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- Aerial photograph of Cripple Creek, Colorado, photograph facing northeast. The city of Cripple Creek can be seen near the center of the photo, with Pikes Peak in the distance. 2
- Exterior view of the mine buildings. 2
- A group of miners pose outside the headworks building of what is identified on the photo as the Granite Mine on a hillside below the Anna Lee mine [painted on roof] and a pile of tailings. Note on back "Anne Lee Mine in background." 1
- 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 map of the Cripple Creek mining district and city that significantly exaggerates the elevation differences of locations depicted. 1
- A miner wearing a hard hat is pushing an ore car inside mine tunnel in Cripple Creek Mining District with hoisting station behind. Electric lights are strung on wires overhead. 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
- A view of Cripple Creek with small houses in the foreground dwarfed by large piles of mining tailings. Mines are seen in the background with railroad boxcars lined up on tracks on the left. 1
- Abandoned mine building on snowy hillside in Cripple Creek mining district. 1
- Aerial photograph of Cripple Creek, Colorado, photograph facing east. The city of Cripple Creek can be seen near the center of the photo. 1
- Aerial photograph of Cripple Creek, Colorado, photograph facing northwest. The city of Cripple Creek can be seen near the center of the photo. 1
- An elevated view of Cripple Creek, Colorado, looking west with Mt. Pisgah in the background. A large mine building is visible in the left foreground. Printed on front 1
- Annotated on the photo with “Golden Cycle” and “Skolas”, massive piles of mine tailings surround the headworks and mine buildings of the Golden Cycle Mine in Cripple Creek. 1
- Bluebird mine, Northwest of Victor 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
- Building with “Gold Dollar Mine” written on the roof is surrounded my large piles of tailings on a barren hillside with other mines in the background at Cripple Creek. 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
- Colorized view of the Portland Gold Mining property. 1
- Cresson Mine in Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek Mining District. 1
- Dump truck on road past Carlton Gold Mill, midway between Victor and Cripple Creek. Snow-covered tailings piles and mountains visible in background. This gold mill closed in 1961. 1
- Elevated view of Cripple Creek looking northwest with Mt. Pisgah in the background. Printed on front 1
- Elevated view of Cripple Creek with mountains in the distance. 1
- Exterior view of mine buildings. Identified on the back of the photograph as "Last Dollar Mine on Bull Hill." 1
- Exterior view of the mine buildings including a building identified as the "ore house." 1
- Exterior view of the mine buildings. A steam locomotive and numerous railroad boxcars are parked throughout the area. Identified on the back of the photograph 1
- Group of men, most wearing overalls or workmen's smocks, standing in front of large two-story building with porch in front. Photo identified on back. 1
- Hand-written on bottom "607. Abe Lincoln Mine. A. J. Harlan Photo." 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
- Identified on the back of the photograph 1
- Identified on the back of the photograph 1
- Independence Mine in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Originally owned by Winfield Scott Stratton, the mine ceased operations in the 1930s. 1
- Isabella Mine (right foreground) located near Bull Cliffs surrounded by massive piles of mine tailings. 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
- Large wood-frame building perches on hillside with tailings pile in front and hill behind. "The Portland C.M.Co." is written on side of building. Five large smokestacks are on building behind. "526" is printed on bottom left of photo. 1
- Large wooden building with sign "Mary McKinney Mining Co." on hillside with smaller outbuildings around and empty ore cars on railroad tracks in front. 1
- Last Dollar Mine, Bluebird Mine at extreme left|Eagles Mine on top of hill|north of Victor 1
- Long view of Cripple Creek from hilltop, showing buildings filling the valley. A large smokestack in center sends smoke across the town. Sign on tree in foreground reads "Drs. Sims Heller & Sims Phone CC Medicines Furnished." 1
- Men and boys pose on and alongside a simple mine headworks supported by beams and logs with mine buildings in background. Town is visible in distance. 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
- 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 buildings on hillside with mountains in background. Clothesline is visible in lower right corner of picture. 1
- Mine buildings on hilltop with tailings piles below. Filled clotheslines stand alongside wooden buildings at left. "Beuna Vista" is printed on large building in back; "#608" printed on bottom of photo. 1
- Mine head shaft on rocky slope with mountains around. 1
- Miners pose in rough tunnel. Man in front carries shovel and lit candle. "In Breast of Tunnel 4500 Feet from Portal" printed on bottom of photo. Stamp on back reads "Schedin & Lehman, Photographers, 412 E. Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek Colorado." 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
- Old mining buildings on hillside in Cripple Creek Mining District. Note on the back reads "Sangre de Cristos in background." 1
- Panoramic view of Cripple Creek. 1
- Panoramic view of the Battle Mountain area in Cripple Creek with the mines annotated. 1
- People survey rubble left after fire. Horse-drawn wagon is visible in center of picture. Mines line hillside behind town. Photo identified on back. 1
- Printed at bottom "Victor Colo. From Squaw Mt. 318. Harlan Photo. Colo. Spg's." 1
- Several men along side a horse-drawn wagon at work digging and constructing a small building. Hand-written on bottom "The Great-View Mine Cripple Creek Colo. Nov. 1-91". 1
- Small building on top of rocky hill with stream running alongside and underneath. "Under ground stream tapped in driving tunnel under Beacon Hill - Cripple Creek Mining District" printed on front of photo. 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
- South end of Cripple Creek Mining District from ridge half mile south of Cripple Creek. 1
- The town of Victor during a devastating fire in 1899. A livery building appears to be in the midst of an explosion while a dark cloud of smoke looms behind. Spectators, wagons, and carriages crowd the street in the foreground. 1
- The town of Victor during a devastating fire in 1899. Spectators can be seen walking along the road while a large smoke cloud billows in the background. 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
- View from railroad tracks outside of town looking towards snow-covered mountains with town of Cripple Creek beneath. 1
- View of Cripple Creek from hill above town, showing buildings and surrounding mountains. Railroad tracks visible in foreground. Title printed in lower right corner of print, with "Photo By Hileman '08" . "No 7" written on print in lower left corner. 1
- View of Cripple Creek in snow from Tenderfoot Hill, showing town below and mountains around. Wooden structure from mine is at right foreground. 1
- View of a tall mine headworks with wooden ladders to reach the upper levels with a sign reading “Gold King Mine – Site of First Discovery of Gold in Cripple Creek. 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 mining buildings, including one with “Last Dollar” signage, and piles of tailings on a hillside. Printed on the front of the photograph 1
- View of several mines and associated buildings with mounds of tailings all around. 1
- View of the Independence Mine in Cripple Creek 1
- Vindicator Mine at right|Specimen Mine at left, North of Victor [written on negative sleeve]. Portland Mine #2 and Independence Mine above Goldfield, Colorado [written on back of print] 1
- Vindicator Mine at right|town of Independence at upper left|Clyde Mine on left foreground. 1
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