View of the abandoned shafthouse, tailings, and buildings of the Gold Fissure Mine near Empire (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
Date
[between 1940 and 1960]
Notes
Label attached to print reads: "Alpine Engravers Box 5607, Terminal Annex Denver 17, Colorado."; Title and "late discovery in 1890's operated again in late 1930's" hand-written on back of print.; R7100615953
Description
1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm. (5 x 7 in.)
Subject
Abandoned mines--Colorado--Empire--1940-1950.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Gold Fissure Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Copper mining--Colorado--Empire--1940-1950.; Gold mining--Colorado--Empire--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Empire--1940-1950.; Silver mining--Colorado--Empire--1940-1950.
Source
Source: WHC- Caroline Bancroft Collection Transferred 9/89 to photofiles.
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
