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Tom Mix
Creator: Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 1881-1975
Date: [1925-1935?]
Donor: Morey Engle
Summary: Actor Tom Mix poses with two unidentified women in Denver, Colorado. He wears a cowboy hat, boots, riding pants, coat, and tie. One woman wears a fur stole over her dress.
Format of Original Material 1 photoprint ; 26 x 21 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Original Material Found in Collection: Harry M. Rhoads
photograph collection
Type of Material: Photographic prints
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Group outing in mountains
Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.
Men, women, and children pose on and near a large petrified tree stump (the "Big Stump") in Florissant (Teller County), Colorado. (Later Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument). The women wear dresses with high collars and hats. The boys wear knickers. They are on a fossil collecting excursion.
Date: [1900?]
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I wonder how many would like to spend a New Year holiday climbing a 14,000 foot peak in order to celebrate the Fourth of July out of season
Creator: Standley, Harry L.
Date: [1935-1950?]
Night view taken during the AdAmAn Club's annual New Year's Eve climb of the upper terminal of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway encrusted with ice, above Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Teeth of the railway show through the snow and footprints lead to the platform.
Format of Original Material 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 12 x 17 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Type of Material Film negatives; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Photo 1: Location of cabin of D.C. Oakes
The grandson of D.C. Oakes, a Colorado Pioneer, stands on the spot where D.C. Oakes had his cabin near Larkspur (Douglas County), Colorado. A field with sheeves of wheat and mesas are in the distance.
Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print ; 7 x 12 cm (3 x 4 1/2 in.) Notes: "Taken on the spot where cabin of Grandpa Oakes stood fifty years ago. There is nothing left here except some old sticks and rocks. We found an old coffee mill here. August 1914. Title supplied."
Photo 2: The site of the fort
Men and the widow of D.C. Oakes, an elderly woman, pose at the site of what used to be Fort Lincoln located at the site of the town of Huntsville (near the current town of Larkspur) in Douglas County, Colorado. The fort was built by D.C. Oakes to protect the early settlers from Indian attack, it was known as Oakes Folly. The men wear hats. The farmer who owns the land, Otis Skinner (?) wears gloves and has his arms folded. The grandson of D.C. Oakes wears suspenders and a hat and tie. Mrs. Oakes wears a bonnet, a long dress and a shawl. A hill with a rock hogback is in the distance. Notes: Inked on verso of print: From left to right. The farmer who the present owner, Otis Skinner [?] , grandma, papa. The hill in the back ground is where the Indians used to look over at the movement of the whites in the fort in the year 1864. Title inked on front of photographic print.
Photo 3: Yours truly, D. C. Oakes
Creator: Rinehart, A. E. (Alfred Evans)
Date: [1870-1875?]
Studio bust portrait of Daniel C. Oakes, Colorado lumber merchant, Ute Indian Agent, and U.S. Land Surveyor. Oakes wears a wool jacket with a matching vest. and patterned tie. He has a full goatee and mustache and his hair is parted.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Cameron's Cone from Ute Pass
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
A man in a carriage rides down the Ute Pass road in Teller County, Colorado. Cameron Cone is in the distance.
Date: [between 1882 and 1890?]
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Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 4
Creator: Richardson, Robert W.
Date: 1949
Left rear view of motor car; Galloping Goose at road crossing. Photographed: Rio Lado Lodge, Colorado, August 9, 1949.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Freighting out-fit, Rico, Colo.
Date: 1890
Main Street, Rico, Dolores County, Colorado; shows yoked oxen, Conestoga wagons, an oversized pocketwatch advertisement, and a boy on boardwalk. Signs read: "Louis Clark One Price Clothing House Hats, Boots, Shoes, &c.," "Restaurant," "The Mountain," "New and 2nd Good," "City Bakery," and "Drugs."
Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on mat board ; 16 x 20 cm (6 x 8 in.)
Type of Material: Film negatives; Photographic prints
Notes: Photoprint has fold-crack and spotting. Title inked on photoprint.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Raven Hill. Katherine. Elkton.
Creator Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Date: 1895
A Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway train makes its way near Elkton, Teller County, Colorado. The Katherine Mine works is on Raven Hill. The loading station for the Katherine Mine is near the tracks. The town of Elkton is located further down the valley.
Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative : nitrate ; 13 x 10 cm (5 x 4 in.); 1 photoprint ; 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Original Material Found in Collection: C Photo Collection 37. H. S. Poley collection.
Notes: Title from etching in nitrate copy negative. Vintage photographic print. Written on back of print: "Raven Hill, Katherine, Elkton".
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
On Pikes Peak, alt. 14147 ft.
