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Call Number	CHS.X5256
Title	Book Cliffs
Summary	View of layered shale cliffs and hills in Mesa County, Colorado. A wire fence with timber posts and a haystack are in Grand Valley. Sparse trees and shrubs are on the Book Cliffs.
Date	[between 1900 and 1917?]
Notes	Accession number: 91.237.337; History Colorado.; Condition: masked.; Handwritten on envelope: "Industry-Oil Shale-Grand Valley District."; Number "17" inked on original negative and reproduced in photographic print.; Penciled on verso: "There are miles of Book Cliffs like these along the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in western Colorado and eastern Utah containing immense deposits of shale that will run from 50 to 100 gallons of oil to the ton, published in Railroad Red Book, Nov. 1917 p. 19."; Title supplied.; R7200052562
Physical Description	1 photographic print ; 20 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Is Part Of	History Colorado, Denver and Rio Grande collection
Subject	Oil-shales--Colorado--Mesa County--1900-1920. Book Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1900-1920. Mesa County (Colo.)--1900-1920. Cliffs--Colorado--Mesa County--1900-1920.
Rights	Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact History Colorado: http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/reproduction-commercial-use-fees
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes
Type of Material	Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	91.237.337
Filename	20005256.TIF