This view northeast on Harrison Avenue from Third Street in Leadville, Colorado, shows a two story brick Mountain Claims Office on the corner with the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Office next to it. Next, numbered on the print, are (1) the Clarendon Hotel, (2) the Tabor Opera House, (3) the post office, (4) the City Bank Block, (5) Raymond's old stove building, (6) the Quincy Block, (7) the courthouse across the street and nearly finished, (8) E.A. Raymond Stove in distance, (9) residence of A. Meyer on Capitol Hill. The street is busy with horse drawn wagons, a carriage, brick and wood frame buildings and pedestrians. Telegraph, telephone, and power poles and lines cross the street to wood supports on the tops of some buildings. Business signs include: "Moore & Daniel Civil & Mining Engineers, U.S. Dep. Surveyors" " Union & Kansas Pacific Railways" "W.L. Marcy, Civil Engineer, U.S. Mineral Surveyor" "Cigar" "Carinal[?] Bake" and "St. Louis Beer." "Clayton and Harmon, Quincy Block" is painted on a top hat on the side of a building.
Date
[between 1879 and 1880]
Notes
Formerly F8970.; Leadville designated a National Historic District in 1968.; Numbers one through nine with building identifications hand- written on back of cabinet card, correspondent numbers inked on front of photoprint.; Title from back of photoprint.; R7100004398
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card ; 12 x 18 cm. (4 1/2 x 7 in.)
Subject
Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
Source
Source: Rosenfeld.
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
Cabinet photographs.; Film negatives.; Imaged.; Image
