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  • In Cripple Creek Dist. on Florence & Cripple Cr. R.R.
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    View of Denver and Rio Grande Railroad freight cars on the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad in Teller County, Colorado. Shows telegraph poles, a poster of an elderly man that reads: "Where You Get Your Money's Worth, Shillings, Victor." Frame...
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    Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--Equipment & supplies--1890-1900.; Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Teller County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Mine...
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    1895
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  • The city of Leadville, Colorado, and its surroundings
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    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.
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    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.
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    1888 December 1
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  • Battle Mountain
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    View of tailings piles, mine buildings and headframes on Battle Mountain in Victor (Cripple Creek Mining District,Teller County), Colorado. Mine names are painted on two mine building roofs: "Anna Lee" and "Bob-Tail." Shows a curved road and sparse...
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    Anna Lee Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Tailings...
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    1895
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  • Leadville, Colorado
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    A man sits in a horse-drawn carriage and poses beside probably ore car tracks at a mine in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Smoke rises from a frame mine building. Log houses, tailings piles, and headframes are on the treeless hillside.
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
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    [between 1890 and 1900?]
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  • Mining Scene - Cripple Creek
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    View mines near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado; shows Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs Railroad narrow gauge track and train, mines, tailings, headframes, and ore car tracks.
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    Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway--1910-1920.; Teller County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.
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    [between 1910 and 1920?]
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  • Robert Emmet Mine
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    Smoke rises from smokestacks on a hillside at the Robert Emmet Mine probably in Lake County, Colorado. Shows frame buildings, headframes and tailings piles on a hillside.
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    Lake County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.
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    1897
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  • Ibex Mines
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    View of frame mine buildings, headframes and tailings piles at Ibex Mines near Leadville in Lake County, Colorado. Shows mountains in probably the Mosquito Range in the distance.
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    Ibex Mining Company (Leadville, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Ibex Mines (Lake County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Lake County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.
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    [between 1891 and 1900?]
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  • Leadville - Carbonate Hill
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    View of treeless Carbonate Hill in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; shows several mine and mill buildings, houses, headframes, and tailings.
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    Carbonate Hill (Lake County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hills--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
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    1900
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  • Leadville
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    View of Carbonate Hill mining district in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado; shows mill buildings, smokestacks, mine tailings, headframes, and ore cart trestles.
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1910.
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    [between 1890 and 1910?]
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  • Carbonate Hill and Leadville Colo.
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    Right side of panorama view from Carbonate Hill over Leadville mining district to the Continental Divide, Colorado; shows rocky hills, frame structures, smokestacks, mine shafts, headframes, railroad and ore car tracks, and tailing piles.
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
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    [between 1890 and 1900]
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  • Carbonate Hill and Leadville Colo.
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    Left side of panorama from Carbonate Hill over Leadville mining district, Colorado; shows rocky hills, frame structures, smokestacks, mine shafts, headframes, railroad tracks, ore cart trestles and tailing piles.
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
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    [between 1890 and 1900]
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  • Carbonate Hill and Leadville Colo.
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    Center of panorama view from Carbonate Hill over Leadville mining district to the Continental Divide, Colorado; shows rocky hills, frame structures, smokestacks, mine shafts, headframes, railroad and ore car tracks and tailing piles.
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
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    [between 1890 and 1900]
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  • Doctor Jackpot Mine, Cripple Creek Colo.
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    Left side of panorama looking west over Doctor Jackpot Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, above Anaconda, Teller County, Colorado; shows frame structures, headframes, ore chutes, dirt roads, and tailing piles.
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    Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Doctor Jackpot Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1920.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1920.
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    [between 1895 and 1920]
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  • Doctor Jackpot Mine, Cripple Creek Colo.
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    Right side of panorama west over Doctor Jackpot Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, above Anaconda, Teller County, Colorado; shows wood frame structures, headframes, ore chutes, dirt roads and tailing piles; Mary McKinney Mining Company is...
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    Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Doctor Jackpot Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1920.; Mary McKinney Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1920.; Wooden...
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    [between 1895 and 1920]
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  • Sangre De Christo [sic] Range from Bull Hill
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    Left side of panorama view from Bull Hill, Teller County, shows slope covered with mines, tailing dumps, wood frame structures, headframes, shafthouses, ore cart tracks and criss-crossing dirt roads with snow capped Sangre De Cristo Range in...
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    Bull Hill (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1890-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Bull Hill--1890-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Bull Hill--1890-1920.
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    [between 1890 and 1920]
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  • Smuggler Union mine
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    View of headframes and power lines of the Smugglers-Union Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado.
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    San Miguel County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Smuggler Union Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1910-1920.
