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- Composit image of 4 scenes. Caption at bottom of page "Mining Life in Colorado. - Drawn by W. A. Rogers." Illustration appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on November 10, 1883, page 717. 1
- Cripple Creek in early days. 1
- Early view of Cripple Creek with tents and a few small wooden buildings. 1
- Eight images on a full-page spread. 1
- Full page spread of five images. Illustration appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on April 23, 1887 on pages 296-297. 1
- Full page spread with 13 images. Page title "Colorado. - Incidents of a trip to the mining town of Durango. - From Sketches by J. J. Reilly. - See page 223." Illustration appeared in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", on May 28, 1881 page 221. 1
- Full page spread with five images. Illustration appeared in "The Illustrated London News" on May 28, 1881, page 520. 1
- Long view of valley and small town. 1
- Man relaxing with dog outside his tent. Laundry is hanging from a makeshift line. Caption at bottom of page "Mining Life in Colorado. - Drawn by W. A. Rogers." Illustration appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on November 10, 1883, page 717. 1
- Man sitting in doorway of low log cabin with hillside and another cabin behind. Image is titled "Fremont, December, 1891 - Cripple Creek." One of three images on Page 57 of Harper's Weekly, under title "In the Cripple Creek Gold-Fields" by Carl Snyder. 1
- Men loading a pack on a burro in front of a cabin. Caption at bottom of page "Mining Life in Colorado. - Drawn by W. A. Rogers." Illustration appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on November 10, 1883, page 717. 1
- Mining buildings. One of five images in a full page spread. Illustration appeared in "The Illustrated London News" on May 28, 1881, page 520. 1
- One of 16 images in a full page spread. Illustration appeared in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", on February 22, 1890, page 71. 1
- One of eight images on a full-page spread. 1
- One of five images in a full page spread. Illustration appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on April 23, 1887 on pages 296-297. 1
- Railroad cars from the Colorado & Southern Railway sit idle on tracks in front of numbered shutes of industrial building. Sign on cars "The Colorado Road". Wooden buildings can be seen above, on the rise. 1
- Rough buildings line the street. 1
- Small mining camp at the base of a mountain. 1
- Tent restaurant in Cripple Creek. Written on the tent "Lunchroom, Meals 25 cents, Hot Soup 10 cents, Oysters, Sandwhiches 15 cents, Coffee 5 cents per cup, Hot Beef Ash." 1
- Two men digging, one man walking behind his overloaded burro. One of five images in a full page spread. Illustration appeared in "The Illustrated London News" on May 28, 1881, page 520. 1
- Two men stand in foreground of camp with log buildings and tents behind and hillside in background. 1
- View of Poverty Gulch buildings with two visible signs. One sign reads "Lillie Mine' and the other appears to read "Eric Lincoln Mine." 1
- View of housing structures in Pemberton, Colorado. This gold camp was in the area known as West Creek (Westcreek). Pemberton changed its name to West Creek after the original town of West Creek was abandoned. 1
- View of mining towns Altman, Goldfield, and Independence on hillsides surrounded by mines and piles of tailings. 1
- View of the town of Victor showing houses lining the hillside and mines on top of hills. An outhouse is in the bottom center of the picture. 1
- Wide view looking easterly from Alma across the Alma Placer Mine. Snowy hillside with tree stumps is visible in foreground and eroded hills behind. Photograph was taken with a panoramic camera. 1
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