Plumed up in Dolores

Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 20, engine type 4-6-0
Robert W. Richardson, photographer
Head on, at 3-way stub track switch; switching. Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, May 23, 1951.Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

Mule train near Telluride

Mule train on hill, houses visible below (Telluride, Colo.)
Date/circa: 1900/1930
Photographer: Byers Photo (Montrose, Colo.)
Subjects: Pack transportation--Colorado--San Juan Mountains; San Juan Mountains. Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.

Cable car hoist in San Juans

Nine mine workers outside of a mine
Date/circa: 1900/1930
Photographer: Byers Photo (Montrose, Colo.)
Subjects: Miners--Colorado--San Juan Mountains; San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)
Notes: Some are sitting up on cable cars. The Studio assigned this item # 5011G. 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.

Mineral industries view from the ore bucket

Photo taken from an ore bucket traveling on a cable.
Southwest Colorado general photograph collection
Category V.4: Miscellaneous mining
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College

Monument Storm, Jan. 4, 1916

 Workers dressed in winter clothes pose on a Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company truck in Monument (El Paso County), Colorado. Wires, equipment, and a lamp hang from the truck with a sign reading: "American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Associated Companies, Long Distance Telephone, Bell System." A worker hangs from a telephone pole in the distance. Colorado Historical Society, Mountain States Telephone collection

View of broken utility poles in Monument (El Paso County), Colorado. A row of poles lay in an open field. 

Colorado Historical Society, Mountain States Telephone collection

 View of broken utility poles in a field in Monument (El Paso County), Colorado. Telephone wires are draped on the ground. Shows a barbed wire fence and open field. Colorado Historical Society, Mountain States Telephone collection

View of a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company railroad car tipped over on the embankment in Monument (El Paso County), Colorado. The Monument train depot is in the distance.

Colorado Historical Society, Mountain States Telephone collection

Telluride I recall as a youngster

Telluride Brewery
Al Bachman, photographer.
View of an abandoned brewery in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. The wood, stone, plaster and tin building has a false front and asmokestack. A corrugated tin buildings is nearby. Photo created 1963. Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

Brick Building

Al Bachman, photographer.

View of an abandoned brick building in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. The buildings has arched windows with radiating voussoirs, and a corbeled parapet. The porch roof on the front of the buildings has a shingled hip roof and wooden pillars. Photo created 1963. Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library

Telluride Opera House
Al Bachman, photographer.
View of a brick theater in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. The building has a stepped parapet, a projecting enclosed balcony with a tile roof and a hip roof tile porch. Lamp posts are near the theater and a sign on the building reads: "Opera House, Picture Shows Every Evening, Admission 10 and 15 Cents." A sign projecting from the building reads: "Show." Photo created 1954. Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.