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    [between 1934 and 1941]
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  • Mines on Gold Hill above Cripple Creek
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    View of mine buildings, Gold Hill, near Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado; a large smokestack stands near two buildings, one two story, with pitched roofs and wooden vertical slats; two men stand on one of three wooden rail bridges, one holds...
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    Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.
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    [between 1892 and 1901?]
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  • Mining camp
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    Wood buildings, headframes, rock tailings at a mining camp in Colorado.
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    Mining equipment--Colorado--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1900.
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    [between 1895 and 1900?]
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  • Altman
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    View northeast over remains of Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor, on a saddle between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, Teller County, shows a few wood frame structures. Mine shaft headframes and tailing dumps show on the slope. Pikes...
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    Altman (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Ghost towns--Colorado--Teller County--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Altman--1940-1950.
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    [between 1940 and 1950]
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  • Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colorado Midland Ry.
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    View of treeless Carbonate Hill in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows several mine and mill buildings, houses, headframes, and tailings.
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    Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1910.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1910.
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    [between 1898 and 1901]
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  • Cripple Creek Dist.
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    View of three elevations of probably Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs Railroad narrow gauge track servicing several mines in Cripple Creek District (Teller County), Colorado; retouched passenger train, center background; mines, tailings,...
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    Teller County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Teller County--1910-1920.; Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway.
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    [between 1915 or 1917]
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  • Idaho Springs
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    View of the Newhouse Tunnel, tailings, houses, and smelters east of Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado; shows Colorado and Southern Railway tracks, Clear Creek, Bertha Gold Mining and Milling Company headframes, and processing sheds with...
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    Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Newhouse Tunnel (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1890-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1890-1900.; Colorado and...
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    [between 1895 and 1900?]
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  • Finntown, Leadville, 1941
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    View of Finntown mining operations with shafthouses, headframes, and tailing dumps in Stray Horse Gluch, east of Leadville, Colorado.
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    Finntown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Finntown--1940-1950.
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    [1941]
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  • A view of Butte, Montana, showing "the richest hill in the world"
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    Panoramic view of Butte (Silver Bow County), Montana, showing the business district with commercial buildings, houses, mines, headframes, mills and processing plants. Identification on the image reads: "West Gagnon," "Gagnon," "Original," "Miners...
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    Butte (Mont.)--1970-1990.; Business districts--Montana--Butte--1970-1990.; Cities & towns--Montana--Butte--1970-1990.; Mining--Montana--Butte--1970-1990.
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    1916
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  • Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colo., Colo. Midland Ry.
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    View towards Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colorado (Lake County), reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows Little Johnny Mine (far left), mines, headframes, smelters, tailings and dumps, ore cart tracks, wooden frame residences and buildings.
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
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    [between 1900 and 1910]
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  • Leadville and Mt Massive, Colo. Midland Ry.
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    Bird's eye view of Leadville, Colorado, toward Mount Massive (elevation 14,418 feet) reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows mine dumps or tailings, headframes, ore cart tracks, smelters, mills, Lake County Courthouse tower, churches, wooden...
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.
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    [between 1900 and 1910]
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  • Leadville, Colo. and Mt. Massive, Colo. Midland Ry.
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    Bird's eye view of Leadville, Colorado, taken from Colorado Midland Railway towards Mount Massive (hazy background, elevation 14,418 feet); shows narrow gauge track, wooden frame residences, buildings, mines, smelters, mills, headframes, ore cart...
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    Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.
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    [between 1900 and 1910]
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  • Aerial view at Victor, Colorado
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    Aerial view of Victor, Colorado; shows wooden frame medium-gable roof residences across hillside, Gold Coin Club building with enclosed second-story porch, commercial business district, mine headframes and tailings, and automobiles on dirt street.
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    Victor (Colo.)--1920-1930.
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    1929?
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  • Victor
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    Rear view of three wooden frame residences on hillside, Victor, Colorado: a two-story wooden frame house (with medium gable roof, two chimneys, and outhouse), a one-story wooden frame house (with bellcast mansard roof, stone foundation, and four...
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    Victor (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Victor--1930-1940.
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    [between 1930 and 1940]
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  • Victor, Colo.
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    View of Bob & Evelyn Brown with dog standing on ridge cut above Victor, Colorado, on outskirts of town; same location where townspeople fled for safety from August 21, 1899 fire using Florence & Cripple Creek railroad cars to move belongings;...
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    Victor (Colo.)--1970-1980.
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    1971
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  • Victor, Colo.
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    View across residential rooftops towards commercial district of Victor, Colorado; shows one and two-story wooden frame residences, City Hall, Gold Coin Club, and edge of Bank block building. Mine headframes, surface buildings and tailings are on...
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    Victor (Colo.)--1930-1940.
