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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

George L. Beam photos of Cortez, 1910 to 1915

 Thing of the past ...


Cortez, Colorado
Creator: Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935.
Frame or brick houses and commercial buildings in Cortez (Montezuma County), Colorado. Shows fenced yards with cultivated gardens, outhouses, sheds, and timber piles near commercial buildings with signs that read: "Journal Building" and "Charles Duff, General Merchandise." A woman stands in a back yard beside a hose and sprinkler in a garden. Shows the two story stone Montezuma State Bank, a horse-drawn carriage in a road and Sleeping Ute Mountain in the distance.
Date: [between 1910 and 1915?]
History Colorado, Original photographs collection


Thing of the past ...
Cortez, Colorado
Creator(s): Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935.
Main Street in Cortez (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows men, a horse drawn wagon, an automobile, boardwalks, storefronts, ashlar stone office buildings with entablature and balustrades, and signs: "Bozeman Realty Company," "Hays & Aton Wall Paper, Varnishes, and Decorating," "Meat Market," "Case Rooming House," and "First National Bank."
Date: [between 1910 and 1915?]

Notes: History Colorado.; Condition: stained.; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Cortez"