563 items found
Type:Image
Subject:Alyce G Haskins portrait, Women of Silver Plume Collection
Description:Alyce G Haskins portrait taken in front of Silver Plume Post Office by Laura Middleton Downing as part of the Women of Silver Plume Collection 1978-1979
Type:Image
Subject:Railroads
Description:Photograph of Waldorf, Colorado, looking west, with an Argentine Central train arriving in town. The post office and water tower can be seen in the background. Shows men walking towards the train and sitting near the train. Date is likely 1908, though it could be a year or so before or after (this is when the Reillys ran a boarding house in Waldorf). [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Railroads
Description:Reproduced photograph (the location of the original is now unknown) of people on and around an Argentine Central Railroad train near Waldorf, Colorado. Photograph likely taken by the Reilly family. Date is likely 1908, though it could be a year or so before or after (this is when the Reillys ran a boarding house in Waldorf). [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Railroads
Description:Postcard with a colored view of an Argentine Central Railroad train approaching Rocky Point (southwest of Pavilion Point) near Silver Dale, Colorado. Number 3550. Unused postcard.
Type:Image
Description:Photograph of the Arapaho National Forest Information Station and Clear Creek Ranger Station in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
Type:Image
Subject:Railroads
Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks
Description:Postcard with an image taken east of Silver Plume, looking at the north sides of Leavenworth Mountain and Sunrise Peak. The postcard has labeled the railroad grades of the Colorado and Southern Railroad in the western part of the loop valley and the Argentine Central Railroad above as it switchbacks towards Pavilion Point. The back is filled out with a name and address, but the postcard was never sent through the mail. [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Railroads
Description:A postcard with a color photomechanical print of Argentine Falls, near Waldorf, Colorado, along the Argentine Central Railroad. A water tank is also visible above the falls. It is published by the Great Western Post Card and Novelty Company, Denver, Colo., number 3542. [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Railroad tracks
Mountain passes
Mountain passes
Description:A postcard with a color photomechanical print of Argentine Pass, Colorado taken at treeline from the Argentine Central Railroad tracks east of Waldorf. The note "Four weeks ago yesterday" is written under the title on the front. The note on the back reads "McCook 8/30/08 Quarantine was lifted Thursday and I am allowed to sit up a little now in a big chair. Am still pretty weak but will try to write soon. P. V. R." The postcard is published by the Barkalow Brothers, Railway News Agents, Denver, Colo., number 1675. [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Gold mines and mining
Description:Photograph of the large Gold Mill building at the Argo Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado, taken from the southeast.
Type:Image
Subject:Gold mines and mining
Description:Photograph with a close up of the Argo Gold Mill building at the Argo Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado.