571 items found
Type:Image
Subject:Placer mining
Description:A real photo postcard of a man standing in front of old placer works in North Empire, Colorado. The postcard includes a written note on the front describing the scene.
Type:Image
Subject:Railroads
Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks
Description:A postcard with a color photomechanical print of an Argentine Central railroad train (although the train cars are actually from the Colorado and Southern railroad) at Mount McClellan in Colorado, looking northeast. The train cars are full of people and the railroad tracks can be seen below. The postcard is published by the Thayer Publishing Company, number 330. [show more]
Type:Image
Subject:Hot springs
Description:Photograph (stereoview) of the Ocean Bath House in Idaho Springs, Colorado. Photographed and published by W. G. Chamberlain, labeled Colorado Mountain Scenery on the front. The back indicates it is part of series titled "Idaho, Fall River, and Chicago Lakes" (unnumbered) and includes a very lengthy description of Idaho Springs, the hot springs and mineralology, and areas to the south. Date of 1873 is penciled on the back, but date is likely 1873-1877 based on statement that Idaho Springs is reachable by the Colorado Central Railroad (could mean to Floyd Hill), as well as 1877 being the final year Chamberlain worked at Larimer and 15th. [show more]
Type:Image
Description:Photograph of Miner Street in Idaho Springs, Colorado, looking east from the 1400 block. Shows business signs and automobiles.
Type:Image
Subject:Gold mines and mining
Description:Photograph of the outside of the "Office" at the Argo Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado. "OFFICE" and "KEEP OUT" are spray painted on the outside and a sign hangs that reads "NO TRESPASSING VIOLATORS WILL BE SHOT AND BURNED AT SUNRISE." [show more]
Type:Image
Description:Photo labeled "The Old Drug Store bought by G[eorgetown]-E[nterprises] to be re-errected elsewhere
Type:Image
Description:Photograph of the back of the house just east of the Hotel de Paris in Georgetown, Colorado, looking northeast.
Type:Image
Description:Photograph of the front of the house just east of the Hotel de Paris in Georgetown, Colorado, looking southwest.
Type:Image
Subject:Hydroelectric power plants
Description:Photograph of an old log building at the Georgetown, Colorado Power Plant (Power House), looking northeast.
Type:Image
Description:Photograph of the mill building just south of the Georgetown, Colorado Power Plant, from the northeast. The railroad tracks can be seen just to the east.