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Snowed under, digging out a railroad in Colorado
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Call Number
Z-4024
Date
1880-1890
Summary
Men with shovels work to clear a pile of snow from Denver and Rio Grande Railway tracks in the Animas River canyon in San Juan County, Colorado. Shows a narrow gorge filled with snow from a snowslide, and partly buried tracks.
Physical Description
1 print : wood engraving ; 41 x 27 cm (16 x 11 in.)
Born-Digital or Analog
Analog
Subject
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--19th century
San Juan County (Colo.)--19th century
Avalanches--Colorado--San Juan County--19th century
Railroad tracks--Colorado--San Juan County--19th century
Rivers--Colorado--San Juan County--19th century
Snow removal--Colorado--San Juan County--19th century
Snow--Colorado--San Juan County--19th century
Geographic Area
San Juan County (Colo.)
Collection
Photographs - Western History
Related Material
Image File: ZZR711004024; Harper's weekly.
Type of Material
Illustrations
Film negatives
Tear sheets
Wood engravings
Notes
Article clipping attached to print describes the print. Formerly F30636; Tear sheet consists of page 52, removed from Harper's weekly, vol. XXXIX no. 1466. Title and "from a photograph. [see page 55.]" 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.). R7110040249
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Denver Public Library Special Collections, [call number]
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Snowed under, digging out a railroad in Colorado
(1880-1890). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 22/01/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1131908