Showing posts with label Cortez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cortez. Show all posts

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Cortez in the old days


Off for the ruins at Cortez, Colo.
Alternative title: Colorado - 1890's
Summary: Men and women sit in horse drawn covered wagons in Cortez (Montezuma County) Colorado, by the Montezuma County Courthouse, a stone building with a cornice.
Date: [between 1890 and 1900]
Notes: Image mounted with X-21030 ; on verso X-21027, and X-21028.; Title hand written on album page.; R7100210290
Physical Description 1 copy negative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint on album page ; 10 x 12 cm. (4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Is Part Of C Photo Album 109. Colorado 1890s.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.



Cortez, Colorado
Summary: Members of a riding party sit on horses outside the "Cortez Stage Stables" in Cortez, Colorado (Montezuma County). The stable is a two- story structure with a gable, stovepipe chimney, shingles, and rectangular windows.
Date: [1890?]
Notes: Formerly F40237.; Photoprint has yellowed and faded; card has yellowed and is marked.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.; R7100074026
Physical Description 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on cabinet card : cabinet cards ; 11 x 19 cm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
Source: L. E. Dick, Chicago.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.


Cortez street scenes, Main Street, Colorado
Summary: Cars are parked along dusty Main Street in Cortez, Colorado. A street light hangs over the intersection. Commercial storefronts are on both sides of the street. Signs for "Montezuma Valley National Bank" "Muse Theater Soda" "Rexall Drugs Soda" and "Bakery" are on the street.
Date [between 1940 and 1950]
Notes: Photoprint has yellowed.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint. Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
 

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Ancestral Puebloan ruins

Title: Ancestral Puebloan ruins
Date/circa: 1900/1930
Photographer: Walker Art Studio (Montrose, Colo.)
Subjects: Archaeological sites--Cortez--Colorado--Photographs: Cortez (Colo.)
Notes: View of stone walls of partially excavated kiva surrounded by stone rubble and dirt. The deflector on the kiva floor is still intact near the fresh air vent of the kiva. In the background, two large buildings and Sleeping Ute Mountain can be seen. Two numbers written on sleeve 1434 -A and (more recently) 458. Also written on sleeve is "Cortez Tolteck Ruins Kiva". Two negatives are housed in the same sleeve. Negative#: 2475
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Mesa Verde National Park


Tourists at Mesa Verde National Park. Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, Lee Russell, photographer. August, 1939.