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  • First home of Mrs. Margaret Schneider, Seibert, Colo.
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    View of sod buildings identified as a sod barn and a sod house in Seibert (Kit Carson County), Colorado. Shows a fence, a haystack, a one-story barn, a house with a low-pitched roof, and a timber arch over what is identified as a water well.
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    Hawthorne, James--Homes & haunts.; Schneider, Margaret--Homes & haunts.; Seibert (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Barns--Colorado--Seibert--1880-1900.; Farmhouses--Colorado--Seibert--1880-1900.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Seibert--1880-1900.
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    [between 1889 and 1900?]
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  • Soddy, Plains Conservation Center
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    View of a replica of a sod house at the Plains Conservation Center in Aurora (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The soddy, made from sod bricks covered with a layer of scored mud, has a slightly sloped roof, a tall chimney pipe, a single window with...
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    Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Aurora (Colo.)--2010-2020. .; Sod buildings.; Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Sod houses--Colorado--Aurora--Pictorial works.; Aurora...
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    2010
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  • M. B. Gill, Ft. Morgan, Colo.
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    Six men and three young girls stand in front of a sod house in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. One of the men next to the girls appears to be wearing a skirt.
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    Gill, Mark B.--Family--1870-1880.; Gill, Mark B.--Homes & haunts--1870-1880.; Fort Morgan (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Houses--Colorado--Fort Morgan--1870-1880.
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    1871
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  • Pasture with several sheep, houses in background
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    Log building with sod roof, root or earth cellar and additional house or building in background with sheep and pasture in foreground; wooden post corral and sod roof barn, and unhitched wagons.
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    Corrals--1880-1890.; Farms--1880-1900.; Log cabins--1880-1890.; Sheep--1880-1890.
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    [between 1880 and 1900]
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Sod houses. Colorado
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  • MacLean soddy, Plains Conservation Center
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    View of the MacLean soddy at the Plains Conservation Center (21901 East Hampden Ave) in Aurora (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The replica soddy is made of sod bricks, with a smooth layer of mud on the exterior, it has windows, a slightly pitched roof...
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    Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Aurora (Colo.)--2010-2020. .; Sod buildings.; Windmills.; Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Sod houses--Colorado--Aurora--Pictorial...
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    2010
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  • Sod house
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    This sod house, 4610 Robb Street, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, comprises the Wheat Ridge Historic Park.
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    Wheat Ridge Historic Park (Wheat Ridge, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Historic parks--Colorado--Wheat Ridge--1970-1980.; Wheat Ridge (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Wheat Ridge--1970-1980.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Wheat Ridge--1970-1980.;...
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    [between 1970 and 1980]
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  • Sod house
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    This sod house, 4610 Robb Street, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, comprises the Wheat Ridge Historic Park.
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    Wheat Ridge Historic Park (Wheat Ridge, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Historic sites--Colorado--Wheat Ridge--1970-1980.; Wheat Ridge (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Wheat Ridge--1970-1980.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Wheat Ridge--1970-1980.;...
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    [between 1970 and 1980]
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Sod houses. Colorado
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Sod houses
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  • Danielson School
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    View of the Danielson School at the Plains Conservation Center, located at 21901 East Hampden Avenue, Aurora, Colorado. The one-room sod building has a tar paper roof with a small copula over the entrance. The facade has a single window with wood...
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    Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Danielson School (Aurora, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Aurora (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Schools.; Sod buildings.; Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--Buildings--Pictorial works.;...
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    1993
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  • Dugout, Plains Conservation Center
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    View of cow near a dugout at the Plains Conservation Center (21901 East Hampden Ave) in Aurora (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The dugout is built into the side of a hill and uses sod bricks to close off the structure with a wood plank door. A...
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    Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Aurora (Colo.)--2010-2020. .; Dugout houses.; Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Earth houses--Colorado--Aurora--Pictorial works.; Sod...
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    2010
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  • Cha's Burton's cmmissary [sic], South Fork, Colo.
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    View of Charles Burton's commissary in South Fork, (Baxterville), Rio Grande County, Colorado; shows men, log and sod cabins, a pick ax, shovel, saw, oil barrel, sharpening wheels, and a carpenter's square.
