Showing posts with label Mancos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mancos. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Mancos historic landmarks





Title: Mancos (Colo.) Post Office
Year/era: 1907/1914
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection


Title: Bauer Mercantile, Mancos, Colo.
Year/era: 1907/1914
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection


Title: Diamond Match Factory - Mancos, Colo.
Year/era: 1907/1914
Photographer: Sanborn (Denver, Colo.)
Collection M 194:
Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection
Volume 6: Other southwest Colorado areas post cards
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Mancos Valley by W.H. Jackson


Mancos Valley at Wetherill's
Title-Alternative, W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book III ; no. 104
William Henry Jackson, photographer.
Summary: View of Mancos Valley with pole fence, wood bridge, road and frame buildings, Montezuma County, Colorado. Date [between 1882 and 1900?]
Notes: Attribution to Jackson based on inclusion in bound W. H. Jackson sample album.; Condition: discolored.; Hand-lettered title reproduced in print.; Label on front of photoprint reads: "Out."; Mounted on verso of album page: WHJ-600.; Number: "3831" hand lettered on negative and reproduced in print.; Words: "see # 96" penciled on mount.;
Is Part Of W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book III. History Colorado.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Mancos Canyon


Ancient Ruins in the Canyon of the Mancos
William Henry Jackson folio IV, print 3
Creator: Jackson, William Henry.
Summary: A man leans on a circular masonry tower in Mancos Canyon, Montezuma County, Colorado. The ruins are the remains of a Native American, Anasazi structure and appear to be dry laid stone with several small openings built into the wall. Vegetation grows in and around the archaeological site. Date: [1874]
Notes: Condition: print discolored, mat board soiled.; Formerly F17127; Formerly Jackson 158; Hand-lettered title on negative reproduced in print.; Number: "158" hand-lettered on negative reproduced in print.; Number: "158" penciled on mat board.; Printed on mat board: "Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, Prof. F.V. Hayden in Charge" with decorative lettering.; R7003102186
Is Part Of W. H. Jackson folio [Hayden Survey].