Cog road, Loveland overhaul, Caribou, Gothic and more, Thing of the past ...

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Big snow ball on Pikes Peak Cog Railway

History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection, Book I, no. 24

Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.

A crew worker stands on top of a large snow drift on the Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway in El Paso County, Colorado. The plow train had just backed out of the cut snow to make another attempt to remove the snow from the tracks.

Date: [between 1890 and 1900]

Notes: "Railroads" and "April 21, 1901" are handwritten on negative envelope.

Is Part Of: History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection.

 

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Overhauling C. A. J. at Loveland

Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections

Date:[1907]

Men who include C. A. J. work on a convertible automobile parked on a street in Loveland (Larimer County), Colorado. A group of boys stand nearby.

 

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Old house at Laporte,  Colo built early 60's

Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections

Date: August, 1931

Log cabin in Laporte, Colorado, in Larimer County. Architectural features include front gable, shingle siding, hewn-log construction. View shows a gate, wire fence, weeds, and brush on lawn.

 

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The site of the fort

Men and the widow of D.C. Oakes, an elderly woman, pose at the site of what used to be Fort Lincoln located at the site of the town of Huntsville (near the current town of Larkspur) in Douglas County, Colorado. The fort was built by D.C. Oakes to protect the early settlers from Indian attack, it was known as Oakes Folly. The men wear hats. The farmer who owns the land, Otis Skinner (?) wears gloves and has his arms folded. The grandson of D.C. Oakes wears suspenders and a hat and tie. Mrs. Oakes wears a bonnet, a long dress and a shawl. A hill with a rock hogback is in the distance.

Notes: Inked on verso of print: From left to right. The farmer who the present owner, Otis Skinner [?] , grandma, papa. The hill in the back ground is where the Indians used to look over at the movement of the whites in the fort in the year 1864. Title inked on front of photographic print.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

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Coors delivery truck

Date: 1942

A Ford Coors delivery truck parks on a Colorado street with cases of beer showing through side door. Lettering on truck reads: "Adolph Coors Co. Denver" and "Coors Brewer of Fine Beer."

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

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Tabor Grand Opera House

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Date: [1880-1890?]

The Tabor Grand Opera House at 16th (Sixteenth) and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colorado; includes signs that read: "Imported, Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Kentucky Whiskey, Fresh Cold [?]." and "Special Cloak Sale To-day!" Street scene includes a gas light, telegraph poles, pedestrians, streetcar tracks and a horse-drawn wagon that reads: "Dry Goods."

Tabor Grand Opera House. W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book VII ; no. 169

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

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Sunnyside Mine Camp and Lake Emma

Creator: Bird, Allan G.

Date: 1929

Donor: Allan Bird rec 11/24/76.

Sunnyside Mine and Lake Emma, San Juan County, Colorado; shows mining ore processing buildings, (bunkhouse, tram terminal, and crushing plant) miners' houses, and frame towers.

Title and "bunkhouse tram terminal and crushing plant at right - elevation 12,300 ft. Tower contained searchlight to keep bootleggers from smuggling whiskey into camp" hand-written on back of print.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

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Binson's blacksmith shop

Creator: Jessen, Kenneth.

Date: [1980-1987]

Binson's blacksmith shop in Berthoud, Colorado, (Larimer County) is a one-story masonry building with flat roof, rectangular windows with lintels, quions, and a voussior arch over the entry door. A small sign in front of it reads "1893," its date of construction. Weeds grow around the foundation of the building.

Digital Version Created From: Kenneth Jessen 5/26/87 trade, 2342 Helena Ct., Loveland, Colorado, 80537.

Notes: Hand-written on back of photoprint: Binson's blacksmith shop on Mountain Avenue in Berthoud prior to restoration and conversion to the Little Thompson Valley Pioneer Museum. This structure was built in 1893. Title hand-written on back of photoprint.

 

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Caribou, Colo. Silver Cornet Band 1874

Denver Public Library Special Collections,

Title: Caribou, Colo. Silver Cornet Band 1874

Creator: Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975

Date: [1935-1950?]

