in a rough inexpensive manner based on the assumption that they would only be used for a temporary period. Barracks No. 5, also known as the "Jack Gray Warehouse" was constructed in 1934 as one of five original barracks buildings in the CCC camp. In classic barracks style, the building is long and narrow, with a light wood frame covered on the exterior by 8" horizontal lap siding. The roof, originally covered with only asphalt paper, has had corrugated metal sheets added at a later date. On the interior, the building has a tongue in groove wood floor, celotex walls, and an open ceiling.
- Survey number: HABS CO-198-A
- Building/structure dates: 1934 Initial Construction
Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 4
Source Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Forbes, Colo. -- Correspondents under flag of truce
Photo shows events relating to the Ludlow Massacre, during which a tent camp of striking miners at Ludlow Colorado was attacked by the Colorado National Guard on April 20, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: 1914
Glass negatives.
Notes:
- Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from print of negative in LOT 7157.
- Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
- General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Source Collection: Bain News Service photograph collection
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Thing of the past ...
A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family live in this roomy shack, well-furnished, with a good range, organ, etc. They own a good home in Ft. Collins, but late in April they moved out here, taking contract for nearly 40 acres of beets, working their 9 and 10 yr. old girls hard at piling and topping (altho[ugh] they are not rugged) and they will not return until November. The little girl said, "Piling is hardest, it gets your back. I have cut myself some, topping." The older girl said, "Don't you call us Russians, we're Germans," (although they were most of them were born in Russia). Family been in this country eleven yrs. (See photo 4041.) Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Created / Published: 1915 October 30.
Headings: - Girls - Families - Agricultural laborers - Sugar industry - Immigrants - United States--Colorado--Fort Collins
Headings :Glass negatives. Photographic prints.
Notes:
- Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
- In album: Agriculture.
- Hine no. 4040.
- The word "Russians" is underlined on the caption card.
- Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
- Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
Medium
1 photographic print.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number/Physical Location
LOT 7475, v. 2, no. 4040 [P&P] LC-H5- 4040
Source Collection: National Child Labor Committee collection
Repository:: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Kremmling, Colorado
Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer
Created / Published: 1942 May.
Headings: - United States--Colorado--Grand County-Kremmling
Safety film negatives
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch8
- Film copy on SIS roll 11, frame 873.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Cutting and raking hay in the valley near Aspen, Colorado
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
Created / Published: 1941 Sept.
Headings: United States--Colorado--Pitkin County--Aspen
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch7
- Film copy on SIS roll 15, frame 1739.
Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.


Thing of the past ...
[Interior of the Democratic Convention Hall, Denver, Colorado]
Created / Published: [1908 July 6]
Notes
- Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C.
- Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item.
- George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
- Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Medium: 1 photographic print.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Thing of the past ...
"Pot luck" with the "boys" - President Roosevelt's cowboy breakfast at Hugo, Colorado
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt serving himself food as cowboys look on.
Underwood & Underwood, publisher
Created / Published:New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1903 June 11.
Headings
- Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Travel--Colorado--Hugo
- Cowboys--Colorado--Hugo--1900-1910
- Outdoor cookery--Colorado--Hugo--1900-191
Photographic prints--1900-1910. Stereographs--1900-1910.
Notes:
- H31838 U.S. Copyright Office.
- Title from item.
- Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
STEREO PRES FILE - Roosevelt, Theodore--Western Tour--Colorado--1903 [item] [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.


Thing of the past ...
Miss Florence Mishou, the girl who had charge of the baby bathing tent thru out the emergency period, and one of her little ones. From the day the camp was established until it was taken over bythe city, Miss Mishou and her assistants bathed approximately 130 babies daily. Besides bathing the children, these young volunteers taught the ignorant foreign mothers how to care for their babies properly. Pueblo, Colorado flood
Created / Published: June 4, 1921.
Headings
- American Red Cross
- United States--Colorado--Pueblo
Glass negatives.
Notes:
- Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
- Date received: July 1921.
- Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Southwest Division.
- Classification: Disaster Relief.
- Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
- General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
- Temp note: Batch 28
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Source Collection: American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...