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    South Fork (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--South Fork--1890-1900.; Sod buildings--Colorado--South Fork--1910-1920.; Burton, Charles--Homes & haunts.
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    1896
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  • Commissary, Chas Burton's Tie Camp, South Fork, Colo.
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    View of Charles Burton's commissary in South Fork, (Baxterville), Rio Grande County, Colorado; shows women, girls, men, log and sod cabins, tools, a corral, haystack, wagons, a buggy, and hay rake.
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    South Fork (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--South Fork--1890-1900.; Girls--Colorado--South Fork--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--South Fork--1890-1900.; Sod buildings--Colorado--South Fork--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--South...
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    September 15, 1896
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  • Kansas
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    View of a family and farm in Kansas; shows boys, girls, a dog, horses, sod and frame buildings, barn, and cattle pens.
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    Families--Kansas--1880-1890.; Farms--Kansas--1880-1890.; Sod buildings--Kansas--1880-1890.
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    1889
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  • Sodhouse
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    A shingle-roofed sod house in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, is covered with vines.
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    Wheat Ridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Wheat Ridge--1910-1920.
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    [between 1910 and 1920?]
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  • White Rock Point bet Cumbres and Chama
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    View of three sod roofed log buildings, a Denver & Rio Grande train, and a pond, possibly Cumbres Pass, Conejos County, Colorado.
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    Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Costilla County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Costilla County--1880-1890.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Costilla County--1880-1890.
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    [between 1882 and 1890]
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  • First hotel, Glenwood Spgs.
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    Patrons and employees stand outside Fred Barlow's Grand Springs Hotel, a one-story log cabin with a sod roof in the town of Glenwood Springs (formerly known as Defiance), Colorado, in Garfield County. Participants in the wedding celebration are...
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    Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.; Weddings--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.
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    1882
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  • Mud house at Ogalalla, Nebraska
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    Two women and a child sit on the ground beside a frame house with a shingle roof and sod siding in Ogallala (Keith County), Nebraska. The women wear dresses with full skirts. The house has a wooden lintel above a window, and a bench, a barrel and a...
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    Ogallala (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Houses--Nebraska--Ogallala--1860-1870.; Sod buildings--Nebraska--Ogallala--1860-1870.; Women--Nebraska--Ogallala--1860-1870.
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    1867
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  • 2d & 3d Town Co's. office, Grand Junction
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    View of Grand Junction Town and Improvement Company's buildings, Grand Junction, Colorado, shows two different views which include a one- story log cabin with sod roof and a two-story gable roof brick building with falsefront. Men and a woman...
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    Grand Junction (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Grand Junction--1880-1890.
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    1882
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  • Cabin near Gillett
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    View of make-shift one-room cabin with sod roof, Gillett, Colorado. The small cabin is constructed of vertical logs, and a tar paper door and window. Two posts appear to support the gable roof. Materials around the cabin include: pile of scrap...
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    Gillett (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Gillett--1890-1900.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Gillett--1890-1900.
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    [between 1894 and 1900?]
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  • Town Co's Office, Grand Junction
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    View of Grand Junction Town & Development Company's first office, on 2nd (Second) and Ute Streets, in Grand Junction, Colorado, with R.D. Mobley and Mrs. Jackson posed in front of the small one-room log cabin with sod roof. A "dress making" sign is...
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    Grand Junction (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Grand Junction--1880-1890.
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    1882
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  • Cow Boys of the Dolores
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    Cowboys on horseback, and a dog, pose in front of a sod roofed log building. The men wear wide brimmed hats, shirts with neckerchiefs or vests, and chaps.
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    Cowboys--Colorado--1880-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--1880-1900.; Sod buildings--Colorado--1880-1900.
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    [between 1880 and 1900?]
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  • Telegraph office
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    Photo of an ink drawing of Indians sitting next to a fire in Julesburg, Colorado in Sedgwick County. A farmer with a broad-brimmed hat stands next to a sod house that is missing an entire wall. A wood-frame house is in the background.
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    Indians of North America--Colorado--Julesburg--1890-1910.; Julesburg (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Julesburg--1890-1910.
