'Redman' Statue laid "to rest"

Thing of the past ...

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

One of the Whispering Giant series by artist Peter Wolf Toth, installed in 1979, was taken down recently. The elements had made its base unstable, so he was laid "to rest" in the same spot. This weekend, a local quarry donated stones around it and it is still visible from US Highway 34, just stargazing instead of facing down drivers, according to Tori Mask, 7/13/2023.

"Redman" is one of over 70 tree trunks -- scattered across the country -- that were carved by one man into big, skinny, Indian heads. Unveiled in 1979, the wood eventually rotted. Redman was taken down in December, 2022. He's still there, but now he lies flat, gazing at the sky, according to a recent Loveland area traveler in Roadside America.com.

The Trail of the Whispering Giants is an ongoing project, says fellow traveler, David Schumaker. He says he is on a quest to identify all the Whispering Giant statues and has documented 57 existing statues and identified 12 that are now missing or destroyed since Peter Wolf Toth began this project in 1972. Schumaker has documented his information on the WEB site Peter Wolf Toth which has the most current information on the Whispering Giants and messages from the artist himself.

That message from Peter Toth is as follows:

"St Stephan, King of Hungary: June 2008, I finished statue #73. This is a very important statue to me, as it is my first one on the European Continent. St Stephan was the first King of Hungary, around 1000 AD, and he introduced Christianity to the country. If not for him, there would be no Hungary today." It is located about 20 miles from Budapest, in the town of Delegyhaza. It is in a Park dedicated to King Stephan, adjacent to the Post Office."

At this time in my life, I have completed my tributes to the indigenous people of North America, specifically the Native Americans. It is now my calling to provide memorials to the indigenous people of the World. Presently I am engaged in creating replacement statues in various States as well as reconditioning others. However, the World will still remain in my plans for the future."

Toth used a hammer and a chisel as the basic tools to create the Whispering Giants, but on occasion will use a mallet and an axe, or rarely power tools. Before starting work on a Whispering Giant, Toth conferred with local Native American tribes and local lawmakers, according to various newspaper accounts around the country.  The sculpture that is created is a composite of all the physical characteristics, especially facial features, of the local tribe or tribes, as well as their stories and histories.  Toth dismisses the notion that the Whispering Giant sculptures are totem poles or represent Native American art, and has further stated that it would be inappropriate to carve totems because they were traditionally carved by Northwestern Indian tribes and had religious significance, where his carvings are intended as sculptures of Native American people, says various news accounts.

"I don't know a thing about carving totem poles, never made one nor expect to. My monument depicts an Indian, not copies of Indian art," Troth was quoted in Tribal Press, of Lincoln, Neb., in 1983.

The photo appearing above was taken by  photographer Carol Highsmith and resides in her Collection: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

• Wooden carving depicting an American Indian along U.S. 34, the route to Rocky Mountain National Park between Loveland and Estes Park in Larimer County, Colorado.
  

Photo Credit:

• Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer

Created / Published

• 2015-07-25.

Headings

• -  United States--Colorado--Larimer County
• -  America
• -  U.S. 34
• -  Wood carvings
• -  Indian statues

Headings

• Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020.

Genre

• Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020

Notes

• -  Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
• -  The scene is so fetching to passersby that drivers have worn a makeshift turnoff in the grass along the highway next to the statue.
• -  Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
• -  Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
• -  Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Silent film story sounds a little like Little Big Man

 Clara Bow, Robert Edeson, Helen Ferguson in The Scarlet West.

"There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings. "

__ Old Lodge Skins, played by Chief Dan George, Little Big Man

Made movies in Dolores, 

but maybe not in the Hollywood

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

Always. Stories of silent film stars, parties, hints of stardom and suggestions of larger-than-life symbols of the entertainment business. Always. Hints and suggestions percolated through the cultural fabric in Dolores, Colo., where I grew up. For example, the most-storied bar there being known as the Hollywood, and the three-storied Del Rio Hotel construction completed in the early 1930s, reportedly was frequented by Clara Bow, and perhaps others.

