Find results with:

Add another field

Search by date

to

Searching collections:

Photographs - Western History

Add or remove collections

Home Breckenridge

Reference URL

Share

Add tags

Comment

Save to favorites

To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this object, paste this HTML in website

Breckenridge

View Description

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

Print

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Back to top

Powered by CONTENTdm®

Call Number	X-1949
Title	Breckenridge
Summary	View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking southeast, includes tents, frame and log dwellings and commercial buildings dotting the flats next to the Blue River which winds up to and through town. The foothills of Boreas Mountain are in the left, and Mount Silverheels is in the distance. Behind the town, Barney Ford Hill (formerly called "Nigger Hill") is cut with grades of the Denver and South Park Railroad, and to the south are the sheds of the Boston and Colorado Smelter, framed by gnarled trees in the foreground.
Date	1881
Notes	Formerly F18130.; Hand-writing on back of cabinetcard reads: (illegible)...The Denver and South Park R. R. now building comes over the pass and cuts the high rock seen at a pinpoint underlying one (1) and after turning to right and going up Illinois Gulch comes into view again on Nigger Hill at pinpoint under figure two (2). Figure three (3) is placed above the Barlow and Celo Smelter and also above the Blue River Canon. In this canon and on the slope of the mountain under figure 5 are the (illegible) Mine owned by Brick (illegible) at figure 4 on the left is (illegible) small portion of Bald Mountain 14,176 ft. high being one of the highest mountains in the state. On Nigger Hill below the line of the R. R. are two horizontal white lines showing faintly. These are ditches of the Gold Run Placer Co. More of these by 6 & 7.; Oval image with white margins.; Title from bottom front of image.; R7100019490
Physical Description	1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinetcard ; 11 x 16 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 in.)
Subject	Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.
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	Film negatives.; Stereographs.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	F18130
Filename	10001949.tif

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home Breckenridge

Breckenridge

Description

Tags

Comments