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Dolores, Colorado, Dolores Del Rio Hotel
Year/era: about 1930
Photographer: Sanborn (Denver, Colo.)
Publisher: Sanborn Souvenir Co.
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Pike's Peak from near Colorado City
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Three women sit mounted on horses near Fountain Creek (El Paso County), Colorado. Pikes Peak is in the distance.
Date:[between 1880 and 1900?]
Contributors W.H. Jackson Photograph and Publishing Co.
Format-Medium: Photograph
History Colorado
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Loveland artist Kirsten Kokkin creator of the "The Triangle" sculptor stands with the controversial statue that was installed in Loveland in August. The 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture shows a nude woman and a nude man holding another nude woman high in the air, forming a sort of inverted equilateral triangle of torsos and limbs. (AHMAD TERRY/ ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS)
Creator: AHMAD TERRY
Date: 7, 25, 2006
Donated to the Denver Public Library
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Champion boxer Jack Dempsey at Union Station
Creator: Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 1881-1975
Date: [1919-1926]
Donor: Morey Engle
Boxer Jack Dempsey and actress Estelle Taylor, his wife, pose with a group of men at Union Station in Denver, Colorado.
Format of Original Material: 1 photonegative : glass, black-and-white ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Original Material Found in Collection: Harry M. Rhoads photograph collection
Type of Material: Glass negatives; Photographic prints
Condition: emulsion chipping on edge of glass negative. Formerly Engle #40250. Inked on glass plate: "R40250."; Title and "Woman in photo is Dempsey's wife, actress Estelle Taylor" hand-written on back of print.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 6
Creator : Richardson, Robert W.
Date: 1952
Summary: Three-quarter view of right side of motor car, from front end, close view; Work Goose (The Work Goose never carried passengers or freight. It was used in maintenance of way service.) Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, September 5, 1952.
Description 1 photonegative ; 7 x 11 cm. (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
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Anaconda
Creator: Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Date: [1890-1900?]
The Ananconda schoolhouse, Teller County, Colorado, features the one-story wood frame structure with a hipped roof, rectangular front gable louver belltower, wrap around deck, and pediment drip molds. Scene also includes a small boy and a girl, a horse-drawn carriage, a side gable, board and batten residence and small wood frame residences. An eroded creek bed is cut in front of the school building.
Photoprint has red staining on front of it. Title hand-written on back of print.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Rico, Colorado
Date: 1890-1900
Firemen pull a hose cart (a hose wrapped around a spool with wheels) in Rico (Dolores County), Colorado. Firefighters wear leggings, shorts, woven shirts and caps. People watch from wooden sidewalks in front of businesses. Commercial signs read: "J.W. Burley & Co." "Dry Goods, Boots & Shoes," and "The Rico State [Bank]."
Condition: Edges torn. Title and date penciled on mat board.
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Fort Lewis, generator
Creator: Pendike Studio.
A man wears overalls and works on probably a belt-driven power generator at Fort Lewis High School (later Fort Lewis College) in Hesperus (La Plata County), Colorado. The generator reads: "Ames Iron Works."
Date: [between 1911 and 1913?]
Physical Description: 1 photographic print ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.) on album page.
Source: Gift of W.H. Eldridge, Ft. Lewis, Colo.
Is Part Of: History Colorado, subject file collection.
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Mancos, Colo.
Creator: Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935
Date: [1910-1935?]
Unpaved Main Street in Mancos, Colorado, in Montezuma County.
Original Material Found in Collection: James Ozment collection of George Beam photographs, Digital Version Created From Photo loaned to Denver Public Library for digitization
Type of Material: Black & white photographs
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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