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Crippl [sic] Creek in 1876

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Call Number	X-811
Title	Crippl [sic] Creek in 1876
Title-Alternative	Other title: Cripple Creek in 1876
Summary	View of Welty log cabin and springhouse on Broken Box Ranch, future site of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado; the house has a stone chimney, and smaller buildings are to the sides.
Date	1876
Notes	Copy negative with masking on outer edges.; Formerly negative F5768.; Hand-written on back of photoprint: "Cripple Creek-Colorado-1876, Broken Box Ranch, Welty Cabin & Springhouse. This cabin on the future site of Cripple Creek town cost the Womack family $500 and 2 pigs. The springhouse at left was built under damaging circumstances which caused Levi Welty to remark, "This sure is some cripple creek!" Money Mountain, The Story of Cripple Creek Gold by Marshall Sprague. 1st ed. Copyright 1953. no. 39."; Title and date hand-lettered or stamped on original negative.; R7100008114
Physical Description	1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint ; 13 x 24 cm. (5 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Subject	Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1870-1880. Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1870-1880.
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material	Film negatives.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	F5768 DPLW
Filename	10000811.TIF