Pulling tracks, Pikes Peak, Floods, Peaches, and more

 

Thing of the past ...

Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 461, engine type 2-8-2

Creator: Richardson, Robert W.

Date: 1952

Right rear view of engine; entire train, showing scrapping operation. Photographed: near Lizard Head, Colorado, October 10, 1952.

Format of Original Material: 1 photonegative ; 7 x 11 cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Type of Material: Film negatives

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Trout Lake Dam flood

Creator: Byers, Joseph E.

Date: 1909 September 5

The tracks of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad are washed out after the Trout Lake Dam break of 1909 in San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows the San Miguel River and utility poles.

Notes: Title supplied. Inked on front of mat board: "Sept. 5 '09, R.G.S.R.R." and "Byers, Photo." Penciled on back of mat board: "Railroad. Rio Grande Southern Tracks."

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Wrecked Denver and Rio Grande bridge, Santa Fe standing, Pueblo; River bridges, looking north

Creator: Steele, F. M.

Date: 1921 June 6

View of an intact Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad bridge, and a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad bridge collapsed in the current of the flooded Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows piles of rubble and lumber near the eroded stream bed.

Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 12 x 17 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) mounted

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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Notes: Mounted on album page with: Z-5062. Mounted on verso of album page: Z-5064, Z-5065. Title, date, attribution and number "25" inked on original negative and reproduced in photographic print. inked on album page: "River bridges, looking north"

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Station & observation - summit of Pikes Peak

Photograph shows Albert James Myer, holding binoculars, and another man standing outside a stone observation station on Pikes Peak, Colorado.

Created / Published: [between 1865 and 1880]

Headings:

- Myer, Albert James,--1829-1880

- United States.--Weather Bureau--Buildings--1870-1880

- Meteorological stations--Colorado--Pikes Peak--1870-1880

- Stone buildings--Colorado--Pikes Peak--1870-1880

- Meteorology--Colorado--1870-1880

- Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1870-1880

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

 

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People in town for the Labor Day parade, Silverton, Colorado

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

Created / Published: 1940, September.

Genre: Nitrate negatives

Notes:

- Title and other information from caption card.

- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

 

 

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Kennedys on Colorado River rapid trip

Photograph showing Art Buchwald posing with several Kennedy family members, friends and children on rafting trip. Including Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Andy Williams, Claudine Longet, George Plimpton, Tom Corcoran, Lem Billings, Pat Kennedy, Jim & Blanche Whittaker, Otis & Marilyn Chandler, and Willy Schaeffler.

Created / Published: [1966]

Headings:

- Buchwald, Art

- Kennedy, Ethel,--1928

- Kennedy, Robert F.,--1925-1968

- Williams, Andy,--1927-2012

- Recreation--1960-1970

Genre: Group portraits--1960-1970, Photographic prints--1960-1970

Notes:

- Title from customer.

- Source used: https://thosekennedys.tumblr.com.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 28 x 35.2 cm.

Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2020:037

Repository:

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

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Molybdenum Company mine. Climax Colorado

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

Created / Published: 1941 Sept.

- Title and other information from caption card.

- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

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Snow "weasel" and troops

Creator: United States. Army. Signal Corps

Date: [1943-1944]

Members of the 10th Light Division (Alpine), or the 10th Mountain Divison, march behind a "weasel" snow-track (snowcat) vehicle (an M-29 cargo carrier) at Camp Hale (Eagle County), Colorado. The driver of the vehicle wears a parka with the hood over his helmet, and goggles. The vehicle is packed with gear. The men wear parkas and carry packs, rifles and snowshoes.

Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print ; 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection 10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection

10th Mountain Division Resource Center, Denver Public Library.

 

 

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Denver Public Library Special Collections, [call number]

The babies on the block

Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957

Date: [1900]

Donor: Thomas Shrock Lindsay

Portrait in front of McClures studio at 2128 Glenarm Place, Denver, Colorado, shows Mary Rebecca "Pinkie" Shrock (McClure's sister-in- law) with her children seated on the door step to the studio. Possibly Mary Rebecca seated holding "Doc" Clearance, Bina May at her side, John, Patience and Martha across the back row.

Label on back of photoprint: Front of studio at 2128 Glenarm Place, Photo is of Mary Rebecca "Pinkie" Shrock's children seated on the door step to the studio. Believed to be as follws: Mary Rebecca seated holding "Doc" Clearance, Bina May at her side, John, Patience and Martha across the back row. circa 1900. Photo by L. C. McClure. Title hand-lettered on bottom of original; hand-lettered on bottom of photoprint mount as seen of copy negative: Mary Rebecca "Pinkie" Shrock Conrad with Bina May, Patience, John, Martha.

