View east on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado (formerly Fremont prior to incorporation); street scene includes horse-drawn wagons, boardwalk, flagpole, dogs, unhaltered colt, and one and two-story flat-roof commercial wooden frame buildings with false fronts; awnings are lettered with "Cigar" and "Meats"; signs attached to buildings: "Mt. Pisgah Livery & Feed" (Harris & Mayhew, Proprietors), "Undertakers" "Hale & Asbury Grocers" "S. S. Markham, Attorney at Law" "Monaco Restaurant" (Monaco Buffet & Cafe, Joseph B. Suave, Proprietor), "Real Estate & Mines" "Royal Exchange" "Cripple Creek Bowling Alley" "The Home"; and "Palace H." (Palace Hotel).
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint : albumen ; image 11 x 15 cm. (4 1/4 x 6 in.) on mount 17 x 22 cm. (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Subject
Cripple Creek (Colo.); Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek
Format-Medium
Photograph
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710000789
Notes
Formerly negative F17096.; Hand-written on back of mounted albumen photoprint: "Cripple Creek, Street scenes, Bennett Ave." "On Bennett Avenue looking east in 1892-1893, probably the famous "mineral" flagpole erected in the distance, see April 1892 newspaper accounts - unlocated."; Title hand-written on back of mounted albumen photoprint.; R7100007891
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