Call NumberX-2091Date1887 Aug. 10SummaryView of Gregory Street, Black Hawk, Colorado, during the flood of August 1887. "The Cheap Cash Store" is on the left along with the many stores that lined Gregory Street. A man in trenchcoat and bowler hat stands on the right of the photo. Three men are in the middle distance on the left. Flood waters fill the foreground.Physical Description1 copy photonegative ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.); 1 photoprint ; 12 x 18 cm (4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectBlackhawk (Colo.)--19th centuryFloods--Colorado--Blackhawk--19th centuryStreets--Colorado--Blackhawk--19th centuryGeographic AreaBlackhawk (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710002091Type of MaterialFilm negativesPhotographic printsNotesFormerly F4349. Hand-written on back of photoprint: Flood Blackhawk 1887. Photoprint mounted on mat board. Stamped on back: John A. Wenda. Title hand-lettered on front of original photoprint. R7100020912DonorW.C. Spratt.
The Flood Blackhawk, Aug. 10, '87 (1887 Aug. 10). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 14/07/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1123856