Creator: Hiestand, J. G.
Date: [1892 Sept. 1]
Well dressed men, women, and a young girl pose in front of the U.S. Signal Station, a stone stone weather station building near the cog-railroad tracks of the Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway on the summit of Pikes Peak in El Paso County, Colorado. The women wear hats, caps, long coats, dresses, and fur coats. The men wear long coats, hats, caps, jackets and scarves. Jessie Link sits on a suitcase on the front row; she wears a light coat, a hat and holds a striped umbrella. A sign on the building reads: "Western Union Telegraph Office."
Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen ; 13 x 21 cm (5 x 8 in.)
Digital Version Created From Terry R. Reynolds; gift; July 13, 2004.
Type of Material: Albumen prints; Card photographs; Group photographs; Photographic prints
Notes: "Fred H. Thompson, 1859 Lynn Mass" penciled on verso. "Merry Christmas to Jessie, Dec. 25th, '95" inked on verso. Photographer's stamp printed on verso. Title inked on original and reproduced in photographic print.
Forms part of the Lucy May Thompson collection.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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J.H. Kilday & W. Weld, prop.'s, White-House saloon, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Creator: Gillen, William J., photographer.
Date:[1893 or 1894]
The White House Saloon, Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado; J. H. Kilday & W. Weld (proprietors), other men and a donkey pose by the bar, a spittoon, and a cigar case. Liquor, alcohol and wine bottles line shelves; signs read: "Positively no credit from This date - February, 1893" and "Mineral Water."
Format of Original Material: 1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card ; 12 x 19 cm (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Digital Version Created From Rosenstock
Type of Material: Cabinet photographs; Group portraits
Notes: Cabinet card with spots and worn edges. Formerly negative F10286. Hand-written on back of cabinet card: Cripple Creek - Saloons. Inked on front bottom edge of cabinet card: Cripple Creek, Colo. Photographer's stamp and address on back of cabinet card: Wm. J. Gillen, photographer, tin types a specialty, open Sundays, duplicates furnished on short notice, Cripple Creek [inked], Colo. Title hand-lettered on original negative by photographer, additional hand-lettering includes: "Our" - Pet.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Eng No. 101
History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection, Book IV, no. 21
Creator: Buckwalter, Harry H.
A group of men and women pose on engine no. 101 of the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway Company near Corona in Grand County, Colorado. Included in the group is the famed pioneer movie producer Colonel William Selig (far left) and his wife (on far right).
Notes: "Railroad Denver Northwestern & Pacific RR special party on first passenger train into Corona on Moffat Road Eng No. 1010" handwritten on negative envelope.; Condition: Emulsion is chipped.; Title supplied.
Physical Description: 1 negative : glass ; 22 x 17 cm. (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.); 1 photoprint ; 26 x 21 (8 x 10 in.)
Is Part Of: History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection
History Colorado, Buckwalter Collection, Book IV
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Funeral on the mountain
Date: 1902
Funeral procession for Superintendent Charles M. Baker, murdered during a WFM labor strike, at the Smuggler-Union mine near Telluride, in San Miguel County, Colorado. Miners carry a flower covered casket and stand on the porch of the boarding house.
Notes: Title and "Mine boarding house at the Smuggler-Union mine, Telluride Chas. M. Baker, Superintendent of Smuggler-Union mine, Telluride Times (weekly) John McRhee, San Miguel Forum." hand-written on back of print.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Seated left, Lennard Vogel, standing right, Alphonse Thuet
Date 1909
Group of men pose outside the Adolph Coors Company brewery, Golden, Colorado; they hold long handled whisk brooms, mugs of beer, and shovels with "Wet Golden 1909," "Malt House 1909" and "Section 11 Brewery," lettered on them. Lennard Vogel sits on a wooden barrel keg on the left, Alphonse Thuet stands in the back right.
Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint ; 12 x 21 cm (5 x 8 in.)
Subject Golden (Colo.); Thuet, Alphonse; Vogel, Lennard.
Geographic Area: Golden (Colo.)
Title hand-written on bottom border of photoprint.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Tivoli Brewery team
Date: [1940-1950?]
The Tivoli Brewery wagon and Clydesdale horses in Denver, Colorado; people ride the conveyance and watch from behind a fence by a loudspeaker. Harness includes silver studs.
Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Filming a movie in Steamboat Springs
Actors and actresses, members of the cast of the movie "The Wolves of the Street" directed by Otis Thayer and produced by the Art-O-Graph Film Company, pose near the corner of 9th (Ninth) St. and Lincoln in Steamboat Springs (Routt County), Colorado. Many of the men are mounted on horses. The women sit in automobiles. A movie camera is set up on a tripod in the street. Observers stand on the sidewalk and near commercial buildings. Signs on businesses read: "Barber Shop," "Art-o-Graf Film Company," and "Hugus & Co."