The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camped near Ft. Collins, Colo. Street family. The children 7- 8- 10- and 12 work steadily and I saw the tiny girl pulling beets after sunset on the following Sunday, and they had not yet finished. The father told me "We got squeezed out of the mountains," one of the neighbors said they has been chased out because they wouldn't send their children to school. Living on the edge of Ft. Collins, they boldly work the children and violate school law. Came from Log Cabin, Colo. Location: Fort Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

Created / Published: 1915 October 30.
Headings: - Boys - Girls - Fathers - Agricultural laborers - Carts & wagons - Homeless persons- School attendance - United States---Fort Collins
Headings -Photographic prints.
Notes:
- Title from NCLC caption card.
- Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
- In album: Agriculture.
- Hine no. 4050.
- Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
- Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
Medium: 1 photographic print.
Source Collection: National Child Labor Committee collection
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
GUNNISON RIVER PROJECT. U.S. RECLAMATION BUREAU. CANAL UNDER 2000 FEET WATER TO UNCOMPHAGRE VALLEY
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Created / Published: 1912.
Headings - United States--Colorado
Glass negatives
Notes:
- Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
- Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
- General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
- Temp. note: Batch one.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smalle
Source Collection: Harris & Ewing photograph collection
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Thing of the past ...

Former bank at Telluride, Colorado, which at time photo was taken, was an Elks lodge.
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published: 1940 Sept.
Headings: - United States--Colorado--San Miguel County--Telluride.
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch4
- Film copy on SIS roll 24, frame 2431.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection:Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository:Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Thing of the past ...
Children of family now living in old hotel in ghost mining town now coming to life because of defense needs. Montezuma, Colorado.
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
Created / Published:1941 Sept.
Headings: - United States--Colorado--Summit County--Montezuma
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch7
- Film copy on SIS roll 15, frame 1749.
Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.


Thing of the past ...
Getting barbecue and coffee at the free barbecue at Ridgway, Colorado, on Labor Day
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published: 1940 Sept.
Headings: - United States--Colorado--Ridgway
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 35 mm. photographic print
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Farmers unloading hogs at stockyards. Denver, Colorado
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
Created / Published:1939 Oct.
Headings: - United States--Colorado--Denver County--Denve
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch3
- Film copy on SIS roll 21, frame 970.
Medium:1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.


Thing of the past ...
An audience takes in a rock concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheater, a naturally formed, world-famous outdoor venue fifteen miles west of Denver in the town of Morrison
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: 2016-07-04.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Morrison
- America
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- Amphitheaters
- Rock concerts
Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
Notes:
- Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
- Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13).
- Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
- Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
Source Collection: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Typical Western family / Samuels & Mays, Meeker, Colo.
Created / Published: c1902.
Headings:
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1900-1910
- Ute Indians--1900-1910
- Families--Colorado--1900-1910
Headings:
Boudoir card photographs--1900-1910.
Group portraits--1900-1910.
Photographic prints--1900-1910.
Portrait photographs--1900-1910.
Notes:
- H22764 U.S. Copyright Office.
- No. 9.
- Title transcribed from item.
- Copyright by Samuels and Mays.
Medium:
1 photographic print on boudoir card.
Digital Id
cph 3c12566 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c12566
Library of Congress Control Number: 94516036

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Saturday, April 20, 2024

Knowing where things were in the store


 Grinding and whetting away across the room

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

 Nearly two thirds of the hardware business back then was knowing where things were in the store. Back on the narrow counter above the pipe fittings and grade 5 machine bolts at Taylor Hardware, a well-worn oil stone with a fine and a finer side rested on the top the counter, in an old metal case with an form-fitted oil sponge under it. Thin in the middle, (a little more so on the finer side,) the foot-long stone had been whetted down for nearly a century, and was a gathering place of sorts.

Sometimes W.T. (Dopey) Butler would come in early in the morning, often on a Monday, and after collecting several items he knew by location, he would spend a few precious minutes sharpening his knife – and his wit in a conversation with owner Merton Taylor, who, by this time was working on a hardware order at the microfiche reader across the room. Dopey was a busy man and could not waste his entire day embroiled in a theoretical discussion with Merton, but maybe,  just a little time on Monday morning, when the owner was too busy to kill the whole morning. 

Locally, "Dopey" Butler was very well known, and more than a few locals had a vivid recall of watching the long-time contractor building a pond nearby, or his measured consideration serving on many local water boards and commissions. And more than a few noted his fascinating command of machines one of the reasons for his choosing hydrology. I was told (by his son Bill) that he acquired the name "Dopey" at young age, when he starred as one of Seven Dwarfs in a grade school play. Like a lot of things in respect to reputation in a small town, the name stuck forever afterward.