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Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colo.

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

Created / Published: 1940, September.

- Fruit industry

- Shipping

- Peaches

- United States--Colorado--Delta County

Genre: Slides--Color

Notes

- Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

- Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information color slides and transparencies collection (Library of Congress)

 

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Making barbecue sandwiches at the free barbecue on Labor Day, Ridgway, Colorado.

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

Created / Published: 1940, September.

Notes

- Title and other information from caption card.

- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

 

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Cannonball Pueblo, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

Names:

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

Ancestral Puebloans

Morley, Sylvanus

Padilla, Mary, transmitter

Lynch, Lisa, photographer

U.S. National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, sponsor

University of Colorado at Denver, College of Architecture and Planning, sponsor

U.S. Bureau of Land Management, sponsor

Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, sponsor

Keohan, Thomas G., project manager

Summers, Luis H., project manager

Sullivan, Mark, field team

Scheer, Alan, field team

Joshi, Meera, field team

Created / Published: Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings:

- pueblos

- ruins

- Native Americans

- masonry

- stonework (sandstone)

- Colorado sandstone

- rock art

- archaeological sites

- Colorado--Montezuma County--Cortez

Latitude / Longitude

37.476441,-108.545679

Notes:

- 2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry

- Significance: Located in the Four Corners area of the desert Southwest, Cannonball Pueblo was constructed and occupied during the late 12th century by people associated with the Ancestral Puebloan Mesa Verde culture which flourished eight-hundred years ago. The Pueblo includes over 100 masonry structures located high on the edge of a mesa bench and is distinctive Pueblo III Mesa Verdean style architecture associated with the late prehistoric Ancestral Puebloan culture. Many of the walls are built with large, closely fitted blocks of rough-cut sandstone, which in many cases have been carefully shaped by pecking the exposed surface. The impressive architecture includes habitation and storage rooms, kivas, and towers, in two distinct multi-story pueblos and in masonry structures on the talus slope below the pueblos. Some of the six towers at Cannonball were built free-standing, and some joined to other architectural elements. Most are on or near the canyon rim and resemble those seen at the sites of the nearby Hovenweep National Monument. Many of the late Pueblo III village sites are bisected by drainages, and show considerably asymmetry in the types and arrangement of architecture on either side of the drainage as exhibited at Cannonball. There is a possible water control system, including reservoir and irrigation ditches, on the mesa east of the pueblo. Various archaeological investigations and preservation activities have occurred at the site since the early 1900's, including the excavation of the South Pueblo in 1908 by Sylvanus Morley, who was an important figure in the history of American archaeology. His work at Cannonball was the first ever conducted at a major site in the Northern San Juan River Basin.

- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1081

- Survey number: HABS CO-202

- Building/structure dates: ca. 1100 Initial Construction

- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97000378

Medium

Photo(s): 21

Measured Drawing(s): 7

Photo Caption Page(s): 2

Call Number/Physical Location

HABS CO-202

Source Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository:

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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Pike's Peak from Altman, Colo.

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer

Detroit Publishing Co., publisher

Created / Published: [ca. 1900]

- Mountains

- Industrial facilities

- United States--Colorado--Pike's Peak

- United States--Colorado--Altman

Cityscape photographs.

Dry plate negatives.

Genre:

Cityscape photographs

Dry plate negatives

Notes:

- Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906).

- "WHJ 451" on negative.

- Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013820.

- Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

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Main street, Montrose, Colorado

Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer

Created / Published: 1939, October

Genre : Nitrate negatives

Notes:

- Title and other information from caption card.

- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

 

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Poley with rifle

Creator: Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)

Date: [1894]

Horace S. Poley stands and poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted flower mural. Poley is dressed in militia for the Cripple Creek strike, he wears a hat, a pince-nez, a moustache, a long probably tweed coat with a velvet or leather collar, a blanket fastened as a sash, a tin cup tied to a holster with a pistol and shells, pants, cowboy boots, and holds a rifle.

Format of Original Material 1 photographic print on card mount ; 17 x 11 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection C Photo Collection 37. H. S. Poley collection.

Digital Version Created From: Linn Poley, 1976.

Notes "Cripple Creek - strike, Horace S. Poley" penciled on verso. Condition: stained, scratched. Title supplied.

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