Call NumberX-2420Date1875SummaryThe office of This lumberyard in Canon City, Colorado, is a frame saltbox structure with a false front. Curving lines of letters on it read: "Easte(?), Chic(?), Wholesale, mouldings, lath, shingles, hardwood, picket fence, glass, cement, plaster, building paper." A man sits and another stands at the entry. Piles of lumber are behind a wooden fence and trees line the dirt street and boardwalk.Physical Description1 photoprint ; 19 x 25 cm (7 1/2 x 10 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectLumberyards--Colorado--Canon City--19th centuryCanon City (Colo.)--19th centuryGeographic AreaCanon City (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710002420Type of MaterialPhotographic printsNotesHand-written on back of photoprint: No. 56. ; C of C Canon City. Photoprint is on 8 x 10 in. paper with wide margins. Title hand-written on original and reproduced in photoprint. Typed on back of photoprint: "The old lumber yard of Henry Mack, northwest corner of 6th and Main, 1875."; R7100024209
Mack's lumber yard N W corner Main & Sixth St. (1875). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 12/03/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1023837