One of 12 children raised on the family farm on Granath Mesa above Dolores, the Butler family was legendary in Dolores. Five brothers served in WW II. Paul Butler, the oldest, served in the Army from 1941 to 1945. Robert Butler, better known by his middle name, Maurice, was a radar man in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. Wilbur “Dopey” Butler also served in the Navy as a radio man. David “Bud” Butler, who was not quite 18 when he joined the Army, served in the 309th Regiment of the 78th Infantry Division.

Oddly enough, "Dopey" Butler didn't worry too much about recognition. I do remember an instance where he rushed in, grabbed the log-chain with the shop key attached, and self-located a V-Belt part he needed in the old International Harvester Dealership shop behind the main store. He came running back in, called out a part number, that was written down in his book behind the nail counter, and scrawled his traditional big X across the page in front of some newcomer to town. Not knowing what had transpired, the newcomer lamented the sad state of such lack of education in this day and age. I recall Trucking Company owner Pat Burns (who was also in there at the same time) nearly laughing himself silly. "You know, that man is probably the smartest man in Montezuma County," Pat said.

Anyway, "Dopey" seemed to enjoy sparring mentally with Merton, especially when he did not have time to do it too long. I can still remember his tall form leaning awkwardly against the angled counter in his work boots and heavy Artic Cat coat, grinding and whetting away across the room, and flipping over the oil stone, and trying to get a suppositional edge on Merton Taylor, and his own Old Timer knife, at the same time. As I mentioned earlier: Nearly two thirds of the hardware business back then was knowing where things were in the store.

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

'Women have come a long way, but not far enough'

 Colorado captured by Marion Post Wolcott

 


Blizzard near the Aspen Post Office photo Marion Post Wolcott.

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

Marion Post Wolcott's most famous photos in Colorado feature the Denver Stockyards, the Aspen Post Office in full blizzard, and somewhat forgotten mining towns of Ashcroft, Montezuma, Meredith, and other ghosts. Wolcott was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation.

"Back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, when it was still relatively novel to use photographs in the press to inform and influence public opinion and policy, Marion Post Wolcott captured images of life in rural America to galvanize support for the New Deal. She was hired as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a federal agency dedicated to improving the lives of America’s most impoverished farmers. Her images vividly exposed the social and economic conditions wrought by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, and included tenant farmers, migrant workers, cotton pickers, among others, all living in poverty and racially divided communities," wrote Carey Moncaster, MA, for SPICE, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education. She is also the granddaughter of Marion Post Wolcott. SPICE features a selection of Marion Post Wolcott’s photographs in an ongoing series along with organizing questions for educators. 

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. It succeeded the Resettlement Administration (1935–1937). 

The FSA is famous for its small but highly influential photography program, 1935–44, that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty. The photographs in the FSA/Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy Stryker, who guided the effort in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935–1937), the Farm Security Administration (1937–1942), and the Office of War Information (1942–1944). The collection also includes photographs acquired from other governmental and nongovernmental sources, including the News Bureau at the Offices of Emergency Management (OEM), various branches of the military, and industrial corporations.

In the early 1940s and late 1930s, Marion Post Wolcott, shooting photos for the eventually famous collection of Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-And-White Negatives, including capturing the ghost mining town of Ashcroft, Colorado, and other Western Slope  locations and mining towns such as Leadville, Montezuma, and Denver.


Denver stockyards by Marion Post Wolcott.

"Only the second woman hired on the project, Marion traveled backroads for weeks on end alone—a brave and determined assignment for a young, white woman at that time. She was influenced early by a traveling mother who pioneered birth control clinics with Margaret Sanger and a loving relationship with her Black caregiver, and was later exposed to progressive ideas, art, and education in New York City and Austria as Hitler rose to power. These experiences helped Marion view inequity and injustice through the lens of race, class, and gender, and her interest in photography deepened as a way to illuminate complex issues and influence social change," Moncaster says.

Marion Post Wolcott in 1940
 Marion Post Wolcott
 
"As she traversed the states, hauling her heavy camera, film, light meters, tripods, and flash bulbs, she connected with women and children, entered homes and fields, changed flat tires on creekbed roads, finding creative ways to earn the trust of the people she photographed. In addition to scenes depicting specific, candid moments in U.S. history, her images also captured enduring racial tensions, class discrepancies, and reflections of shared humanity."

"At the height of her photographic career, Marion’s professional life suddenly ended in 1942, after she met her husband Lee Wolcott, an assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and recent widower with two young children. Amid the frenzy of McCarthyism, the Wolcotts opted to leave D.C. and try their hand at farming. Marion put down her camera to focus on the demanding roles of farm wife and mother to her growing family," Moncaster says in information about SPICE's presentation of her work.

