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- Georgetown from the Empire Road
- View of the Empire Road in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Shows Clear Creek and Georgetown in the distance.
- Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Georgetown from the Empire Road
- View of Georgetown from Empire road on rocky slope, Clear Creek County, Colorado.
- Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Roads--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- First view of Georgetown
- A man stands beside a horse-drawn wagon on a muddy dirt track (the Empire Road) in Clear Creek County, Colorado. A woman sits in the wagon, Georgetown and Clear Creek are in the distance
- Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Doric tunnel
- Miners who include W. J. Lewis and W. J. Lewis Jr. pose with a burro train near the entrance to the Doric Mine near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A sign above the tunnel entrance reads: "No Admitance".
- Doric Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Doric Gold Mine
- View of the power plant at the Doric Mine near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The side of the building reads: "Doric Gold Mines Limited".
- Doric Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Power plants--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- High Bridge on "The Loop"
- Southwestward view, span of High Bridge train trestle on "The Loop," a train route southwest of Georgetown, Colorado (narrow gauge, Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway Co.); Clear Creek in foreground running perpendicular to span; lower railroad...
- Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--1880-1900.; Trestles--Colorado--1890-1900.; Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company.
- [between 1890 and 1899]
- High Bridge on the Loop
- Southwestward view, span of High Bridge train trestle on "The Loop," a narrow-gauge train route southwest of Georgetown, Colorado (Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway) ; taken at level of lower train track; Clear Creek runs below, perpendicular to...
- Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--1890-1900.; Trestles--Colorado--1890-1900.; Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company.
- [between 1890 and 1899?]
- J. S. Randall Home, Georgetown
- View of the home owned by Jesse Summers Randall, Georgetown, Colorado. Randall was the founder and editor of the Georgetown Courier newspaper, started in 1877. House construction was began in 1876. The building, eclectic in style, includes a porch...
- Randall, Jesse Summers 1848-1939--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Jesse Summers Randall residence, Georgetown, Colorado
- View of the home owned by Jesse Summers Randall, Georgetown, Colorado. Randall was the founder and editor of the Georgetown Courier newspaper, started in 1877. The house construction began in 1876. Its eclectic style includes a gable roof section...
- Randall, Jesse Summers 1848-1939--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Georgetown mine and mill
- View of a mine and mill operation near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Near Georgetown, Colo.
- View of the Georgetown Loop and tracks of the Colorado Central Railroad in Clear Creek Canyon above Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows train trestle and Clear Creek.
- Colorado Central Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Trestles--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- City Park, Georgetown, Colo.
- View of City Park, Georgetown, Colorado, looking towards Victorian houses outside park fence. Five figures stand before one house. Eleven children sit on benches along the inside of the park fence. The girls wear dresses and hair ribbons; one boy...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Children--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Parks--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Georgetown, Col.
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows the old school house, Presbyterian church, the Alpine Hose Company tower and the Farwell Reduction Works. Leavenworth Mountain is in the distance.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Leavenworth Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Georgetown, Col.
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows the old school house, Presbyterian church, the Alpine Hose Company tower and the Farwell Reduction Works. Leavenworth Mountain is in the distance.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Leavenworth Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Georgetown from Democrat Mtn.
- A man stands by a woman in a horse-drawn wagon on a deeply rutted road which overlooks Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The woman holds an umbrella. Shows Clear Creek, wood frame buildings and residences in the distance.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Roads--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1881 and 1892]
- Georgetown, Colo.
- A woman leans on the side of an automobile on a dirt street in Georgetown, Colorado. Her arms are crossed in front of her and she wears a dress with small polka-dots with flower decoration on the short puffed sleeves, collar and border around...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Women--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- The Whiting M & M Co.
- Men who include B. C. Catren and B. C. Catren Jr. pose on the tramway near a mine owned by the Whiting Mine and Mill Company near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Whiting Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; People--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Catren, B. C.; Catren, B. C., Jr.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Georgetown Col.
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado shows: school house, Presbyterian church, Alpine Hose Company tower and the Farwell Reduction Works. Leavenworth Mountain is in the distance.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Georgetown, Col.
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows residential and commercial buildings including the Cushman Block, the Fish Block and Masonic Lodge, the Hamill Block, and tower of the Alpine Hose Company No. 2.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Georgetown, Colo.
- Stereograph view of Georgetown, Colorado, looking southwest from Griffith Mountain; shows the old Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the church hospital, fenced town blocks, the schoolhouse, Chimney Rock, the valley leading to Silver Plume,...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Jack train, Georgetown, Colo.
- View of pack mules loaded with wooden beams on a trail near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mules--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.; Trails & paths--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.; Transportation--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Georgetown House
- Exterior view of the Georgetown House, in Georgetown, Colorado. Four women in long dresses stand on boardwalk under the veranda supported by decorative scroll brackets. The dresses have full skirts, long sleeves and prints of flowers, and plaids....
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Boardwalks--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Georgetown House (Georgetown, Colo.)
- [between 1885 and 1892]
- Georgetown, Colo. from the east
- A view of Georgetown, Colorado, looking southwest from Griffith Mountain; landmarks include the old school house, the Cushman Block, the tower of the Alpine Hose Company No. 2 firehouse, and Devil's Gate Bridge of the Georgetown Loop railway over...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900.]
