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Palmer Lake, Glen Park
Eleven men stand in front of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway building at an unidentified exposition, the building was later moved to Palmer Lake (El Paso County), Colorado and served as the railroad depot. The Victorian style building has a tower with decorative spindles, brackets, and front and side gables. A sign reads: "Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company Come In." Some of the men wear work clothes with aprons, others wear vests with pants, and one wears a suit. All except one wears a hat.
Date: 1882
Notes: History Colorado.; Condition: Stained, pencil marks, frayed and missing edge.; Formerly F-19.549; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Palmer Lake."; Title and "Foreman Miles McGrath and building crew R [sic] & R.G. RR. This is the circle RR depot at the Exposition in 1882 later removed by the same crew to Palmer Lake and is still in use. Loaned by M. Davis McGrath" handwritten on back of photographic print.
Is Part Of: History Colorado, subfolio collection
History Colorado
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Coal miners in the Columbine Mine
Date: [1933-1940]
Miners work in a tunnel of the Columbine Mine near Erie (Weld County), Colorado. They wear hats and miner's lights.
Type-written labels attached to back of print read: "Coal miners, Columbine Mine, Lafayette" and "Writers' Project. Photo".
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Fort Collins (Colo.)
Silas and James Bardwell
Date: [1900?]
Silas and James Bardwell pose in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, in cowboy hats.
Notes:Title hand-written on back of photoprint, with: "homesteaded north of Horsetooth Reservoir. Both buried on hill above ranch."
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 6
Creator: Richardson, Robert W.
Date: 1952
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Remains of engine 35 which blew up at Basalt after Uncle Albert just gotten off
Date: [1895?]
Debris from the engine 35 explosion litters the tracks of the Colorado and Midland Railroad in Basalt, Colorado in Eagle County. Metal grates, wheels, and scraps from the locomotive are piled next to the tracks. A large locomotive wheel is on the opposite sides of the track. Spectators gather around the wreckage. Several people stand on top of the piles of debris. Wood-frame buildings are in the background.
Hand-written on back of photoprint: Procured for me by Midberry of Basalt, R.W. and C.L. Daniels in Basalt Book. Title hand-written on back of photoprint.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Street view Manitou, Colo.
Creator(s): McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Park in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado at the junction of Manitou and Canon Avenues with a clock tower and statue. Shows Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church (behind the town clock), Manitou Mineral Water Company's Bottling Works' building, horse-drawn wagons, delivery wagons and carriages, street railway tracks and "Pure Lake Ice" delivery wagon.
Date: [between 1900 and 1910]
Notes: History Colorado.; Formerly F-43,234; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Manitou - Streets"; Title and "667" inked on front of photographic print. "Manitou Streets," "Street View - Manitou Colorado at the foot of Pikes Peak, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad" handwritten on back of photographic print.
History Colorado
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Stevens homestead
Date:[1860-1890]
The Stevens family (three men and two women), stand near their home in Florissant, Colorado. Sam Stevens had killed the bear (draped over the chair) the day before the image was taken.
Hand-written on back of photoprint: "l to r: Mae Stevens, David G. Stevens, Nancyann Stevens, Sam T. Stevens, & Frank Stevens." and, "Sam had just killed a bear the day before the picture was taken."; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.
Rex Stevens (through Gwen Goldsberry). 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: 1945
Right rear view of engine; engine uncoupled, taking water. Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, October 10, 1945.
Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library.
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Keystone Placer Mine, sluice boxes
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
The Keystone Placer Mine in San Miguel County Colorado. Shows mining buildings and sluice apparatus.
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.; Condition: glass plate chipped, emulsion scratched, pocked.; Formerly Jackson 2807.; Hand-lettered title on negative.; Number: "3202" hand lettered on negative.
History Colorado
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Shale claim corner on Battlement Mesa, facing Collbran
Men stand and pose beside a wooden claim marker pole on Battlement Mesa in probably Mesa County, Colorado. Men wear overalls or vests and felt hats. One man holds a pick axe; another man smokes a cigarette.
Date: [between 1910 and 1920?]
History Colorado, Denver and Rio Grande collection
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Cable for the Nellie Tramway, Length 10810, Weight 1700 lbs.
Creator: Moore Bros.
Date: [1897]
Colorado freighter David Wood's mules loaded with cable for the Nellie Tramway, July 3, 1897 on Main Street (Colorado Avenue), Telluride, Colorado. Fifty-two mules carry load of continuous coil for a total length of 10,810 feet without splices. Townspeople line boardwalk in central business district; First National Bank and San Miguel County Courthouse steeples are in background. Business signs read: "Bath Room, Furnished Rooms," "Furniture," and "Restaurant."
Denver Public Library Special Collections
Penciled back of photoprint mat: "Telluride, Colorado, Cable for the Nellie Tramway, Length 10,810, weight 17,000 lbs. ca 1895"; Photoprint faded. Telluride Historic District designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Title hand-lettered on bottom of original.
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Florissant School
Date: September, 1894
School children and their teachers pose in front of their schoolhouse in Florissant, Colorado.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Cheyenne Frontier Days cowboys
Title-Alternative: History Colorado, Buckwalter collection ; no. 751
Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.
Cowboys pose near their horses at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They wear chaps and woolies, pistols in holsters, and wide-brimmed hats.
Notes: itle handwritten on negative envelope. Group portrait of (A.G. Birch Broncho Busters) cowboys in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
History Colorado.
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Clarks break camp at Snowmass
Date: 1911
Snowmass, Piktin County, Colorado; shows a tent, a loaded surrey, and the Clark family in bonnets.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Grand Valley
Creator(s): Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935.
Denver & Rio Grande and Rio Grande Junction railroad depot and frame buildings in the town of Grand Valley (Parachute) in Mesa County, Colorado. Men stand near boxes, crates and milk jugs on the platform of the depot. A sign on the depot reads: "Western Union Telegraph & Cable Office." Girls or women are in the street near a horse-drawn wagon and a timber commercial building with signs that read: "Doll Bros and Smith, General Merchandise," "Gasoline, Polarine [?] Supplies." The "Grand Valley News" building is near a D.& R.G. freight car on tracks.
Date: [between 1910 and 1920?]
History Colorado, Original photographs collection
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Mary McKinney Mine
Men, women and children disembark from Colorado and Southern Railroad passenger cars near Anaconda (Teller County), Colorado. The site, identified as the Mary McKinney mine complex, was part of the Cripple Creek Mining District. Shows a mill processing building with tar paper siding and sash windows, railroad freight cars, tailings, head frames and tracks. A freight car is labeled: "Colorado Midland, 8081."
History Colorado
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Halfway House, Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway
Creator: Hook, W. E. (William Edward), 1833-1908
Date: [1890-1900?]
Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway (Pikes Peak Cog Road) locomotive number 3 and a passenger car near the halfway house in El Paso County, Colorado. Crew are on the engine by a square wooden water tank, a small wooden depot and a rail spur.
Title printed on original and reproduced in photographic print with "1762."; "Halfway house, Pikes Peak Railroad" pencilled on front border of card photograph.
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