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The disaster at Crested Butte, Colorado
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Call Number
Z-4004
Creator
Graham, Charles, 1852-1911
Contributor
Mellen, George E.
Date
1880-1890
Summary
Snow is on the ground at the Colorado Coal and Iron Company's Jokerville coal mine in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows log and frame mine buildings, a covered snow shed and a headframe. Women in mourning with blankets around their heads and shoulders, stand in a makeshift morgue after the mine disaster. Dead men, partly covered with sheets, lie on tables. Men carry a body on a stretcher from the mine shaft. Lumber debris from the explosion is on a hillside.
Physical Description
1 print : wood engraving ; 40 x 30 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Born-Digital or Analog
Analog
Subject
Crested Butte (Colo.)--19th century
Jokerville Mine (Gunnison County, Colo.)--19th century
Coal mining--Colorado--Crested Butte--19th century
Explosions--Colorado--Crested Butte--19th century
Grief--Colorado--Crested Butte--19th century
Mine accidents--Colorado--Crested Butte--19th century
Morgues and mortuaries--Colorado--Crested Butte--19th century
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Photographs - Western History
Related Material
Image File: ZZR711004004; Harper's weekly. vol. XXVIII, no. 1417.
Type of Material
Illustrations
Film negatives
Tear sheets
Wood engravings
Notes
Attached article clipping describes image. Formerly F23655; Tear sheet consists of page 109, removed from Harper's weekly. Title and "From Photographs by George E. Mellen. [See Page 111.]" printed on tear sheet. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 copy negative ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.). R7110040045
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Graham, Charles, 1852-1911,
The disaster at Crested Butte, Colorado
(1880-1890). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 15/02/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1131885