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  • The Old Prospector
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    View of "The Old Prospector," a statue of a miner on the roof of the Mining Exchange Building in downtown Denver, Colorado. The man holds a chunk of gold ore and a mining pick. The copper statue was created by Alphonse Pelzer and modeled after John...
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    Denver (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Miners--Colorado--Denver--1950-1970.; Sculpture--Colorado--Denver--1950-1970.
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    [between 1950 and 1961?]
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  • Municipal Facts: Volume 6 Numbers 3 and 4, 1923 March-April
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    Newsletter produced monthly by the City of Denver highlighting the civic, administrative, and informational aspects of government within the City.
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    Local government--Colorado--Denver.; Cities and towns--Colorado--Denver.
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    1923 March-April
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  • Rowley, J. B.
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    J. B. Rowley, a pioneer of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, poses for a studio bust portrait wearing a dark fur hat and a leather coat over a plaid shirt and a tie. Rowley was a prospector and small mine operator near the turn of the century in...
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    Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1940.; Pioneers--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1940.; Rowley, J. B.
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    [1939?]
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  • Barrett, Ed
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    Ed Barrett, a prospector from Wideawake, a small mining district in Gilpin County, Colorado, poses for an informal bust portrait. Barrett wears a wool cap with its flaps up and a leather coat with a wool collar. He wears a corduroy shirt under his...
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    Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Wideawake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Miners--Colorado--Wideawake--1940-1950.; Barrett, Ed.
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    [1942?]
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  • Ed Barrett 1942
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    Ed Barrett, a prospector from Wideawake, a small mining district in Gilpin County, Colorado, poses for an informal bust portrait. Barrett wears a wool cap with its flaps up and a leather coat with a wool collar. He wears a corduroy shirt under his...
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    Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Wideawake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Miners--Colorado--Gilpin County--1940-1950.; Barrett, Ed.
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    [1942?]
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  • Ed Barrett 1942
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    Ed Barrett, a prospector from Wideawake, a small mining district in Gilpin County, Colorado, poses for an informal bust portrait. Barrett wears a wool cap with its flaps up and a leather coat with a wool collar. He wears a corduroy shirt under his...
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    Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Wideawake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Miners--Colorado--Wideawake--1940-1950.
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    [1942?]
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  • Ed Barrett 1942
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    Ed Barrett, a prospector from Wideawake, a small mining district in Gilpin County, Colorado, poses for an informal bust portrait and looks directly at the camera. Barrett wears a wool cap with its flaps up and a leather coat with a wool collar. He...
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    Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Wideawake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Miners--Colorado--Wideawake--1940-1950.; Barrett, Ed.
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    [1942?]
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  • Ed Barrett 1942
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    Ed Barrett, a prospector from Wideawake, a small mining district in Gilpin County, Colorado, poses for an informal bust portrait. Barrett wears a wool cap with its flaps up and a leather coat with a wool collar. He wears a corduroy shirt under his...
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    Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Wideawake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Miners--Colorado--Wideawake--1940-1950.; Barrett, Ed.
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    [1942?]
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  • Central City. Prospectors Windlass 1898
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    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.
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    Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hoisting machinery--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Prospecting--Colorado--1890-1900.
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    [between 1935 and 1950?]
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  • Ed Barrett 1942
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    Ed Barrett, a prospector from Wideawake, a small mining district in Gilpin County, Colorado, poses for an informal bust portrait. Barrett wears a wool cap with its flaps up and a leather coat with a wool collar. He wears a corduroy shirt under his...
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    Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Wideawake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Miners--Colorado--Wideawake--1940-1950.; Barrett, Ed.
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    [1942?]
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  • Businesses on Silver Street
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    is in background.; View of five wood frame false front storefronts along west side of Silver Street and First National Block at the corner of Third and Silver Streets, Lake City, Colorado. Buildings left to right: Pioneer Jubilee Womens Club,...
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    Lake City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Lake City--1950-1960.; Business districts--Colorado--Lake City--1950-1960.
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    1959
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  • Prospecting on the Ute Reservation, an ominous meeting
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    A North American Indian (Ute) man confronts a prospector on a mountain slope in Utah or Colorado. The Ute man wears a necklace with a star pendant and holds a rifle. Men with rifles stand behind him. The prospector holds a pick axe, and looks over...
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    Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Ute Indians--1870-1880.; Miners--1870-1880.; Mining--1870-1880.; Pack animals--1870-1880.; Thornburgh, Thomas Tipton, 1843-1879.
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    1879 October 25
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Denver police department
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Denver. Street railways
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    COLORADO. STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    COLORADO. STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Boy scouts of America
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Dever. Park. Elitch's Gardens
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Postal service. Colorado
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  • Colorado Obituary Project 1969-1990, Revised
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    The Colorado Obituary Project is a statewide index of approximately 50,000 non-Denver obituaries mostly from the 1970s through 1990. Researchers may request a copy of the full text obituary through the Western History and Genealogy Department.
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    Colorado--Genealogy--Indexes.;Obituaries--Colorado--Indexes.;Registers of births, etc.--Colorado.
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  • "The Prospector" by Allen Tupper True, Civic Center, Denver
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    View of the Allen Tupper True mural "The Prospector," in an alcove in the colonnade of the Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado. The mural depicts a man panning for gold, his pack mule is in...
