View of the three-story Hotel Monte Christo in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. The hotel is half-timbered frame building with a mansard roof, pendants, a central faceted tower, a balcony and a porch. A freight car, "C.R.S. Trust Series B, D.& R.G. 4590", sits on the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near a harp switch. Groups of men stand beside the Queen Anne style stone depot near a clapboard building that reads "Arnold's Assay Office." Painted signs read "Safe Rheumatic Cure" and "Smoke Blackwell's".
Date
[between 1883 and 1900?]
Notes
Accession number: 86.200.2032.; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: masked, retouched.; Formerly Jackson 3220.; Number: "3220" inked on negative.; Title inked on negative.; Title on envelope for negative reads: "Salida - Monte Cristo [sic] Hotel."; R7201021475
Physical Description
1 negative : glass ; 18 x 28 cm. (7 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Hotel Monte Christo (Salida, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Salida (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Salida--1880-1900.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Salida--1880-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Salida--1880-1900.
