Friday, April 14, 2023

Things of the past ... April 14, 2023

Thing of the past ...
 

Third Street
 
Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections
Date: [1896-1900]
Third Street from Myers Avenue towards "The Hill," Cripple Creek, Colorado; rows of one, two and three-story brick commercial buildings with flat roofs line the street; scene also includes boardwalk, horse-drawn wagons and carriages parked on sides of street, and electrical poles; Saint Patrick's Catholic Church is in center background; "Shilling's Dr..." is painted on side of brick building and signs attached to buildings include: "Meat and Groceries" and "Star Tobacco."
 
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Fort Collins Water Works
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1900-1910]
Fort Collins Waterworks building, dam, canal and stream, Ft. Collins, Colorado; sign over door states "erected 1882" with names listed underneath (Stoner, Watrous, Bouchyon?, Alexander, Ames, Love, Handy).
Original Material Found in Collection, Louis Charles McClure papers, album VIII, 100
Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

Thing of the past ...

 Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant

Date: 1934, August

The Buckhorn Exchange restaurant at 1000 Osage Street in Denver, Colorado; decor includes a bar, tables, chairs, and taxidermic game heads. Proprietor H. H. Zietz poses with a cigar.

Title inked in photoprint margin; penciled on back of photoprint: "Elkhorn Beer Garden - Mr. H. H. Zietz 1000 Osage."; Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
 
Thing of the past ...
 

Hole in the Wall Gang
 
Creator: Rose, Noah H.
Date: 1880-1890
In Fort Worth, Texas, the Hole in the Wall Gang poses in suits, ties, gold chains, and bowler hats. Named for their Wyoming hideout, these outlaws are (l to r): Harry Longabaugh (The Sundance Kid), Will Carver, Ben Kilpatrick, Harvey Logan (Kid Curry), and Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy).
Denver Public Library Special Collections
Notes: "See RMN July 16, 1902 P.1 C.1." Stamp reads: "This is a print from the famous Rose Collection of old time photographs N. H. Rose photograper P.O. Box 463 - San Antonio, Texas." Identifications are inked in margin of print. Typed paper affixed to back of photoprint has identification.
 
 
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Antlers Hotel, Colorado Springs
 
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Date: [1883-1884?]
South on Cascade Avenue of the Antlers Hotel, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows the five-story stone and frame building with dormers, a stepped pediment, a bell-cast, domed tower, and porches, surrounded by fields and graded earth. Typed sticker on back of photoprint reads: "Antlers Hotel - Colo Spgs. looking south on Cascade, before street was graded to porch level. Wm. H. Jackson Photo Copy neg Dow Helmers."
Denver Public Library Special Collections
 
 
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Western History and Genealogy Digital Collections
 
Denver Public Library Special Collections,
Printer's Home, Colo. Springs
Creator:Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Date:[1882-1900?]
A horse and buggy stand outside the Printer's Home in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows a rusticated stone structure built by members of the International Typographical Union to use as a residence and a hospital for retired managers. The Victorian Gothic structure has arched windows, a tower with bell roof, decorative stone bands, and a gabled entry under a parapet. Each end of the building has a wraparound porch.
W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book V, no. 14
 
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Hot Sulphur Spring bathhouse, Steamboat Springs, Moffat Road
 
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date [1913-1925]
Hot Sulphur Spring bathhouse, Steamboat Springs, Colorado reached via Moffat Road, Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (formerly Denver, Northwestern & Pacific); wooden frame building with sign on roof, "Hot Baths", hot springs; two men standing on small covered porch, boardwalks.
Original Material Found in Collection: Louis Charles McClure papers. Louis Charles McClure papers, album IV, 222
 
 
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On the Loveland-Estes Park Auto Road
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1909?]
Early automobile, Stanley Steamer, on Loveland to Estes Park, Colorado dirt road. A man fishing in the Big Thompson River at side of road, another man in the car. A wooden shack behind boulder.
Louis Charles McClure papers, album VIII, 132
Denver Public Library Special Collections
 
Thing of the past ...
 

Twin Falls at Ophir Loop
 
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Waterfalls, one natural and one from a wooden penstock at Ophir Loop, San Miguel County, Colorado.
Date: [between 1882 and 1890?]
Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.
 
 
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The Lake at Green Mountain Falls
 
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Date:[1882-1890]
Pavilion on an island with benches on the lake at Green Mountain Falls, Teller County and El Paso County, Colorado; shows dock, boats, depot buildings, large frame hotel and Colorado Midland Railroad train.
W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book II ; no. 127
Denver Public Library Special Collections
 
 
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Rocky Mt. Nat. Park, [Colorado]; boulder on trail
Date Created/Published: [between 1916 and 1917]
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve.
Date from negatives in same range.
Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
The National Photo Company collection
 
 
 
 
 

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