Men wear suits and stand near parked cars and on a steep hillside beside a tramway of possibly the Index Oil Shale Company near De Beque in Garfield County, Colorado. Shows probably oil shale processing buildings, holding tanks, dirt road grades, and irrigation ditches in a valley near canvas tents.
Date
[between 1900 and 1920?]
Notes
Accession number: 91.237.330; History Colorado.; Formerly F30337.; Handwritten on envelope: "Industry-Oil Shale."; Penciled on verso: "Harry [?] Brown's, Oyler Claims, bought by Tosco, owned now (according to Larry Wert at Tosco.)"; Title penciled on verso.; R7200052499
Physical Description
1 photographic print ; 24 x 19 cm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)