PPLD Digital Collections

Car driving down an unpaved Cascade Avenue with irrigation ditches on the right. The street is lined with mature trees and large houses. 1

Clarence Coil competes at ski jumping in Estes Park. As a member of the Silver Sprice Club, Coil was an avid skier and winter athlete. 1

Colorado College, Palmer Hall with Pikes Peak in background. 1

Doug Schaefer [on left] and John Fowler [on right] pose for a photo in a rocky setting. They, along with Clarence Coil, founded the Silver Spruce Ski Club [according to back of print]. 1

Dr. Fred Pough. Crystal Peak. 1

Ed Over (right) with George White Crystal Peak 1930's. 1

Far view of prominent rocky hill. 1

Father and son Pikes Peak Range Riders Ralph J. [1905-1976] and R. James [Jim] [1932-2007] Watson. Ralph J. Watson's name badge includes years listed from 1949-1956. Jim Watson's name badge includes years listed 1953, 1955-1957. 1

Formal portrait of Margaret (nee Gragg) Reid at 6 months old. 1

Formal portrait of Margaret (nee Gragg) Reid taken around the age of 12 years old. 1

Formal portrait of Margaret (nee Gragg) Reid taken around the time she became the the head librarian of the Pikes Peak Library District. 1

Formal portrait of Margaret (nee Gragg) Reid taken in Centralia, Illinois before her family moved to Colorado Springs about 1915. 1

Formal portrait of sophomore Margaret Gragg that appeared in the 1930 Pikes Peak Nugget, yearbook of Colorado College. 1

Front of the four-story brick building with “New Hotel Victor” written over the entrance archways. Advertising in a window reading “See The Affairs of Baby Doe Tabor” and “Melodrama Ticket Office”. 1

George Reese (left) and Willard Wulff at the Spruce Grove Campgrounds topaz diggings, South Tarryall Mountains. 1

George White dressed in a heavy sweater, knickers and knee-high laced boots stands in snow along a snowy, rutted dirt road next to an early 1920s Ford Model T Roadster bearing a 1923 Colorado license plate. 1

George White on a collecting trip sitting atop sacks loaded in the trunk of an early 1920s Ford Model T Roadster. Pine trees and fences are in the background. 1

George White on right with fellow mineral collector. 1

George White sitting at his office desk with open ledger books in front of him. Calendar on the wall behind him is open to April 1927. 1

George White standing in a barren landscape with an eroded canyon behind him on a collecting trip in sedimentary rocks. This photo may have been taken near Cañon City. See also 338-11. 1

Group photo of mineral collectors on a field trip 1

Group photo of two couples picnicking on a rocky hillside with mountains in the background along Gold Camp Road. George White is second from the right. 1

Likely taken at Edlowe in Ute Pass developed by the Silver Spruce Ski Club, silhouette of a Silver Spruce Ski Club member soaring through the air after launching from a ski jump. Annotation on back of print reads "Doug Schaefer jumping on #2." 1

Mineralogist William C. Hart (1851-1936) in front of his mineral store on Ruxton Avenue, Manitou Springs. 1

North Table mountain, zeolite collecting field trip in Golden, CO. 1 of 2 photos, see 338-37 1

North Table mountain, zeolite collecting field trip in Golden, CO. Willard Wulff on the right, see also 338-35 1

Oliver A. Reese (left) and Clarence Coil with 135 pound smoky quartz they discovered at Crystal Peak. Crystal was sold to another collector. 1

Photo of Mrs. (Stan) Margaret Reid with corsage on shoulder. 1

Possible view of Crystal Peak with log building believed to have been the Crystal Peak Gem Company operations. 1

Print of a portrait painted by his wife, Anne, in Paris about 1894. 1

Prospector with pick slung across back on a collecting trip, possibly in the Southern Tarryalll mountains. 1

Racer on Pikes Peak Highway during Hill Climb, spectators and automobiles in background. 1

Racer takes sharp turn in Pikes Peak Hill Climb. 1

Racer with 14 on vehicle on Pikes Peak Highway during Hill Climb, two spectators in background. 1

Ranch in the mountains consisting of a small two-story log ranch house, wooden barn and out building and a windmill. 1

Side view of Albert Whitmore's Gem Mine curio shop in Crystal Peak, north of Florissant. See also 338-39. 1

St Peters Dome, looking norhwest from Gold Camp road. 1

Topaz crystals from Crystal Peak, near Florissant, CO and originally part of the J. G. Hiestand collection sold in his shop in Manitou Springs. 1

Two men are tossing fake paper money from above the marque of the Ute Theater to a frenzied crowd below. Movie marque reads "Jerry Lewis - It's Only Money'" and "also football hi-lites / color cartoon". 1

Two men dressed in knee-high lace-up boots pose for a photo on a dirt road. George White on the right, unknown collector on left, on Gold Camp Road near St. Peters Dome. 1

Unidentified collector digging a prospecting pit. 1

Unidentified female student. Summer School, Colorado College. 1

View looking north at Coplen Dome, taken from Whitemore's Gem Mines in Crystal Peak, north of Florissant. 1

View of Seven Falls with man on stairs and couple at foot of log bridge, woman perched on the wooden handrail. Printed on front "Falls in Cheyenne Canon - Colorado." 1

View of Stratton Park depot from north wall, streetcar tracks in foreground and streetcar in distance surrounded by crowds. 1

View of Stratton Park from trail, mountains behind. 1

Willard Wulff in rock quarry. 1

Willard Wulff on a field trip in sedimentary rocks with George White who took the picture, possibly near Canon City. Second photo of trip is of George White, 338-36 1

Willard Wulff on the left, on Gold Camp road near St. Peters Dome. 1