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Silver bricks
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Call Number
X-60034
Creator
Collier, Joseph
Date
1875
Summary
Boston & Colorado Gold and Silver Smelting Company workers pose by stacked silver ingots in Empire Forks, Clear Creek County, Colorado; metallurgist Richard Pearce is to the left.
Physical Description
1 copy negative ; 18 x 13 cm (7 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph ; 10 x 18 cm (4 x 7 in.)
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Analog
Subject
Boston & Colorado Gold and Silver Smelting Company--19th century
Metallurgists--Colorado--Empire Forks--19th century
Empire Forks (Colo.)
Mining--Colorado--Empire Forks--19th century
Silver--Colorado--Empire Forks--19th century
Smelters--Colorado--Empire Forks--19th century
Pearce, Richard, Metallurgist
Collection
Photographs - Western History
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Image file: ZZR710060034
Type of Material
Film negatives
Stereographs
Digital Version Created From
A. W. Spring.
Original Material Found in Collection
Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery.
Notes
Condition: worn emulsion; negative is masked with paint. Formerly F5519. See also: X-60031. Title printed on back of stereocard, with: "No 130. The silver bars, thirty in number, here presented, are the product of the Boston & Colorado Gold and Silver Smelting Company, Black Hawk, Colorado, and are piled in front of the Company's bullion rooms. They weigh 2,200 lbs., and are worth $45,000."; R7100600348
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Denver Public Library Special Collections, [call number]
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Collier, Joseph,
Silver bricks
(1875). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 13/06/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1052310