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- Abandoned wooden mining building with attached wooden bridge. 2
- A large mining operation sits on a hillside with numerous piles of tailings surrounding it. Houses are located above and below the tailings. Printed on front "Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo." 1
- A very large team of horses and handlers pose on a hillside with a mining operation and piles of tailings in the background. Printed on front "Twenty-Eight Horse-Team, Cripple Creek District, Colo." 1
- Abandoned mining headworks with aspen trees in the foreground. 1
- Constructed placer mining chutes in Clear Creek Canyon. 1
- El Paso Mine in Cripple Creek. 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
- Hand-colored lithograph of the Little Prince Mine in Leadville, Colorado. 1
- Hand-colored wood engraving of the Chrysolite Silver Mine in Leadville, Colorado. Felled trees in the foreground. 1
- Hand-colored wood engraving of the Leonard Shaft. 1
- Hand-written on bottom "Acacia. 610. Harlan Photo Colo. Spgs." Four horses pulling a wagon and three railroad open wagon cars are visible. 1
- Hand-written on bottom "Independence Mine & Mill. 641. Harlan Photo. Colo. Spgs." 1
- Hand-written on bottom "Moon Anchor." 1
- Hand-written on bottom "The Independence Mine & Battle Mt. / A. J. Harlan Photo". Other large mines are seen operating on the hillside in the background. Numerous residences are seen adjacent to the mine. 1
- Identified on reverse as "Acacia". 1
- Interior of hoist house at the Independence Mine with two men standing by large mechanical hoist and engines. High-backed wooden chair is at left. Title written on bottom of photo. 1
- Large mining operation on a hillside with massive piles of mine tailings. Railroad boxcars from the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad are parked throughout the area. Typed on bottom "Harlan Photo. Colo. Sp'gs". 1
- Man wearing work clothes and hard hat with miners lamp operates machinery inside rocky tunnel of mine. Another man is barely visible alongside cart tracks at left. 1
- Mary McKinney Mine is in the foreground and other mines on Raven Hill are seen on the hillside in the background. Residences and a small church can be seen below the church. Hand-written on bottom "Mary McKinney & Raven Hill Mines. Harlan Photo." 1
- Miner operating a pneumatic hammer deep in a mine lit by a helmet light. 1
- Miners standing in front of Golden Cycle Mine entrance with ore cars and buildings alongside. 1
- Miners wearing hardhats pose on ore cart tracks inside mine tunnel with beams overhead. One man leans on shovel, another holds pickaxe. “600 Ft. Underground American Eagles Mine” written on bottom of print. 1
- Picture of Portland number 1 & 2 mines. 1
- Printed below image "Colorado - Our wonderful mineral productions - Hauling machinery in the mountains, near the timberline, at Leadville, 10,500 feet above the level of the sea." 1
- Railroad box cars and hopper cars are parked on a rail spur at the Findley Mine complex with massive piles of mine tailings. Residences are seen adjacent to the mine. Hand-written on bottom "|The Findley Mine 601. Harlan Photo. Colo. Sp'gs."| 1
- Railroad box cars are parked on a rail spur at the Findley Mine complex with massive piles of mine tailings. Residences are seen adjacent to the mine. Hand-written on bottom "Findley Mine". 1
- Railroad open wagon car being loaded with ore. Hand-written on reverse "This is the conveyor here. I am the it up on top 'oiling up' Taken about 7 1
- Small mining camp at the base of a mountain. 1
- Three men studying equipment in workshop with brick walls. One man wears cap reading "Fleetweld." 1
- Two men pose inside large wood frame building with pile of timber and mechanical hoist in foreground. Title and "531" printed on bottom of photo. 1
- Unidentified mining operation appears in the background with numerous boxcars on a rail line below the mine. In the foreground a steam locomotive can be seen in operation. 1
- Various mining buildings with roads circling. Horse-drawn wagons and a man swinging an ax. 1
- View of mining towns Altman, Goldfield, and Independence on hillsides surrounded by mines and piles of tailings. 1
- View of the Damon Mine in the Cripple Creek District with massive piles of mine tailings. Other mines are visible on the hillsides in the background. Hand-written on bottom "Damon." Typed on bottom "Harlan Photo. Colo. Sp'gs". 1
- View of the Deadwood Mine in the Cripple Creek District with massive piles of mine tailings. Other mines are visible on the hillsides in the background. Hand-written on bottom "Damon." Typed on bottom "Harlan Photo. Colo. Sp'gs". 1
- View of the El Paso Gold King Mine on a hillside with massive piles of mine tailings. Hand-written on bottom "The El Paso G. Mine. 638. A. J. Harlan, Photo Colo. Springs." 1
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