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Call Number	P-1668
Title	Childs - Drexel Printers Home
Creator(s)	Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
Summary	View of the Childs - Drexel Printer Home (later Union Printers Home) Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows the five-story stone building with square and round towers, a pediment, dormers, an arched entry, wrap around porches, and newly planted trees. Funded by grants from publisher George W. Childs and banker Anthony J. Drexel, this sanatorium was completed in 1891.
Date	[between 1891 and 1900?]
Notes	Photographer's byline printed on back of cabinet card with a railroad advertisement: "Great Rock Island Route, best line between Chicago and the Rockies, solid vestibuled trains and through dining cars."; Title printed on original; penciled on back of cabinet card: "The first building - now called the Union Printers Home."; R7001716688
Physical Description	1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card ; 11 x 16 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of	C Photo Collection 37. H. S. Poley collection.
Subject	Childs, George W.,--Homes & haunts. Drexel, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1826-1893--Homes & haunts. Union Printers Home--Buildings--1890-1900. Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900. Sanatoriums--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
Source	Source: H. S. Poley.
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material	Cabinet photographs.; Film negatives.; Imaged.; Image
Relation	Image File: ZZR700171668
Format-Medium	Photograph
Filename	00171668.tif
CONTENTdm number	15330

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