Call NumberX-2034CreatorWakely, George D.Date1864SummaryView north from Bobtail Hill, in Black Hawk, Colorado, up four mile Gulch to Dory Hill, where the state's first cemetery was located. Central business district includes: Undertaker, Union House (on Selak Street), Drugs (brick, arched windows and doors), Grocerie and Liquor, Wholesale and Retail Meat Market, Scobey's Saloon, and Printing Office (on Gregory Street). Presbyterian church appears in upper left.Physical Description1 photoprint ; 17 x 24 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectBlackhawk (Colo.)--19th centuryBusiness districts--Colorado--Blackhawk--19th centuryGeographic AreaBlackhawk (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710002034Type of MaterialFilm negativesGlass negativesNitrate negativesPhotographic printsDigital Version Created FromColorado State Historical Society.NotesFormerly F1048. Hand-written on back of photoprint: Black Hawk, C.T. Copyrighted in year 1864 by G.D.Wakely, photographer in the clerk's office of the District Court, Denver City, C.T. Title hand-written on back of photoprint. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 photographic print on card mount : 17 x 22 cm. (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), 1 negative : nitrate ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.), 1 photonegative : glass ; 8 x 10 cm. (3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.), 1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.). R7100020344
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