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- Retort of the Continental Oil Shale Mining Co., Rio Blanco Colo., their own patent plant
- Close-up view of the brick smokestack and timber scaffolding of a Continental Oil Shale Mining Company retort in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Shows pulleys or hoisting devices and ladders above a corrugated metal building.
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1900-1920.; Rio Blanco County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1900-1920.; Refineries--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Continental Oil Shale and Refining Co., Rio Blanco Co.
- Close-up view of the brick smokestack and timber scaffolding of a Continental Oil Shale and Refining Company retort in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Shows pulleys or hoisting devices and ladders above a corrugated metal roof.
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1900-1920.; Rio Blanco County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Building construction--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1900-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Continental Oil Shale and Refining Co.
- View of a plant of the Colorado Oil Shale Mining & Refining Company near a layered shale cliff near Rifle in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Shows the brick smokestack of probably a retort, timber scaffolding, ladders, pulleys, and hoists. A man...
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1920-1930.; Oil-shales--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1920-1930.; Rio Blanco County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1920-1930.; Refineries--Colorado--Rio Blanco...
- [1920 August]
- Plant of the Continental Oil Shale Mining & Refining Co., Rio Blanco Co. Colo.
- Men stand and pose beside a Continental Oil Shale Mining and Refining Company retort in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Shows a brick smokestack, metal pipes, timber scaffolding, pulleys, and hoists. Snow is on shale cliffs nearby.
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1910-1920.; Oil-shales--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1910-1920.; Rio Blanco County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Cliffs--Colorado--Rio Blanco County--1910-1920.; Refineries--Colorado--Rio Blanco...
- [1919 December]
- Placer mining near Rich.
- View of a placer mining site near possibly Richfield (Conejos County), Colorado; men look at a boom with pulleys and a excavated pit. A cat is by a frame shack.
- Hoisting machinery--Colorado--1880-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Machine and man
- A man works on a shale oil retort with pulleys, tanks, pipes, and a drive belt, in (probably) Colorado; a brick building and corrugated shed are in the background.
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--1910-1920.; Machinery--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Shale oil refinery
- View of a shale oil retort with pulleys, tanks, pipes, and a drive belt, in (probably) Colorado; a brick building and corrugated shed are in the background.
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--1910-1920.; Machinery--Colorado--1910-1920.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- So. Platte Dr. Co.
- View of iron beams, cables, and pulleys on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- View of a tall iron beam structure that is part of the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows the iron beam framework, pulleys, and cables.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- Buckets scoop soil from the Middle Fork South Platte River bed to be processed on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows iron beam framework, pulleys, and cables.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Dredging--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- View of an iron framework of machinery on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows cables, pulleys, and buckets.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Sunrise, headframe
- View of a headframe and mine buildings and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ore cars that read: "CB & Q" on tracks at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company owned Sunrise Mine in Platte County, Wyoming. Shows cogs and pulleys between the head frame...
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company--1930-1950.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1930-1950.; Platte County (Wyo.)--1930-1950.; Mining--Wyoming--Platte County--1930-1950.; Railroad freight cars--Wyoming--Platte County--1930-1950.
- Excavation dump trucks and equipment
- Men pose with a line of dump trucks, probably in Denver, Colorado. Shows an excavation site that includes machinery with pulleys, cranes, conveyor belts and drills. Smokestacks, piles of unearthed material, storage tanks, a railroad car labeled:...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Dump trucks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Excavation--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Construction scene laying pipe
- View of (probably) Lipan Street in Denver, Colorado; shows a ditch with shoring, and men working with chain and pulleys.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Laborers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Construction scene laying pipe
- View of (probably) Lipan Street in Denver, Colorado; shows men working in a ditch with shoring, using chain and pulleys to lower a section of pipe.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Laborers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Pipes--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Construction scene laying pipe
- View of (probably) Lipan Street in Denver, Colorado; shows the cab of a crane and men working in a ditch with shoring, using chain and pulleys to lower a section of pipe.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Laborers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Pipes--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Machine shop
- Interior view of a machine shop in Denver, Colorado; shows men working, a lathe, a vise, wheel valve handles, belts and pulleys.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Machine shops--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- Industry maybe sugar factory
- View of possibly a partially constructed sugar beet processing plant in Colorado. Scaffolding with pulleys surrounds a cylindrical tower.
- Building construction--Colorado--1890-1910.; Industrial facilities--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Cheeseman [sic] Dam under const.
- View of Cheesman Dam, Douglas County, Colorado under construction. Shows scaffolding, cranes, pulleys, and lumber.
- Cheesman Dam (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Douglas County--1900-1910.; Dam construction--Colorado--Douglas County--1900-1910.
- [1902]
- Cheeseman [sic] Dam under const.
- View of workers at the Cheesman Dam construction site in Douglas County, Colorado. Shows stone wall, cranes, pulleys, wooden steps, railroad tracks, and ore cars.
- Cheesman Dam (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Douglas County--1900-1910.; Dam construction--Colorado--Douglas County--1900-1910.
