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Cripple Creek, the famous mining town of Colorado, almost obliterated by two disastrous fires

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Call NumberZ-8784CreatorSchell, Francis H., 1834-1909Date1896 May 14SummaryViews of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado during the 1896 fire. Shows refugee housed in railroad boxcars and gathering their belongings, people fleeing as the Palace Hotel is dynamited to slow the fire, and a rescue train.Physical Description1 photomechanical print : halftone ; 38 x 27 cm (15 x 10 1/2 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectPalace Hotel (Cripple Creek, Colo.)--DisastersCripple Creek (Colo.)Disaster victims--Colorado--Cripple CreekDisasters--Colorado--Cripple CreekEmergency housing--Colorado--Cripple CreekExplosions--Colorado--Cripple CreekFires--Colorado--Cripple CreekGeographic AreaCripple Creek (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711008784; Leslie's Weekly.Type of MaterialIllustrationsHalftone photomechanical printsTear sheetsNotesFormerly F8996. Tear sheet consists of page 332 removed from "Leslie's Weekly," May 14, 1896. Tear sheet includes halftone reproductions of photographs and drawings. Title printed on tear sheet. R7110087843

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