Row of attached one and two-story wooden frame flat-roof false front commercial businesses including the Globe Shoe & Clothing House, Polin Shoe & Clothing House, and N. O. Johnson & Sons Dry Goods, Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; stack of wooden boards or planks are in the dirt street; numerous signs on buildings, rooftops or over doorways include: "The Commercial Furnished Rooms" "Board & Room" "Free Lunch" "Dining Room Upstairs" and "Our Big Purchase of $21580 Worth of High Grade Suits and Overcoats at 65 Cents on the Dollar Now on Sale"; men on boardwalk look at display of wares; storeroom windows have transoms, recessed center entryways, scalloped wooden decorative shingles, and boxed cornice with dentils.
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card ; 11 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
Is Part Of
C Photo Collection 37. H. S. Poley collection.
Subject
Cripple Creek (Colo.); Clothing stores--Colorado--Cripple Creek; Shoe stores--Colorado--Cripple Creek; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek
Geographic Area
Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Format-Medium
Photograph
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: ZZR700170698
Notes
Hand-written on back of cabinet card: "Probably before 1900."; Photographer's stamp on back of cabinet card: "Great Rock Island Route, Best Line Between Chicago and the Rockies, Solid Vestibuled Trains and Through Dining Cars. Horace S. Poley, Photographer, 713 N. Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colo."; Title hand-lettered on original negative.; R7001706984
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