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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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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.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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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."
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.
History Colorado.
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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.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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