Garland City, Colorado, includes a main street with businesses and large buildings which may be hotels, smaller wood buildings, and railroad track. Snow covers the town, the brush-covered hill behind, and the Sierra Blanco mountain range in the distance. The town was a construction camp while the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was being built over La Veta Pass; when the railroad reached Alamosa in May 1878, the entire town moved there.
Date
[between 1877 and 1878]
Notes
Cabinet card is stained and has worn corners.; Formerly F5740.; Printed around photoprint on cardboard: "Pictures of Burros, Sheep, Cattle, Round Ups, Branding, Mountains, Dale and Valley."; Printed on back of cabinet card: "Scenes. Along the Denver & Rio Grande Rail Road. The only road running to the San Louis Valley the Gateway to the Animas, San Juan and Gunnison Counties. It also passes directly through the Grand Canon of the Arkansas and on to Leadville and other Mining regions. Direct all orders for Views to D. B. Chase, Trinidad, Colo." Hand-written on back of cabinet card: "Garland City, Colorado. Construction camp while the Denver & Rio Grande R. R. was being built over La Veta pass. On reaching the Rio Grand river, where the town of Alamosa is located, the entire town of Garland City moved to the new town site of Alamosa in May 1878. [new hand] Garland Colo & Seara [sic] Blanco Range. [new hand] Nothing left on site but cemetary on Knowl. Six graves each with fence. On one said 'Sacred to the memory of Phillip Manvill of Del. Age 21. Shot by someone unknown.' - Mrs. W. D. Carroll, Alamosa, Colo. 1941."; Title on front of photoprint.; R7100085865
Physical Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card : cabinet card ; 19 x 24 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Subject
Garland City (Colo.)--1870-1880.
Rights
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