Truth is, in 1925, Bow did make a movie there in Dolores. 

The American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929,  starred The Scarlett West in 1925, near the peak of her silent career in movies.

Clara Bow in 1932.

Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as the era's leading sex symbol.

There are no prints of The Scarlet West surviving, making it a lost film. A trailer survives apparently at the Library of Congress, and is being restored. Some of the still photography from the production of the film survives and is used in a documentary on local cinematographer Victor Shuler, who was one of four cameramen on the production.

 "The Scarlet West" In 1925,  is an American  silent film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Robert Frazer and Clara Bow. It was distributed by the First National company. 

"This was an ambitious silent film made by an independent producer about George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn," according to IMdb. 

Sounds a little bit like one of my favorites  — "Little Big Man," Little Big Man is an early revisionist Western in its sympathetic depiction of Native Americans, a 1970 American Western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the 1964 novel Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan. 

 Silent film actress Helen Ferguson, in The Scarlet West.

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They describe the film The Scarlet West like this .

"Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of renegade Indians, and further removes himself from his race when he develops a relationship with Miriam (Bow), the daughter of the Fort Remmington commandant. Lieutenant Parkman (Walker) gets into a fight with Cardelanche when Parkman is demoted, while General Custer's troups are slaughtered by Cardelanche's people. Cardelanche decides that his true allegiance is to his own race, and gives up Miriam to return to them." writes Kieran Kenney, of the movie filmed in Dolores. Yet The Scarlet West, lives on in local lore.

Among the still photography from the production of the film. there is even a still photo in the mix of Frank W. Pyle. The Pyle and Lockett families came to Dolores in the 1880's. Being here that long, they became connected to the Brumleys, Chadwicks and probably many other local family names.

The name, of course, rings a bell, and I look it up in an old Dolores Star of Oct. 15, 1909. Here it is. "Frank W. Pyle ..."

"Dolores Livery, Feed and Sale Stable,"  right below two ads,for J.J. Harris & Co. "Have good teams and rigs. Are prepared to do all kinds of hauling, transfer and delivery. Second-hand buggies, buggy harness and saddles for sale. Priced right. Blacksmith and Lump Coal."  

Film crew for The Scarlet West in Dolores.   

1896 Cripple Creek fire, Holy Moses Saloon, Old haunted house, Three Native American women, more ...

 

Thing of the past ...

Bennett Ave. looking west

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

Date:[1896]

Destruction west on Bennett Street caused by second fire on April 29, 1986, Cripple Creek, Colorado; groups of men and two men on horseback in street survey rubble and remains of once thriving commerical business district; shows utility poles with fallen wires, chimneystack, remains of two-story brick building, Mt. Pisgah is on horizon and untouched residences are on hillside in background.

Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)

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

Notes: Hand-written on back of photoprint: Cripple Creek, fires, after 2nd. Title hand-lettered by photographer on original negative, at head of title: 20.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

Thing of the past ...

Creede, Colorado

Date: [1890?]

Two men stand in the open doorway of the Holy Moses Saloon, which is next to the narrow, rocky, canyon walls that surround the town of Creede, Colorado, in Mineral County. The building is a one-story, clapboard storefront with a broken cornice and a transom over the front door. A step leads from the narrow, wood-plank sidewalk in front of part of the building to the entrance of the building. A barrel lies on its side near the entrance.

Format of Original Material 1 copy photonegative ; 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card : cabinet card ; 9 x 9 cm (3 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)

Notes: Formerly F3941. Hand-written on back of photoprint: Saloon was located at the mine named Holy Moses. It is 2 1/2 miles N.E. of Creede. The man standing in his shirt sleeves in the doorway was the owner of the saloon and he is now Sheriff of Creede. Mr. William Orthen. This saloon was the first liquor shop above Creede. Photoprint has yellowed and faded, and the card to which it is attached is dirty. Title hand-written on back of photoprint.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Old haunted house

Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.

