View of a Clear Creek and Gilpin Tunnel Mine tipple and mine buildings near Route 40 beside Clear Creek in Dumont (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Signs on the tipple read: "Corporation of American Mines, Clear Creek Consolidated" and "The Specht Properties Clear Creek and Gilpin Tunnels." Tailings are below the tipple and a mine shaft is in the embankment below the buildings. A dam and head gate are in the creek and snow covered mountains are in the distance.
Description
1 photographic print ; 11 x 16 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Subject
Corporation of American Mines--Buildings--1920-1930; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo)--1920-1930; Clear Creek and Gilpin Tunnel Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1920-1930; Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1920-1930; Dumont (Colo.)--1920-1930; Dirt roads--Colorado--Dumont--1920-1930; Mine buildings--Colorado--Dumont--1920-1930; Mining--Colorado--Dumont--1920-1930; Streams--Colorado--Dumont--1920-1930; Tipples--Colorado--Dumont--1920-1930.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
unknown.
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: ZZR711006711; Forms part of the A.R. Specht papers, 1900-1942.; A.R. Specht papers.
Notes
Title supplied.; Transferred from the A.R. Specht papers, 1900-1942.; Typed title on label affixed to print reads: "Trestle, Route 40 and water power."; R7110067110
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