Ames, near Ophir, Colorado

Ames
Joseph Collier, photographer.
Summary: Pack burros are gathered in front of the Sample Room and the Cabinet Saloon in Ames, a mining community near the Ophir Loop in San Miguel County, Colorado. Two men on horseback lead the group of burros. Men and a woman stand on the sidewalk in front of the businesses; a woman stands in a second-story window. A team of horses pulls a wagon with two men sitting on the buckboard; a ridge of mountains is in the distance.
Date [between 1875 and 1900?]
Notes: "362. Ames" handwritten on image in Collier collection of Western History Department, Denver Public Library.; Negative has number "1" stenciled in lower corner.

Mining in the San Juan Mountains

Walker Art Studio, Montrose, Colorado.
Title: Group of mine workers outside
Date/circa: 1900/1930
Photographer: Byers Photo (Montrose, Colo.)
Subjects: Miners--Colorado--San Juan Mountains; San Juan
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College

San Juan Mountains area lumber mill

Mill workers with logs and cut lumber

Date/circa: 1900/1930
Photographer: Byers Photo (Montrose, Colo. Subjects: Logging--Colorado--San Juan Mountains; San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)
Notes:The Studio assigned this item # 5011G.
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.