The old John B. Hindry residence at 5500 North Washington Street, Denver, Colorado, a brick house with a tower and tall windows.

Date: [between 1900 and 1910?]

History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection

History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection, Book III, no. 30

 

Thing of the past ...

Superstition

Creator:Brown, James B., photographer

Date:[1900?]

Three Native American women sit on a bench in the stadium at the Festival of Mountain and Plain in Denver, Colorado. Two of the women shy away and hide their faces from the camera, the other woman holds a baby in her lap. The women wear traditional clothing, dresses, wraps, moccasins, and braided hair. Spectators can be seen in the background.

Format of Original Material 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 cm (3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) on album page 16 x 23 cm (6 x 9 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection: C Photo Album 215. Camera Talks, Type of Material Photographic prints; Black & white photographs

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Saloon, Colorado City, Colorado

Date: 1910

Two bartenders and two customers pose inside the Union Saloon, 605 Colorado Avenue, Colorado City, El Paso County, Colorado. The interior features a wooden bar with brass foot rail, spitoons, back bar with mirror, cash register, glassware, mounted bottle opener, glass doors over wooden shelves filled with liquor bottles, victorian wallpaper, cast iron stove, gas lamps and a glass display cabinet filled with cigar boxes. Several framed pictures of women, a clock with Roman numerals, and a State of Colorado liquor license hang on the walls. Signs read: "Walters Gold Label Beer In Bottles," "Anheuser-Busch," "Goetz Brewing Co., St. Joseph, Mo." "Gannymede '76 Whiskey." Tobacco items include "Banker, Chewing Tobacco Fit For A King," "Duke George," "Razzetti Bros. Inc., Sigari, Toscani," "Bugle," and "Virginia Buck."

1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 20 x 25 cm (7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)

Title supplied by cataloguer; hand-written on back of photoprint mount: "605 Colorado Ave."; Vintage photoprint is mounted on board.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

Thing of the past ...

Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 5

Creator: Richardson, Robert W.

Date: 1951

Three-quarter view of left side of motor car, from front end; Galloping Goose at depot, with Lee Linton. (Linton was one of the last seven locomotive engineers to work for the railroad.) Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, August 29, 1951.

Notes: Lightstruck negative. Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Opening of Manitou and Pikes Peak Ry.

Creator:Ogden & Irish.

Date: 1891

The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway (Pikes Peak Cog Road) locomotive and passenger car near the train depot at Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The building is constructed of rusticated stone and has a wooden porch at the second level with a railing. Men check the train for it's first trip.

Condition: discolored; Handwritten on back of photographic print "Train side of depot, Manitou. Opening of Manitou Pikes Peak Ry. 1891, June 30. Photographers name inked on original, reproduced on photograph. Title penciled on verso. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 copy negative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.).

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Restaurant & Oyster Saloon

Date: [1870-1880]

Men and women pose on the covered balcony of the Garbarino House, Restaurant and Oyster Saloon (Poe, Crawford, Avenue Hotels) Washington Avenue, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado. The two- story brick building features a corbeled cornice, arched transoms over shuttered french doors and a decorative balustrade. A banner hangs down across front: "Restaurant & Oyster Saloon;" a lantern streetlight shows on the dirt street.

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

Photoprint shows deterioration of original. Title supplied by cataloger.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

 

Thing of the past ...

The Cresson, still working, Cripple Creek region

Creator: Fick, William L.

Date:[1941?]

The Cresson mine's mill building, shafthouse, surface structures (one with "Safety First" painted on it), and head frame surrounded by tailings, Teller County, Colorado. Other mines dot what may be Raven Hill behind the Cresson.

Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint on album page ; (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection: C Photo Collection 255. Colorado Mining, William L. Fick.

Notes: Album in 7 unnumbered volumes. Historical information bound in albums includes: "Gold and Silver Mining in Colorado: Leading Gold Producing Counties, Leading Silver Producing Counties," and "Colorado's Gold and Silver: The Shining Mountains, Gold Discovered, and Great Gold Strikes Early in 1859."; Title hand-written on back of print, with: "1504."