Summary Members of the Caribou Silver Cornet Band pose with their instruments in front of a wood building, probably in Caribou, a small mining district in Boulder County, Colorado. The group was known for its simple uniforms as well as its numerous concerts. The band was led by Caribou resident Mr. Moyle and provided entertainment for various Caribou celebrations, including parades and concerts. Sometimes the band played venues in Boulder.

 

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Looking south along Union Avenue, Pueblo white building with tower is new City Hall on bank of river

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

Date: 1921 June

Debris, mud, and silt from the Arkansas River flood on Union Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. People are gathered near piles of wreckage in the street and in front of commercial businesses. Shows the City Hall building with a domed cupola, stone and brick multi-story buildings and signs that read: "Economy Clothing Co., 317 N. Union Ave., Popular Priced Men's and Boy's Clothing, Furnishings, Shoes," "Star House, beds 20 [cents]," "The Weisel Seed Co.," "Colonial [?] Jewelry Co." and "Klein & Leiser[?] Clothing and Gent's Furnishings." Photographic print included in: Arkansas River flood, June 1921 / report of Arthur Ridgway for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.

 

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Gothic, Colo.

Date: 1920

Two men stand at a rear door of the old town hall and saloon, a weathered two-story wood frame false front with gable roof, side timber supports, Gothic, Gunnison County, Colorado. A water pump and wood sawhorse sit out back with fat sawn logs. Gothic Mountain's (12,625 feet) craggy face shows in background, echoing the Gothic architecture's gable peaks.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

Thing of the past ...

Caribou Col.

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

The mining town of Caribou (Boulder County), Colorado taken from Goat Hill. Shows the Sherman House Hotel on the corner of Potosi and Sherman streets, commercial buildings and houses. Snow-covered "Mount Baldy" (Bald Mountain) is in the distance.

Date: [between 1882 and 1900?]

Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Formerly Jackson 7097.; Title inked twice on negative.

Is Part Of: History Colorado, William Henry Jackson Collection.

 

 

 

Steve Goodman blazed a trail in Telluride

Steve Goodman, Cubs fan.

 Fine melodies and clever lyrics

By Rob Carrigan. robcarrigan1@gmail.com

The first time I ever heard anything about Steve Goodman was at the Telluride Bluegrass & Country Festival one summer, in the early 1980s. He performed at least three of the festivals then. About the same time, he often opened musically for comedian and Bluegrass artist Steve Martin. Goodman's friend John Prine often talked about their early days in Chicago, and later performed at Telluride Bluegrass four times following in his first producer's footsteps.

Goodman's fine work in engaging the audiences, and all those nearby, was particularly noteworthy and has lived on in TheFestivalTapes from June 28, 1980, with Mama Don't Allow It - Steve Goodman with Hot Rize and other songs that were captured during the 1980 performance filmed by Boulder public television and two CDs were made available.

https://youtu.be/VgORBCt5wpw

 “Steve was the first solo performer at the festival who could hold the audience like a band would,” Sam Bush said, as the 40th anniversary of festival loomed. This year will be the 50th anniversary.

BERKELEY, CA - 1981: L-R Hoyt Axton, Odetta, Tom Paxton and Steve Goodman backstage at The Greek Theatre in 1981 in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images)

Bush, of the bands New Grass Revival and Strength in Numbers, remembered the early days of festival in an oral history for Outside magazine, by Jared Keller: 

"I first came to Telluride with New Grass Revival in 1975. The original promoters were a band called the Fall Creek Band, back in 1974. All of the original bands were local to Colorado, and most of them lived in Telluride. They’d seen us play at the Walnut Valley picking contest in Winfield, Kansas and by the time the festival rolled around in June 1975, we were hired to come out. I’m not sure if we were the first national act, but we were the first band not from Colorado.  

According to Bush: "The streets weren’t paved. There was the one old hotel, but they put us up in one newish condo called the Manitou Inn. We got there in the middle of the night after a day and a half of driving from Kentucky and stumbled our way into this place, since there’s no neon allowed in mountain communities in Colorado. When we got up the next morning and couldn’t believe the beauty. It was like being in a different country."

