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- Leadville mining district - Mt. Elbert at left, Mt. Massive center right, as seen from the lower west slope of Iron Hill above the Yak Tunnel and Mine Complex in California Gulch, near Leadville, Colorado.
- View of the Yak Tunnel and Mine Complex in California Gulch near Leadville, Colorado; shows mill buildings and ore car tracks. Mount Elbert, Mount Massive, and the Sawatch Range are in the background.
- California Gulch (Lake County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Elbert, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Yak Tunnel--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.;...
- 1908
- Leadville, Colorado 1900
- View west of Leadville, Colorado; shows mining district with smoking smelter stacks, crushers, ore cart tracks and mine tailing dumps, frame houses and brick commercial buildings. Landmarks include: Annunciation Church, Lake County Courthouse, High...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Vendome Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1900]
- Leadville - Carbonate Hill
- View of treeless Carbonate Hill in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; shows several mine and mill buildings, houses, headframes, and tailings.
- Carbonate Hill (Lake County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hills--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- 1900
- First Presbyterian Church
- View of the First Presbyterian Church at the corner of West 8th (Eighth) Street and Harrison Avenue in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The brick church has a square bell tower with an open, arched observation platform, stained glass, and dormer...
- First Presbyterian Church (Leadville, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Presbyterian churches--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Leadville
- View of the American National Bank on the southeast corner of Fifth and Harrison Avenue in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows the Romanesque Revival-style building, constructed of rusticated red sandstone with brick upper stories. Features...
- American National Bank (Leadville, Colo.)--Buildings--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Banks--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Party of Finland miners with wives & children
- Finnish miners and their wives and children sit on a tipple of the head frame of the Log Cabin shaft of the Morning Glory silver and lead mine in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado, owned by H.S. Dickerman.
- Morning Glory Consolidated Mining Company (Lake County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Finns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Families--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.;...
- 1904
- Leadville and Mount Massive
- View west across Leadville, Colorado with Mount Massive of the continental divide in the background shows a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, and crushers, smelters, smokestacks, and mine tailings. Landmarks include the Church...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Vendome Hotel--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Leadville & Mt. Massive
- View west across Leadville, Colorado with Mount Massive of the Continental Divide in the background. The slope in the foreground is covered with evergreens. The town is made up of wood frame residences, barns, sheds, mining operations with...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Tabor Opera House--1900-1910.; Vendome Hotel--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Leadville
- View from Carbonate Hill northwest across Leadville, Colorado, shows a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, brick commercial and public structures and mining operations with smokestacks and tailings. Landmarks include the Church...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Tabor Opera House--1900-1910.; Vendome Hotel--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1905?]
- Leadville
- This view from Chicken Hill, northwest across Leadville, Colorado, shows a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, mining operations and brick commercial and public structures. Landmarks include the Church of the Annunciation,...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Colorado and Southern Railway--1900-1910.; Harrison Reduction Works--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1905?]
- Leadville Exchange - business office
- Interior view of a Colorado Telephone Company office in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado; a woman sits at a desk. A ceiling lamp is by a calendar with an image of a woman, flowers, and date: "June 1907."
- Colorado Telephone Company--Facilities--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Offices--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1907?]
- Colorado, Leadville and Mt. Massive
- This view west across Leadville, Colorado, with Mount Massive of the continental divide in the background shows a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, and mining crushers, smelters, smokestacks, and tailing dumps. Landmarks include...
- Vendome Hotel--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Leadville
- This view from Carbonate Hill northwest across Leadville, Colorado, includes wood frame residences, the Tabor Opera House, the old Lake County Courthouse, the Vendome Hotel, and the old high school. Crushers, smelters with smokestacks, and mine...
- Tabor Opera House--1900-1910.; Vendome Hotel--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1905?]
- Fun for the miner's children in the outskirts of Leadville, Colo.
- Several children ride on burros near the Wolftone Mine in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado shows: mine and mill buildings, tailings, elevated tracks.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Wolftone Mine (Leadville, Colo.); Children--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Donkeys--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Riding--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- First Presbyterian Church, Leadville [graphic].
