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- Panning for gold at Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Men watch a miner pan for gold in Cripple Creek stream near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado.
- Cripple Creek (Colo. : Stream)--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.;...
- [1891?]
- Panning gold at Cripple Creek
- Men watch a miner use a pan for hydraulic placer gold mining in Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1891
- Anchoria Leland Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
- View of the tailings, shafthouse, and assay office of the Anchoria Leland Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Anchoria Leland Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple...
- [between 1895 and 1899]
- The Gold King Mine
- View of the shafthouse and power house of the Gold King Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold King Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1898]
- Gold King Mine, Cripple Creek
- Men pose with wheelbarrows by the entrance to the Gold King Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. A separator screen is nearby.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold King Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1893?]
- Gold King Mine
- Miners stack bags of ore near a horse drawn wagon at the entrance to the Gold King Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold King Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896]
- Gold King Mine Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Miners pose with wheelbarrows by the entrance to the Gold King Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. A separator screen is nearby.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold King Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1893
- Mining district
- Prospectors stand next to a wood plank building, on top of mine tailings with an ore car and shovels, at a Colorado mining camp, probably near Cripple Creek, Teller County.
- Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining equipment--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Mining timbers
- Men pose around a wagon of lumber pulled by a team of horses on Raven Hill in Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. Mining structures in the background.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Logs--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Legal Tender Mill
- View of the mill building at the Legal Tender mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. A man stands on a horse drawn wagon and unloads wood. Smoke rises from the smoke stack.
- Legal Tender Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Guyot's Assay Office
- Men stand and pose in front of the log "Guyot's Assay Office" building in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Men wear vests or jackets and hats. One man holds probably a canvas bag; another man holds probably a baseball bat. Shows log cabins,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Assaying--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1891?]
- Cripple Creek, Colorado Midland Ry, Pano (Section of 6170)
- View of the mining town Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows masonry commercial buildings, residential frame structures, outbuildings, and the Portland Hotel. Shows dirt roads to mines and mining structures on the hillside. A locomotive...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Cripple Creek, Colorado
- View of the mining town of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows hewn log cabins with chinking, framed windows, doors, and chimneys; wood frame residences; and masonry commercial buildings. Mines and mining structures are on the hillside...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Cripple Creek, Col.
- View of the mining town of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows hewn log cabins with chinking, framed windows, doors, and chimneys; one and two-story wood frame residences; and multi-story masonry commercial buildings. Mines and mining...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Cripple Creek
- View of residence in foreground and distant view of Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is built into rocky hillside and is a one-story with wooden frame, gable roof, horizontal slats, shingles, center brick chimney, and stovepipe in center of lean-to...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1900]
- Day shift on the Victor
- Miners pose near a building at the Victor Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Victor Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1896
- New Discovery Mineral Hill, Cripple Creek, Colo
- Miners pose with horses by the New Discovery Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; New Discovery Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Deerhorn Boarding House
- Miners pose by the Deerhorn Boardinghouse at the Deerhorn Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. A horse drawn buggy is nearby.
- Deerhorn Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Teller County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Lodging houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Ore wagons
- Ore wagons with drivers and horses at a mining camp in Colorado, possibly Cripple Creek, Teller County. Shows: stamped bridle reads "(?) Potts"; wood plank building with smokestacks and pitched roof; outhouse; stacked lumber; snow on ground.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Ore industry--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Ore wagons
- Ore wagons with drivers and horses at a mining camp in Colorado, possibly Cripple Creek, Teller County. Shows: stamped bridle reads "(?) Potts"; wood plank building with pitched roofs and smokestacks; outhouse; stacked lumber; snow on ground.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Ore industry--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Cripple Creek district, Teller Co.
- Prospectors pose in front of a wood plank building on rock pilings at a Cripple Creek mining camp, Teller County, Colorado. One man sits on a horse, another holds a candle.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Cripple Creek district, Teller Co.
- Prospectors with wheelbarrels stand next to a wood plank building built on top of tailings at a mining camp near Cripple Creek, Colorado. Shows other mining tools and a horse on a winch.
- Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Camp Boynton Beaver Park
- Members of Captain Smith's Veteran Company and members of the Insley Guards led by Major H. E. Insley, part of the opposition to the Cripple Creek Strike of 1894, pose outdoors near a trench at Camp Boynton, Beaver Park, Teller County, Colorado....
- Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1894.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Militias--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners' strikes--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Insley, H....
- 1894
- Cripple Creek, Col.
- View of the mining town of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows log cabins, wood frame residences, and commercial buildings. Mines cover the hillside.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Cripple Creek
- View of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows residential outbuildings, Portland Hotel, and trestle for the Midland Terminal Railway. Mines are on the hillside in the distance.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- In the Colorado gold fields sketches at Cripple Creek
- Views of a street scene at night with a mule-drawn wagon and a prospector and his mule, a blacksmith, a stagecoach, a messenger, in uniform, on a horse, and mining camps in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Signs read: "Hot and Cold Baths,"...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blacksmithing--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.;...
- [1893?]
- Where golden bubbles are blown
- View of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows streets, buildings, and snow covered mountains. Miners pose in a mine shaft in Cripple Creek, they hold a candle, a crowbar and a pick.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1896 March 28
- Cripple Creek district, Teller Co.
- Prospectors with wheelbarrels dump rocks off a ramp onto tailings in a Cripple Creek mining camp, Teller County, Colorado. Part of a tent in foreground, hills in background.
- Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Wheelbarrows--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Cripple Creek District, Teller Co.
- Two men in suits, coats, and hats stand on a platform above a tall tailings pile at a mining camp near Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. A utility pole is partially buried by the tailings. A painted wood building and other mill structures are...
- Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- In the Cripple Creek "Boom Days," March, 1894
- Four men stand on wooden platform in front of wooden framed office building, Cripple Creek, Colorado; men are identified as: Bela Kadish, Spencer Penrose, Edward Newhouse, Charles L. Tutt, Sr.; Cripple Creek Sampling & Ore Company building is in...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Kadish, Bela.; Newhouse, Edward.; Penrose, Spencer, 1865-1939--Tomb.; Tutt, Charles L., Sr.
- March, 1894
- Reduction works- Cripple Creek
- View of a reduction company's works near Cripple Creek, Teller County Colorado. A metal building with a stepped sloping roof stands on the side of a slope. The building has anchored smokestacks and various extensions and gables. A smaller building,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Ore industry--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Mining district
- Man in a suit, tie and hat, leans against the open door of a small wood plank building at a Colorado mining camp, possibly near Cripple Creek, Teller County.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Cripple Creek, Colorado in its heyday
- Bird's eye view northwest towards Cripple Creek, Colorado from Anchoria-Leland Mine on Gold Hill with Mount Pisgah in the background; Moon Anchor Mine surface building, smelter and hoist are in foreground; scene includes railroad tracks past the...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1897 and 1900]
- Cripple Creek up to date
- Bird's eye view of Cripple Creek, Colorado northwest from Gold Hill (possibly Anchoria-Leland Mine area) with Mount Pisgah in the background; surface mine buildings and tailings are in foreground; scene includes business commercial district with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Cripple Creek from the mines on Gold Hill
- Distant view of Cripple Creek, Colorado from Gold Hill with Mount Pisgah in background; mine headframe and wooden frame surface buildings are in foreground.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1895 or 1896]
- Cripple Creek, Colo. from Anchoria-Leland Mine on Gold Hill looking north-west
- Bird's eye view northwest towards Cripple Creek, Colorado from Anchoria-Leland Mine on Gold Hill; scene includes Moon Anchor Mine surface building, smelter and hoist, Golden and McKinley public school buildings, National Hotel, Saint Nicholas...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897 September 15
- Cripple Creek from Gold Hill
- View of men working among wood frame buildings and a mining shaft with headboard and wood planks. Shows Cripple Creek, Colorado from Gold Hill with Mount Pisgah in background.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1895 or 1896]
- The Gold King, Cripple Creek
- View of the entrance to the Gold King Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows wood shed, tailing piles, and rocky slope.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold King Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]