Béla Fleck of (also of New Grass Revival, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones) talks about a local side trip in the same oral history:

"The trip to the Dunton Hot Springs after the festival closed on Sunday was always special. That first year I was at the festival with New Grass, back in 1982, Steve Goodman and I sat up all night and played with a bunch of people sitting around and listening in some small cabin. We had some spare parts from a barbecue that Sam Bush and Fred [Shellman] dumped into the hot springs to terrify the other people at the campsite. Nobody was star-tripping, it was just a bunch of people have a great-ass time. "

"Best known as the writer of 'City of New Orleans,' Steve blazed the trail at Telluride for singer-songwriters to come. His 1980 acapella 'Broken String Song' is still remembered as a moment of spontaneous brilliance."

Goodman's obituary in Rolling Stone. Nov. 8, 1984, outlined some of his story:

"Songwriter Steve Goodman died of leukemia on September, 20, 1984, after suffering with the disease for sixteen years. Best known for songs like "City of New Orleans," Goodman had a modest recording career, critical acclaim, and a small but loyal audience. Goodman toured often, performed at Carnegie Hall, and has had his songs covered by Arlo Guthrie, Johnny Cash, and Joan Baez, among others. He believed in traditional folk music. His songwriting ranged from blues to protest, and was characterized by fine melodies and clever lyrics."

John Prine tells the sideline of Goodman's guitar prowess:

John Prine and Steve Goodman.

 
"Steve was a master with the Guitar. It was almost impossible for him to complete a concert without breaking a guitar string. Of course, Steve also had a tendency to put on one man shows. Now for most singers this would mean an apology was in order while the musician switched guitars, but not Steve. Steve would continue to sing in perfect rhythm while he reached into a pocket, pulled out a new string, replaced the string, re-tuned the guitar, and then pick up playing again, much to the amazement and enjoyment of the crowd. 

John Prine claimed that Goodman did this on purpose, just to embarrass other guitar players. 

In 1974, singer David Allan Coe achieved considerable success on the country charts with Goodman's and John Prine's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", a song which good-naturedly spoofed stereotypical country music lyrics. Prine refused to take a songwriter's credit for the song, although Goodman bought Prine a jukebox as a gift from his publishing royalties. Goodman's name is mentioned in Coe's recording of the song, in a spoken epilogue in which Goodman and Coe discuss the merits of "the perfect country and western song".

 "I'll never see Wrigley field one more time before I come to my eternal rest. So have your pencils and score-cards ready while I give you my last request. I want a double-header funeral in good old Wrigley Field, some sunny Saturday" From 'A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request' (Steve Goodman, 1981).

In his obit in the Chicago Sun-Times, by Harlan Draeger and Donald M. Schwartz noted:

"Chicago-born folk singer, Steve Goodman who coupled his performing talent with a lifelong passion for the Cubs, didn't live to see his team play in the World Series. The 36-year-old folk artist and song-writer died late yeasterday at University of Washington Hospital in Seattle.

He succumbed to kidney and liver failure after a fifteen year struggle with luekemia that included a bone marrow transplant on Aug. 31.

A nationally-known performer who had moved to Los angeles in 1980, Mr. goodman drew heavily on his Chicago background for his mellow, easygoing music.

In 1981, he recorded a light-hearted peice called "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" It suggested that he be cremated at home plate in Wrigley Field so his ashes could come to "final resting place out on Waveland Avenue"

While he was undergoing treatment in Seattle, his 'Go Cubs Go' theme song for the Chicago National League team was played almost daily on station WGN-AM (720) , for which he wrote the piece.

"Mr Goodman achieved his greatest fame when 'City Of New Orleans,' a 1972 song about the demise of the nation's railroads, was made into a national hit by singer Arlo Guthrie. The song was also a big hit for Willie Nelson this Year.

"Tunes such as 'Lincoln Park Pirates' and 'Daley's Gone' made Mr. Goodman a Chicago Favorite."