- The First Presbyterian Church at 801 Harrison in Leadville, Colorado is an English gothic brick asymmetrical structure built by Eugene Robitaille in 1889 and has a dominant corner tower with entry, steep pointed gables, open bell tower and tall...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Historic sites--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Presbyterian churches--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; First Presbyterian Church (Leadville, Colo.)
- [1900 and 1905]
- Leadville, Colo.
- Panoramic view of frame houses, brick buildings, and Leadville High School at 120 West 9th (Ninth) Avenue in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The school has an arched stone entrance, dormer windows with gothic details, and brick chimneys. Shows...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- 1902 July 5
- Winters morning, Leadville Colo.
- View of the snow covered town of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows wood frame houses, churches, a Colorado Midland Railroad tracks and trestle, and probably the Coronado Mine building. The Sawatch Mountain range is in the distance.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Sawatch Range (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Snow--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Winter--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Leadville, Colo.
- Distant view of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado from hill with mine and mill buildings, Sawatch Range in background.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Arkansas Smelter, Leadville, Col.
- Arkansas Valley Smelting Company with refinery buildings and smokestacks in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows houses and "Dwyers Saloon."
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- 1900
- Leadville and Mount Massive, Colo.
- This view west across Leadville, Colorado, with Mount Massive of the continental divide in the background, shows a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds and mining crushers, smelters, smokestacks, and tailing dumps. Landmarks include...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colo., Colo. Midland Ry.
- View towards Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colorado (Lake County), reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows Little Johnny Mine (far left), mines, headframes, smelters, tailings and dumps, ore cart tracks, wooden frame residences and buildings.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Harrison Ave., Leadville, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View south on Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows horse-drawn wagons and carriages, burro and dog on wide dirt street, prominent brick buildings with window awnings, men, women and children on cement...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Leadville, Colo.
- View, down a dirt street lined with boardwalks, over gabled residential rooftops of Leadville, Colorado. Mountain peaks can be seen through a dramatic sky filled with clouds. Smoke, possibly from distant mining mills, meets the clouds. Wind blows...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- 1904
- Leadville, Colo.
- View of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows smelters, which include the Arkansas Valley Smelter with large square brick smokestacks, the old High School (West 9th (Ninth) Street), commercial buildings and houses. Mount Massive is in the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns.; Mining.; Schools.; Smelters.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Leadville and Mt Massive, Colo. Midland Ry.
- Bird's eye view of Leadville, Colorado, toward Mount Massive (elevation 14,418 feet) reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows mine dumps or tailings, headframes, ore cart tracks, smelters, mills, Lake County Courthouse tower, churches, wooden...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Leadville, Colo. and Mt. Massive, Colo. Midland Ry.
- Bird's eye view of Leadville, Colorado, taken from Colorado Midland Railway towards Mount Massive (hazy background, elevation 14,418 feet); shows narrow gauge track, wooden frame residences, buildings, mines, smelters, mills, headframes, ore cart...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- The smelters on the outskirts of Leadville with Mt. Massive, the highest peak in Colorado, (alt. 14,424 ft.) in the background
- Overview of smelters in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows refinery buildings, smokestacks, snow covered Mt. Massive and the Sawatch Range in the background.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Sawatch Range (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- American Natl. Bank, Leadville
- This view looks down on a festive mob scene, possibly in the intersection in front of the American National Bank building in Leadville, Colorado. Flags, bunting and banners hang from poles and buildings. Crowds of men, mostly in suits, wear straw...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Crowds--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1903]
- Mt. Massive and the valley of the Arkansas from the head of Stray Horse Gulch, above Leadville, Colorado
- View of Stray Horse Gulch, in Lake County, Colorado; shows mining facilities, houses, a building with a belfry, smokestacks in Leadville, and Mount Massive.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Stray Horse Gulch (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- 1908
- Leadville
- View, from Chicken Hill, northwest across Leadville, Colorado shows a town filled with wood frame residences and a few false front, large mining operations in the foreground with tall smokestacks and mine tailings. Snow covered slopes are in the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1905?]
