571 items found
Type:Image
Description:A postcard with a color photomechanical print of Golden, Colorado, taken from Lookout Mountain. The postcard is stamped on the back by the Argentine Central Railroad Company, Local Agent's Office in Waldorf, Colorado. The note on the back reads "Dear Emilie I am in Denver now I am having a grand time with Marie. To-day Vira Bishop, Marie and Papa and I went around Georgetown Loop and on up to Mt. McClellan. It certainly is grand. Will write later. You can excuse this writing for I am writing it on the train and it is so bumpy. With Love - Helen F." The postcard is published by the Colorado News Company, number C 1606. [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Railroads
Description:A postcard with a photomechanical print of Grays and Torreys peaks in Colorado, taken near Mount McClellan at the end of the Argentine Central Railroad. The postcard is stamped at Waldorf by the Argentine Central Railroad Company and was then sent through the Silver Plume post office. Note on the back reads "Dear Cook:- I'm writing this on the way up Mt. McClellan, 14,007 ft high. Waldorf, from which this is mailed, is the highest post office in the world. Mts cold!" The postcard is published by Williamson Haffner Company, number B2293. [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Lakes
Description:Photograph of Green Lake, Colorado from the road.
Type:Image
Description:A leather postcard with a fabric flower attached. Sent from Denver, Colorado on September 2 of an unknown year. Leather postcards were first sold in 1903 and were banned in 1907 because of post office sorting issues.
Type:Image
Subject:Mills
Description:Photograph of the Griffith Mill in Georgetown, Colorado, looking northeast. In 1929, this building was removed and rebuilt as the Centennial Mill.
Type:Image
Subject:Mills
Description:Photograph of the Griffith Mill in Georgetown, Colorado, looking southwest. In 1929, this building was removed and rebuilt as the Centennial Mill.
Type:Image
Subject:Electric lines
Electric substations
Electric substations
Description:Photograph of the electric lines at the electric substation in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The substation building was owned and operated by the United Hydro Electric Company.
Type:Image
Description:Photo of Hamill Block on Rose Street in Georgetown, Colorado in May 1946
Type:Image
Subject:Railroad tracks
Description:Postcard with a colored view of the Colorado and Southern Railroad tracks in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado, at hanging rock. Unknown publisher and unnumbered. Back of postcard includes handwritten note that reads "Granada Colo. Dec. 2 - 1914. Dear Alma: - How are you. guess it is my turn to write. got your card. glad to hear from you. Regards to all from all, as ever. E???" Sent from Granada, Colorado to Miss Alma Shodel in Milton Junction, Wisconsin. [show more]
Type:Image
Description:View of the north side of the Hazelton Santiago mill in Georgetown, Colorado