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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
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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.
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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, Book III, no. 30
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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