View north from Bobtail Hill, in Black Hawk, Colorado, up four mile Gulch to Dory Hill, where the state's first cemetery was located. Central business district includes: Undertaker, Union House (on Selak Street), Drugs (brick, arched windows and doors), Grocerie and Liquor, Wholesale and Retail Meat Market, Scobey's Saloon, and Printing Office (on Gregory Street). Presbyterian church appears in upper left.
Date
1864
Notes
Formerly F1048.; Hand-written on back of photoprint: Black Hawk, C.T. Copyrighted in year 1864 by G.D.Wakely, photographer in the clerk's office of the District Court, Denver City, C.T.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.; Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 photographic print on card mount : 17 x 22 cm. (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), 1 negative : nitrate ; 21 x 26 cm. (8 x 10 in.), 1 photonegative : glass ; 8 x 10 cm. (3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.), 1 copy negative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.).; R7100020344
Physical Description
1 photoprint ; 17 x 24 cm. (6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Subject
Blackhawk (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Business districts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.
Source
Source: Colorado State Historical Society.
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.; Glass negatives.; Nitrate negatives.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
