Unsinkable Molly, Independence, 750 ft. underground, resettlement families, Mother Jones, more ...

 

Thing of the past ...
[Mrs. James J. "Molly" Brown, survivor of the Titanic, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, right arm on back of chair]
Created / Published:[between 1890 and 1920]
Headings: - Brown, Margaret Tobin,--1867-1932
Genre
Portrait photographs--1890-1920
Photographic prints--1890-1920
Notes:
- Photoprint by Bain News Service.
- George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Medium: 1 photographic print.
Digital Id:cph 3b40210 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40210
Library of Congress Control Number:92521036 

Thing of the past ...
Independence, Colorado. Ghost mining town during early blizzard
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
Created / Published: 1941 Sept.
Headings:
- United States--Colorado--Pitkin County--Independence
Genre: 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: usf34batch7
- Film copy on SIS roll 27, frame 1005.
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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id:fsa 8c35999 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c35999
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017808910 

Thing of the past ...
Skip 750 ft. underground Colorado Mine
Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes:
- Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
- 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
Medium: 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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 16041 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.16041
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014696018 

Thing of the past ...

Children of resettlement families playing in the schoolyard, community building, San Luis Valley Farms, Alamosa, Colorado
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
Created / Published: 1939 Oct.
Headings: - United States--Colorado--Alamosa
Genre: Nitrate 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
Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8a12453 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a12453
Library of Congress Control Number:2017726249 

Thing of the past ...
President and Mrs. Coolidge, Mother Jones, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., full-length portraits, standing.
Created / Published:[1924]
Headings:
- Coolidge, Calvin,--1872-1933
- Coolidge, Grace Goodhue,--1879-1957
- Jones,--Mother,--1837-1930
- Roosevelt, Theodore,--1887-1944
Genre: Portrait photographs--1920-1930
Group portraits--1920-1930
Photographic prints--1920-1930
Notes:
- National Photo Company Collection.
- Item in album: v. 2, p. 19, no. 32660.Medium: 1 photographic print.
Digital Id: cph 3c11392 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11392
Library of Congress Control Number: 94508005 

Thing of the past ...
Johnny's Hotel and post office 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

 Genre: Nitrate 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: usf34batch7
- Film copy on SIS roll 15, frame 1750.
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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8c31640 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c31640
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017808457

Shirley Dennison posted

Thing of the past ...

Dolores. Must be late 1950s, early 1960s, as it's Tade's Department Store in the photo. Earlier photos show it as Shaw's. Foster Shaw had it for years, then sold to Tade Garbareno. Shirley Dennison, Posted August 3, 2012.

 

Probably either a Homecoming parade, or perhaps the parade with what used to be known as the White Water Regatta. The Hollywood would be the fourth building down the street. It is located between Fourth and Fifth Streets, on the north side of Central Avenue. I wish this one was better quality. 

Shirley Dennison, Posted August 3, 2012.

 

MTV, Hughes Stadium, College Days, Broncos' practice

In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind we've gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VCR

Songwriters: Bruce Woolley / Geoffrey Downes / Trevor Charles Horn

 Video killed the radio star

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

In 1981, there was a big TV room on the Shields side of Ingersoll Hall, near the Post Office, as it continued on toward the dining hall. At any time of the day, there would be dozens of students lounging on the nondescript furniture (it looked a little like early Holiday Inn fashion) watching MTV videos to avoid actual studying, and contemplating Buggles songs and images of a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. And most of the College Days revelry was over near the Lagoon, where the 30-foot Hamm's Bear sold beer by the bucket.

Ingersoll Hall looks pretty much the same as it did then, but I am pretty sure you can't watch Elway and the rest of the Broncos on their practice field there on the North side, out your dorm window. But it is a lot closer to the CSU stadium. 

I wouldn't have to get a ride out there to Hughes now to hawk beers.  But I would still be able to make it to my other workstudy jobs at Molby and South College Gym, and the Fieldhouse, (where my father claimed his dorm room was in the 1940s). And the Collegian gig would be in the same vicinity of Lory Student Center, though the original location near the stairs on the North Side was flooded out in 1997 deluge.

Greg Luft, head of the Department of Journalism and Media Communication, was faculty advisor to the campus television station CTV at the time. He recalled seeing aerial footage of the flooded areas on TV and a window well at his home filling up with water. He ended up working with news organizations that gathered near the mobile homes where four fatalities occurred, as the flood made national news.

When Luft was allowed back on campus after the flood, he visited the CTV offices on the north side of the Lory Student Center and found a mess.

“Everything was washed up against the north wall,” Luft said. “There was mud and water on the floor, and all of the electronics were full of mud. Everything that was electronic was gone.”

