Two bartenders and two customers pose inside the Union Saloon, 605 Colorado Avenue, Colorado City, El Paso County, Colorado. The interior features a wooden bar with brass foot rail, spitoons, back bar with mirror, cash register, glassware, mounted bottle opener, glass doors over wooden shelves filled with liquor bottles, victorian wallpaper, cast iron stove, gas lamps and a glass display cabinet filled with cigar boxes. Several framed pictures of women, a clock with Roman numerals, and a State of Colorado liquor license hang on the walls. Signs read: "Walters Gold Label Beer In Bottles" "Anheuser-Busch" "Goetz Brewing Co., St. Joseph, Mo." "Gannymede '76 Whiskey." Tobacco items include "Banker, Chewing Tobacco Fit For A King" "Duke George" "Razzetti Bros. Inc., Sigari, Toscani" "Bugle" and "Virginia Buck."
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 20 x 25 cm. (7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Subject
Colorado City (Colo.)--1900-1910; Bars--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910; Interiors.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710007504
Notes
Formerly F26561.; Title supplied by cataloguer; hand-written on back of photoprint mount: "605 Colorado Ave."; Vintage photoprint is mounted on board.; R7100075048
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