"Steve was someone who touched everybody he came in contact with in a very special way" said his Los Angeles Agent, Dan Einstein. "He taught me quite a bit about what it's like to stand up for yourself. He was a man of uncompromising principles--just the way he conducted himself in business and performing. He was very true to his form in his art.

Mr Goodman's last recording released this week, was a collection of new songs called 'Santa Ana Winds.' Einstein said it is "typical Steve Goodman," combining humor and a bittersweet touch. As in much of his earlier work, Einstein said the songwriter's Chicago experiences "seems to pervade the entire collection.

"Goodman, born on the North side, sometimes scheduled performances around his chemotherapy treatments. During the early '70s as Mr. Goodman was establishing himself as a national recording and performing artist, he would travel to New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer center every two weeks. From his buoyant performances audiences for "Chicago Shorty" never suspected a thing."

"During the third week of July Mr. Goodman traveled to New York to participate in a Harry Chapin benefit concert. He became ill, was hospitalized, and was told that some white blood cells had been found in his spine-- a symptom he had never exhibited before."

"Although Mr. Goodman moved to Los Angeles along with his wife, Nancy, and their three daughter, he remained in close touch with his Chicago Home. He had family here. The Earl of Old Town was here. He had friends here and fans here, although there was n ever a strict distinction between the two."

For Mr. Goodman the big break came in April, 1971 when he was the opening act for Kris Kristofferson at the Quiet Knight. The headliner was so impressed with his opener that he took Mr. Goodman to play a few songs for Paul Anka.  Anka offered him a plane ticket to New York. 'City Of New Orleans,'  Kristofferson once said it was "the best damn' train song I ever heard."

"In addition to his wife, Mr. Goodman is survived by their three daughters, Jessie, Sarah, and Rosanna; a brother David; his mother, Minette, and his Grandmother."

Although he was Jewish, Goodman weighed in on Christmas on Track 9, on 'Unfinished Business,' his last album while he was alive.

Known for his smiling performances.

From 'Colorado Christmas,' by Steve Goodman,

Looking out the window of this Hollywood hotel
You'd never know that this was Christmas Eve
The billboards and the neon took the place of silver bells
And the temperature is 84 degrees

But I remember Christmases when I was just a boy
In the morning I would run to see the tree
And the carolers on the hillside sang their songs of Christmas joy
Well, I always thought they sang them just for me
Now all along the Rockies you can feel it in the air
From Telluride to Boulder down below
Now the closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere
Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow

I can hear the traffic on the crowded strip below
As the palm trees poke their heads above the scene
But there's not a single reindeer and it hardly ever snows
And Santa drives a Rolls Royce limousine
I see the sun is setting in the California sky
And I can't find the spirit anywhere
So I think it's time for me to tell Los Angeles goodbye
I'm going back home look for Christmas there

Cause all along the Rockies you can feel it in the air
From Telluride to Boulder down below
Now the closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere
Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow

Things of the past ... May 15, 2023

 

Thing of the past ...

Damon Runyon & Jim Wong

Jim Wong at Denver Press Club

Date: 1910-1920

At the Denver (Colorado) Press Club, author Damon Runyon wears a suit and holds a cigar. Jim Wong, the night porter at the Club, sits beside him. Portraits hang on the interior wall in the background.

Digital Version Created From Denver Press Club.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

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Engine Co. 2

Date: 1899

Firemen pose with equipment by the firehouse in Rico, Dolores County, Colorado. They are identified as: (l to r) "Schoot, Troy, Siebert, Chief Dulmager ?, Scherer, Goodman; (standing) - Ford, Robert Dulmager?, Pemberton, and Reyman.

Digital Version Created From: Capt. Louis Goodman, Engine No. 21.

Related Material Image File: ZZR710013148

Notes: Identification hand-written on back of photoprint. Title hand-written on front of photoprint.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Dolores County organized March 14, 1881

Creator: Harber, William G.

Date: [1910-1920?]

Dolores County Court House in Rico, Dolores County, Colorado; shows brick and stone building with arched entry and tower, dormers, and incised letters: "Court House."

