Call NumberZ-12100CreatorWeitfle, Charles, 1836-1921Date1890-1900SummaryMembers of the Central City Fire Department, who include an African American, stand in a large semicircle in the middle of Main Street in Central City, Colorado. They wear rolled up shorts over their long underwear and their arms are folded across their chests. Children in suits and hats sit on the railing of a bridge nearby. A brass band and several citizens stand behind the firemen. Shows the Temple of Fashion building and the business of John Trezise, Undertaker. A chair hangs from scaffolding on top of the undertaker's. The buildings of Main Street, the Teller House, and the barren hills of the town are in the distance.Physical Description1 photographic print on cabinet card : albumen ; 12 x 20 cm (4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectAfrican AmericansCommercial streetsFire fightersGeographic AreaCentral City (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711012100Type of MaterialCabinet photographsCard photographsNotesFormerly X-2981 and F31232; Photographer's stamp printed on verso of cabinet card. Printed on verso of cabinet card: Chas. Weitfle's Photographic Views of Colorado Scenery. Comprising some of the choicest scenes of Clear Creek, Platte, Williams, Cheyenne and Arkansas Canons, and the wonder railroad between Black Hawk and Central City; also, of Green Lake, Georgetown, Idaho, Central, Denver, Golden, Leadville, Monument Park, Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie, Manitou and vicinity, &c., &c. Awarded the Silver Medal of Colorado Industrial Association of 1878 and 1879. Seals stamped on verso of cabinet card: Colorado Industrial Association Omnia Vincit Laror and Awarded to Charles Weitfle, Best Collection Photographic Views of Colorado Scenery 1878. Title penciled on verso of stereo card. R7110121003DonorT.J. Kavanaugh.Languageeng
Weitfle, Charles, 1836-1921, Central City fire dept. (1890-1900). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 07/06/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1131387
