A Native American (Lakota) dress made with animal hide and decorated with multi-color beadwork. It has fringe on the ends of the cuffs and at the bottom hem. The design pattern on the dress top is blue beaded background and multi-color geometric...
Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1870-1890.; Teton Indians--Clothing & dress--1870-1890.; Dresses--1870-1890.
A lithograph poster advertising the Rocky Mountain News Festival of Mountain and Plain. Shows images of a parade. The text reads: "Rocky Mountain News Festival of Mountain and Plain/ October 7th /1896/ The queen of the plains/ The king of the...
Robert W. Richardson and a bus driver pose in front of a Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Company tour bus and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive (2-8-0) #346, at the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado....
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Equipment & supplies--1950-1960.; Flxible Company--Products--1950-1960.; Narrow Gauge Museum (Alamosa, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Company--Equipment &...
A group of miners pose near the mouth of a mine possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. The miners wear work clothes and hats. Some of the men hold candles in their hands. A sign over the mine entrance reads: "Elisa, Tunnel No. 5." Snow covers the...
Two workers stand near a row of coke ovens in the coal camp of El Moro (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man wearing overalls holds a rake. The other man holds a pole that extends into the opening of an oven. The men may be Italian or Hispanic....
Workers pose near the opening of a coke oven in the coal camp of El Moro (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man holds a trowel and leans against the oven. An old man holds a rake and another man balances a steel rod that extends into the oven.
A group of men stand at the base of a tall wood headframe that extends over a mine shaft possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. The frame houses mechanical works that serve as a lift for ore cars.
View of coke ovens in an unidentified coal camp possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. The ovens are under construction and are made from local stone shaped into roughly square blocks. The ovens consist of two stone walls and two rows of circular...
A man identified as George Hughes poses near a headframe and shaft house at the Boncarbo mine in Sarcillo Canyon (Las Animas County), Colorado. The shaft house is constructed from corrugated tin. The headframe is made of iron beams. Hughes wears a...
View of a head frame and shaft house at Boncarbo mine in Sarcillo Canyon (Las Animas County), Colorado. The shaft house is constructed from corrugated tin. The headframe is made from iron beams.
A group of miners pose on the wood headframe of a mine probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. The men wear work clothes, overalls, and caps. A sign on the headframe reads: "Danger."
Men stand on narrow gauge tracks at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coal camp of El Moro in Las Animas County, Colorado. A narrow gauge engine and possibly a car associated with track laying are on the tracks. Workers are nearby. Industrial...
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1870-1910.; El Moro (Colo.)--1870-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--El Moro--1870-1910.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--El Moro--1870-1910.; Railroad construction workers--Colorado--El...
A group of workers pose near a large piece of mining machinery probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. The men wear overalls and hats. Large piles of rocks are nearby. The mining machine is powered by electricity and has large belts, wheels, and...
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Machinery--Colorado--Las Animas County--1870-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1870-1900.
Rails lead into a mine probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. A coal car sits by the entrance. The sloping side of the hill is reinforced by cut logs.
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1880-1910.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Las Animas County--1880-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1880-1910.; Retaining walls--Colorado--Las Animas...
View of industrial buildings at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Tabasco Mine in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows a long building with smoke stacks and several small wood frame buildings. Rolling hills rise in the distance.
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Tabasco Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1900-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Tabasco--1900-1930.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Tabasco--1900-1930.
Two young miners ride in an electrified or motorized coal car probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. Large lumps of coal are loaded into the coal carts that follow the engine.
View of the tipple at the Sopris Mine in the Colorado Fuel and Iron coal camp of Sopris (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows narrow gauge tracks and coal cars.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1890-1900.; Sopris (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Sopris Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Coal mining--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1900.; Tipples--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1900.
View of the washer and tipple in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Camp of Segundo (Las Animas County), Colorado. Colorado and Southern Railway cars sit on tracks nearby.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1900-1930.; Segundo (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1930.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1930.; Tipples--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1930.
