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- Views in Leadville, Colorado
- Summer and winter scenes in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado, show frame houses and a busy commercial district. Men and women in formal dress are beside a ditch on Capitol Hill and on row boats on Evergreen Lake. Men sit on a hillside above Fryer...
- Lake County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1890.
- 1882 March 22
- Aetna Mine, Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colorado
- View of the Aetna Mine on Carbonate Hill in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows a shafthouse, a mill, mine buildings and a tipple. Mines and Leadville are in the distance. Snow covered Mount Elbert and Mount Massive are across the valley.
- Aetna Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Elbert, Mount (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mills.; Mine buildings.; Mining.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- California Gulch
- View of mine buildings in California Gulch near Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; California Gulch (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- California Gulch Leadville showing Helen, Sellers, Mover, & Minnie shaft houses
- View of the Helen, Sellers, Mover, and Minnie Mines near Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. The tracks of probably the Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) are nearby.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; California Gulch (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1885 or 1886]
- Fryer Hill, Little Pittsburgh Consolidated Mining
- View of the Little Pittsburgh Mine on Fryer Hill in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado with mine and mill buildings, tailings, tent, and cut lumber.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Fryer Hill (Lake County, Colo. )--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Little Pittsburgh Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Little Pittsburgh Mine
- Several men stand on the elevated ore cart tracks or in front of the Little Pittsburgh Mine on Fryer Hill in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado shows: mill building, tailings.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Fryer Hill (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Little Pittsburgh Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Seventh St. Leadville showing the range to the east
- View east along dirt 7th (Seventh) Street to Mosquito Range in distance, Leadville, Colorado. Boardwalks line muddy street, wood frame residence rooftops middleground, Harrison Avenue with Tabor Grand Hotel (Vendome), old Lake County Courthouse,...
- Tabor Grand Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Residential...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- The Tabor Grand, Leadville
- View of the Tabor Grand Hotel, Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The four-story building has a mansard roof, dormers and widow's walks.
- Tabor Grand Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1885?]
- Knights of Pythias
- Knights of Pythias, Leadville Lodge, No. 1, pose in Aspen, Colorado. The Grand Lodge of the Grand Jurisdiction of Colorado was organized in 1879. Members in full uniform including dark jackets, trousers, epaulets, striped belts, white gloves and...
- Knights of Pythias. Leadville Lodge No. 1 (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- The Tabor Grand, Leadville
- View of the Tabor Grand Hotel, Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The four story building has a mansard roof, dormers and widow's walks.
- Tabor Grand Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1885]
- Leadville
- This view from Chicken Hill, northwest across Leadville, Colorado, shows a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, mining operations and brick commercial and public structures. Landmarks include the Church of the Annunciation, and the...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- North Leadville
- This view of north Leadville, Colorado, includes mine tailings, a telegraph or telephone pole and tree stumps in the foreground. Sheds, barns, lean-tos, tents, log cabins, residences and timber fences are in the middleground. Landmark buildings...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mountains--Colorado--1880-1890.
- [1885]
- Claredon Hotel, Leadville
- Exterior view of the three-story Clarendon Hotel and the two- story brick building next door at 300 Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado. The Clarendon features clapboard siding, bracketed cornice, striped awnings, first-floor storefronts with...
- Clarendon Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Colorado and Southern Railway.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company.
- [1881]
- Londoner Bros., Leadville, Colorado
- Men stand and pose near doorways at the wood frame Londoner Bros. store with a gabled roof and a false front in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Men wear hats, suits or vests, and stand beside store windows and a straw broom display on the wooden...
- Londoner Bros. (Leadville, Colo.)--Buildings--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; False fronts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; General stores--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1888?
- Claredon Hotel, Leadville
- The three-story Clarendon Hotel and the two-story brick building next door at 300 Harrison Avenue are featured in this view of Leadville, Colorado. The Clarendon has clapboard siding, bracketed cornice, striped awnings, first-floor storefronts with...
- Clarendon Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company.; Tabor Opera House--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- 1881
- Leadville, Colo.
- View of houses in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado from the Stevens and Leiter irrigation ditch near a frame two-story house on 8th (Eighth) Avenue in Leadville.
- Ditches--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Irrigation canals & flumes--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1880?]
- Meal time, Rocky Mountain Rifles
- A group of the Rocky Mountain Rifles, Leadville Division of the Colorado National Guard, pose in a camp during meal time in Colorado. Most of the men wear various types of uniforms, boots and different types of hats, including flat military caps...
