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Lot 395
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$400 -
600
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$1,375
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Lot Description
[WESTERN AMERICANA]. WEITFLE, Charles, photographer. A group of 6 stereoviews of Colorado towns, incl. Black Hawk and Leadville.
6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in., or smaller, stereoviews on cardstock mounts (toning, some soiling to images; soiling and spotting to mounts, corner and edge wear). Each stereoview is titled in the negative, and five include Charles Weitfle's Central City, CO, imprint on verso.
Some of the views may have been originally produced by James Thurlow, Manitou, Colorado's first resident photographer. When he died of pneumonia, Charles Weitfle purchased Thurlow's 250 negatives.
Image numbers and titles include: No. 6, Spring Street, Central. -- No. 24, Black Hawk. -- No. 25, Crossing Black Hawk, on Wonder R.R. -- No. 68, The Forks of Creek, Clear Creek. -- No. 411, U.P.R.R. Station, Cheyenne. -- Uncredited stereoview, No. 205, Chestnut Street, Leadville.
Together, 6 stereoviews.
Property of a New York Lady