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 3

Creator: Perry, Otto, 1894-1970

Date: 1939

"Galloping Goose," as train #376, on trestle. Photographed: near Franklin Jct., Colo., May 27, 1939.

Format of Original Material: 1 photonegative, Otto C. Perry memorial collection of railroad photographs.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Phantom curve

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Date: [1882-1890]

Men and women stand on and near Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company tracks near an area identified as Phantom Curve in Conejos County, Colorado. Rock formations are nearby. An excursion train is in the distance.

Format of Original Material 1 photoprint : albumen ; 17 x 23 cm (6 1/2 x 9 in.) mounted on album page.

Original Material Found in Collection W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book VI

Digital Version Created From: W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book VI. no. 272

Type of Material: Sample books; Albumen prints; Photographic prints.

Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on inclusion in bound W. H. Jackson sample album. Condition: print is discolored and stained. Hand-lettered title reproduced in print. Label on front of photoprint reads: "Out."; Mounted on verso of album page: WHJ-1394. Number: "4089" hand lettered on negative and reproduced in print.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Main St Dallas, Colo

Creator: Goodman, Charles, 1843-1912

Date: 1888

Dallas, Ouray County, Colorado, is a line of frame businesses. Signs read: "Saloon," "Restaurant," "Drugs," "Groceries," "Meat Market," "Montrose Merc Co's Branch House," and "Dallas [Ho]te[l]." Plows, lumber, and covered wagons edge the boardwalk, where people pose. Men stand on a platform scale in the thorougfare; women and children are on the balcony of the two-story hotel.

Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint on matboard ; 15 x 21 cm (6 x 8 1/2 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection: C Photo Album 103. Thomas M. McKee album.

Notes: Formerly Mc286. Photonegative masked with paper and paint. Photoprint is faded. Previously attributed to Thomas McKee. Title inked on photoprint with: "Mt Sneffles and San Juan Range 14,250 ft. May, 1888."

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

Thing of the past ...

Emma Espinoza, Emma's Hacienda and El Patio Inn

Creator: Noel, Thomas J. (Thomas Jacob)

Date: 1982

Emma Espinoza stands in front of her restaurants Emma's Hacienda and El Patio Inn at 355 Main Street in San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. Emma Espinoza wears a dark dress with a flowered apron and sun glasses. She is standing next to an entrance of the building under a Coors Beer sign affixed to the wall. Behind the Coors sign is a sign reading "El Patio Inn [Dine] & Dance." A sign over the door where she stands reads: "Joe's Saloon." Emma Espinoza is the proprietor of El Patio Restaurant. Her husband Joe Espinoza ran Joe's Saloon.

Source: loan, Tom Noel, 2010.

Item Owned By: Auraria Library

 

Thing of the past ...

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Cheyenne in 1907.

Wyoming State Archives.

 

 

20 Children Killed as Passenger Train Hits School Bus East of Evans

 

Dorothy Smock lifts a blanket to find the body of her son, Bobby, along the road near the crossing. Dorothy Smock was haunted all her life by memories of that awful morning. (Jim Hitch/ Greeley Tribune/ 1961)

16 Others injured as "City of Denver" Train  Plows Into Greeley School District Bus

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

The years have not altogether diminished the grief felt that tragic day more than sixty years ago. Still, to this day, the bus accident is among the deadliest traffic accidents in Colorado history. As a result, federal legislation was passed by Congress requiring the drivers of certain commercial vehicles, including school buses, to stop, look, and listen for a train at all railroad tracks prior to crossing the tracks.

"On the cold morning of December 14, 1961, a school bus was hit by a train east of Evans, killing 20 children and injuring 17. 

Most of the children were from a small country school called Delta School, located on the eastern edge of Greeley (E. 20th street and Cherry Ave.). Five families lost two children each, and two of those families had no other children. Cousins died. One boy’s life ended on his 10th birthday. Brothers and sisters lived, while their siblings perished," as mentioned in the history of Bella Romero Academy, the K-3 Campus previously existed as East Memorial Elementary.