Title and: "(Colo. State Session laws 1881, p92)" penciled on back of photoprint. Denver Public Library Special Collections.

Thing of the past ...

With best wishes from Jane

Creator: Duncan, Geoffrey.

Date: 1909 September 4

Studio portrait of Jane Bernoudy, an actress and trick roper born in New Castle, Colorado. She wears cowgirl clothes, spurs, boots, an embroidered pouch, leather gauntlets, and a cowboy hat.

Photographer's byline printed on back of cabinet card with ornate flourishes and studio hours. Title inked on cabinet card.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

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Off for the ruins at Cortez, Colo.

Date: [1890-1900]

Men and women sit in horse drawn covered wagons in Cortez (Montezuma County) Colorado, by the Montezuma County Courthouse, a stone building with a cornice.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

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Protesters prepare for nuclear disarmament march

Creator: Groer, Steve

Date: May 10, 1984

Donor: Rocky Mountain News

Eric Wright [left] and Pat Gilmore make final adjustments on the Mother Earth Mobile, a Volkswagen covered by a statue at Governors Park (at the intersection of Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Street). The Mother Earth Mobile was used in the Mother's Day Peace March by the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND). Demonstrators marched the mobile to the Colorado State Capitol. The mobile has a sign that reads: "Mother Earth."

Original Material Found in Collection: Rocky Mountain News records.

 

 

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Dolores, stages for the San Juan

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Date: [1892-1893?]

Stagecoaches and passengers on the main street in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado. A man on horseback packs a rifle, gold pan, and shovel. Men stand in front of a storefront with a sign that reads: "J.J. Harris & Co."

at Dolores" penciled on photoprint binding. Attribution to Jackson based on inclusion in bound W. H. Jackson sample album. Condition: edges worn, discolored. Hand-lettered title reproduced in print. Mounted on verso of album page: WHJ-1037. Number: "[4]244" hand lettered on negative and reproduced on print. W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book V. no. 94. History Colorado.

 

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Donated to the Denver Public Library by the Rocky Mountain News.

Caption: Photo by Harry M. Rhoads President Woodrow Wilson sits surrounded by a group of men at the Denver Press Club, Denver, Colorado. Date September 25, 1919.

MANDATORY CREDIT: Denver Public Library/The Harry M. Rhoads Photograph Collection

President Woodrow Wilson poses with a group at the Denver Press Club in 1919.

Other descriptive information: Photo by Harry M. Rhoads President Woodrow Wilson sits surrounded by a group of men at the Denver Press Club, Denver, Colorado. Date September 25, 1919. MUST CREDIT: Colorado Historical Museum/The Harry M. Rhoads Photograph Collection

 

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Dolores, Colo.

Date: [1890-1900]

Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows a Rio Grande Southern Railroad train, schoolhouse, and wooden buildings on a main street.

Title hand written on album page.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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RGS narrow gauge motor car number 6

Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 6

Creator Richardson, Robert W.

Date: 1951

Head on; stub switch in foreground; Work Goose. (The Work Goose never carried passengers or freight. It was used in maintenance of way service.) Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, 1951.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

 

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Silver Dollar Tabor

Date: 1910, August 29

Rose Mary Silver Dollar Tabor shaking hands with President Roosevelt in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.

Deterioration on original reproduced in copy photoprint. Formerly F10905. Title and additional information penciled on back of photoprint. Written on the back of the image, "Silver Dollar Tabor, daughter of Senator H. A. W. Tabor being presented to President Roosevelt by Sheriff Alexander Nisbet and Senator Irby, President of the Press Club at the chuck dinner given by the Press Club, August 29, 1910."

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Victory Theater at night

Creator: Whitworth, John.

Date: 1969 July 27

Night view of the Victory Theater in Denver, Colorado; neon signs and marquee read: "Victory, Girls, Fun For Adults Only, Girlesque, Acapulco Uncensored, Big Sin City, Spicy Films," and "Discount Credit Jewelers."

Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 25 x 14 cm (10 x 6 in.)