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    [between 1890 and 1910]
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Sod Houses
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Sod houses
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Sod houses
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  • Master Property Record Parcel: 0000-05014-015-00
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    This card represents parcel number 0000-05014-015-00 of the Denver Assessor's Office Master Property Records. Each file may contain several cards with different section of the parcel.
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    Real property tax--Colorado--Denver--Records and correspondence.; Real property and taxation--Colorado--Denver--Records and correspondence.; Tax assessment--Colorado--Denver--Records and correspondence.; Real...
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    1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985
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  • Confluence Park, Delta, Colo.
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    View of a tipi and two log cabins with sod roofs in Confluence Park at 301 Main Street in Delta (Delta County), Colorado. A fire hydrant is nearby.
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    Delta (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Parks--Colorado--Delta--Pictorial works.; Tipis--Colorado--Delta--Pictorial works.; Log cabins--Colorado--Delta--Pictorial works.; Delta (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
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    1992
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  • Adobe house
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    View of an abandoned adobe house near San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows an adobe brick building with a sod roof and door and window openings. Sagebrush and trees are nearby. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are in the distance.
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    Adobe buildings.; Houses.; Adobe houses--Colorado--Costilla County--Pictorial works.; Costilla County (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Costilla County (Colo.)--2000-2010.
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    [between 2005 and 2006?]
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  • First school house, Steamboat Springs
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    A teacher and students stand beside a one-story log school house in Steamboat Springs (Routt County), Colorado. The one-room school has a low-pitched timber and sod roof. The teacher, identified as "Mrs. Pritchett (Lulie Crawford Pritchett)," wears...
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    Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; Teachers--Colorado--Steamboat...
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    1886
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  • Montgomery C.T.
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    View of log, frame, and probably mine buildings in Montgomery (Park County), Colorado. Cabins have log or sod roofs, stone chimneys, and metal pipes. Shows a wooden water wheel and timber piles between houses. A commercial building sign reads:...
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    Montgomery (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Montgomery--1860-1870.; Log cabins--Colorado--Montgomery--1860-1870.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Montgomery--1860-1870.; Mining--Colorado--Montgomery--1860-1870.
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    1864
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  • The Amphitheatre, Glenwood Extension, D.& R.G.R.R.
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    View of a natural amphitheater on the Colorado River near the Glenwood Extension of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Glenwood Canyon, Garfield County, Colorado. Shows probably a railroad encampment with canvas tents and a log shelter with a...
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    Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1880-1890.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Glenwood Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--Garfield County--1880-1890.; Rivers--Colorado--Garfield County--1880-1890.; Tents--Colorado--Garfield...
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    [between 1880 and 1890?]
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  • Oil painting
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    Framed, landscape painting shows a sod house and grass.
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    Houses--1880-1890.
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    1888
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  • Agriculture - ranching - woman milking a cow
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    A woman milks a cow in (probably) Colorado. Cows and a sod roofed log barn are in the background.
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    Cows--Colorado--1890-1910.; Milking--Colorado--1890-1910.; Ranches--Colorado--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--1890-1910.
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    [between 1890 and 1910?]
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  • Middle Park - old ranch on the Grand
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    Men pose by log cabins with sod roofs in Middle Park, probably Grand County, Colorado.
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    Grand County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Grand County--1880-1900.
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    [between 1880 and 1900?]
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  • Upper Creede
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    View of North Creede (Upper Creede, Mineral County), Colorado. Shows a log cabin with windows and a sod roof and commercial buildings, one under construction. Sign reads: "[Ba]nk." Men and woman stand near the cabins. Shows rock formations.
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    North Creede (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--North Creede--1880-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--North Creede--1880-1900.
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    [between 1882 and 1900?]
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  • Hance, Bongere & burros
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    Men are beside burros and a log cabin with a dirt and sod roof in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. John Hance and a man identified as Bongere have beards and wear hats. The man on a burro wears a scarf and a holster with a pistol. A burro has...
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    Hance, John.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Arizona--Grand Canyon National Park--1880-1900.; Log cabins--Arizona--Grand Canyon National Park--1880-1900.; Men--Arizona--Grand Canyon National Park--1880-1900.; Pack...
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    [between 1884 and 1900?]
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  • Pueblo, Colo. The Old Town
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    View of the Old Town area (also called Goat Hill, Smelter Hill, and Old Mexico) in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows a hillside community of tightly clustered one-story adobe residences and shacks with sod & metal roofs. Yards are divided by...
