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- A man is working with a large disc hanging in front of a furnace blasting flames. 1
- Abandoned mine structures on hilltop with mountains in distance. Pencilled note on back reads "Isabella." 1
- Boy stands on pile of tailings on hill above mine buildings. Note on back reads "Ingham Mine on Raven Hill. Cripple Creek and Mt. Pisgah in background." 1
- Brick building housing offices of Golden Cycle Mill past smokestacks of the power plant. 1
- Buildings of Cresson Mine with collapsed railroad tracks in foreground. 1
- Buildings of the Gold Exploration & Tunnel Co. on hillside in Cripple Creek. Two large buildings in foreground, with other buildings, including the Pointer Mine, in background and trestle bridge at far right. Title written on bottom of print. 1
- Buildings of the Gold Exploration & Tunnel Co. with hillsides behind. Several men stand on railroad track leveled on rocky slope with log retaining wall. "The Gold Exploration & Tunnel Co." printed on side of building at left. 1
- Busy mine buildings on the hillside in the Cripple Creek Mining District with large smokestack in foreground and tailings at right.. Photo identified on back. 1
- Car parked in front of long low building, identified on back as Pikes Peak Fuel Co. Mine buildings are visible at right. 1
- Coal mine tipple at Pikeview Mine."240" written on lower right of print. 1
- Color postcard showing buildings of the Economic Mill on steep hillside near Cripple Creek. "96 - Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District." printed on bottom of card. 1
- Color postcard showing the Portland Mine buildings on hillside with tailing piles around. Horse-drawn wagon stands by building in foreground. "126. Portland Mine." printed on bottom of card. 1
- Depicts men digging in a gulch amid homesteads. 1
- Four men stand looking at a large wooden dredge floating in a body of water involved in placer mining. Identified on top of print as “Hahns Peak Dredge No. 1.” 1
- Golden Cycle Mill as seen from the edge of the mesa. 1
- Group of men posing on railroad car filled with ore in front of mine buildings. Car has sign reading "Cripple Creek District Gold Ore Donated to the Red Cross." 1
- Group of men wearing work clothes, hard hats and miners lamps, pose with cart reading "El Paso Mines Inc." on railroad tracks. 1
- Group of miners, some holding candles, posing with mining equipment inside rock tunnel, probably in the Cripple Creek Mining District. "No. 230" written on lower right of print. 1
- Hill with tailings piles and mine buildings in distance. 1
- Hillside in the Cripple Creek Mining District with mine buildings at top and bottom. Photo identified on back as "Trail Mine at top. About 1908." 1
- Houses in the foreground are dwarfed by mines and tailings surrounding them in Victor, Colorado. Smokestacks are emitting black smoke at many of the mining buildings and a track for mining carts is seen in the foreground. 1
- Independence Mine in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Originally owned by Winfield Scott Stratton, the mine ceased operations in the 1930s. 1
- Interior of Golden Cycle Mill with man sitting at sluicing sand tank. 1
- Landscape with power or telephone lines in foreground, mountains in background, and wooden structure in center. Photo identified as "Dredge on South Platte River SE of Fairplay, ca. latter 1920s-early 1930s. Looking northwesterly." 1
- Large brick building with railroad cars parked in front and wooden mine buildings behind. Car and truck are parked on dirt road in front. Photo identified on back as "Pike View area. Golden Cycle Lime Plant 1951." 1
- Large buildings on hillside with smokestacks on hill behind. Photo identified on back. 1
- Large multi-storied building with railroad cars on tracks below. Railroad car has painted sign "C.C.D. 1032". Photo identified on back. 1
- Large tailings pile in front of mill with railroad cars loading underneath. Cars have signs "Cripple Creek Short Line" and "Midland Terminal Railway". 1
- Line of men standing on small trestle outside large building with sign "Elkton Mine". Treed hillside is visible behind. 1
- Long view of Portland Mill with mine buildings in distance and small home in foreground, with cattle in front. Photo identified on back. 1
- Long view of mine buildings, mines and smokestacks on hillside, identified on back as "View of Cripple Creek Mines looking north from Victor, Colo." 1
- Long view of mines and tailings piles at Anaconda, Colorado. Photo identified on back. 1
- Long view of the town of Goldfield with wooden buildings and houses in foreground and mines in background. "The Town of Goldfield - 1900. Showing Bull Hill and Town of Independence in Background" printed under photo. 1
- Man in raincoat and rubber boots hosing down floor in vacuum tank at Golden Cycle Mill. 1