Date:[1919]
Notes: Condition: badly soiled, torn, ripped, discolored.; Formerly F98; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Steamboat Springs-Streets"; Note handwritten on back of print reads: "The building on NW corner of 9th and Lincoln, Steamboat Springs. It was once the banking house of F. E. Milner, who was one of these progressive men who wanted to see the county grow a healthy pace, and was ever ready to loan money for industrial development. His son Earle is at the front window in the U. S. National Bank and could give you some history. His father first freighted by of teams across Rabbit Ears Pass in the early days of this section, later he ranched, ran a store, and banked. The event shown in the photo was a part of the filming of a picture, "The Wolves of Wall Street." The taller brick left was the famous old Hugus store, the small portion of brick is now a shoe shop. The church at right is the Episcopal Church, is of native Dakota sandstone. Taken about 1918."
History Colorado.
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Gold Coin Club, Victor
Date: [1900-1905]
Gold Coin Club, 413 West Diamond Avenue, with large group of men posed on first & second story portico in Victor, Colorado. The club house (rebuilt after August 1899 fire and formally reopened in March, 1900) was constructed by Wood Investment Company for employees of Gold Coin Mine and eventually sold by Wood brothers after 1904 to Dr. C.E. Elliot who converted it to a Red Cross Hospital for nearly a decade. The two-story rectangular social club building was constructed of brick with stone & wood trim in Colonial Revival style with truncated hip roof, projecting cornice with exposed rafters, classical pediment across front with decorative frieze around entire building, first floor windows with single sash & leaded glass transoms, double entry doors with segmental arched top & side panels, and two-story front portico with Ionic columns on both floors.
Format of Original Material: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Notes: Hand-written on back of photoprint: Gold Coin Club, 1899-1900. Title supplied by cataloger.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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June 13th on the Denver, Boulder & Western Ry
Alternate Title June 13th on the Denver, Boulder and Western Railway
Creator: McClure, Louis Charles, 1867-1957
Date: Jun 13, 1909
Group of men, women and children posed on Denver, Boulder & Western Railroad (formerly Colorado and Northwestern) rear car's platform; train stopped at large snowbank; train employee standing on side, right background; women and girls in fashionable dress, coats and hats; narrow gauge tracks.
1 photonegative : glass, black-and-white ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Original Material Found in Collection: WH2300. Louis Charles McClure papers
Digital Version Created From WH2300. Louis Charles McClure papers, album VIII, 82
Type of Material: Glass negatives; Photographic prints
Notes: Glass plate retouched by photographer. Title and signature hand-lettered on glass plate. Vintage photographic print. Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Edwin Blake and his companions
Creator: McKee, Thomas Michael, 1854-1939
Donor: T.J. McKee
A boy in a sailor suit with knickers and leather boots kneels with dogs on a woven rug in front of an adobe house in Naturita (Montrose County), Colorado. An older boy wears a suit and stands beside a laughing woman in a dress with gigot sleeves. A woman is inside behind the window.
Format of Original Material: 1 photographic print ; 12 x 17 cm (5 x 6 1/2 in.) mounted on album page 32 x 39 cm (12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)
Original Material Found in Collection: C Photo Album 103. Thomas M. McKee album
Type of Material: Photographic prints.
Notes: Photographic print in C Photo Album 103, the Thomas McKee photo album. Title and date inked in Thomas McKee photo album. Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Carlton Tunnel - Xmas party - supts at portal
Creator: Zellers, Bob.
Construction superintendents laugh and smile by the mouth of the Carlton Tunnel in Teller County, Colorado. Mine drainage pipes and rail tracks flank the men; one man is unusually tall, and another wears jodhpurs. Letters read: "1939-1941 Safety First - Carlton Tunnel." Pine boughs, a painted cross, a United States flag, and a clock with letters: "Compliments of Southern Colorado Power Company" adorn the concrete entrance.
Date:[between 1940 and 1950?]
Notes: History Colorado.; Title penciled on negative sleeve with: "1441," and "safety film."
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AdAmAn Club, climbing Pikes Peak to set off New Year's fireworks display
Creator: Bates, James, Colorado photographer.
Date: 1959
AdAmAn Club members climb among boulders, ice, and blowing snow, on Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. They wear parkas, backpacks, and have walking sticks.
Type of Material: Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.
Title penciled on back of mat board.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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