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Call Number	X-6344
Title	Leadville from Capitol Hill
Creator(s)	Luke, Wellington O.
Summary	In this view of Leadville, Colorado, from Capitol Hill a small child sits on the edge of the (8) Stevens and Leiter Ditch (Oro Mining Ditch and Fluming Co.), built in 1874, in the left foreground, commencing fourteen miles above the city. The scene includes rooftops of wood frame residences, sheds, outhouses with shingles and brick chimneys and the (2) Annunciation Catholic Church, built in 1879 prior to completion of the tall steeple. E.A. Raymond (1) false front store looking east. The background includes (3) Carbonate Hill and (4) Ball Mountain seven miles in the distance, (5) Mosquito Pass approach, nine miles, (6) Evans Gulch, (7) Fryer Hill, Little and Big Pittsburgh Mine and Chrysolite Mine.
Date	[between 1879 and 1880]
Notes	One copy negative F24789 is of left half of stereo card; F24789a is a full stereoscopic view..; Photographers' names printed front of stereo card.; Title hand-written in ink on back of stereo card; also: "This picture shows out neighborhood you can see my store plain but this was taken before the meat market was built", then an identification list 1-8 corresponding to numbers inked on front of photoprint.; R7100063449
Physical Description	1 copy photonegatives ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint on stereo card : stereograph ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Subject	Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880. Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
Source	Source: Rosenfeld.
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.; Stereographs.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	F24789 DPLW
Filename	10006344.tif

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