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Gillett, Colo. Store
Date: 1920-1940?
C.E. Butters, Althea B. Seirer and step-daughter in front of Butters' general store, in Gillett, Colorado, includes a partial view of a wood frame building with a pair of street level four-paned glass windows. The man is in suspenders, and the woman and girl wear hats, jackets and knickers. The boardwalk is in disrepair.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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1st Nat. Bank, 20 yrs. ago, A. H. Hunt, cash, at window
Creator: Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Date:: 1910-1920?
The First National Bank, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, features coffered wood ceilings and an ornate, three-windowed tellers box and brass footrails under writing shelves. A. H. Hunt, the cashier is behind beaded grating and another man stands in the background. Signs read: "Cashier," "Teller," "Next Window," and "Revenue Stamps for sale at This window."
H. S. Poley collection. Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Broadmoor & Lake, Colorado Springs
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date:1918-1920?
Broadmoor Hotel and lake, Colorado Springs (El Paso County) Colorado; shows women and child on dock near rowboats, the Italianate inn with fresco, and a smokestack in the background.
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Rio Grande Southern motor car (Galloping Goose), engine number 4
Creator: Hallock, Ralph E.
Date: Jan 5, 1947
Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) Goose 4 just before it entered the Lizard Head Pass snowshed
Original Material Found in Collection: Hallock (Ralph) Collection; Galloping Goose Trip: Jan 1947
Digital Version Created From: Original negative held by the Colorado Railroad Museum
Item Owned By: Colorado Railroad Museum
Lizard Head Pass
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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John F. Campion
Creator: Rose & Hopkins
Date: [1886-1901]
Seated profile studio portrait, three-quarter length, of John F. Campion, Denver miner and banker; Civil War veteran; first president of Colorado Museum of Natural History; founder of Great Western Sugar Co.
Jagged edge at top of glass plate; retouched. Title hand-lettered on back of photoprint. Vintage photographic print.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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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.
Digital Version Created From W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book VIII ; no. 103
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Robber's Roost at Virginia Dale
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Date: 1868-1878
Donor: presented to Dept. by Agnes W. Spring.
Overland Route stage depot in Virginia Dale (Larimer County), Colorado; shows a frame building with a stone chimney, and a barn with antlers and bird houses.
Title inked on back of photoprint, with: "a well known stage station of the Overland Route from 1862 until the opening of the Railroad. At one time the home of Slade, a notorious character of the times. Larimer County, Colorado."
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 461, engine type 2-8-2
Creator: Richardson, Robert W.
Date: 1951
Three-quarter view of right side of engine, from front end, coming through gap where snowshed has blown down. Photographed: Lizard Head, Colorado, September 25, 1951.
Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library.
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Denver & Rio Grande Western train (Narrow Gauge), engine number 461, engine type 2-8-2
Creator Perry, Otto, 1894-1970
Date: 1947
Freight, southbound, on the Rio Grande Southern. Photographed: emerging from snowshed at Lizard Head Pass, Colo., October 31, 1947.
Credit: Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Walden
Date: 1911, May 3
Veterans from the Grand Old Army of the Republic who include Silas Haskins, John T. Shippey, August Speck, Thomas Vils, John Cochran, Jephtah Davison, John W. Riggen, D. K. Smith, John Mitchell, Hubert C. Chadsey, and E. T. Rogers, pose with U. S. flags on a street in Walden (Jackson County), Colorado.
Digital Version Created From Mrs. Geo. J. Bailey Walden, Colorado.
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Lunch stop, Allenspark
Date: 1953 July
Donor: Steve Matthews; gift; July 14, 1999.
The Roundup Riders of the Rockies eat lunch at a chuckwagon on their annual trail ride, in Allenspark (Boulder County), Colorado. Riders wear western attire and hold plates. Some men are identified: Tim Tyler, Hal Dahl, Anthony "Tony" Archer, Elmer Elliot, Felix Goldsborough, MD and his son Felix Jr. One man sits on a folding chair. The covered wagon, catered by =7 Ranch, reads "=7 Ranch, Tie Siding, Wyo., Virginia Dale, Colo." A lake and mountains are in the distance.
Title and identification from printed inventory titled: "Roundup Riders of the Rockies, pictorial history," prepared by Steve Matthews.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Workers at the coke ovens at El Moro
Workers pose near the opening of a coke oven in the coal camp of El Moro (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man holds a trowel and leans against the oven. An old man holds a rake and another man balances a steel rod that extends into the oven.
Date: [between 1877 and 1900?]
Notes: History Colorado.; Condition: torn.; Formerly F35,609; Handwritten on envelope: "Mining-Coke Ovens."; Number inked on original negative and reproduced in print: "99."
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