Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1886
Description: Small image of stone building with many pack burros and donkeys in front and rocky field in foreground. Weather instruments are mounted on the roof the building. "U.S. Signal Station, Top of Pike...
Image Number: 257-6489
Item Type: PhotographDate: July 30, 1889
Description: Interior of U.S. Signal Station at the summit of Pikes Peak, showing a chair and desk with numerous filing nooks filled with papers and an open register with several adjacent inkwells and a teleg...
Image Number: 013-1050
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1930
Description: Well-dressed passengers exiting the cog train car on the summit of Pikes Peak. Mounds of snow are visible on either side of the tracks. A portion of the summit house is visible to the right.
Image Number: 013-10953
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1930
Description: With a field of granite rocks in the foreground, several men are seen walking out of the Pikes Peak Summit House with the observation platform seen in the background. Two women stand adjacent to ...
Image Number: 013-10944
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1925
Description: Elevated panoramic view of Pikes Peak Summit House and observatory looking east-southeast. Warmly dressed tourists are atop the observation platform. "Observatory" signage covers one side. Two pe...
Image Number: 013-11496
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1920
Description: Interior of Summit House with the food service counter in the background and three employees [a woman and two men] standing by to serve customers. Large coffee urns, food containers and bottled b...
Image Number: 013-10955
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900
Description: Two women are at the doorway of the Pikes Peak Summit House with snow drifts piled high on the side of the building beneath the observation platform. Sign over the door reads "Telegraph your frie...
Image Number: 013-1099
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1889
Description: Two men with mule beside Pikes Peak signal station. Metal ladder provides access to roof of the building adjacent to a large wooden protrusion from the side of the structure surrounded by wooden ...
Image Number: 013-6725
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1889
Description: Interior of U.S. Signal Station at the summit of Pikes Peak, showing the kitchen area. On the left, a pot-belly stove can be seen with a can sitting on the burner area. A coffee pot sits in the f...
Image Number: 013-1051
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1888
Description: Interior of U.S. Signal Station at the summit of Pikes Peak, showing a chair and desk with numerous filing nooks filled with papers and an open register with several adjacent inkwells and a teleg...
Image Number: 013-6722
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1888
Description: A view of the U.S. Signal Station on Pikes Peak. A photographer and heliograph operator are standing outside the stone building looking into the distance. A man sits nearby in the seat of a buggy...
Image Number: 013-11502
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1883
Description: A view of the U.S. Signal Station on Pikes Peak with snow-covered granite rocks in the foreground. Weather instruments are mounted on the roof and box-like extension has been added on the side, ...
Image Number: 013-10939
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1882
Description: First crudely-built stone U.S. Signal Station built on Pikes Peak in 1873. A lean-to was added to the original structure, shown on the left. This image may have been taken just before a new signa...
Image Number: 013-10938
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1913-07-16
Description: A modified and stripped-down 1910 Buick Model 10 automobile with the name "Bear Cat" painted on the engine cover is parked on the steps leading to the telegraph station atop Pikes Peak. Two coupl...
Image Number: 013-11501
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1898-1917
Description: Pikes Peak Summit House and observation tower taken from an elevated position just outside the building looking north. The outdoor seating area is in the foreground and in the background a railro...
Image Number: 013-10952
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1898-1917
Description: With cog rail tracks in the foreground, the Pikes Peak Summit House and observation platform is seen with tourists in the area. Cog railway steam engine #2 and a passenger car are parked at the s...
Image Number: 013-10945
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900
Description: Two Baldwin 0-4-2T steam locomotives each attached to one rail car (marked Manitou and Pikes Peak Ry.) are parked on either side of the Summit House. Signs read: Highest tower in the World. Entra...
Image Number: 402-36
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1883
Description: Recently built, the slightly peak-roofed stone building of the U.S. Army Signal Station stands atop Pikes Peak with rock field in the foreground. The man on the far left appears to be holding a g...
Image Number: 001-7274
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1888-09-06
Description: A group of two dozen men and women pose standing above a field of granite boulders. According to the annotation at the bottom of the photo they are members of the press photographed on an excursi...
Image Number: 001-2511
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1900
Description: Four men pose alongside brick railroad depot with signs reading "Central City" "General Office The Gilpin Tramway Co." and "Telegraph and Cable Office."
Image Number: 001-2232
Item Type: PhotographDescription: Members of the AdAmAn Club on Pikes Peak summit. Identified on back: Fred Barr, Willis Magee, Fred Morath. Sign on building "Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office".
Image Number: 212-5
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1876-07-01
Description: Single-story, stone building with two chimneys and a spinning anemometer sits in a field of granite rocks atop Pikes Peak. Two large stacks of firewood are piled against the building below the wi...
Image Number: 175-3927
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1876-07-01
Description: Single-story, stone building with two chimneys and a spinning anemometer sits in a field of granite rocks atop Pikes Peak. Two large stacks of firewood are piled against the building below the wi...
Image Number: 175-3926
Item Type: PhotographDate: 1874-09-04
Description: Photograph of the newly constructed U.S. Army signal station atop Pikes Peak. The single-story flat-roofed building constructed from pieces of the surrounding granite has two doors, two chimneys ...
Image Number: 175-3925
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1881
Description: Crudely built slightly peak-roofed stone building of the signal station on top of Pikes Peak with rock field in the foreground. The building has an anemometer mounted on the roof and a large louv...
Image Number: 175-3740
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1883
Description: Recently built, the slightly peak-roofed stone building of the U.S. Army Signal Station stands atop Pikes Peak with rock field in the foreground. On the roof, the building has a circular chimney ...
Image Number: 175-3735
Item Type: PhotographDate: ca. 1892
Description: View of stone U.S. Signal Station building at summit of Pikes Peak with cog tracks in foreground. On the roof, the previously mounted weather equipment appears to have been removed indicating the...
Image Number: 001-101