- Colorado. National Guard. Leadville Division--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Eating & drinking--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1887]
- Hanging of Gilbert and Rosengrants at Leadville
- View of an execution in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; shows a gallows, crowds of spectators, wagons and buggies.
- Gallows--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hangings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Spectators--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1881
- Tabor Stamp mill, Leadville
- View of the Tabor Stamp Mill in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado includes mill building, smokestacks, houses, tents, and tailings.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mills--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Tents--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1880
- Little Pittsburgh Mine, Leadville, Colo.
- Little Pittsburgh mine on Fryer Hill in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado with mine and mill buildings, tailings, house, log cabins, sign reads: "Laundry."
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Little Pittsburgh Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1885
- Tabor Opera House, Leadville
- Exterior view of the Tabor Opera House, 308 Harrison Ave., Leadville, Colorado.
- Tabor Opera House--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1882]
- Decoration Day, 1884
- During the Decoration Day Parade down Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, in 1884, spectators line the street of the business district as a dog and the police force lead the parade, followed by a band, then a group mounted on horses, and other...
- Memorial Day--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1884]
- Decoration Day, Leadville 1884
- Spectators lined the street of Leadville, Colorado's business district during the Decoration Day Parade of 1884 as several uniformed marching units, some with rifles, marched down Harrison Avenue. The busy scene includes businesses in two story...
- Memorial Day--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1884]
- Troop of soldiers, mostly from Leadville, known as the Rocky Mountain Rifles, and other volunteers
- A troop of soldiers on horses form a long line in front of a bluff. In 1885 or 1886, these men, mostly from Leadville and known as the Rocky Mountain Rifles, and other volunteers were headed by Genl. F.M. Reardon and Capt. Christopher Caffrey and...
- Colorado. National Guard. Leadville Division--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Soldiers--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1887]
- The Iron Silver Mine Leadville
- View of the Iron Silver Mine in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Shows Mine buildings, smokestacks and a trestle for ore cars.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Silver mining--Colorado--Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890]
- "Senator" Morgan. Six day champion
- Studio portrait of "Senator" Morgan, with a high wheel bicycle in Leadville (Lake County) Colorado. He wears a sleaveless shirt, short pants, and medals.
- Morgan, Senator.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Cyclists--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1889, August 12
- Molly at age 21 (left) son Larry and sister Ellen Tobin
- Studio portrait of Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown, her son, Lawrence Palmer Brown, and her sister, Catherine Ellen "Hellen" Brown Benziger in Leadville, Colorado.
- Benziger, Catherine Ellen.; Brown, Lawrence P.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Boys--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mothers & children--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.;...
- 1889
- July 4th 1884, G.A.R. & P.S.O.A.
- At the July 4th, 1884, parade down Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, small groups of spectators line the street of the business district as long lines of marching units with flags file by. The scene includes carriages, wagons, businesses in...
- Fourth of July.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1884]
- Leadville, Col. U.S.A.
- View northeast across Leadville, Colorado, shows two-and-a- half-story brick Ninth Street School with belltower and decorative vents among two-story wood frame residences and false front businesses. A large poster on a board fence reads "...lton...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Leadville, Colorado, Chestnut St.
- In this early view of a dirt Chestnut Street in Leadville, Colorado, horses and horse-drawn covered and flatbed wagons are in the street, and pedestrians are on the boardwalks. Telephone or telegraph poles with handbills are on the left. False...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Residence of John McCombe, Leadville, Colo.
