View of "Lunch Room" restaurant canvas tent on rustic log frame, Cripple Creek, Colorado; canvas tent has attached signs "Lunchroom" and "Meals, 25 cents"; lettering on tent includes: "Restaurant" "Hot Soup 10 Cents" "Oysters Short" "Sandwiches 15 Cents" "Coffee 5 Cents Per Cup" "Hot Beef Ash [sic]-10 Cents"; background view includes additional canvas tents on wooden frames with stovepipes and two-story gable and sawtooth wooden frame commercial buildings.
Date
[1892 or 1893]
Notes
Formerly negative F7431.; Hand-written on back of photoprint: "Tent restaurants like these even served oysters! The wood structure at left was Hotel Clarendon on Carr Avenue, run by the shell-game artist, Joseph H. Wolfe. Money Mountain, the Story of Cripple Creek Gold by Marshall Sprague, 1st ed., copyright 1953."; Title and photographer from printed label on original negative; additional printed label includes: 923.; "Is Part Of" term supplied by cataloger. R7100007605
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 9 x 12 cm. (3 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.); 1 photoprint ; 18 x 25 cm. (7 x 10 in.)
Is Part Of
WPA Photos
Subject
Mining camps--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Restaurants--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
Source
Source: WPA Writers program
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material
Film negatives.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
