Saturday, February 16, 2013

Ames businesses



Ames mining community
Joseph Collier, photographer.
Summary: A large group of men stands on the sidewalk in front of a group of businesses in Ames, a mining community near the Ophir Loop in San Miguel County, Colorado. A billiard hall is in the left foreground with a false front. The Ames Hotel and Baumbauch's Drive-In Livery Feed and Sale Stable are in the left midground. Several horses are in front of the livery. A wagon is in the right midground in front of a clothing store. A wine and liquor store is in the right foreground.
Date [between 1875 and 1900?]
Notes: "363. Ames" handwritten on image in Collier collection of Western History Department, Denver Public Library.

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