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Gold mining claims of Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado

Gold mining claims of Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado

Item Type: MapDate: May 1896 Description: Map of gold mining claims in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Includes index to ownership by best known mining companies in the district. Shows name and registration number of each mining claim. Producin...
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Clason's industrial map of Colorado

Clason's industrial map of Colorado

Item Type: MapDate: 1913 Description: Map of Colorado. Shows railroads and wagon roads, towns, county boundaries and seats, U.S. land offices and land dist. boundaries, irrigated lands, gold belts and coal fields, mines, national for...
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Cripple Creek gold fields

Cripple Creek gold fields

Item Type: MapDate: 1896 Description: Map of Cripple Creek gold fields. Shows mine shafts and tunnels, steam hoists, mills, towns, trails and roads, railroads, mountains, creeks, and town layouts for Cripple Creek, Victor, Gillett, a...
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Midget Gold Mine

Midget Gold Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1907-1923 Description: Tailings pile and buildings of the Midget Gold Mine operations. Image Number: 394-41
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Golden Cycle Mine

Golden Cycle Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1900 Description: 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. Image Number: 394-10280
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[James H. Keener and William A. Kyner at Isabella Mine]

[James H. Keener and William A. Kyner at Isabella Mine]

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1952 Description: Man wearing helmet with “Keen” (first part of Keener) stenciled on the front holds rock for inspection of older man sitting in car. Information from his son (James O.B. Keener), confirms this... Image Number: 192-4495
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On the Way to the New Diggins

On the Way to the New Diggins

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1875-05 Description: Halt in a rough pass of the Rocky Mountains. Illustration appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on May 1, 1875 on pages 360-361. Image Number: 257-7771
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Amalgamating Room

Amalgamating Room

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1866 Description: One of four images. Caption at bottom of page "Entered according to Act of contress, in the year 1866, by A. E. Mathews, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the ... Image Number: 257-7734
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The Ore Pit, or Drying Room

The Ore Pit, or Drying Room

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1866 Description: One of four images. Caption at bottom of page "Entered according to Act of contress, in the year 1866, by A. E. Mathews, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the ... Image Number: 257-7733
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The Furnace

The Furnace

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1866 Description: One of four images. Caption at bottom of page "Entered according to Act of contress, in the year 1866, by A. E. Mathews, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the ... Image Number: 257-7732
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The Ore Breaking Room - Blake's Ore Breaker

The Ore Breaking Room - Blake's Ore Breaker

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1866 Description: One of four images. Caption at bottom of page "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. E. Mathews, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the ... Image Number: 257-7731
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The Famous Camp Bird Mine

The Famous Camp Bird Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1905 Description: One image from full-page spread of three halftone images on decorative background, showing scenes in Colorado. "Franklin Eng. Co. Chi." is printed at bottom left of page. Each image is identifi... Image Number: 257-6477
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Portland Mine

Portland Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: Four men meet in a well-appointed office with a large photo of the Portland Mine in Cripple Creek hanging on the wall, shelves with numerous books and ore samples, and multi-drawer index card cab... Image Number: 005-10286
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Hoist, Portland No.2

Hoist, Portland No.2

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: Interior view of a Cripple Creek mine building housing a Webster, Camp and Lane steam engine in operation used to generate power for the mine hoist. Two men and a boy operate equipment. Annotatio... Image Number: 005-10284
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The Independence Mine

The Independence Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: Expansive view of mining buildings with smokestacks in operation and large piles of mine tailings surrounded by houses. Numerous rail cars are visible in the foreground. Written on the back of th... Image Number: 005-10282
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Strong Mine

Strong Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1905 Description: Hopper cars of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway appear in the middle ground with boxcars of the Rio Grande Western Railway and Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway in the foregrou... Image Number: 402-21
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Gold King Mine

Gold King Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1904 Description: View of the shaft house and power house of the Gold King Mine with massive piles of mine tailings near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Other mines are visible on the hillside in the back... Image Number: 402-14
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Blacksmith Shop

Blacksmith Shop

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1892 Description: Two men stand in the doorway of a wooden building with a gold pan on the ground. Photo is identified on back as "Father and Harry out by old blacksmith shop back of "Dana's Folly" - old machine s... Image Number: 001-704
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Gold Exploration Co. Tunnel

Gold Exploration Co. Tunnel

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1898 Description: Crowd of men and one woman stand in front of low wooden building with large sign "No Admittance" over doorway and and small tank-type railroad steam locomotive used in mining operations (with “... Image Number: 001-3328
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Gold Coin Mine, Victor, Colorado

Gold Coin Mine, Victor, Colorado

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1896 Description: 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. Image Number: 001-265
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Carlton Gold Mill

Carlton Gold Mill

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1950 Description: 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. Image Number: 001-250
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Portland Gold Mine

Portland Gold Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: Colorized view of the Portland Gold Mining property. Image Number: 001-10285
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Bull Hill

Bull Hill

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: View of mining buildings, including one with “Last Dollar” signage, and piles of tailings on a hillside. Printed on the front of the photograph: "South Sope [sic], Bull Hill, Colo" Image Number: 001-10283
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Gold King Mine

Gold King Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: 1954 Description: 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. Image Number: 001-10281
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Blue Hill Railroad Terminal

Blue Hill Railroad Terminal

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: 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: "Eagle Sampler. Cripple Creek Samp... Image Number: 001-10279
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The Anchoria-Leland M&M Co.

The Anchoria-Leland M&M Co.

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: Exterior view of the mine buildings including a building identified as the "ore house." Image Number: 001-10278
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Isabella Mine and Bull Cliffs

Isabella Mine and Bull Cliffs

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1905 Description: Isabella Mine (right foreground) located near Bull Cliffs surrounded by massive piles of mine tailings. Image Number: 212-26
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Gold

Gold

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1874 Description: Gold brick on scale at cashier's window in bank. Window has carved wooden arch overhead with sign reading "Gold" Two printed signs alongside read "No Checks Unless Properly Stamped". "Collier... Image Number: 175-3698
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[Mine Tunnel]

[Mine Tunnel]

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1897 Description: 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. Image Number: 174-3514
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Wild Horse Mine

Wild Horse Mine

Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900 Description: Exterior view of the mine buildings. Image Number: 001-10277
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