 He said the water level in the basement of the Bookstore reached two-thirds of the way to the ceiling, and he has a vivid memory of watching crews tossing all of CTV’s damaged furniture and equipment in huge garbage containers. Later that fall, the CBS Denver television station KCNC provided a truckload of old equipment to CTV, and “saved CTV for the fall semester.”

Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium was an outdoor college football stadium located out near Horsetooth Reservoir. It was the home field of the Colorado State Rams of the Mountain West Conference from 1968 through 2016; the team moved in 2017 to the new on-campus Colorado State Stadium. But to date: The Rolling Stones have not played the new digs on campus.

And as far as "College Days": An estimated 6,000 people gathered on the western edge of campus as the university-sponsored concerts and events came to an end April 24 and 25, 1987 — first at Baystone, then outside the Cambridge House Apartments. The damage they left was enough for the university and many students to support the end of College Days.

 Rolling Stones at Hughes Stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQr4LsvLpHQ 

Today Ingersoll Hall, on the south side of campus is home to 415 students. This hall features community-style double rooms (residents in each corridor share a community bathroom), a renovated large student community kitchen, and is within a few minutes of Ram’s Horn Dining Center.

MTV was launched on Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m, under the ownership of the Warner-American Express Satellite Entertainment Company. On June 25, 1984, Warner Communications spun-off Nickelodeon, MTV into a new public corporation called MTV Networks.Warner would later acquire American Express' 50% stake the following year. From August 27, 1985 to May 20, 1986, Warner would sell 31%,  and later, 69% of MTV Networks to Viacom.

The other day, I fresh-cut a Christmas tree, and netted it, for a guy that works for Food Service at Colorado State University. He was telling me about it now being possible for robots to deliver items from one of the only three Residential Dining Centers, (He was talking particularly of Ram's Horn). 

Hughes Stadium, Coming down. Hughes Stadium, Fort Collins. Monday, April 23, 2018

 

Flood water and damage in Lory Student Center.

First 12 Minutes of MTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrEzH9gkZk

Saloons: Blake Street, Durango, Aspen

 

Thing of the past ...
The Hotel Jerome served as a popular local watering hole and boardinghouse during the “quiet years” between silver and skiing, in Aspen, Colorado. Here the community celebrates the Fourth of July at the hotel in 1911. Image by Bailey, Mrs. D. A.
Date: 1911
The Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Digital Collections.

Thing of the past ...
Saloon Block Main Avenue Durango, Colorado, Cyanotype of First National Bank on northwest corner of 9th Street and Main Avenue. Colorado State Bank on right edge. Electric trolley; horse and buggy; dirt street. Saloon Block – West side 900 Block. “This is Main Avenue…” in ink on back. – The Animas Museum or the LaPlata County Historical Society.

Thing of the past ...
Blake Street, Denver – 1866 (looking toward 16th (G) Street – Denver Public Library. Charles Eyser Boarding House and Saloon (1526 Blake Street) shown with the 2nd floor balcony and covered wagon in front.

"Hooch Hound," trained to detect liquor, Feb. 23., 1922

 

Thing of the past ...
(Click on photo to enlarge)

[Hooch Hound, a dog trained to detect liquor (as suggested to Commissioner Haynes by a prohibition agent in Colorado), sniffs at flask in back pocket of man, seated, fishing on pier on the Potomac River]
Created / Published: [19]22 February 23.
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes:
- Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve.
- Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
- General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco
- This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
- Temp. note: Batch five.
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
Source Collection: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: npcc 22716 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.22716
Library of Congress Control Number:2016846095

Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks signing contract establishing United Artists, 1919

 

Thing of the past ...

 (click on photo to enlarge)
[D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio]
Created / Published: [1919, printed ca. 1957]
Headings:
- Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977
- Fairbanks, Douglas,--1883-1939
- Griffith, D. W.--(David Wark),--1875-1948
- Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979
- United Artists Corporation--People--1910-1920
Genre:
Group portraits--1910-1920
Portrait photographs--1910-1920
Gelatin silver prints--1950-1960
Notes:
- Title devised by Library staff.
- Also shows lawyers Albert Banzhaf (left) and Dennis F. O'Brien (right) standing in the background.
- Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
- Published in: "Famous People" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Source Collection: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: cph 3c37195 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c37195
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007678308

"Sergeant Kendall, Christmas day 1909."

 

Thing of the past ...

(Click on photo to enlarge)

Kendall, William Sergeant, 1869-1938, artist
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published:[ca. 1909]
Headings:
- Children & adults
Genre:
Dry plate negatives
Paintings--Reproductions
Notes:
- Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912).
- Photograph of a painting copyrighted and signed "Sergeant Kendall, Christmas day 1909."
- Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 799.
- Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Medium:1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Source Collection: Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Repository:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: det 4a26338 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a26338
Library of Congress Control Number:2016817215