- Leadville grocery store
- Men pose in front of a frame building with a gabled roof and a sign that reads "M.R. Mitchell Groceries, Meats & Vegetables" in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Men stand on a porch near wooden ladders and a snowy sidewalk. Faded, painted signs...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Leadville - water supply
- Men in suits supervise workmen as they install a water pipeline for Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The pipeline is made of wooden staves and reinforced with metal bands (probably steel). One workman balances a wooden plank on his shoulder while...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Construction workers--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Construction--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Penstocks--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Water supply--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Leadville in background
- View over the mining district east of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, includes Wolftone Mine with dark smoke pouring from tall stacks, the Arkansas Valley Smelter in distance, trestles carrying the Graham Park Branch and the Wolftone spur over...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- Leadville, Colo. altitude, 10,200 feet above sea level Mt. Massive, the highest mountain in Colorado
- View over Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, shows dwellings, businesses and smoking mining facilities with Mount Massive in the distance.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- December 12, 1906
- Miner's drilling contest in Leadville
- View of a mine worker's competition at Fifth and Harrison Streets, Leadville, Colorado; shows miners and judges on a platform with sledge hammers and tools. Probably Fred C. Dopp, kneels and holds the spike. Men, women, and children crowd the area;...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Contests--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Spectators--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Dopp,...
- [between 1901 and 1910?]
- Panoramic view west over Leadville, Colorado, and the smoke shrouded valley of the Arkansas River from near the upper end of Stray Horse Gulch
- View of Leadville, Colorado; shows mining facilities, smokestacks, and tree stumps. A wagon is in the foreground.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- 1908
- Smelter at Leadville
- View of a snow covered street with houses and smelter buildings in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Ark's Valley Smelter
- Arkansas Valley Smelting Company with refinery buildings and smokestacks in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Hyman's Club, Leadville saloon
- Four men pose in front of the two double door entry doors of the Hyman's Club at 316 Harrison Street in Leadville, Colorado. The wood frame false front building has large pane windows. Three of the men wear suits, vests and hats and the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bars--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Rustic bridge and fish pond at the fish hatcheries
- A man in a double breasted jacket and a hat sits on a rustic bench at a fish pond at the Leadville National Fish Hatchery in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. A decorative bridge made with logs and sticks is beside a dirt path observation area....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fish hatcheries--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- 1903 June
- Leadville
- View from Carbonate Hill northwest across Leadville, Colorado, includes wood frame residences, the old High School, the Annunciation Church, the Ninth Street School, the Colorado and Southern Railroad depot and yards, and crushers, smelters with...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [1905?]
- Leadville
- This view from Carbonate Hill northwest across Leadville, Colorado, looking at the south part of town includes crushers, smelters with smokestacks, and tailings of mining operations. The Midland Railroad's California Gulch Trestle, Harrison...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Midland Railway Company.
- [1905?]
- Iron Building, Leadville
- Two women with hats cross a street near the intersection of 6th (Sixth) and Harrison in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows the Iron Building, a two story building with pediments and spindles. Letters carved on the pediment of the building...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Crowds--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Flags--American--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Leadville
- View from Carbonate Hill northwest across Leadville, Colorado, to the south part of town includes mining crushers, smelters with smokestacks, mine tailings, the Midland Railroad's California Gulch Trestle, the Harrison Reduction Works, the Central...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Midland Railway Company.
- [1905?]
- City of L'ville, Carbonate Hill, Mosquito Range in background
- View east from Capitol Hill over the town of Leadville to Carbonate Hill and the Mosquito Range, Colorado. The scene includes a muddy street in the foreground, rooftops of wood frame residences, false fronts, churches, the old Lake County...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Leadville, Colo July 5, 1902
- View north over wood frame residences to the old High School, West 9th (Ninth) Street, Leadville, Colorado, where a light covering of snow can be seen on a July day.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- 1902