Type of Material: Night photographs; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

Things of the past ... May 3, 2023

 

Thing of the past ...
Governor "Billy" Adams poses on a Harley Davidson motorcycle in front of the state Capitol. When he was 17, Adams moved to Alamosa, Colorado. As a Democrat, He was later elected to City Treasurer, then Mayor of Alamosa, and later as Conejos County commissioner. In 1886, he was elected to the Colorado General Assembly as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. In 1888, he was elected to the Colorado Senate where he served until 1926, when he was elected as Governor of Colorado. He served from January 11, 1927 – January 10, 1933. In 1921, during his term as Colorado Senate Senator, Adams received approval on a bill that formed Alamosa State Normal School in Alamosa, Colorado. The college’s name was later changed to Adams State Teachers College in honor of its founder and finally to its present name Adams State University. Adams died on February 4, 1954, in Alamosa, Colorado, at the age of ninety-two, where he is buried.

Thing of the past ...

Group in front of 2104 Glenarm Place

Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957

Date: [1900]

Donor: Thomas Shrock Lindsay

Group portrait at 2104 Glenarm Place, the Shrock home, Denver, Colorado; Martha and John Shrock sit in chairs; Louis Charles McClure standing at center; Ada May Shrock McClure (Mrs. L. C.) on bike at right. Ada May's sister Mary Rebecca's children, Martha and "Doc" Clearance Conrad sit on lawn with older sister Bina May Conrad (daughter of Mary Rebecca) on a bicycle.

Format of Original Material 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection Louis Charles McClure papers

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

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Tobacco shop & 2 men

Interior view of a tobacco store in Denver, Colorado. Men stand near wood and glass cases with displays of cigars and candy. Signs read: "5 & 10 [cents] Candy," "We Sell Gillette, Ever-Ready Durham Duplex Razor Blades," and "London Gold Tip King of Cigarettes."

Date: [between 1910 and 1915]

Notes: Condition: emulsion chipping on edge of glass negative.; Title handwritten on negative envelope.

History Colorado, William W. Cecil Collection

 

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Ute Iron Spring, Manitou, Colo.
Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1900-1910]
Ute Iron Spring (or Iron Spring), Manitou Springs, Colorado; men & women with umbrellas standing & seated in front of pavilion & curio store entrance; signs advertising "Postcards five cents per dozen", "No soliciting allowed around pavilion" & "Notice: any person breaking or destroying shubbery or trees will be prosecuted, the Town Board"; window displays of postcards & dried flowers.

 

 

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Rico from below

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Rico (Dolores County), Colorado. Shows wood frame structures of Rico Argentine Mining Company, frame residences, commercial buildings, and dirt roads. The Rico Mountains are in the distance.

Date: [between 1880 and 1900?]

History Colorado, William Henry Jackson Collection

 

Thing of the past ...

Murphy Mine Cornet Band St. Elmo Colo

Date: [1878-1890?]

Saint Elmo, Chaffee County, Colorado, men pose with trombones, cornets, bugles, a tuba, trumpets and snare drum. The bass drum has letters: "Murphy Mine Silver Cornet Band." Signs on frame businesses read: "True Fissure Billiard Hall," "Restaurant," "American -" and Hardware." Mountains are in the background.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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Title: Hermosa, Colo

Creator: Krause, John

Date: [1950-1959?]

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company passenger train by the water tank at Hermosa (La Plata County), Colorado. Locomotive 478 has a wedge snowplow. Frame buildings are near the tank. A logo on the tank reads: "Rio Grande, Royal Gorge, Moffat Tunnel, Scenic Line of the World."

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

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Hermosa House tourist hotel at Trimble Springs, Colorado, on

Creator: Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935

Date: 1910?

Hermosa House, Trimble Springs, La Plata County, Colorado; shows a brick hotel with faceted towers, a balcony, and a lookout. A man, women, and children are on the porch.

Western History and Genealogy Digital Collections.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

Thing of the past ...

Revolving car dump Telluride Mining & Milling Co Telluride, Colo

Date: [1900-1930?]

Mining processing mill at the Telluride Mining & Milling Company in Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; shows a miner watching a gear-driven ore car dumper.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.