Troops B and C of the Colorado National Guard pose on horseback for a group portrait at probably Camp Goldfield in Victor (Teller County), Colorado during the Western Federation of Miners strike. The men wear uniforms, hats and gauntlets and pose in a row. One man holds a flag; probably a General poses in front of the troops. Shows narrow gauge railroad tracks, a trestle, tailings piles, mine buildings, telegraph poles, and canvas tents of the military camp on the hillside.
Accession number: H.819.1; History Colorado.; Condition: masked.; Mounted on verso of album page CHS.X9303; Photographic prints are included in: Col. Edward Verdeckberg album.; Title inked on photographic print.; R7200093047
Physical Description
1 photographic print ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) mounted on album page 16 x 25 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Colorado. National Guard.--People--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Military camps--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Militia--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Miners' strikes--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.
