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Call Number	CHS.X4580
Title	Burros packed with supplies
Creator(s)	Dennis, A. W.
Summary	View of a pack train of burros loaded with equipment and supplies possibly in Fremont County, Colorado. The burros are loaded with boxes, containers, bed-rolls, and a table. They crowd together on a trail near possibly Fourmile Creek. A railroad survey team stands in the background.
Date	[between 1881 and 1884?]
Notes	Accession number: 86.200.512; History Colorado.; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Burros"; Handwritten on mat board: "Long as it was nearly noon when I left home and walked 17 miles before returning home. Passing this train of Burros twice on the road going for and returning with supplies for the Engineers surveying the R. Road through to the Petrified Stumps to which from Denver the R. Road 58 miles is graded. 23 burros in this train. These Burros would not much keep still and are crowded together some. To get all could not be persuaded not to move. They are not vain, however and did not care how their picture looked, they wanted to go up the canon and see how nice the grass was up there and I don't blame them."; Handwritten on printed label: "R. R. Surveyors."; Photographer information labeled on back of mat board reads: "Colorado Views On the D. & R. G. Railway, Reading Room Gallery, (one Door West Post office), Canon City, Colorado, A. W. Dennis."; Title supplied.; R7200045808
Physical Description	1 photographic print ; 11.5 x 12.5 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) mounted on mat board.
Is Part Of	History Colorado, original photographs collection
Subject	Fremont County (Colo.)--1880-1890. Donkeys--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890. Packtrains--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890. Railroad employees--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890. Streams--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890. Surveying--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890. Surveyors--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890.
Rights	Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact History Colorado: http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/reproduction-commercial-use-fees
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes
Type of Material	Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	86.200.512
Filename	20004580.TIF

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