View of Fairley Brothers and Lampman Block Building, 300 East Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; this three-story brick commercial building has rock-faced stone quoins, storefront windows with displays of merchandise and goods, recessed center entryway, decorative molding, and stone lugsills; shoeshine stand is on corner and a saddled horse is tethered to utility pole; signs attached to F. B. & L. Building include: "Shilling's" "Central Drugstore" "Beatty Millinery - Finest Goods & Lowest Prices" "Telegraph-Cable Co., Wires, Quick Service" "Postal Telegraph Cablegrams" "Western Union Telegraph Office" "German American Insurance Company" "Springfield F. & M. of Springfield, Mass." "Sun Insurance Office" "Agency of the Phenix Insurance Co. of Brooklyn, NY" "Thomas C. Early, Attorney at Law, Austin Dodge, Collections, G. F. Waterman, Mines" and mortar and pestle symbol; lettering on windows includes: "German American Insurance Company" "Edwin E. Ames, Civil & Mining Engineer, U.S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor" "R. M. Marshall, Insurance Agency" "G. F. Consaul, Lawyer" "Charles F. Potter, Attorney at Law" "H. G. Lunt & F. E. Brooks, Attorneys at Law" "O. B. Wilcox & David P. Wilder, Attorneys at Law"; center parapet has building name, "F. B. & L. Block" and date "1896".
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 17 x 24 cm. (6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Subject
Cripple Creek (Colo.); Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek
Geographic Area
Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
Max 1980
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710000884
Notes
Formerly negative F22982.; Photoprint with worn edges and torn sections, some repaired with tape; copy photonegative with masking around edges.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.; R7100008847
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