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Fremont, Dec. 1891, Cripple Creek
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
A man sits on the stoop of a log cabin in the mining town of Fremont (Cripple Creek, Teller County), Colorado. A canvas camp tent is in the background; a tin cup hangs by the door.
Date: 1891 December
Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: inking on glass negative is scratched out.; Formerly Jackson 2526.; Title inked on glass negative with: "02526.
History Colorado.
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Upton Sinclair
Photo shows American author Upton Sinclair, Jr. (1878-1968), (center in cap) who was arrested on April 29, 1914 for protesting conditions of Colorado coal miners in front of the offices of John D. Rockefeller at the Standard Oil Building, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010, 2011)
Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [1914]
Notes
- Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
- Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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Sulphur Spring, Manitou, Colo.
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1900-1910]
Sulphur Spring pavilion, Manitou Springs, Colorado; group of men, women & children standing underneath pavilion near spring, tin cup attached to chain and pipe; Manitou Mineral Bottling Works Company building behind pavilion; edge of Manitou Bath house, center right.
Notes: Copy negative made from vintage photographic print. Glass plate with oxidation. Title and signature hand-lettered on glass plate.
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Ophir, Colorado. A gold mining town
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published: 1940 Sept.
Notes
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Ruins Ludlow Colony -- near Trinidad, Colo.
Photo shows ruins in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre, during which a tent camp of striking miners at Ludlow, Colorado was attacked by the Colorado National Guard on April 20, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published
Glass negatives.
Notes:
- Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
- Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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Writing home to... and he got her, too, Oz wagon, two day camp
Creator: Sherman, Frank M.
Date: June 1903
Wagon boss, Stan (Stanford) Sherman, sits with his back resting on camp supplies and writes a letter; another man reaches for food [?] inside a wooden box, at their two day camp, Colorado. Their wagon is equipped with rope; a large sheet of canvas covers supplies. Other items include metal buckets and tin cup.
Photoprint is reproduced from a halftone. Title on printed label and hand-written on original; also: "Wagon Boss, Stan Sherman."
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Craig Goodwin & Nellie Carpenter
Date: 1917
Craig Goodwin and Nellie Carpenter pose in Sapinero, Gunnison County, Colorado, on the porch / balcony of building with sign: "Rainbow Hotel." Fishing resort built in 1908 by H. S. Carpenter torn down in 1962 for Blue Mesa Reservoir.
Title hand-written on back of photoprint.
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Tourists on Rollins Pass in July
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: [1904-1915]
Small group of women posed atop snow field in July on Rollins Pass, Colorado reached via Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (formerly called Denver, Northwestern & Pacific); edge of standard gauge track, foreground right; snowy Rocky Mountains, background; fashionably attired & coated women with hats forming snowballs.
Notes: Copy glass plate with black masking around edges. Title hand-lettered on copy glass plate.
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Dunkard Sunday School Class at the Dunkard Stone Church, Hygiene, Colo., Dallas W. Spangler was the teacher.
Date: 1900?
Dallas W. Spangler was the teacher of the Dunkard Sunday School Class at the Dunkard Stone Church, Hygiene, Colo. Members of the class include, front row (l to r): Sam Fesler, Anna Brubaker and Ida Laycook. Second row: C. D. Weaver, Ira Whitmore, Louis Aultland, J. A. Weaver, Hattie Weaver and Ira Jones. Third row: John Cline, ,̲̲̲̲̲̲ E. K. Hutchinson, P. F. Fesler, and Amanda Brubaker. circa 1900." The men wear suits and the women wear dresses and bonnets with long ribbons. The group poses in a photographer's studio in front of a painted landscape backdrop, with artificial grass over a carpet on the floor.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
Hand-written in pencil on back of photoprint: "Courtesy Longmont Pioneer Museum."; Title typed on piece of paper taped to back of photoprint; also identification of class members.
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