View of Caribou (9800 feet), a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado, includes log, board and batten, wood frame false fronts, gabled and lean-to structures. Many have external timber braces propped against them for protection against the wind blowing from the Continental Divide. The Sherman House hotel is on the corner of Potosi and Sherman Streets with schoolhouse on slope and "Baldly Mountain" (Bald Mountain) slopes beyond the town.
Date
[between 1880 and 1890]
Notes
Copy photonegative is masked with tape; copy photoprint shows deterioration of original.; Formerly F10818.; Photoprint is a copy of an earlier original.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint; also: "Caribou, Colorado about 1916" with a line through the date.; R7100068075
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 18 cm. (5 x 7 in.); 1 photoprint ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Subject
Caribou (Colo.)--1880-1890.
Source
Source: from Al Moorman
Rights Statement
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
