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

Jimtown's great fire of 1892

Burn district, Jimtown, Colo., great fire of June 5th, 1892
Creator: Goodman, Charles, d. 1912.
Summary: Smoke rises from the smoldering ashes of the fire that burned a portion of Creede (Jimtown/Upper Creede), Colorado, in Mineral County. Men walk through ashes and debris that litter the center of town. Buildings, shanties, cabins, and tents that escaped the fire are on the hillside in the background.
Date: 1892, June 5
Notes: Formerly F44688.; Formerly X-7462.; Inked title reproduced in photographic print with: "no. 3."; R7110015375
Physical Description: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen ; 13 x 21 cm. (5 x 8 in.); 1 photoprint ; 11 x 17 cm. (4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Source: Mrs. L. P. Thompson.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

Here's a land where all are equal -
Of high or lowly birth.
A land where men make millions,
Dug from the dreary earth.
Here the meek and mild-eyed burro
On mineral mountains feed -
It's day all day, in the day-time,
And there is no night in Creede.

Creede, by Cy Warman

Creede was originally known as Jimtown.

Title: Jimtown (Colo.) Great Fire of June 5th, 1892
Year/era: 1892-06-05
Photographer: Sanborn (Denver, Colo.)
Publisher: Sanborn Souvenir Co., Inc.
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection

Title Main St. Jimtown, Colo.
Creator: Goodman, Charles, d. 1912.
Summary Pedestrians walk down the unpaved street of Creede (Jimtown), Colorado in Mineral County; many people stand on the wood-plank sidewalks in front of the building. Horse-drawn wagons are parked at the sides of the street. Architectural elements of the one and two-story wood-frame buildings include clapboard siding, bay windows, cornices, false fronts, flat roofs, and gables. The narrow, steep, rocky canyon that surrounds the town is in the background. Signs: "Thomas & Thomas Law Office" "Theatre Comique" "Stoves Hardware" "White and Mitchell" and "Thomas Charpe Staple Fancy Grocers."
Date: [between 1892 and 1899]
Notes: Formerly F44689.; Formerly X-7915; Inked on back of photographic print: "Creede is about a mile North of Jimtown. Principle street of Jimtown.; Inked title reproduced in photographic print.
Physical Description: 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen ; 13 x 20 cm. (5 x 8 in.); 1 photoprint ; 10 x 17 cm. (4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Is Part Of Views of Creede and vicinity.
Source: Mrs. LP Thompson.
From the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

Dolores Del Rio Hotel

Title: Dolores, Colorado
Year/era: about 1930
Photographer: Sanborn (Denver, Colo.)
Publisher: Sanborn Souvenir Co.
Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Collection

Rico engine house in 1952

Title: Rio Grande Southern Railroad engine house at Rico (Colo.): viewed from west

Date/circa: May, 1952

Photographer: Alfred G. Chione, (Morton, Ill.)
Notes: Mile Post 066.24. Viewed from the west, with leafless trees on the mountainside in the background.
Photoprint#: P026110
Center of Southwest Studies,Fort Lewis College.

Rio Grande Southern Railroad engine house at Rico (Colo.): interior side view
Date/circa: 5/21/1952
Photographer: Alfred G. Chione, (Morton, Ill.)
Notes: Mile Post 066.24.
Center of Southwest Studies,Fort Lewis College.

Rico Rio Grande Southern depot in 1918

Title: Rio Grande Southern Railroad structures at Rico (Colo.) depot. Date/circa: 1918/1919
Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Mile Post 066.24. Viewed from across the river, with the town of Rico in the background. Photo was taken prior to 1922. Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.

1914 Cornet Creek Flood in Telluride

Cornet Creek flood
Summary: View northwest down Colorado Avenue after the Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado; shows First National Bank Building on corner of Fir and Colorado, three false front businesses, the Sheridan Hotel, the San Miguel County Courthouse, and mud and debris- filled street. Townspeople are near the bank and in distance in front of the Sheridan with a horse and automobile; electric and telephones lines cross street; chairs and tables are part of debris.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.

Murdered during the labor wars

Funeral on the mountain
Summary: Funeral procession for Superintendent Charles M. Baker, murdered during a WFM labor strike, at the Smuggler-Union mine in San Miguel County, Colorado. Miners carry a flower covered casket and stand on the porch of the boarding house.
Date: 1902
Notes: Formerly F31265.; Title and "Mine boarding house at the Smuggler-Union mine, Telluride Chas. M. Baker, Superintendent of Smuggler-Union mine, Telluride Times (weekly) John McRhee, San Miguel Forum." hand-written on back of print.
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.