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- Main St. Telluride
- View east down dirt Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with Ingram Falls and Ajax, Telluride, and Ingram Peaks with light snow in background; shows San Miguel County Courthouse (two men sit on front stairs,...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1893]
- Main Street, Telluride, Colo
- View east down Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with snow-covered Ajax, Telluride and Ingram Peaks in background. Businesses include: two-story brick commercial Sheridan building, New Sheridan Hotel, three...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Main Street, Telluride, Colo.
- View east down wide dirt Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; Ajax, Telluride and Ingram Peaks with light snow and Ingram Falls are in background. Identifiable buildings include: painted brick San Miguel County...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Parade on Colorado Avenue, Telluride
- Fraternal order parades west on Main Street (Colorado Avenue), Telluride, Colorado. Townspeople line boardwalks to watch Fourth of July parade in front of wood frame and a few brick businesses. On north side: First National Bank building, San...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [1897]
- Fourth of July Parade on Colorado Avenue, Telluride
- Fire department race on Main Street (Colorado Avenue), Telluride, Colorado. Townspeople line street and perch on rooftops to watch Fourth of July event in front of wood frame residences and businesses. Firemen in trunks pull fire hose cart to...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Racing--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [1909]
- Early Telluride
- Telluride Silver Cornet (?) Band parades west on Main Street (Colorado Avenue), Telluride, Colorado. Townspeople line street to watch Fourth of July parade. Businesses include: A. J. Vart, Merchant, two-story Sheridan commercial block, and...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Marching bands--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895]
- Telluride, Colorado, Main Street view toward east
- View east down Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with snow-covered Ajax, Telluride, and Ingram Peaks in background; shows a two-story brick block on corner of Fir and Colorado (with "Telluride Real Estate...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1980-1990.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1980-1990.
- 1982 November 5
- Telluride
- View looking southeast over Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with Needle Rock and Ballard Mountain covered with light snow in background. Town consists of mainly wood frame structures with some prominent brick buildings on Colorado Avenue...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1893]
- Sept 1st 1906
- View east towards Rio Grande Southern Railroad Yards and snowcovered Ajax, Telluride and Ingram Peaks, Telluride, Colorado; shows station yard with two long passing narrow gauge tracks, two thirty-car spurs, single-story wooden frame depot, a...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1905-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
- [1906]
- Telluride, early days
- Photograph of a photograph of men on horseback and on a mule-drawn covered wagon on a commercial street in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. People pose on timber sidewalks near a pile of probably canvas bags. Signs on the street read: "Mrs....
- Telluride (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Animal teams--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1884 and 1885?]
- Telluride
- L.G. Denison's grocery store stands next to S.R. Fitzgarrald's law office on Main Street in Telluride, Colorado. Farther down the block are J. Tryan's hardware store, Charles Oderfeld's general merchandise shop and a meat market. Across the street...
- Signs and signboards--Colorado--Telluride--1870-1900.; Telluride (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Telluride--1870-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Telluride--1870-1900.; Mountains--Colorado--1870-1900.
- [between 1875 and 1900?]
- Moving day
- Man and woman on horseback with possessions loaded on two pack horses on Columbia Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. Man in jacket and hat has rope tied to pack animals on left; woman on right has long skirt, short jacket, hat and handbag. One pack horse...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Pack animals--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900]
- Telluride Hose Team No.1 The Champion, 100 yards, wet test, in southwestern Colorado, July 3" 1892
- Telluride Hose Team Number 1 on July 3, 1892, on Colorado Avenue in front of First National Bank, Telluride, Colorado, in annual race competition against Delta, Ouray, Rico and Grand Junction down one block length, that included unreeling two...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire-fighters--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Racing--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Telluride
- Automobiles are parked on Main Street in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. Business signs read: "H. C. Baisch Drugs, Jewelry", "Bowl Upstairs", "Maytag Appliances, Telluride Elec. Shop", "Texaco", "Tribune", and "Bailey McDonald Conoco."...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Automobiles--Colorado--Telluride--1940-1950.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1940-1950.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Telluride--1940-1950.;...
- [1940?]
- Revolving car dump Telluride Mining & Milling Co Telluride, Colo
- Interior view of a mining processing mill at the Telluride Mining & Milling Company in Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; shows a miner watching a gear-driven ore car dumper.
- Mine railroads--Cars--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1930.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Interiors--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1930.; Mills--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930?]
