View of the Masonic Temple at 16th (Sixteenth) and Welton Streets in Denver, Colorado. Shows an Italianate style building with tall arched windows, parapets, and rusticated stone trim. Signs read: "The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Newark N....
academy in the right background.; The St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic boarding school, stands in the right background on Gunnell Hill in Central City, Colorado. A large mine shafthouse of the School Hill Mining Company stands on the same hill in...
Central City (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Church schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.
A man participates in a contest probably at a Colorado Mining Association conference in Denver, Colorado. Shows men in the back of a truck with a hammer, a spike, and a block of possibly stone. The truck has a sign that reads: "[?]er Co. Metal...
View of the Montrose Placer Mining Company flume, in Montrose County, Colorado, under construction. A man is by stacked lumber; the Dolores Creek is below, at the bottom of sandstone cliffs. The water was used for hydraulic gold mining.
Dolores Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Montrose County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--Montrose County--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Montrose County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Montrose County--1890-1900.
Portrait of a gold miner standing in the South Platte River, Denver, Colorado; he wears hip waders, bib overalls, and a duster hat. He holds a bottle of (probably) gold from hydraulic placer mining.
Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1930-1940.; Gold mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
View of a large chunk of bituminous coal at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coal camp of Walsen (Huerfano County), Colorado. A company house is in the distance.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1900-1930.; Walsen (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Walsen--1900-1930.; Coal--Colorado--Walsen--1900-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Walsen--1900-1930.
View of the Summitville mining district offices, Rio Grande County, Colorado, once a gold mining district; later reopened for copper mining. South Mountain in distance; mill on left ruined by a snowslide.
A group of prospectors with pack burros on a dirt road in West Creek District, Douglas County, Colorado. The burros carry large bundles with pots and pans. Hillside with trees in background.
Douglas County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Donkeys--Colorado--Douglas County--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Douglas County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Douglas County--1900-1910.; Packtrains--Colorado--Douglas County--1900-1910.
View from tailings over the dilapidated buildings, including mills and residences of Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado, once a gold mining district; later reopened for copper mining.
View over the dilapidated buildings, including mills and residences of Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado, once a gold mining district, later copper mining.
Studio portrait of the Leadville Drum Corps band, who attended the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Boston, Massachusetts, with their drums and drumsticks. Boys and young men pose in Zouave style uniforms with short shell...
Drum and bugle corps--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Bands--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Drums--1880-1890.; Musicians--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
Workmen stand on and near the Derry Dredge, Empire Gold Dredging Company's hydraulic placer bucket-line vessel, near Leadville (Lake County), Colorado.
Empire Gold Dredging Company--Equipment & supplies--1910-1930.; Lake County (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Dredges--American--Colorado--Lake County--1910-1930.; Gold mining--Colorado--Lake County--1910-1930.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Lake...
Miners and well dressed men pose in front of a log shaft house with a tin roof at an unidentified mine in Boulder County, Colorado. They stand near hose and a pneumatic drill, an ore car laden with ore, and a mule with a canvas blanket and leather...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Light.; Mine buildings.; Miners.; Mining equipment.; Mining.
View of the Colorado Mining Association parade as it passes spectators near Tremont and 16th (Sixteenth) Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows people, a flatbed truck, a float and storefronts. Signs read: "Mineral County," "We Mine The Lead...
Interior view of signs, displays and easel, probably at a Colorado Mining Association convention in Denver, Colorado. Signs read: "For Denver, For National Defense," "Power Plants-Transmission Lines-Equipment," "For Dependable Service," "The Mine &...
View of a man using "Hydraulic Chief" type nozzles to aim jets of water at an eroded bluff, in (probably) California. Another man stoops in the gold mine, wearing a raincoat.
View of the Sullivan Memorial Gate (F. E. Edbrooke, architect), at City Park, in Denver, Colorado; the Dolphin Fountain is in the foreground. Leo Lentelli sculptures depict "Agriculture" and "Mining." Landscaping includes lawn and trees.
Sullivan, Dennis, 1837-1915--Monuments.; City Park Esplanade (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Fountains--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
A man walks on a rocky slope overlooking an unidentified community probably in Colorado. Shows wood frame buildings, log structures, and an industrial building probably associated with mining. Mountains are in the distance.
Men work on a flume for a U.S. Gold Placers mining operation beside the San Miguel River in Montrose or San Miguel County, Colorado. The workmen pose near a wooden flume that is under construction. Shows piles of lumber.
San Miguel River (Colo.-Utah)--1880-1890.; Construction.; Flumes.; Gold mining.; Hydraulic mining.; Laborers.; Rivers.
View of the Argo Mill building at 2517 Riverside Drive in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The five-story building is red, and includes a headframe and ore processing facility. The building has large white letters on the top level that...
Argo Tunnel Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; MIning.; Mills.; Ore industry.; Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Idaho Springs--Pictorial works.; Factories--Colorado--Idaho Springs--Pictorial...
View of an unidentified mine on the side of a steep hill in Boulder County, Colorado. Men stand on and near a headframe, tailings and a stone retaining wall. A horse used to power a large winch used for the mine stands on the headframe. Men pose...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins.; Headframes (Mining); Miners.; MIning.
View of holding ponds for hydraulic gold mines; shows flumes, a gauging weir, and plank embankments. Columbia, Tuolumne County, California, is in the background.
Columbia (Calif.)--1860-1880.; Hydraulic Mining--California--Columbia--1860-1880.; Mining--California--Columbia--1860-1880.; Reservoirs--California--Columbia--1860-1880.
View of a wood frame cabin, two log buildings and a privy at an unidentified mine in the Central City Mining District in Gilpin County, Colorado. Dead pine trees cover the nearby hillsides.
Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins.; Log Buildings.; Mining.
A woman and two girls sit on tailings in front of the shaft house of an unidentified mine in the Idaho Springs mining district in Clear Creek County, Colorado. The woman wears a dark skirt and blouse and holds an umbrella. The girls wear dresses...
Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Girls.; Mine buildings.; Mining.; Women.