- Man pushing ore car on track alongside wooden buildings on snowy slope with mountains around. Pack animals are visible at extreme right. Photo identified on back. 1
- Man wearing striped shirt, work pants with suspenders and cap leaning against steam-powered hoist equipment inside the Independence Mine. Title and "642" written on bottom of print. 1
- Men pose in front of mine shaft identified on back as "Iron Moss Prospect. What is now Frank Wellington's house in the background." Several men are identified on front and back of print. 1897 written on bottom of print. 1
- Men pose in rock tunnel holding hammers, a drill and a candle. "E.A. Yelton Photo No. 38. Flash-Light Photo Anaconda Tunnel" printed on bottom of photo. 1
- Mill with railroad cars and tracks running through it. 1
- Mine building on hillside with car on road below. 1
- Mine buildings among piles of tailings with dirt road in foreground. Photo identified on back as "American Eagle Mine - right|Orpha May Mine - left." 1
- Mine head shaft on rocky slope with mountains around. 1
- Ore bucket high in the air on pulley with rocky cliff behind. Note on bck reads "Abandoned ore bucket, West Willow Creek, Creede, Colo. Mining was done in face of sheer cliff opposite." 1
- Picture of Portland number 1 & 2 mines. 1
- Postcard showing large buildings of the Portland Mine on the hillside above Cripple Creek. "3045. Portland Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo." printed on top of card. 1
- Postcard showing tailings pile in front of buildings of El Paso Mine in Cripple Creek. Title printed on top of card. 1
- Side view of Golden Cycle Mill with rocks and debris around. 1
- Small body of water with a dam on the right and mountains in distance. Photo identified as "Dredge pond on or adjacent to S. Platte River SE of Fairplay, ca. mid- to latter 1920s. Looking northerly." Photograph was taken with a panoramic camera. 1
- Snowy hillside with bare trees and large mining buildings with one marked as Half Moon Mine. Title and "#585" printed on bottom of photo. 1
- Stall signs read "Gunnison County" and "Tincup". 1
- The interior of a mine shaft, depicting workers and mining activities. 1
- Three men studying equipment in workshop with brick walls. One man wears cap reading "Fleetweld." 1
- Two men in work clothes and wearing MSA Skullgard Helmets of 1930s, one with miner's lamp, stand alongside ore cart tracks inside mine. Ore carts are at both sides. Stamp on back of photo reads "Young Studio East Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek, Colo." 1
- Two men pushing ore carts through narrow tunnel with ducts above. "'Tramming', Ingham Tunnel, Cripple Creek. Flash-Light Photo, no. 179 by E.A. Yelton" written on bottom right of photo. 1
- Two men stand on rocky road studying wooden buildings on hillside with snow-covered hills behind. Mine is identified as on Mosquito Pass, between Alma and Leadville, on Alma side. 1
- Various mining buildings with roads circling. Horse-drawn wagons and a man swinging an ax. 1
- View from hillside above town with buildings, roads, bridges rail lines and railroad cars below. "View South-West from O.S. Alers Lease Anaconda Property E.A. Yelton Photo No. 49" printed on lower right of photo. 1
- View of Golden Cycle Mill showing buildings, smokestack and tailings pond. A mid-1930s two-door coupe is parked in the complex. 1
- View of Victor, Colorado, from edge of town with piles of rocks and outhouse in foreground. Large building at right has painted signs "Owl Cigar" and "Smoking Tobacco." 1
- View of hills around Cripple Creek with mountains in distance and mine buildings in middle ground. 1
- View of hillside with numerous mine buildings, piles of tailings and miners’ shacks scattered throughout. Larger mining operations appear at the top of the hill among the trees. 1
- View of the Isabella Mine and Bull Cliffs showing rail lines, buildings, and tailings 1
- View of the mill with mountains in the background. The Golden Cycle Mills used to process gold from Cripple Creek. This photo was taken in 1932. The mill no longer exists, but the smokestack is still visible on 21st Street, south of Highway 24 1
- Wagon pulled by two teams of horses with four men standing behind in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Photo identified on back as "Hauling to Portland Mill, Cripple Cr. District, 1916. Driver, Lee Thomas. Outfit owned by C.T. & T. Co." 1
- Water spray with mill buildings visible in the background. Identified on the back of the photograph 1
- Wooden buildings at the North London Mine, half-buried in snow. 1
- Wooden buildings on snowy hillside. 1
- Wooden mine buildings on a barren hillside with snow in foreground. Photo identified on back as “Head House, North London Mine.” 1
- Young girl sits in foreground while men work in rock-strewn gully with streams of water behind. "Placer Mining Rout Co 1902" written on front of print. Photo identified on back as "Hahns Peak, Colo." 1
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