- Brunswick saloon
- Looking southwest from corner of South Spruce and East Colorado Avenue to exterior of Brunswick saloon, and into red-light district, Telluride, Colorado. Group of variety-theater performers (men in suits and hats, women and small girl in dresses),...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bars--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Rio Grande Southern Railroad Depot, Telluride
- View west towards Rio Grande Southern Railroad Depot and two sets of narrow gauge tracks, Telluride, Colorado. Rectangular wood frame building with distinctive overhanging eaves and brackets has clapboard siding, trimboard and wood wainscot wood...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1920.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1920.; Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Cable for the Nellie Tramway, Length 10810, Weight 1700 lbs.
- Colorado freighter David Wood's mules loaded with cable for the Nellie Tramway, July 3, 1897 on Main Street (Colorado Avenue), Telluride, Colorado. Fifty-two mules carry load of continuous coil for a total length of 10,810 feet without splices....
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mules--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Street railroads--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [1897]
- Telluride, Colorado, view eastward along Main Street
- View east down Main Street (Colorado Avenue) from Oak Street, Telluride, Colorado, with snow-covered Ajax, Telluride, and Ingram Peaks in background. Commercial buildings include: First National Bank building and drugstore on corner of Fir and...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1980-1990.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1980-1990.
- 1982 November 5
- Colorado Avenue
- View east down Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, Colorado, with light snow on Ajax, Telluride and Ingram Peaks in background. New Sheridan Hotel is on corner with electric bulb theater sign and kiosk with poster advertising "7th Heaven."...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.
- [between 1923 and 1928]
- The Cosmopolitan
- Interior view of the Cosmopolitan, Telluride, Colorado, a saloon and gambling club. Men in suits and hats are seated at gaming tables with stacks of poker chips, a roulette wheel table is in left foreground, and a bartender stands behind long...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1920.; African Americans--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1920.; Bars--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1920.; Maclean, Kenneth Angus.
- [between 1905 and 1915]
- Students in front of old schoolhouse
- Group of students pose in front of the old schoolhouse at the corner of Columbia and Townsend Avenues, Telluride, Colorado. Girls wear dresses with hemlines just below their knees; some boys wear suits. Back row: Glenn (Babe) Hopkins, Albert Homer,...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.
- [1920?]
- Telluride Colo.
- View looking southeast over Telluride, Colorado, with snow- covered Needle Rock and Ballard Mountain in background. Town consists of mainly wood frame structures with prominent landmarks: old school with hipped roof, Congregational and Methodist...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.
- [between 1923 and 1928]
- Telluride Colorado
- View north over west end of Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; shows San Juans with light snow and Cornet Falls in background, wood-frame vernacular houses, barns and sheds with predominately front gables, dirt Townsend and Colorado Avenues...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1901]
- Telluride
- View southeast over snow-covered Telluride, Colorado, with Ballard Mountain and San Juans in background; shows one and two-story wood frame vernacular houses, and barns and sheds with predominately front gables. Landmark buildings include:...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1910]
- Telluride, Colo, looking south, Natural Monument, 250 ft. hi' Sept. 14th 1887
- View looking south over Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; shows San Miguel River on south side of town, cliffs with waterfalls, Natural Monument (Needle Rock), and Ballard Mountain in background. Town consists of wood frame structures, a new...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.
- 1887 September 14
- Telluride, Colo., looking N. East, Sept. 15th 1887
- View looking northeast over Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado, with cliffs and San Juans in background. Town consists of mainly wood frame structures with a few brick structures including the new county brick courthouse under construction and...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.
- 1887 September 15
- Telluride, Colo., South
- View south of Telluride, Colorado, with Ballard Mountain, Needle Rock, and San Juans in background; shows one and two-story wood frame vernacular houses, barns and sheds with predominately front gables, some intersecting gables. Landmark buildings...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1910-1920.
- [between 1914 and 1920?]
- Telluride Colo.
- View northeast over Telluride, Colorado, with San Juans in background; shows San Miguel River on edge of town, Liberty Bell and Pandora Mines, Ingram Falls, fenced baseball diamond south of town, wood- frame vernacular houses, and barns and sheds...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1910-1920.
- [between 1930 and 1939]
- Telluride, Colo.
- View of storefronts along West Colorado Street in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. Signs read: "Cleaning, Pressing, D. A. McIntosh, Tailor", "Telluride Liquor Store", and "Homm's Beer."
- Telluride (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1940-1950.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Telluride--1940-1950.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1940-1950.
- [1940?]
- On tram in the Pennsylvania tunnel of Smuggler Mine
- A miner rides on an electric engine in the Pennsylvania Tunnel tramway in the Smuggler Mine, possibly near Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado. The tram pulls a group of loaded mine cars.
- Pennsylvania Tunnel (Park County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Cimerron [i. e. Cimarron] Mill Telluride, Colo
- Miners pose near an entrance to the Cimarron Mill near Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado.