"A new school was built nearby and opened in 1963. East Memorial Elementary School was named in memory of these children. Inside the school, hangs a brass plaque that carries the names of the children who were lost that day. Outside, in front of the school, there are 2 trees that are dedicated in their honor. One was planted on the 25th anniversary of this tragedy; the other on the 50th anniversary."

Engineer Herbert F. Sommers manned the lead locomotive, No. 955, when it hit the bus. (COLORADO STATE PATROL /1961),

In 2007, a monument was dedicated at the scene of the bus/train accident. This monument is located near Weld County Roads 52 and 43 east of Evans.

Overturned bus in Evans tragedy Archive photo by Bob Waters, photographer Colorado State College Greeley.

"On December 14, 1961 the worst accident, to date, in Greeley’s history took place. The Union Pacific ‘City of Denver’ No. 111 train was traveling to Denver from Chicago, three hours behind schedule. In Greeley, Duane Harms was warming up his bus to start his route in the rural area of Weld County. Between 7:30am and 8:00am, Harms picked up a total of 36 children ranging in age from 6-16, with plans to take them to Delta School, Arlington Elementary School, Meeker Junior High School, and Greeley High School," notes a Guide to the School Bus Accident 1961 Collection at Hazel E. Johnson Research Center, at Greeley History Museum, 714 8th Street, Greeley.

"At 8:00 a.m., Harms moved to cross the railroad tracks when the ‘City of Denver’ No. 111, going 79 m.p.h., collided with the bus, cut the bus in half and destroyed the back end of the bus. In all, 20 children died at the accident and 16 children were seriously injured. Harms walked away from the accident. The bodies of the deceased were taken to the old Armory in Greeley, which had been set up as a temporary morgue, and the 16 injured were taken to Weld County General Hospital." 

Harms was charged with involuntary manslaughter. The trial started in March 1962, after a postponement for Harms’ well-being. During the trial, a controversy arose as to whether Harms had stopped at the tracks or not. Witnesses say that he did, the train engineers said he did not, and Harms himself could not remember. The trial lasted a total of four days with a jury of ten men and two women. The jury found Harms innocent of all charges.
As a result of this accident, and many others nationwide, stricter bus regulations regarding train crossings were put in place to ensure the safety of the children on board.

"The Crossing," was a complete series published by the Rocky Mountain News from Jan. 23, 2007, to March 2, 2007, with stories by Kevin Vaughan, photographs by Chris Scheider, Videos by Tim Skillern  and Laressa Bachelor.

The Crossing examined the lifelong implications of Colorado's worst traffic accident — a 1961 collision between a high-speed passenger train and a school bus a few miles from Greeley, a crash that took the lives of 20 children and left behind 17 survivors and a grief-stricken community. The stories, which were told with the support and participation of nearly every family touched by the tragedy, showed how a single moment in time twisted through decades, shaping people for the rest of their lives. 

After the "Rocky" ceased operations in 2009, access to this project was lost.

It has been resurrected, thanks in large part to the generosity of the staff at the Western History/Genealogy Department at the Denver Public Library, which holds all of the Rocky's archives. 

 The Crossing

https://thecrossingstory.com/chapters/intro/

The headlines above, and the following information from the front page of the Dec. 14, 1961,  Greeley Tribune appeared after a tragic bus accident killed 20 children and injured 16. The tragedy immediately plunged the Greeley farming community into shock. The driver of the bus, 23-year-old Duane Harms, was arrested of involuntary manslaughter and was forced to endure threats and crank calls and letters. Harms was found not guilty and immediately left Greeley with his wife and baby. Friends say he moved to California. His ties to Greeley were severed forever.”
Twenty school children were killed Thursday morning in a tragic school bus-train collision two miles east and a mile south of Evans.
The accident involving a Greeley School District (No. 6) bus, was the worst in the Greeley area’s history.