- F. Bowen Livery Stable
- Exterior view of the F. Bowen Livery Stable in Georgetown, Colorado. A man and woman are on horseback; a couple sits in a horse-drawn carriage on the boardwalk outside the open stable door. A man with a whip stands in center. The stable is a...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Stables--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Georgetown, Colo. street scene
- View of large excursion group mounted on their horses and burros on 6th (Sixth) Street (Alpine) Georgetown, Colorado. Men wear suits and hats, women ride side saddle and have on long dresses and bonnets; one holds a child. Street is lined with wood...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1892]
- Georgetown
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado from Leavenworth Mountain. Landmarks include the old school house, Fish Block, Cushman Block the Alpine Hose Company Number 2 tower and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Republican Mountain and...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Griffith Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Republican Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Georgetown from Green Lake Road
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado from Green Lake Road (Guanella Pass Road). Democrat and Republican mountains are in the distance.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Dirt Roads--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- The Loop
- Photograph of a drawing shows an aerial view of the Georgetown Loop, above Georgetown (Clear Creek County) Colorado. Shows railroad tracks and possibly a Union Pacific Railway train on a curved trestle. A train is beside Clear Creek under the...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Drawings.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1881 and 1897?]
- Georgetown, Colorado looking southwest
- A view of Georgetown, Colorado, looking southwest from Griffith Mountain. Recognizable landmarks include the old school house, the Cushman Block, the old Our lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the tower of the Alpine Hose Company No. 2 firehouse, and...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1984.]
- Georgetown, Colorado
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, northwest; shows the base of Republican and Democrat Mountains under cloudy skies and Argentine and Rose Streets. The area around the Hamill House buildings is highlighted by sunshine; other blocks of the town are in...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900.]
- Georgetown, Colorado looking southeast
- A view of Georgetown, Colorado, looking southwest from Griffith Mountain; landmarks include the school house, the Cushman Block, the tower of the Alpine Hose Company No. 2 firehouse, and the Devil's Gate Bridge of the Georgetown Loop railway over...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900.]
- Georgetown building
- View of a false front wood frame building in Georgetown, Colorado. Two women in long sleeve blouses and skirts and a dog stand on boardwalk in front of building. The two-story structure has clapboard siding, double door entry, and a side lean-to...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- 1978
- Parlor Restaurant
- Exterior view of the Parlor Restaurant in Georgetown, Colorado. Three men and a girl stand on the worn boardwalk in front of the one-story false front building. The building features a white clapboard top and dark paint from the bracketed cornice...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Restaurants--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Students, Georgetown, Colorado
- A group of students pose for a group photograph in Georgetown, Colorado. The students are in three lines in front of a brick wall (probably the two-story brick school built 1874.) Two children's faces are dimly seen in one of the windows. The boys...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; African Americans--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; School children--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Students--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Fish Block
- View of the Fish Block, built by Charles R. Fish in between 1887 and 1889, at the northwest corner of Sixth (6th, Alpine) and Rose Streets. The two-story brick building has patterned brickwork and a rounded cornice; at the truncated corner, which...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1889 and 1891?]
- Georgetown - silver mining town
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, northeast, probably from Republican Mountain. Lanmarks includes the McClellan Opera House on Sixth (6th, Alpine) and Taos Streets, which has its name written on the side of the building. Other landmarks include Our...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1886?]
- The Saxon Tunnel
- A miner poses with a shingling hatchet near the entrance to the Saxon Mine tunnel near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Saxon Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Silver...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Mine and boarding houses
- View of a mine, boarding houses, and utility buildings near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A sign on one of the boarding houses reads: "K T Boarding House".
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Lodging houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Miners and burros
- Miners pose with a horse and pack burros by a cabin and mine tramway near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Stacked timber is nearby.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Pack animals--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- Georgetown from Green Lake Road
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado taken from Green Lake Road (Guanella Pass Road). Democrat and Republican mountains are in the distance.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Roads--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Georgetown
- View of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado from Leavenworth Mountain. Landmarks include the old school house, Fish Block, Cushman Block the Alpine Hose Company Number 2 tower and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Republican Mountain and...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Griffith Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Republican Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Champion baseball team of Colorado 18-
- The Colorado championship baseball team of 18??, from Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado, poses wiht their manager near a rocky outcropping down in the old base ball ground. Members include: "left right- Frank Gisen, Patty Downs, Johnnie...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Baseball players--Colorado--Silver Plume--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Georgetown, Colorado, looking south
- A view of Georgetown, Colorado, looking south from Griffith Mountain. A man in a black suit and bowler hat, with a cigarette in his right hand and binoculars in his left, reclines on the hillside and looks over the valley. Behind him, through the...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1911.]
- The Loop Near Georgetown
- Panoramic, southwestward view of the Loop, a narrow-gauge railroad route in Clear Creek Canyon between Georgetown, Colorado and Silver Plume, Colorado, taken on mountainside above Loop; locomotive and car on High Bridge in right foreground (Union...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Clear Creek Canyon--1890-1900.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Clear Creek Canyon--1890-1900.; Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company.
- [between 1890 and 1901]
- The Loop
- Panoramic, northeastward view of the "Loop," a circuitous railway route above Georgetown, Colorado, owned by the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway; station and narrow-gauge track southwest of Loop in foreground; two trestles in distance;...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--1880-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--1890-1900.; Trestles--Colorado--1890-1900.; Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company.
- [between 1890 and 1901]
- High Bridge on Loop
- Northeastward, creek-level view of span of High Bridge train trestle on "The Loop," a narrow-gauge train route southwest of Georgetown, Colorado (Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway); Clear Creek, in foreground, runs perpendicular to span; lower...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--1890-1900.; Trestles--Colorado--1890-1900.; Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company.
- [between 1890 and 1899?]
- The Loop
- Panoramic, northeastward view of the "Loop," a circuitous, narrow-gauge railway route above Georgetown, Colorado, owned by the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf Railway; pine trees in foreground; two trestles (smaller trestle and High Bridge) visible in...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--1890-1900.; Trestles--Colorado--1890-1900.; Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company.
- [between 1890 and 1899?]
- Georgetown Colo
- Westward, rooftop view of buildings in Georgetown, Colorado.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.
- [between 1886 and 1901]