A miner operates a narrow gauge railroad engine that pulls coal cars from the entrance of the Boncarbo mine in Las Animas County, Colorado. A young boy stands on the back of the engine. Other miners stand nearby.
Boncarbo Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1910-1920.
Workmen pose at the base of a hill where they are building an incline track at Ramey mine in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shaped logs lay perpendicular to a low even trench. A few iron rails lay across the logs.
View of the tipple and washer at Gray Creek coal camp in Las Animas County, Colorado. Smoke rises from a smoke stack. Rolling hills are in the distance.
Gray Creek (Colo. : Town)--1890-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gray Creek--1890-1920.; Tipples--Colorado--Gray Creek--1890-1920.
Smoke rises from the coke ovens at Gray Creek, a Victor American Fuel Company coal camp in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows railroad tracks and railroad cars.
Victor American Fuel Company (Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1900.; Gray Creek (Colo. : Town)--1890-1900.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gray Creek--1890-1900.; Coke industry--Colorado--Gray Creek--1890-1900.
View of mine buildings and a tipple at Hastings at Victor American Fuel Company coal camp in Las Animas County, Colorado. Men stand near raised railroad tracks and a brick building with tall smoke stacks.
Victor American Fuel Company (Colo.)--Buildings--1880-1910.; Hastings (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.; Tipples--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.
A group of miners pose near a tipple at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Sopris Mine near Sopris in Las Animas County, Colorado. The men lean on a coal car and wear work clothes that include overalls, gloves, boots, and hats. Some of the miners...
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--People--1910-1920.; Sopris (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Sopris Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.
A group of miners stand with their burros on a dirt road near Manitou, El Paso County, Colorado. One man is mounted on a horse, the others stand nearby. One man holds a gun. The burros are loaded with gear.
A large group of miners pose near the mouth of the Primrose Mine in Primrose (Huerfano County), Colorado. The miners wear work clothes including: overalls, pants, suspenders, and coats. Most of the men wear hats with Johnny Lamps and hold picks in...
Primrose (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Primrose Mine (Huerfano County, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Primrose--1910-1930.; Miners--Colorado--Primrose--1910-1930.
A miner stands behind a row of coal cars from the Primrose Mine in the town of Primrose (Huerfano County), Colorado. Electric wires are strung on posts near the tracks. Shows mine buildings with smokestacks in the distance and a house with a hipped...
Aerial view of Hastings a Victor American Fuel Company coal camp in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows tipple, washer, and screening plant. Company houses line the road that cuts through the canyon. Possibly a school or church is on a hill....
Victor American Fuel Company (Colo.)--Buildings--1880-1910.; Hastings (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.; Company towns--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.
A heard of mules eat at a trough and feeding area at Morley, a Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coal camp in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows a tipple and mine tailings pile. A sign on an industrial building in the distance reads: "Morley Mine,...
A group of miners mounted on burros pose on a dirt road possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. The men may be Hispanic. A burros loaded with mining equipment stands nearby.
A team of six mules pull coal carts out of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Rouse Mine at Rouse (Huerfano County), Colorado. The animals are harnessed single-file and pull the carts down a narrow gauge track. A few miners are on the tracks in the...
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Facilities--1880-1910.; Rouse (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Rouse Mine (Huerfano County, Colo.)--1880-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Rouse--1880-1910.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Rouse--1880-1910.;...
A burro pulls two large ore carts filled with boulders of coal at the Prospect Mine in Las Animas County, Colorado. Mining machinery sits on a set of narrow gauge tracks nearby. Logs and iron rails are stacked near the tracks. Fisher's Peak is in...
Fishers Peak (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Donkeys--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.
A miner sits on the engine of a train pulling coal carts in a coal mining camp probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. Another man dressed in work clothes stands on the railroad bed nearby. A label on the front of the train reads: "Vulcan Iron...