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    [between 1930 and 1940]
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  • Victor, Colorado
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    Bird's eye view of Victor Avenue, Victor, Colorado; shows commerical business district and outlying residential area including Gold Coin Club building, one and two-story wooden frame residences, automobiles, mine headframes and tailings, Bank block...
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    Victor (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Victor--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Victor--1920-1930.
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    [between 1920 and 1930]
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  • Victor, Colorado
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    Partial view of Victor, Colorado, including one and two-story low gable & hip roof wooden frame residences, barn, log corral, picket fence, and a two-story brick building. Mine headframes, tailings and surface buildings are on hillside.
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    Victor (Colo.)--1930-1940.
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    [1932?]
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  • Victor, Colorado
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    View of Victor, Colorado, across low rooftops of wooden frame residences; shows commercial buildings including City Hall Bank block, and Gold Coin Club building (with enclosed second-story porch), and mine headframes and tailings. Signs include:...
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    Victor (Colo.)--1920-1920.
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    [between 1920 and 1930]
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  • Battle Mountain, Bob-Tail, Anna Lee, Portland
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    View of tailings piles, frame mine buildings and headframes on Battle Mountain in Victor (Cripple Creek Mining District,Teller County), Colorado. One building has an unfinished roof. Shows portions of the Bob-Tail, Anna Lee, Portland and Black...
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    Anna Lee Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Black Diamond Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Portland Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Mine...
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    1895
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  • Mine in the San Juan Mountains
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    Men pose at an unidentified mine site in the San Juan Mountain Range in Colorado. Shows a head frame, shaft house with cable, wood frame buildings, smokestack, dog and the snow covered ground.
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    Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1880-1900.
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    [between 1885 and 1900?]
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  • Unidentified mine, Boulder County
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    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...
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    Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins.; Headframes (Mining); Miners.; MIning.
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    [between 1890 and 1900?]
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  • Good Hoist Mine- Cripple Creek
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    View of the Good Hoist Mine works near Cripple Creek in Teller County, Colorado. Three men stand between a wooden building and headframe that is anchored to another building. One man leans on a mine car near a metal trough that leads down a slope...
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    Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.
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    [between 1890 and 1910]
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  • A trip to the old tungsten mine
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    View of the headframe of a tungsten mine and large metal tanks. African American female campers and counselors from Camp Nizhoni stand by the mine, probably in Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows ore car tracks.
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    Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--People--1930-1940.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--People--1930-1940.; African Americans--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1940.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1930-1940.;...
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    1936
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  • 1936, cont'd.
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    Text and annotations on album page read: [ARL-136] "Don't look so forlorn; there'll be another year. Woody must be going to Denver, she's all 'dressed' up, [ARL-137] First Week, 'Andy Family' 1936, [ARL-138] Take the picture quick; the train's...
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    Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--People--1930-1940.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--People--1930-1940.; African Americans--Colorado--Lincoln Hills--1930-1940.; Lincoln Hills (Colo.)--1930-1940.;...
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    1936
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  • The Eureka Coal Mine, C.B. McKean & Son, prop., Rinn, Colo. Shipping point, Idaho switch, B. & M. R. R. R.
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    Men pose by a horse drawn wagon and a headframe and coal tipple at the Eureka Coal Mine in Rinn (Weld County), Colorado; another man is on an elevated platform on the headframe.
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    Rinn (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Coal mining--Colorado--Rinn--1880-1900.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Rinn--1880-1900.; Tipples--Colorado--Rinn--1880-1900.
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    [between 1880 and 1900?]
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  • Unidentified mine
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    Miners pose near an unidentified mine in Colorado. A horse with a yoke and blinders is near probably a head frame building. Mountains are in the distance.
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    Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--1890-1900.; Horses--Colorado--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1900.
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    [1890 May or June.]
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  • Unidentified mine
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    Miners stand near ore car tracks and probably a head frame building in Colorado. Letters etched in original and reproduced in print read: "Grand View Side Line" and "Euphrates Side Line." Mines and mine buildings are on a distant hillside.
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    Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1900.
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    1890 May or June
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  • Specimen Mine
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    View of a headframe and tipple at the Specimen Mine (gold) in the Cripple Creek Mining District between Cripple Creek and Victor in Teller County, Colorado. Tailings and frame buildings are near the mine. Buildings and cribbing are in the distance.
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    Specimen Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Teller County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1910.
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    [between 1890 and 1910?]
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  • Last Dollar Mine
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    Groups of miners poses on a tipple, and near a headframe at the Last Dollar Mine near Independence in Teller County, Colorado. Two men are on tailings piles; one man sits on a fallen log. Shows frame buildings with smokestacks, cribbing near a...
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    Last Dollar Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Teller County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1890.;...
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    [between 1880 and 1890?]

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