- [1902]
- Industries - construction - steam pump working on Alameda subway
- View of construction equipment, at the the Alameda subway site by the South Platte River, in Denver, Colorado; shows a man, boiler, drive belts, pulleys, a trough of water, and sheds.
- Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1900-1920.; Construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Equipment--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1920?]
- Refining floor Kansas City Smelting Co.
- Interior view of the Kansas City Smelting & Refining Company in Kansas City, Kansas; shows a man by a wheelbarrow, furnaces, and pulleys.
- Kansas City Smelting & Refining Company--1880-1890.; Kansas City (Kan.)--1880-1890.; Furnaces--Kansas--Kansas City--1880-1890.; Interiors--Kansas--Kansas City--1880-1890.; Smelters--Kansas--Kansas City--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- In the workshop, Colorado-Yule Marble Company, Marble, Colorado
- Men work in Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado, in the Colorado- Yule Marble Company's mill "B". Carts of stone are on central tracks, flanked by worktables. The workers have buckets of water and handtools; lightbulbs hang from interior overhead...
- Quarries and quarrying--Colorado--Marble--1910-1920.; Marble (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Marble quarrying--Colorado--Marble--1910-1920.; Colorado Yule Marble Company.
- [between 1910 and 1917?]
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- The interior of the State Mercantile Company in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, has bolts of fabric and cedar chests on display. Stools front a counter; baskets on pulleys are overhead.
- Fort Collins (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Fort Collins--1910-1920.
- [1915?]
- Nevadaville panorama
- Middle left image of a panoramic view of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, shows frame and log dwellings, mining facilities with tripods with pulleys and cable for moving ore, neatly stacked firewood, tailings and roads on Quartz Hill.
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Quartz Hill (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1888?
- Nevadaville panorama
- Middle image of a panoramic view of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, shows frame and log dwellings, the Pozo Mill, tailings, a monitor roofed mining facility, tripods with pulleys and cables to move ore, neat stacks of firewood, and roads cut...
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Quartz Hill (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1888?
- Placer operation looking northward
- A frame platform supports a construction of pulleys, a motor, rocks and a pitchfork below Main Street, Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado. Buildings in the background include the City Hall - Fire Department, the Redman's and Odd Fellow's Lodges.
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1930-1940.
- Summer 1938
- No. 62 Ophir, Colo, West End
- Ophir, Ouray County, Colorado, consists of frame houses, outhouses, and mining facilities. Frame towers support cables on pulleys; ore buckets hang at intervals. Laundry is in fenced yards; a schoolhouse tops a rise; mules stand by piled firewood....
- Ophir (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ophir--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Interurban Street Railway
- An electric trolley car in Trinidad, Colorado is parked on a turntable, and a sign near the central pulley reads: #508. Lettering on the side of the car reads: "4 Trinidad Local. Trinidad Electric Railroad." The open entryway shows the interior...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Electric railroads--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.; Street railroads--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1918?]
- Mutton in cold storage
- Rows of sheep carcasses hang on hooks and pulleys in a cold storage room; probably in Denver, Colorado.
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Meat industry--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Sheep--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Slaughtering--Colorado--Denver--1920- 1930.
- [1920?]
- Beef in cold storage
- View of beef carcasses hanging in rows on hooks and pulleys, probably in Denver, Colorado; tags appear on some carcasses.
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Meat industry--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Slaughtering--Colorado--Denver--1920- 1930.
- [1920?]
- Laying cornerstone of courthouse
- A large crowd is gathered on sloping ground at the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Summit County Courthouse in Breckenridge, Colorado. The men wear suits and hats and the women are in dresses and elegant hats. Within the crowded...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Rites & ceremonies--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Laying cornerstone of courthouse
- A large crowd is gathered on sloping ground around a cordoned off area at the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone of the Summit County Courthouse in Breckenridge, Colorado. The men are in suits and hats and the women wear dresses and elegant hats....
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Rites & ceremonies--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- July 31, 1909
- Laying cornerstone of courthouse
- A large crowd is gathered on sloping ground at the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone of the Summit County Courthouse in Breckenridge, Colorado. The men are in suits and hats, the women are in dresses and elegant hats. A touring car with four...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Rites & ceremonies--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Old Time Assayers Office, Cripple Creek, Colo
- Interior view of a mine assay laboratory in Cripple Creek, Colorado; shows a brick retort furnace, washtubs, buckets, a shovel, pulleys and drive belts.
- Assaying--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1880-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.--1880-1900.; Gold--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1880-1900.; Laboratories--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Drilling rig - derrick
- View of an oil drilling operation; shows men, a construction of wheels, pulleys, and booms, and desert.
- Oil well drilling rigs--1920- 1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Steam powered drilling rig
- View of a drill rig and men working, probably in Colorado or Utah; shows pulleys, motors, flywheels, a boiler, tools, machinery, and low hills.
- Boring--1920-1940.; Drilling & boring machinery--1920-1940.
- [between 1922 and 1935?]
