PPLD Digital Collections

Annotated “1038. Street View, Manitou Springs”. The Wheeler town clock is in the foreground and just behind the clock is the Manitou Mineral Water Company building with cupola and to its right it the Manitou Bath House. 1

Annotated “1405A. Tower of Babel” on the print. Rock formation is located in Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. 1

Annotation on photo reads “633. Royal Gorge, Grand Cañon of the Arkansas River.” The “Hanging Bridge” of the Royal Gorge Railway Route is seen in the foreground. 1

Arched rock formation. 1

Car #49 of the Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway Company that appears to be parked in Cheyenne Canyon. Standing on the right is Alonzo Carnahan. Several passengers and two crewmen pose for the camera. 1

Card annotated at the bottom as “1414. Punch and Judy”. A woman wearing circa late 1880s attire is standing to the left rear of the rock formations. 1

Cheyenne [Soda] Spring ,Manitou Springs, CO 1

Colorado Springs High School Class Play, 1911. 1

Copy of a 1914 portrait of an unknown girl by Julian Russell Story - Born 1

Early Victorian homes built in the hills of Manitou Springs. 1

Falls and Pulpit Rock|Ute Pass, Manitou, Colo. 1

Fashionably dressed woman in mid-1890s-style attire is posing by a creek. Her image is reflected in the water. 1

Foothills ranchland with old buckboard and farm implements. 1

From left to right on Manitou Avenue in Manitou Springs 1

Ground-mounted jib cranes are being used for the construction of stone foundations and assembly of steel-beam stirring apparatus for pits containing finely crushed ore and mixed with cyanide solution used to refine gold ore at this reduction mill. 1

Group of well dressed, tourists or clients in front of R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavilion, Manitou Springs CO. 1

Herd of dairy cows grazing near a grove of trees. Farm buildings and two men are visible in the background. 1

Hillside with trees. 1

Long view looking northeast of South Table Mountain with houses of the town of Golden, Colorado in the middle ground. The shadows of two men at the camera location can be seen in the foreground. 1

Long view looking northeast of South Table Mountain with houses of the town of Golden, Colorado, in the middle ground. The shadows of two men at the camera location can be seen in the foreground. 1

Low water in Creek bed. 1

Man and burro on the Pikes Peak Trail. Printed on bottom "1067A. Willing Subject on Pike's Peak Trail." 1

Man in horse drawn covered wagon moving along a dirt road. 1

Man in suit and bowler hat in foreground looking over river in a rugged mountain area. At the summit of the peak on the right a crudely drawn tunnel entrance and train have been scribed on the print. Printed on front "415. Toltec Gorge and Tunnel." 1

Man opening gate at entrance to Redstone Castle. Property appears to be overgrown with vegetation indicating the residence is vacant. Redstone Castle is seen through the gateway on the hill beyond. 1

Man reclining on a hill with his dog. 1

Man seated on rocks at the foot of Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass, Manitou. 1

Manitou Soda Springs Pavilion with Pikes Peak. The Pavilion sign reads 1

Midland Railway Bridge & Road to Iron Springs, and Manitou Springs, Colorado. [previously numbered 001-5598] 1

Navajo Geyser at Navajo [soda] Spring , Manitou Springs, CO 1

Ore dump trestle under construction with workers visible atop the structure in the background. 1

Photo is printed on page 198 of the 1917 Pikes Peak Nugget. "The "Barbs" were organized this year for the purpose of drawing the non-fraternity men together and giving them a social life." 1

Photo is printed on page 70 of the 1914 Lever Yearbook. Miss Frost, faculty supervisor|Fern Reitzel as president|Elizabeth Nicholson, secretary|Mabel Wing as treasurer. 1

Photo is printed on page 80 of the 1914 Lever Yearbook. Hayes Tucker, president. 1

Photo is printed on page 86 of the 1915 Lever Yearbook. Winona Runquist, president|Mabel Atkinson, vice president|Josephine Love, treasurer|Laura Brown, secretary|Hortense Scott, Lever correspondent. 1

Photo portrait of a well-dressed man in coat and tie with bowler hat seated in front of a stone building. 1

Portland Gold Mining Company (new mill) Smoke Chamber coming from Roasting House to new Smoke Stack (not shown). Construction of horizontal flue to base of big stack, Standard Mill. View east. 1

Portland Mill site under construction showing four dual-mule slip scrapers, the only method in use at this time for moving dirt and loose rock. 1

Portland Mine 1

Portrait of a young woman. Touch-up work appears to have been done to the negative that gives the hair of the woman an unnatural feathery appearance. 1

