A monument in the Irwin, Gunnison County, Colorado, cemetery reads: "The bright promise of Ruby Silver drew 5000 people to this area in 1879, from as far as England and Scotland. Irwin became a ghost town when silver was demonetized in 1884. This...
View of a memorial stone in the cemetery in Irwin, Colorado. It is a rough cut stone with a rounded top, and an inscription that reads: "The bright promise of Ruby Silver drew 5000 people to this area in 1879, from as far as England and Scotland....
A memorial and a gravesite are surrounded by tall trees on Kebler Pass, near Irwin, Colorado. The memorial stands alone and the gravesite is surrounded by an ornate metal fence. The Irwin cemetery was located at this remote site because of the...
Men, women and children pose on the stairs of the Irwin school house building in Irwin (Gunnison County), Colorado. Men, teachers, and probably students wear fitted dresses or pinafores. Children and a dog sit on a step. William S. Hinkley stands...
Irwin (Colo.)--1880-1900.; School children--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1900.; Hinkley, William S.; Shaw, Charles N.
History of mines and mining in Pennsylvania, and an alphabetical index by miner’s name for fatal and non-fatal mine accidents in Pennsylvania for the years 1869, 1871, 1872, 1874 (partial), 1875, 1877,
1879, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1887, 1888,...
Index to the records of the Rogers and Nash Mortuary Records located in boxes 1-18 and between the years 1873 and 1979. Index is arranged alphabetically by last name and includes: Last and First Name, Date of Event, Type of Records, Box Number,...
Men with beards or moustaches wear suits with long coats, boots, and hats and pose beside the Elk Mountain Pilot newspaper office in Irwin (Gunnison County), Colorado. The log building has a false front, a chimney, and a sign that reads: "Pilot...
Tom Owens and wife pose on the porch of their two-story gable- roofed clapboard home in Irwin, Gunnison County, Colorado, the last house left when the town was abruptly abandoned. She is seated on a platform rocker in a dark dress with a white...
Businesses are on both sides of the muddy, rutted main street of Irwin, Colorado. Patterned clothing and boots are on display in front of a store marked "D. May & Co., Square Dealing Clothing Room;" down the street a sign reads "[R]easonable Abe,...
Miners who include John Kurtz, Tom Hodgson, Charles Lampkin, Chal Baney and C. Wilson pose near the shaft house of the Forest Queen Mine near Irwin, Gunnison County, Colorado.
Forest Queen Mine (Gunnison County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Irwin (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.; Baney, Chal.; Hodgson, Tom.; Kurtz, John.; Lampkin, Charles.; Wilson, C.
Miners who include Beecher Baney, Tommy Owens, Haron Watkins, Charles Lampkin, Frank Craig, William Fell, Fred Fuller, Chas. Wilson, Jos. H. Block, Levi Marshal, and George Graves pose outdoors at the Forest Queen Mine near Irwin, Gunnison County,...
Forest Queen Mine (Gunnison County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Irwin (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.
Abandoned log cabins are in a clearing in Irwin, Colorado. One of the cabins is without a roof and is nearing collapse. The other cabin has a hipped roof and appears in relatively good condition. Discarded timbers, rocks, and mountains are nearby.
The Hotel Belmont in Irwin, Gunnison County, Colorado, is a two- story flat-roofed Italianate building with brackets under the eaves, three second-story arched windows over the store windows on the front, and six windows over the store on the side....
Irwin (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.; Hotel Belmont (Irwin, Colo.)
Studio portrait of the Price sisters, Maud and Ruby, in matching plaid dresses with lace collars and trim in Ruby (or Irwin), Gunnison County, Colorado.
View of Ruby, Gunnison County, Colorado, snowslide ruins of a mining shed. Also also called Irwin, for Richard Irwin, who found some of the richest deposits of "ruby" silver ore in the area; Ruby Chief Mine was destroyed in a snowslide.
View of the remains of fallen buildings in a clearing in Irwin, Colorado; shows the foundations of the buildings are nearly overgrown; mine tailings in the distance.
Irwin (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Irwin--1940-1950.
Mrs. Louise Block, the wife of Joseph Block, and her daughter Marie Block pose in front of their home in Irwin, Colorado. The house is of made of boards, and the roof extends to cover the porch; boards prop the side of the building. The women wear...
A view in Irwin, Colorado, shows four men sitting and standing on top of the two roofs of the Forest King Mine; behind them are the gable- roofed wood buildings of the town, including one under construction. Tall evergreens grow in the town; Ruby...
Members of the town board of Irwin, Colorado, pose in a studio portrait; three sit and three stand. All have moustaches and one also has a beard; five wear small bow ties with their white shirts, all wear vests, and three have watch chains.
Irwin (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Municipal government--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.
Men in Irwin, Colorado, pose in front of false-front storefronts and on burros in the rocky street. Signs read, "J. E. Packard & Co., Grocers. Miners Supplies." and "B. Kersberg, Wholesale & Retail Wines & Liquor."
Log and board cabins and buildings are under construction in Irwin, Colorado, along a rough road; logs and stumps are strewn on the ground, and tall evergreens grow around the buildings. Mountains are in the distance.
Buildings of Irwin, Gunnison County, Colorado, are on both sides of a narrow dirt road; the town includes the Presbyterian Church with steeple, picket fences, buildings under construction, and building with a sign "Windsor House." Tall evergreen...
View shows miners work on a hillside at the Forest Queen mine near Irwin (Gunnison County), Colorado. Log retaining walls support the hillside and tailings. A wagon is parked nearby.
Forest Queen Mine (Gunnison County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Gunnison County--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1880-1890.
Studio portrait of Jane Irwin Travelli, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. She wears a light colored blouse with puff shoulders and ruching.
Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Travelli, Jane I. (Jane Irwin); Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
Christmas edition of the newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)