 Bodies of the victims were taken to the old Armory on 8th Ave. Last time the Armory was used as a morgue was when the plane bombed by John Gilbert Graham crashed in southwest Weld County.
Sixteen youngsters were rushed to Weld County General Hospital by ambulance and private automobiles.
Seventeen doctors were called into action to handle the emergencies at the hospital.
The bus carried 38 and the driver.
The school bus was carrying students to Delta School, east of Greeley, Arlington Elementary School, Meeker Junior High School and Greeley High School.
Law enforcement officers barred admittance to the hastily prepared morgue, where white sheets covered the 20 victims.
The accident occurred about 8:30 a.m. at an open, but diagonal crossing.
The school bus, driven by Duane Harms, rolled onto the track first, and the westbound Union Pacific streamliner, City of Denver, No. 111, smashed into it at the rear.
Bus Carried Over 100 Yards
The impact carried the huge 60-passeger bus down the tracks more than 60 yards. The hood, engine, wheels and parts of the passenger section were ripped to shreds.
The engineer was Herbert Sommers of Denver. The crash did little damage to the train.
Speed limit for trains in that area is 79 miles an hour. The train was reported preparing to slow down priorto arriving in La Salle.

Historical photos from the court case against Duane Harms who was the driver when a school bus was struck by a train on Dec. 14, 1961. 20 children were killed in the crash. Harms was acquitted of manslaughter.

 
 

Historical photo from the site of the school bus crash that killed 20 children near Greeley, Colo., Dec14, 1961. Chris Schneider/Rocky Mountain News.

Cheyenne Falls, McElmo, Galloping Goose, Salida hotel, Briarhurst, more ...

Thing of the past ...

Cheyenne Falls

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

View of Seven Falls on South Cheyenne Creek, South Cheyenne Canyon (El Paso County) Colorado. A man stands on a log bridge at the base of the waterfall. Another man sits in a rowboat in a pool of water. Shows wooden stairs.

Date:[between 1880 and 1890?]

Notes: Accession number: 86.200.1904; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: Taped, chipped.; Formerly Jackson 3004.; Number: "2004" handwritten on tape attached to negative.; Title and "3004" inked on negative.; R7201020348

Physical Description: 1 negative : glass ; 28 x 18 cm. (11 x 7 in.)

Is Part Of: History Colorado, William Henry Jackson Collection

 

 

Thing of the past ...

Dinner time in McElmo Canon

Date: [1890-1900]

Men and women camp in McElmo Canyon (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows a covered wagon, tent, cooking utensils, a dog, and a watermelon.

Denver Public Library Special Collections

 

 

Thing of the past ...

Eastbound Galloping Goose # 5, R.G.S. tr. 372 @ Placerville passing Rocky Mtn. R.R. Club excursion train

Creator: Trout, George A.

Date: 1949 May 28

Donor: George A. Trout

Front view of the Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose motor car beside a Rio Grande Southern excursion train in Placerville (San Miguel County), Colorado. Members of the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club walk near the trains or stand and sit on the back platform of the observation car.

Notes: Photographers information stamped on verso of print with: "negative no. 155."; Title inked on verso of photographic print.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 6

Creator: Richardson, Robert W.

Date: 1951

Three-quarter view of left side of motor car, from front end, close view; Work Goose on r.h. spur in blizzard. (The Work Goose never carried passengers or freight. It was used in maintenance of way service.) Photographed: Durango, Colorado, December 19, 1951.

Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Hotel Monte Christo, Salida, Colo.

Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

The three-story Hotel Monte Christo in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. The hotel is half-timbered frame building with a mansard roof, pendants, a central faceted tower, a balcony and a porch. A freight car, "C.R.S. Trust Series B, D.& R.G. 4590", sits on the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near a harp switch. Groups of men stand beside the Queen Anne style stone depot near a clapboard building that reads "Arnold's Assay Office." Painted signs read "Safe Rheumatic Cure" and "Smoke Blackwell's".

Date: between 1883 and 1900?

Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: masked, retouched.; Formerly Jackson 3220.; Number: "3220" inked on negative.; Title inked on negative.; Title on envelope for negative reads: "Salida - Monte Cristo [sic] Hotel."; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: masked, retouched.; Formerly Jackson 3220.; Number: "3220" inked on negative.; Title inked on negative.; Title on envelope for negative reads: "Salida - Monte Cristo [sic] Hotel."

Physical Description: 1 negative : glass ; 18 x 28 cm. (7 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)

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

 

Thing of the past ...

Briarhurst at Manitou

Creator Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Date: [1888-1900?]

Briarhurst, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, a Tudor style residence of Dr. William Bell (rebuilt in 1888 after an 1886 fire), with carved local stone, bay windows, and a sun porch. Men, women, and boys are in the yard with tennis rackets, balls, net, a tea service, and a dog.

Notes: At head of title: 3008. Formerly F23618. Photoprint has a daub of glue left of center. Title hand-written on front of photoprint.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

Thing of the past ...

Silver bricks

Creator: Collier, Joseph

Date: 1875

Boston & Colorado Gold and Silver Smelting Company workers pose by stacked silver ingots in Empire Forks, Clear Creek County, Colorado; metallurgist Richard Pearce is to the left.

Format of Original Material 1 copy negative ; 18 x 13 cm (7 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph ; 10 x 18 cm (4 x 7 in.)

Original Material Found in Collection: Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery.

Digital Version Created From: A. W. Spring.

Type of Material: Film negatives; Stereographs

Subject: Boston & Colorado Gold and Silver Smelting .

Notes: Condition: worn emulsion; negative is masked with paint. Formerly F5519. See also: X-60031. Title printed on back of stereocard, with: "No 130. The silver bars, thirty in number, here presented, are the product of the Boston & Colorado Gold and Silver Smelting Company, Black Hawk, Colorado, and are piled in front of the Company's bullion rooms. They weigh 2,200 lbs., and are worth $45,000."

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The houses on Glenarm Street

Creator McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957

Date:[1900]

Donor: Thomas Shrock Lindsay

People and brick houses on Glenarm Place, Denver, Colorado. Standing at 2140 are (possibly) John and Martha Shrock with Bina May Conrad in white dress. In front of 2130 is Mary Rebecca Shrock Conrad with children John, Martha, and baby David.

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

Original Material Found in Collection: Louis Charles McClure papers.

Black & white photographs

Notes: Label on back of photoprint: Houses on Glenarm Place, photo covers from 2130 at left to 2140 at right. Standing in front of 2140 are believed to be John and Martha Shrock with Bina May Conrad in white dress. Persons in front of 2126 are unidentified renters. In front of 2130 is Mary Rebecca Shrock Conrad (sister to Ada May, Mrs. L. C.), with three of her children: believed to be baby David who died as a child and John and Martha, circa 1900. Title hand-written on photograph mount shown on copy negative.

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Victor Daily News

Photographer: Harlan, Andrew James.

Men wear hats, suits, vests or suspenders, and pose on wooden sidewalks in front of frame commercial buildings in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. A horseshoe is above the door at the Victor Daily News building near a sign that reads "Law Office." A man identified as W.E. Rohde poses beside a dog in a doorway of the Rohde & Goss Real Estate building. A painted sign in the window reads: "Mining Brokers."

Date: [between 1890 to 1898?]

Notes: "In the Crippl [sic] Creek District" inked below photographer's stamp on verso..; Condition: masked.; Formerly F-44124; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Victor-Bldgs"; Photographer's stamp on verso.; Title penciled on verso.

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Snow, December 5, 1913, Central City, Colorado

Creator Lake, Harry H., 1860-1952

Date: [1913]

An unidentified man dressed in a suit stands on a sidewalk in Central City, Colorado, holding a shovel. Enormous piles of snow that are taller than the man line Eureka Street in front of him. Signs marking a bank, a millinery, the Teller House and the J. W. Williams Assay Office mark the storefronts behind him. The St. James Methodist Church stands in the background.

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