Power transmission shaft for ore crushers overhead at Portland Mill. 1

Printed on bottom "1230. Leaning Tower. Cheyenne Canon." View of large rock formation. 1

Printed on front "1031. Cascade Canon." View of iced over waterfall. Wooden stairs visible in upper right-hand corner. 1

Printed on front "1212. Entrance to Grand Caverns." Two small structures are visible in the center of the image. 1

Printed on front "1225. The Narrows. Williams Canon." Narrows to Cave of the Winds, early days. 1

Printed on front "1229. Temple of Isis. Williams Cañon." Towering rock formations on cliffs of Williams Canyon. 1

Printed on front "1234. Weeping Falls. Williams Cañon." View of waterfalls cascading down rocks. Also called the Four Falls. Two women in late 1880s-style attire are seated with each holding a parasol. 1

Printed on front "1235. Williams Cañon." View of canyon. Two woman in late 1880s-style attire are standing in the foreground at bottom of image.. 1

Printed on front "1239. Williams Cañon." View of dirt path through the canyon. Small stream on the left. Woman wearing late 1880s-style attire holding a parasol poses on rock in center of image. 1

Printed on front "1282. The Four Falls, Williams Cañon." View of four waterfalls cascading down rocks. Also called Weeping Falls 1

Printed on front "1667. Pillar of Hurculese [Hercules]." Nearly a thousand feet high, and at one place but forty-two feet apart, barely giving room for the stream and roadway between them. 1

Printed on front "1667. Seven Falls, Cheyenne Canon." View of all 7 waterfalls and wooden stairway to top. 1

Printed on front "1671. Cheyenne Cañon." View of large rocks and stream. 1

R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavilion with stone bridge over Fountain Creek. 1

R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavilion, Manitou Springs CO. 1

R.M. Davis' Soda Springs Pavillion and wooden bridge across Fountain Creek, Manitou Springs, CO. 1

Reduction mill of the Portland Gold Mining Company under construction showing smoke stack base and smoke chamber from the roasters. A large supply of wooden studs and beams is stacked in the foreground. View looking north. 1

Road intersection in Manitou Springs with newly planted trees visible in the center. A street light hangs on a wire above the intersection. 1

Rock formation along the Garden of the Gods Pikes Peak Trail. 1

Rosemma Falls on the Pikes Peak Trail. 1

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado. 1

Sheltered Falls on the Pikes Peak Trail. A man is sitting on the large rock adjacent to the bottom of the falls. 1

Some early Victorian homes in the hills of Manitou Springs, CO. 1

Stone blocks from Red Rock Quarry is being used to construct the base for huge steel stack at the Portland Mill. Note beautiful character of this stone cutting work which was done by hand on the job. View looking southeast. 1

The Native, Seal, and Bear|Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. 1

The Parliament, land formation, Monument Park, Colorado Springs circa 1900. 1

The Royal Gorge Bridge as viewed by a man from Bigler Gorge. 1

The city of Manitou Springs viewed from Cavern Trail. Houses and tent structures are visible through the haze in the background. 1

Thickeners under construction over chlorination pits. 1

Three gentlemen with mid-1890s clothing and hair styles are posing on rocks in front of Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass, Manitou Springs. 1

Train traveling over Colorado Midland Railroad Trestle. The economic potential of booming mining camps inspired the board of directors of Colorado Springs’ First National Bank to build a standard-gauge railroad through the Rockies. 1

Twelve ball mills used for the grinding of ore at a reduction mill are stacked on large wooden beams adjacent to a rail line. Ground-mounted jib cranes are visible in the background. 1

Two men are seated on a log below Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass, Manitou Springs, Colorado. 1

Two men on horseback and a paint horse without a rider (probably the dismounted photographer) near Minnehaha Falls on Pikes Peak Trail. 1

Upper Twin Lake, Lake County Colorado. 1

Upper and Lower Rainbow Falls, Ute Pass Trail, near Manitou Springs, CO. 1

Ute Pass 1

View of the hills and Manitou Springs through an ocular opening. 1

Wearing a mid-1890s-style dress with large buttons, a woman is posing in a tree holding a book and a large flowered hat. A creek and farm buildings appear in the background. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is crossing a log over a small creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is fishing by a creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is kneeling with a stick by a creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is posing with a stick by a creek. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is sitting by a creek fishing. 1

Woman in mid-1890s-style attire is standing against tree by a creek. 1

Woman with umbrella posing in the cliffs above Manitou Springs, Colo. 1

Workers can be seen atop the framework for Portland Reduction Mill roasting house under construction. 1

Young boy with stick standing on a rock by a creek. 1