Recen
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Call Number |
CHS.X7700 |
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Title |
Recen |
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Summary |
View of frame houses and road grades in the mountains above the mining town of Recen (Kokomo, Summit County), Colorado. Shows commercial buildings with false fronts, mine buildings and tailings piles. Identification: "1. Stable owned by Prior Chisholm. 2. Log house built by Pete Hedman. 3. (Tall house) Owned by Prior Chisholm. 4. House owned by John Niberg, later tavern. 5. Garage owned (1963) by Henry A. Recen. 6. Wm. Lindsey house. 7. Real estate office built by Andrew Recen. 8. Fred Rose Bldg. (white front). 9- 10. Rio Grande Section House - boarding house (dark) and bunk house (in back). 11. Don Colcord bldg. 12. Masonic Hall, built 1882 dark building behind #11 on Ten Mile Ave. 13. Boner Col cord home (tall-white). 14. Henry A. Recen Sr. house built 1881 (double gable behind #13). 15. Frank Oscar Engstrom house (next to Recen house). 16. Odd Fellows Hall (large white front). 17. "Windy" Clark bldg (large dark) bought by Tucker. 18. A.J. Johnson house (house highest on hill). 19. Arnold Meat Market (dark front to right of #20). 20. S.L. Morris Hardware (large, dark). 21. Jim Doud's grocery & general store (white front) later called Ten Mile Mercantile Co. 22. Mountain House Hotel, Mrs. Buffington, prop. (large, dark, left of #21). 23.Nels R. Anderson House (left). a. Queen of the West Mine - mines on right. b. Jones Mine - Harrison Tunnel, owned by Roswell Sprague. c. Greenhorn Tunnel, started by Henry Recen, Sr." |
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Date |
[between 1882 and 1895?] |
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Notes |
Accession number: 2000.129.649; History Colorado.; Condition: stained, foxing.; Formerly F-5004; Handwritten on envelope: "C-Kokomo"; Numbers penciled on mat board identify buildings described on verso. "Buildings identified by Henry Albion Recen 1963... Original town of Kokomo lay on hill to left of picture. Destroyed by fire 1881. Town in picture called Recen, later Kokomo."; Title supplied.; R7200077009 |
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Physical Description |
1 photographic print on mat board : albumen ; 16 x 21 cm. (6 x 8 1/2 in.) |
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Is Part Of |
History Colorado, subject file collection |
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Subject |
Recen (Colo.)--1880-1900.
Cites & towns--Colorado--Recen--1880-1900.
Mining--Colorado--Recen--1880-1900. |
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Rights |
Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact History Colorado: http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/reproduction-commercial-use-fees |
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Reproduction Available for Purchase |
Yes |
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Type of Material |
Albumen prints.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image |
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Format-Medium |
Photograph |
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Identifier |
2000.129.649; F5004 |
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Filename |
20007700.TIF |
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