"Years later, leaving the farm for her husband’s USAID posts in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, and India, Marion picked up her camera again to capture social and political images. Upon retirement back in the United States, she continued photographing people and activities of personal interest such as anti-war protests and other social movements. Some of these images have been included in exhibits and media as FSA photographs became increasingly featured in present-day discussions. Her FSA film negatives remain archived in the U.S. Library of Congress and her prints are included in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian Institute."

Despite late recognition, Wolcott often reflected on and grappled with the hard choices women of her generation faced as they tried to balance raising a family with a professional career, says her granddaughter. 

A few years before her death in 1990, as a keynote speaker at a Women in Photography Conference, Marion said to her audience:

"Women have come a long way, but not far enough. Ahead still are formidable hurdles. Speak with your images from your heart and soul. Give of yourself. Trust your gut reactions. Suck out the juices—the essence of your life experiences. Get on with it; it may not be too late."
 
 

“Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, 1939”; photo courtesy Carey Moncaster
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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Ignacio, Buckskin Charlie, Rockefeller, Steamboat, Polly Pry, Police, Henry Jackson and more ...

 


Thing of the past ...
Photograph of Chief Ignacio and his horse / by Frank S. Balster, Durango, Colorado.
Balster, Frank S., photographer
Created / Published: c1904.
Headings:
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1900-1910
- Ute Indians--1900-1910
- Tribal chiefs--United States--1900-1910
Photographic prints--1900-1910.
Portrait photographs--1900-1910.
Notes:
- H47240 U.S. Copyright Office.
Prints & Photographs (Library of Congress)


Thing of the past ...
Paradox Valley near Bedrock
Creator: Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977
Date: 1940-1950
Donor: Muriel Sibell Wolle estate, 1977
Either Paradox Creek or the Dolores River as it runs through the Paradox Valley near Bedrock, in Montrose County, Colorado.
Format of Original Material: 1 photonegative : black-and-white ; 7 x 12 cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.); 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 6 x 11 cm (2 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Original Material Found in Collection: WH906. Muriel Sibell Wolle papers
Type of Material: Film negatives; Black & white photographs; Photographic prints
Subject: Montrose County (Colo.); Paradox Valley (Colo.); Valleys--Colorado--Montrose County
 

Thing of the past ...
Workmen spraying a bridge with silver paint. Sapinero, Colorado
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published: 1940 Sept.
Headings: United States, Colorado, Gunnison County, Sapinero
Headings: Safety film negatives.
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch4
- Film copy on SIS roll 24, frame 2300.
Medium
1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection:
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository:
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Lincoln Avenue in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
Created / Published: 1941 Sept.
Headings
- United States--Colorado--Steamboat Springs
Safety film negatives.
Notes:
- Identified as Lincoln Avenue in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, by a researcher; Apr. 1994.
- Title and other information from caption card: Main street of Craig, Colorado, a new and thriving boom town.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch7
- Film copy on SIS roll 8, frame 967.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Thing of the past ...
Post office at Telluride, Colorado
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published:1940 Sept.
Headings: United States--Colorado--San Miguel County--Telluride
Safety film negatives
Notes:
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch4
- Film copy on SIS roll 24, frame 2366.
Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Source Collection: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 

Thing of the past ...
Trout Lake and outlet
Creator Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Date:[1890s?]
Narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande railroad tracks near Trout Lake (San Miguel County), Colorado. Shows a small farm, wagon, barn, cows, fences, telegraph poles; two men stand by a low dam near a boat dock. The San Juan Mountains are in the distance.
Original Material Found in Collection, W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book VIII
Digital Version Created From W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book VIII ; no. 103
Denver Public Library Special Collections
 

Thing of the past ...
Sheepmen. Cimarron, Colorado
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published, 1940 Sept.
Headings: Safety film negatives.
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
 


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Polly Pry papers : photographs, 1870-1921
Date: ca.1870-1921
Mrs. Leonel Ross (Campbell Anthony) O'Bryan, aka "Polly Pry", was a tabloid journalist for The Denver Post. Her most sensational story resulted in the pardon of the "cannibal" Alferd Packer. Her descriptive and dramatic writing about mine unions and miners caused her life to be threatened. She left The Denver Post and started her own magazine, "Polly Pry." After folding that publication, she worked for the Denver Times through 1914. The newspaper sent her to Mexico twice, once to interview the warring factions led by General Victoriano Huerta and Panch Villa. The second time she witnessed the success of the revolutionary forces led by Villa and Venustiano Carranza. At age 60, Pry helped organize the American Franco Children's League to benefit French orphans. She also worked in public relations for the Red Cross in Greece and Albania during World War I.
Format of Original Material: 4 photographs
Original Material Found in Collection: WH280. Polly Pry papers.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
 