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- 1895
- New Sheridan, Telluride, Colo
- Townspeople line boardwalk in front of the New Sheridan and adjacent two-story Sheridan commercial block on Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado, possibly for a funeral procession. A casket is in a decorative horse-drawn coach in front of hotel....
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1910?]
- Telluride, 95-96
- Man seated on wagon sleigh drawn by two horses stuck in snow on Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. Men in suits stand on cleared boardwalk on sunny north side of street; men shovel snow on south side of street. Business signs include:...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Sleds & sleighs--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [1895 or 1896]
- Telluride, San Miguel Co Courthouse, built in 1887
- View north up dirt and snowy North Oak Street to exterior of San Miguel County Court House, Telluride, Colorado. Constructed in 1887 with bricks from the first courthouse destroyed by fire in 1885, it has undergone many renovations and additions....
- Telluride (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Courthouses--Colorado--Telluride--1910-1930.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1910-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Sheridan Opera House, Telluride
- Interior view of Sheridan Opera House curtain from upper loge, 110 North Oak Street, Telluride, Colorado, a two hundred seat opera house used for traveling shows and dances, later as a movie theater. Shows roll curtain with Venetian scene painted...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1960-1970.; Opera houses--Colorado--Telluride--1970-1980.; Sheridan Opera House (Telluride, Colo.)
- [1974]
- Miners Union Hospital
- Exterior view of B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge at the corner of Columbia and Pine Street, Telluride, Colorado (used for two years by the Western Federation of Miner's under the direction of Local President Vincent St. John and later occupied by the Miner's...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Hospitals--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Miners' Union Hospital (Telluride, Colo.)
- [between 1903 and 1908]
- Telluride, Colo.
- Men pose on the balcony of a frame building with a false front, or on horse-drawn sleighs stacked with bales of hay in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. A frame commercial building has dormers, a gabled roof, a false front, first and second...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Feed stores--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Hay--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Sleds & sleighs--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Stables--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Winter--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Ilium [i. e. Illium] Station T. P. Co Vance, Colo.
- View of a building at Illium Station destroyed in the Trout Lake flood, near Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado.
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Floods--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1934 and 1941]
- Liberty Bell Mine west Telluride Colo.
- View of the shafthouse, aerial tramway, and boardinghouses of the Liberty Bell Mine near Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.; Liberty Bell Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- To left up Bear Creek above old Bear Cr[eek] Mill
- View of the abandoned Bear Creek Mill near Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. A horse and buggy are nearby.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.; Bear Creek Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1934 and 1941]
- Cutting steel Gold Run Mine near Telluride
- A miner cuts steel with an oxyacetylene torch in a Gold Run Mine building near Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. He works near a generator.
- Oxyacetylene welding and cutting--Colorado--Telluride--1930-1940.; Gold Run Placer (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Telluride (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Telluride--1930-1940.;...
- [between 1934 and 1941]
- Tomboy
- View of the Japan and Tomboy Mines and Mill near Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado.
- Japan Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Tomboy Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Pandora Miners Telluride Colo
- Miners pose outdoors with pry bars and miner's candles at the Pandora Mill near Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado.
- Pandora Mill (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Telluride (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Telluride, Colo.
- Bird's eye view of Telluride, Colorado; brick school building, San Miguel County courthouse, Sheridan Hotel, First National Bank, L.L. Nunn residence (two-story wooden frame house to right of school building), Community Church, Methodist Church,...
- Ballard Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Wasatch Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1907 and 1910]
- Telluride, Colo.
- Bird's eye view of Telluride, Colorado; brick public school building, San Miguel County courthouse, Sheridan Hotel, First National Bank, L.L. Nunn residence two-story wooden frame house to right of school building, Community Church, Methodist...
- Ballard Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Wasatch Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1907 and 1910]
- Burros load with groceries at Telluride, Colo.
- Burros loaded with supplies on Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. Man in boots, vest, and hat poses among pack mules headed for nearby mines. Background buildings include: two-story commercial block, front gable log cabin with sign "J. Brown,"...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mules--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.; Pack animals--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Colorado, Telluride street scene
- View east down Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado. Clouds cover snow covered mountain peaks in background. Wood frame false front businesses line both sides of street. Street is muddy street with melting snow and...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1920.
- [between 1930 and 1939?]
- Main Street, Telluride
- View east on Main Street (Colorado Avenue), Telluride, Colorado. Townspeople line boardwalks fronting Sheridan Hotel, adjacent two-story commercial block, and past First National Bank building. Street has muddy wagon wheel ruts and snow covers San...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1905]
- Mule pack train
- Long mule pack train on dirt Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. Five men on horseback lead mules. Businesses include: San Miguel Courthouse, New Sheridan Hotel, grocery, drugstore, First National Bank, another drugstore, furnishings, "Chas. Rose...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mules--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [1899?]