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    Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Civic Center (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Murals.; Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Mural...
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    ca. 1980
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  • Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 3, 1911 January 14
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    Newsletter produced by the City of Denver highlighting the civic, administrative, and informational aspects of government within the City.
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    Local government--Colorado--Denver.; Cities and towns--Colorado--Denver.
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    1911 January 14
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  • An old prospector
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    View of a prospector near a mountaintop above tree line walking with two light colored burros. He is wearing pants, a coat, and a hat, and has long hair and a beard.
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    Donkeys--Colorado--1870-1890.; Miners--Colorado--1870-1890.; Mining--Colorado--1870-1890.
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    [between 1870 and 1890?]
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  • Downtown Yerington, Nev prospector & outfit.
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    A prospector poses on a burro-drawn trap in downtown Yerington, Lyon County, Nevada. Spectators look on. A sign reads: "[M]ontana Cafe".
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    Yerington (Nev.)--1880-1910.; Animal teams--Nevada--Yerington--1880-1910.; Carts & wagons--Nevada--Yerington--1880-1910.; Donkeys--Nevada--Yerington--1880-1910.; Miners--Nevada--Yerington--1880-1910.; Mining--Nevada--Yerington--1880-1910.
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    [between 1880 and 1910]
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  • An old prospector & his cabin
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    A prospector poses with dogs near a cabin possibly in Colorado. The tools outside the building include a mallet, saw, gold pan, and a shovel.
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    Cabins--1920-1930.; Miners--1920-1930.; Mining--1920-1930.
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    November 11, 1926
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  • A Pike's Peak prospector
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    A prospector with a sledgehammer stands outside his chink and log cabin in Teller County, Colorado; shows a cast-iron stove outside the door of the cabin, a jug, broom, lunch pail, pans, cans, and a dog and her puppies under a table.
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    Teller County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1900.; Stoves--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1900.
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    [between 1882 and 1900?]
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  • A prospector's wash tub
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    Sam Stevens, a prospector, crouches over a stream and washes his long underwear on a rock near the mining community of Hahns Peak (Routt County; also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado. His other laundry hangs on the branches of a nearby shrub.
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    Hahns Peak (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Laundry--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1900-1910.; Men.; Stevens, Sam T.
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    1901
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  • A Thunder Mtn. prospector
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    Prospector Sam Stevens stands in a field holding his pick axe over his shoulder near Hahns Peak (Routt County; also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado. He wears dirty trousers, a pinstriped shirt with buttons up the front, and suspenders. He has a...
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    Hahns Peak (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1900-1910.; Men.; Stevens, Sam T.
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    August, 1902
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  • Pat Trainor, early day prospector
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    Head and shoulders studio portrait of Pat Trainor, an early day prospector, Gunnison, Colorado; he wears a wool sack coat with top button fastened and short cropped hair and a long mustache.
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    Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Prospecting--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Trainor, Pat.
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    [between 1883 and 1889]
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  • Civic Center, "The Prospector," Colonade [sic] of Civic Benefactors
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    View of an Allen True mural in a niche in the Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors in Civic Center park, Denver, Colorado. The mural shows a prospector with a gold pan kneeling beside a creek in a stand of Aspen trees, and a pack mule...
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    Civic Center (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Murals--Colorado--1920-1930.; Prospecting--Colorado--1920-1930.
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    [between 1920 and 1930?]
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  • Janice F. Lewine
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    Head and shoulders portrait of Professor Janice F. Lewine, faculty of the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Jefferson County; she wears a her blouse collar over her textured jacket lapels.
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    Golden (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Golden--1970-1980.; Colorado School of Mines.
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    October 1979
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Florence, Colorado
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    Forts. Fort Garland (Colorado)
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Highlander boys, incorporated
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    North Park, Colorado
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    Germans in Colorado
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    Englewood, Colorado
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    Fairplay, Colorado
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    Denver. Police department
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Idaho Springs colorado
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Ouray ute chief
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  • Western History Subject Index
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    Ouray (Ute chief)
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    Packer, Alferd
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    Louisville, Colorado
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    Tabor, Mrs. Augusta
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    Tabor, Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt
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    Tabor, Horace Austin Warner
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  • Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 40, 1910 October 1
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    Newsletter produced by the City of Denver highlighting the civic, administrative, and informational aspects of government within the City.
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    Local government--Colorado--Denver.; Cities and towns--Colorado--Denver.
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    1910 October 1
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  • Rugby
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    Four men pose near a horse-drawn wagon and metal shed with a wooden headframe at a mine in Rugby (Las Animas County), Colorado. Three of the men wear work clothes, the fourth wears a suit and vest. Shows a wagon filled with supplies and or...
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    Rugby (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Rugby--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Rugby--1900-1910.; Sheds--Colorado--Rugby--1900-1910.
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    [between 1900 and 1910?]
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  • Alex Cobsky
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    Alex Cobsky has a beard, wears a cap and overalls, holds a rifle and poses beside two burros in probably La Veta (Huerfano County), Colorado. Burros carry packs and stand beside a frame building.
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    La Veta (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Donkeys--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Men--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Pack animals--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Cobsky, Alex.
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    1937 March 1

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