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Colorado settlers, towns, and scenery photograph album
photCL 220
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Photograph album of Colorado settlers, towns, and scenery
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 220
Physical Description:
1 Volume
(81 photographs)
Date: approximately 1890
Abstract: A photograph album of settlers in
frontier Colorado, containing both amateur photographs and scenic views by photographer W.
H. Jackson.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Photograph album of Colorado settlers, towns, and scenery, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Stephen White Gallery, May 1978.
An album of 81 albumen photographs of Colorado, containing amateur photographs as well as
views by photographer W. H. Jackson, which are credited in the lower corner "W. H. J. &
Co." Views include elevated views of Aspen and Glenwood Springs; scenic railroad routes in
the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs; Green Mountain Falls Hotel; and the rustic grave
of Helen Hunt Jackson on Cheyenne Mountain. Some of the amateur photographs are dated July
1890, and include images of men, women, and children outside a modest, shingled house; in
front of a log cabin; or having a picnic. One photo is captioned "Cary's Camp and Marion
Mine, July 18, 1890" and another reads "Mr. Van Fleet, Mrs. Van Fleet, Miss May, Mr.
Woodruff, Miss Smith, Mr. Jewett, Mrs. Jewett / August 4, 1890 / Pike's Peak or Bust."
Handwritten captions appear throughout album.
Processed by Huntington Library staff, circa late-20th century. In 2020, Suzanne Oatey
created a finding aid derived from a collection file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Aspen (Colo.)
Colorado -- Description and
travel
Frontier and pioneer life --
Colorado
Pikes Peak (Colo.)
Women pioneers
Photograph albums
Photographs
Jackson, Helen Hunt,
1830-1885 -- Death and burial
Jackson, William Henry,
1843-1942