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Cripple Creek Delivery Wagon
Date: ca. 1900
Photographer unknown
Description: Man holding a couple of metal cans stands with one foot on step of small enclosed carriage drawn by two horses with sign "Cripple Creek Dairy". Carriage is standing on unpaved street in front of large brick block of buildings, possibly the National Hotel in the 400 block of Bennett Avenue.
Location: Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Collection name: Carl Mathews Photograph Collection
Pikes Peak Library District
 

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Eldora, Colorado
Date: [1906?]
The schoolhouse at Eldora, Colorado, shows a classroom full of children, most of whom are seated at wooden desks. Their teacher and other students are standing against the far walls.
Format of Original Material 1 copy photonegative : black-and-white ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Digital Version Created From Capt. Kemp
Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.
Notes: Hand-written on back of photoprint: "One of the classrooms in the school-house - This photograph is believed to have been made about 1906. The school-house was a two-story frame building. On the main floor were two class rooms. The upper story was used for public gatherings such as dances lodge meetings, church gatherings. The building was condemned in about 1920. In 1939 incident to consolidation of the Eldora school district with that of Nederland, the building was sold, and torn down. The teacher, standing at the left side of the room is believed to be Mrs. Amos Entwhistle, whose husband was a mining man in Eldora at that time. Photographer unknown."; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
 

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Prohibition, seizure of still near Greeley, Colo.
Date: [1925-1933?]
Law enforcement officers wearing suits and hats stand among barrels of liquor and a still in Greeley (Weld County), Colorado. Shows the front section of an automobile.
Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print ; 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.).
Digital Version Created From Hazel E. Johnson.
Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.
Notes: Condition: original negative faded. Formerly F23238; Number inked on front of print: "F23238."; Penciled on back of print: "Lawmen seizing still near Greeley, Colo."; Title inked on front of print. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm.(5 x 7 in.).
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
 

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Needle Mountains, Colorado
Detroit Photographic Co.
Created / Published: [between 1898 and 1905]
Headings:
- Rivers
- Mountains
- United States--Colorado--Needle Mountains
Photochrom prints--Color.
Notes
- Title from item.
- Title on inventory list: Needle Mountains.
- Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51027".
- Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection.
- More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Additional notes: The Needle Mountains are a subrange of the San Juan Mountains of the Rocky Mountains located in the southwestern part of the U.S. State of Colorado. Much of the range is protected in the Weminuche Wilderness of the San Juan National Forest.
The Detroit Publishing Company was started by publisher William A. Livingstone and photographer Edwin H. Husher in the late 19th century as the Detroit Photographic Company, it later became The Detroit Photochrom Company, and it was not until 1905 that the company called itself the Detroit Publishing Company.
The best-known photographer for the company was William Henry Jackson, who joined the company in 1897. He became the plant manager in 1903, and in 1905 the company changed its name.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
 

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Photo murals on walls of Fred Mazzulla's basement
Date: [1940-1947?]
Interior view of the basement at the Fred Mazzulla residence at 1930 East 8th (Eighth) Avenue in the Country Club neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; Herndon Davis portraits include Ralph Baird, Lord Ogilvy, Chet Nelson, Gene Fowler, Helen Bonfils, Harry Rhoads, Thomas M. Patterson, Polly Pry, and Abe Pollack.
Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint ; 8 x 12 cm (3 1/2 x 5 in.)
Original Material Found in Collection: WH744. Fred Mazzulla papers
Digital Version Created From George Curfman.
Type of Material: Photographic prints
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
Notes: Photoprint has scalloped edges. Title inked on back of photoprint.
 

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Detroit Photographic Co.'s Special
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published: [1902]
Headings:
- Jackson, William Henry,--1843-1942
- Detroit Publishing Co
- Photographic studios
- Railroad passenger cars
Dry plate negatives.
Notes:
- William Henry Jackson seated at table. Probably in Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad car.
- "Detroit Photographic Co." on negative.
- Detroit Publishing Co. no. 42272.
- Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 
 

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