- Reproduction of a pencil drawing; shows home of John McCombe, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, with bargeboard and a bay window. Women on the porch watch a man in a buggy.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Corner Harrison & 9th showing 9th St. School (brick bldg)
- This view east from the corner of Harrison Avenue and 9th Ninth Street shows the 9th St. School with St. Mary's Catholic School beyond in Leadville, Colorado. The foreground includes snowcovered ground where a man walks up a hill, bare sidewalk,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Corner Harrison & 9th showing 9th St. School (brick bldg)
- View east from corner of Harrison Avenue and 9th (Ninth Street) showing 9th St. School with St. Mary's Catholic School beyond, Leadville, Colorado. Foreground includes snowcovered ground and streets, bare sidewalk, fire hydrant spigot, streetlight...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Proposed Woodmen's Building at Leadville, Colo., T. P. E. Barber Architec
- Reproduction shows architect's proposal for the Woodmen's Building at Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. The three-story structure has a console over the entry, dormers with finials, and a round corner tower. People and buggies are in the street.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Harrison Av., Leadville
- View along Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado, busy with pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons. The Lake County Courthouse with Lady Justice and scales atop is on the west side of the street. Business signs include: "519 Congress Hall" and...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Robert E. Lee Mine, Leadville
- View of the headframe and buildings of the Robert E. Lee Mine, Leadville (Lake County), Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Robert E. Lee Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1885]
- Principal and staff, 9th St. School
- Principal and staff pose on the steps of the Ninth Street School, between Poplar and Hemlock, in Leadville, Colorado. Seven women in long dresses with fitted sleeves and high collars, some with bows and fitted buttoned bodices sit around a man in...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Teachers--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Chestnut St., Leadville
- In this early view of a dirt Chestnut Street from Harrison Street in Leadville, Colorado, horse drawn wagons and horses are in the street, with pedestrians along the boardwalks. Telephone or telegraph poles with handbills are to the left. False...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Leadville, Colo. 1882
- In this view of west Leadville, Colorado, a dusting of snow rests on the ground and tree stumps in the foreground. Sheds, barns, lean- tos, log cabins, one-story residences, false front businesses, and a two- story brick schoolhouse are in the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mountains--Colorado--1880-1890.; Residential streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1882
- Mt. Massive from the house at Leadville
- View west along dirt street with a boardwalk and wood frame residences to Mt. Massive from Mrs. Singleton's house in Leadville, Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Residential streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Thos. Robson general store on 3rd Street
- Thos. Robson's general store on a dirt 3rd (Third) Street in Leadville, Colorado is a two-story wood frame building featuring a bracketed cornice, dentils along the frieze, arched second-story windows with drip molds, open double entry with...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Neil, Mrs.; Thompson, Mr.; Ellis, Thomas, Mrs.; Robson, Thomas, Mrs.; Robson, Thomas.
- [1885]
- Herman Hauser's jewelry store, Chestnut St., about 1880-1882
- View of businesses on Chestnut Avenue in Leadville, Colorado; shows storefront windows and signs: "Watchmaker & Jeweler," "Leadville Loan Office," "Stratton & Mead, Mining Engineers and Surveyors," "S.M. Newcomb, Assayer" and "Jolin Headquarters,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Jewelry stores--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Hauser, Herman.; Hauser, Irving.
- [between 1880 and 1882]
- Leadville saloon
- Interior view of (possibly) Hyman's Saloon in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado; shows well dressed men, a bar, and a carved wood barback. Decor includes a punch bowl, frosted chip glass, swinging doors, liquor bottles, and taxidermy mounted deer...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bars--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1883 and 1889]
- The city of Leadville, Colorado, and its surroundings
- View of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado. Shows miners gathered at a mine. Shows headframes, tailings piles, smelters with smokestacks, and frame or brick buildings and houses. Snow is on the Sawatch Range in the distance.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Sawatch Range (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1888 December 1
- Hoist house at Leadville mine
- A miner stands with his hand on a large lever in the hoist house at a mine near Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows large gears and heavy machinery. Workers stand near the wall.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Interiors--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1880 and 1887?]
- Leadville from Capitol Hill
- Panoramic view of log buildings in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. A horse is beside a canvas covered building and a one-story log cabin. Shows tree stumps amid buildings and probably the Sawatch Mountains in the distance.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1880?]
- Leadville
- View of plank buildings under construction in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows log cabins, a pile of lumber and houses in the distance.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Building construction--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Log cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Alfred Brisbois
- Studio portrait of Alfred Brisbois, a photographer in Leadville (Lake County) Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Photographers--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Brisbois, Alfred.
- 1888
- Leadville from the west
- Panoramic view of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado and the Sawatch Mountains. Shows frame houses and The Tabor Opera House and St. George's Episcopal Church among downtown buildings. Signs read "Smoke Little Joker Tobacco", "Little Pittsbur[gh]",...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Herman Hauser's jewelry store on Harrison Ave
- View of businesses on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado; men pose in front of storefronts with display windows and signs: "John F. Humphrey's & Co. Real Estate & Mining Agents," "Hauser the Jeweler," and "Saddle Rock Restaurant, 417."
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Jewelry stores--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Restaurants--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1882]