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Lot 251
Sale 926 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Aug 20, 2021
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Online / Cincinnati
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$375
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Lot Description
[MINING - COLORADO]. A group of stereoviews, photographs, and ephemera related to Cripple Creek and other mining areas of Colorado, comprising:
CHAMBERLAIN, William Gunnison, photographer. Cabin at "Dolly Varden" Silver Mine. Denver: W.G. Chamberlain, [ca 1864-1877]. 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. Photographer's imprint to verso. Period inscription identifies the location and the 6 miners: William Harding (cook), Alvah Weller, William Murphy, Cotton (Montezuma), Jas. Sullivan (Foreman), and John Williams). Also with a short explanation of the location of the mine. From Chamberlain's Colorado. Mountain Scenery series. -- JONES, O.L., photographer. Two hand-tinted outdoor views of fire at Cripple Creek with firefighters and wagon. 5 5/8 x 3 1/4 in. Photographer's imprint in negative on one. -- The Greyhound Lode, (Galena.) Cheyenne Mountain. Colorado Springs: B.H. Gurnsey, [ca 1872-1880]. 6 1/8 x 3 3/8 in. Paper label to verso. From Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views. Scenes on the Line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway series. -- Nightingale Mine, Bull Hill, earth's richest gold - Ripple Creek, Colo. New York: Underwood & Underwood, n.d. 6 x 3 1/4 in. -- And 5 others. Together, 10 stereoviews on cardstock mounts. Condition generally good.
[With:] HILEMAN, T.J., photographer. Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek. Colorado, [ca 1910]. 5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. real photo postcard. Postally unused. -- JACKSON, J., photographer. Outdoor image of armed men identified as the Colorado Militia. Colorado, [ca 1894]. 7 1/8 x 5 in. albumen photograph on cardstock mount. Photographer's imprint inked to recto. Pencil inscription to verso. Tentatively identified to when the Colorado Militia were called in support of striking workers in the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894. -- And 2 others. Together 4 images. Condition generally good.
[With:] [after JACKSON, William Henry (1843-1942), attributed]. Anaconda in Cripple Creek District. -- View of Leadville and Mining District. -- View Showing Independence, in Cripple Creek District. N.p., n.d. Photographic prints, image 9 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. sheet), on wove paper, some light stains.
[Also with:] A Picture Story of the Cripple Creek Trip. [Colorado?]: N.p., ca 1915. Obong 8vo. Photographic illustrations with some folding plates. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers (light chipping).