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    Pueblo (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Adobe houses--Colorado--Pueblo--1900-1910.; Huts--Colorado--Pueblo--1900-1910.; Neighborhoods--Colorado--Pueblo--1900-1910.
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    1900
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  • First view of Chama valley
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    Two women in dresses sit on rocks near Denver and Rio Grande Railway narrow gauge tracks at Cumbres Pass probably in Conejos County, Colorado. Shows log buildings with doors and sod roofs, a log lean-to, rock formations and possibly the Rio Chama...
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    Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Conejos County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Conejos County--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Conejos County--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Conejos County--1880-1890.
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    [between 1880 and 1886?]
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  • Sheriff Leonard Nichols Nevadaville, Colo.
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    Leonard Nichols, Sheriff of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, poses on concrete and rock sidewalk in front of the Rowling Building.
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    Nevadaville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Sheriffs--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.; Nichols, Leonard.
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    1931
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  • First house in Cripple Creek, Poverty Gulch
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    First house in Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is possibly Robert Womack's cabin in Fremont (prior to Cripple Creek incorporation) or Andy Frazier's cabin in Squaw Gulch; the one-story rounded log cabin built into the hillside has a...
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    Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
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    [between 1892 and 1895]
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  • Ready to take off on an outing to Trappers Lake, in Yampa, across from Antlers Hotel
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    People pose in Yampa (Egeria,) Routt County, Colorado, with horses, burros, and supplies. A sod roofed log house is behind them.
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    Yampa (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Donkeys--Colorado--Yampa--1900-1910.; Horses--Colorado--Yampa--1900-1910.; Log buildings--Colorado--Yampa--1900-1910.; Pack animals--Colorado--Yampa--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Yampa--1900-1910.
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    1900?
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  • Cripple Creek, Colo.
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    View across rooftops of Cripple Creek, Colorado from hillside on edge of town; scene includes row of outhouses, vertical slat wooden frame outbuildings and residences, post corral, and stone root cellar with sod roof built into hillside; clothes...
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    Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Privies--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
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    1894 May 7
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  • Tutt and Penrose Cabin built 1891 Cripple Creek, Colo.
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    Harry Leonard and Spencer Penrose stand in front of Tutt and Penrose cabin, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one-story log cabin built in 1891 with low gable and sod roof; two saddled horses are teethered to corner of cabin; cabin includes stovepipe and...
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    Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Leonard, Harry.; Penrose, Spencer, 1865-1939--Tomb.
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    Feb. 1894
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  • Hotel Yampa with its famous elk horn fence also residence of Ira Van Camp, who had stage station and livery stable.
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    View of Hotel Yampa, Yampa (Egeria,) Routt County, Colorado; the log U-shaped log house has a sod roof, antler fence in front yard and trees behind.
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    Yampa Hotel (Yampa, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Yampa (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Antlers--Colorado--Yampa--1880-1900.; Fences--Colorado--Yampa--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Yampa--1880-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Yampa--1880-1900.
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    [between 1880 and 1900]
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  • The first house in Cripple Creek - December, 1891
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    Illustration depicts first house in Cripple Creek, Colorado (Fremont prior to incorporation); man is seated in single entryway of one- story log cabin with low gable roof, rear stone chimney, and sod roof (possibly); canvas tent and flat-roof shed...
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    Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
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    [between 1960 and 1970]
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  • Plowing up a homestead in Routt Co., Colo.
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    Team of horses pulling plow, Routt County, Colorado; man seated on back of plow plowing virgin sod.
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    Routt County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Farming--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Plowing--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.
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    [between 1913 and 1915]
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  • Harrowing a homestead in Routt Co., Colo.
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    Four-horse team pulling a harrow over plowed sod, Routt County, Colorado; man seated on back of harrow.
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    Harrows--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Routt County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Farming--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.
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    [between 1913 and 1915]
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  • Cheyenne Mtn. School, kindergarten
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    View of Cheyenne Mountain School, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows the adobe kindergarten building with vigas, sod porch roof, and rock-lined walkways.
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    Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Kindergartens--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1940-1950.
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    [between 1940 and 1950]

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