- Tractor powered sheep shearing (No. Fork Valley)
- View of a sheep shearing operation in (probably) Colorado or Utah; shows men passing a bundle of wool, a tractor connected to belts and pulleys, sheds, penned sheep, and bags of wool. Mountains are in the background.
- Sheep shearing--1920-1940.; Tractors--1920-1940.; Wool industry--1920-1940.
- [between 1922 and 1935?]
- Yule quarry - crane and power house facilities of the Yule Marble Co. near the head of Yule Creek, south of Marble, Colorado
- View of the Yule Marble quarry, in Marble, Colorado; shows a crane, buildings, cable and pulleys, a suspended block of stone, a gondola, and men working.
- Colorado Yule Marble Company--1910-1920.; Marble (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Marble--1910-1920.; Marble quarrying--Colorado--Marble--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Marble--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Marble--1910-1920.
- 1910?
- Western Pacific - two Bucyrus-built gold dredges at work near Oroville, California
- View of Bucyrus (Royal Equipment) gold dredges near Oroville, California; a man poses by the machinery, pulleys, and conveyor belts.
- Dredges--California--Oroville--1910-1920.; Oroville (Calif.)--1910-1920.; Gold mining--California--Oroville--1910-1920.; Mining--California--Oroville--1910-1920.
- June 1913
- Kuner Pickle Co.
- A man adjusts canning machinery at the Kuner Pickle Company canning factory in Brighton (Adams County) Colorado; room contains pulleys, large vats and scale.
- Kuner Pickle Company--1900-1930.; Brighton (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Canneries--Colorado--Brighton--1900-1930.; Food industry--Colorado--Brighton--1900-1930.
- [between 1902 and 1930?]
- Colo. National Bank bldg., W. E. & A. A. Fisher, architects, Seerie Brothers Co. builders
- View of Colorado National Bank construction, 17th (seventeenth) and Champa streets, Denver, Colorado; shows steel girders atop a row of Ionic columns, a crane system of beams, ropes and pulleys, and marble; a sign reads: "Seerie Brothers...
- Colorado National Bank--Buildings--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Banks--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Building construction--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- 1915 March 13
- Sluicing for gold in San Francisquito Canyon
- Miners operate a hydraulic sluice in San Francisquito Canyon, Los Angeles County, California. The placer mine machine consists of adobe columns, pulleys, ropes, and wood boxes. Donkeys are loaded with ore bags.
- San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Donkeys--California--Los Angeles County--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--California--San Francisquito Canyon--1890-1900.; Miners--California--Los Angeles County--1890-1900.; Mining--California--San...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- First dredge in Idaho City
- Miners pose on a hydraulic placer gold bucket-line dredge, in Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho; a United States flag tops the gantry, over pulleys.
- Dredges--Idaho--Idaho City--1900-1920.; Mining machinery--Idaho--Idaho City--1900-1920.; Idaho City (Idaho)--1900-1920.; Gold mining--Idaho--Idaho City--1900-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Idaho--Idaho City--1900-1920.; Miners--Idaho--Idaho...
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- 14th Street Viaduct Construction
- Workmen construct the 14th (Fourteenth) Street Viaduct in Denver, Colorado. Shows Cherry Creek, pulleys, cranes and a small portable coal engine with wheels. The Denver City Hall, the Denver Wire and Ironworks Co., Congregation of Shomro Amunoh,...
- Congregation Shomro Amunoh (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1900.; African Americans--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Cherry Creek (El Paso County-Denver County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.;...
- 1898 September 3
- 14th Street Viaduct Construction
- Workmen pose near pulleys, cranes and other machinery used in the construction of the 14th (Fourteenth) Street viaduct in Denver (Denver County) Colorado. The Congregation of Shomro Amunoh, Revere House and Leadville House are in the background.
- Congregation Shomro Amunoh (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridge construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.;...
- August 19 1898
- 14th Street Viaduct, Denver, Colorado
- Men pose on the unfinished iron skeleton of the 14th (Fourteenth) Street Viaduct over the South Platte River in Denver (Denver County) Colorado. Shows pulleys, cranes, wood supports, and rail track to move materials.
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1890-1900.; Bridge construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.;...
- 1898 December 5
- 14th Street Viaduct Construction
- Shows a construction crew working on the 14th (Fourteenth) Street viaduct in Denver (Denver County) Colorado. Pulleys, cranes and other machinery are in use. Men stand and watch nearby. Wooden structures are near the viaduct, possibly shelters for...
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridge construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.;...
- 1899 February 13
- 14th Street Viaduct Construction
- Shows a construction crew working on the 14th (Fourteenth) Street Viaduct in Denver, Colorado. The men use cranes, pulleys, saws and other materials. The sign on the building in the background reads: "? T Walkers Western Foundry". Two men in the...
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridge construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Retaining...
- 1898 September 20
- 14th Street Viaduct Construction
- Construction crews work on the 14th (Fourteenth) Street Viaduct in Denver, Colorado. Shows cranes, pulleys and other machinery. Two men in suits are on the construction site. The sign on the building in the background reads: "T. Walkers Foundry".
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridge construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.;...
- 1898 September 20