Call NumberZ-6642Date1927 FebruarySummaryStudio bust portrait of Boone Best, Democratic representative to the Colorado Legislature and later Warden of the Colorado State Penitentiary. Best wears a matching striped coat and vest, and a bow tie.Physical Description1 photographic print ; 24 x 20 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectPrison wardens--ColoradoLegislators--ColoradoBest, BooneCollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711006642Type of MaterialPhotographic printsPortrait photographsDigital Version Created FromW.K. Patterson mss. collection.Original Material Found in CollectionWH1153. Wayne K. Patterson papersNotesModern copy print transferred from the W.K. Patterson mss. collection. Penciled on verso of photographic print: "Ray Best's father killed when train hit him, the convict driver survived."; Title inked on verso of photographic print. R7110066423
Warden Boone Best (1927 February). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 17/04/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1125971
