Georgetown, Colorado from Leavenworth Mountain

Georgetown, Colorado from Leavenworth Mountain

1884

A cabinet card photograph of Georgetown, Colorado, taken from Leavenworth mountain south and above the city. The photograph was taken by Alex Martin and published by Robert M. Davis and the back includes a published description of Georgetown and the newly completed Georgetown Loop. This item was given to Louis Keck on his twenty-first birthday in 1884. The front includes 29 hand-written numbers that label buildings in the image. The back of the photograph describes what or who lived at each of these numbers.

Georgetown (Colo.)

Image

Martin, Alex

Scotty Wilkins Collection

006-017

Albumen prints

Robert M. Davis

The name of Louis Keck, a merchant in Georgetown from about 1887-1904, is written on the back of many of these photographs. It is unclear if he was the owner of these photographs, was the one who labeled them (or had copies that someone reproduced these labels from), or was the photographer (though some are on mounts of George Dalgleish, who was likely the photographer of many of them).