A horse and buggy is stopped in front of the Pioneer Saloon on a dirt road, possibly in Apex, both mining districts in Gilpin County, Colorado. A wagon is parked across the street. Additional storefronts face the street, including a grocery and...
Exterior view of the Gilpin County Court House under construction in Central City, Colorado. Wood frame houses and commercial buildings are across the street from the construction project. St. James' Methodist Church is to the right of the court...
Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Courthouses--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
The New York Mill stands in the foreground at the base of a hill in Blackhawk, a mining town in Gilpin County, Colorado. A stream of smoke puffs from one of the mill's smokestacks. Houses stand along the dirt road that leads toward the town in the...
Ore-dressing plants--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
A large group of miners poses for a group photograph in front of a large mine complex, probably near Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. Some of the men hold large hammers and other tools in the air. A man wearing a suit sits on top of a horse...
Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Prospecting equipment & supplies--1890-1900.
A mining prospector leans over a windlass at a mine west of Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. The miner wears a hat and a work coat and pants. Large pieces of wood are scattered on the ground.
Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hoisting machinery--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Prospecting--Colorado--1890-1900.
The Gregory Buell Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company stands in the left foreground of this winter view of Mountain City, Colorado. Mountain City was never considered its own district but rather part of Central City in Gilpin County,...
Mine buildings--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Mountain...
A view of a Gilpin Tramway coal train in Chase Gulch (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows a locomotive with ore cars in tow. Mine buildings and a shaft house are shown on the steep hillside.
Chase Gulch (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.
View of mine buildings at probably the Beldon Mine in Quartz Valley close to Castle Rock, a rock formation near Central City, in Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows a railroad bridge over a stream and the tracks of the Gilpin Tramway.
Castle Rock (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Quartz Valley (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Railroad...
View of the War Dance mine in Russell Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado. Men in front of the shaft house are identified from left to right as: Nase, Phil Shuck, C. Nase, Dave Davis, Rhu Nannire (seated), Neil McKay, Charles Nannire and Herman Lunburg.
Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; War Dance Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.
Photomontage of scenes near Mammoth Gulch (Gilpin County), Colorado include: miners Holmes and Ripley, Echo Lake, prospectors on the Fremont Trail, and Judge Knaebel on horseback.
Jessie (Dog)--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Saint Bernard dog--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Snip (Horse)--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.;...
Miners and a woman pose with Jessie, a Saint Bernard, and other dogs on a snow patch near Echo Lake (Gilpin County), Colorado.
Jessie (Dog)--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Saint Bernard dog--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dogs--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.;...
A view of an Gilpin Tramway ore train as it passes the Freedom Mill in Gilpin County, Colorado. A man stands on one of the cars as the train travels down the mountain.
A view of the Gilpin Tramway in Gilpin County, Colorado shows an engine house with the three shays (locomotives). The locomotives are, no. 1 "Gilpin", no. 2 "Russell", and no. 3 "Quartz Hill", lined up along with some of the railroad employees. At...
A view of snow removal on the Gilpin Tramway near "Dogtown" in Gilpin County, Colorado. Workers with shovels pose on snowbanks near the railroad tracks. Mine buildings are in the distance.
A view of a Gilpin Tramway freight train on the Quartz Hill branch as it hauls coal in Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows locomotive numbers 2 and 3 with coal in ore cars. Men sit atop the ore cars as the train travels by mine buildings.
Two mine shafthouses stand in the midground with piles of tailings next to them near Rollinsville, a mining district in Gilpin County, Colorado. A portion of another building stands in the left midground.
A man wearing a suit sits on the rail of a balcony at the Specie Payment Mine in Gilpin County, Colorado. A smaller building stands in the left midground. A ridge of mountains with patches of snow stands in the distance.
Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.
A view of an accident in Prosser Gulch on the Gilpin Tramway line in Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows a heavily damaged locomotive and cars. Officials and workers stand on a wooden trestle with cribbed retaining walls and observe the overturned...
A long, wooden platform, possibly a water flume or a walkway, is suspended by log poles in the midground at a mine below Rollinsville in Gilpin County, Colorado. A dirt road winds through the background up a hill. Several trees stand on the ridge...
Flumes--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Rollinsville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Rollinsville--1890-1900.; Mountain roads--Colorado--1890-1900.; Walkways--Colorado--Rollinsville--1890-1900.
across the creek from the tracks. A building stands in the background at the base of a rocky hill. The tracks of the Gilpin Tramway run around the hillside in midground.; The Hidden Treasure Mill in Gilpin County, Colorado, stands in the center of...
Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.
Prosser Gulch near Eureka in Gilpin County, Colorado, is covered in snow. Several houses stand in the gulch, probably named after T. T. Prosser, who worked a steam quartz mill in Gilpin County and befriended Mary York, the first woman to live in...
Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.
Fred Kruse's Grocery & Provisions Store faces a dirt road in the left foreground of this view of Gregory Gulch between Central City and Blackhawk in Gilpin County, Colorado. The gulch is the site where John H. Gregory made his historic discovery of...
View of a wood frame cabin, two log buildings and a privy at an unidentified mine in the Central City Mining District in Gilpin County, Colorado. Dead pine trees cover the nearby hillsides.
Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins.; Log Buildings.; Mining.
[between 1890 and 1900?]
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