Lake County Public Library, Leadville, CO

[cdressel]

If you'd like to see more of the photos Chris Walker has been posting, here's the link so you can view at your leisure.  Colorado Mountain History Collection

[drgwcs]

Neat collection of photos. Thanks to Chris and to you for sharing. I am always looking for daily pics for the C&S Facebook group too.

[Chris Walker]

I'm in the process of providing corrections to the mis-labled images, and where I can, identifying the unknowns to them. They were surprised by my initial phonecall, slightly sceptical I think.  We'll have to wait to see if they accept my corrections; the DPL does: the CHS or History Colorado doesn't.   "Hey, what does he know; he ain't even from here".

I'd been a repeat out-checker of the new Mineral Belt Vol-I that miraculously appeared via Inter-loan here in early 1981.  Leadville was then a must visit on my upcoming 1st trip to the USA.

So in 1982, I stumbled up the hill in low clouds to find a whole new world above them, and quite by chance looked over the edge into Sth. Evans Gulch(not that I knew it at the time) nor the name of the very familiar looking Shafthouse I was photographing.  Turns out once the film was developed several days later, I'd been looking at Allen J. Brewster's model for years.



My current research for several years has been fixated on the Downtown mines group; which we see decorating the cityscape skyline of Leadville in the great railroad images, but go unremarked as silent sentinels to the great era.  Most of the books seem to have written off the "mining boom" after 1890, which wasn't half of the story, nor did they cover Leadville to any great extent.

Otto Perry's Ghostly February 1934 image.


Stay tuned.....

[Keith Hayes]

Go, Chris! Go!

[Chris Walker]

Don't forget the wealth of info to be found in the City Directories; you just never know what can be found in there.