Re: C&S Photos on eBay: High Bridge Passenger Photo.

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Photos-on-eBay-tp8859p11549.html

Yep, Chris, I remember that book. I remember carefully browsing through it at Wayne Weiss's hobby shop in Houston, TX. I was either just finishing my residency or just beginning my post-doc fellowship, so 1979 or 1980 -- young doctors in training (with a new baby girl) didn't have that kind of disposable income!

This isn't one of the images that Jackson took in 1884, that have been reproduced in several books, and online at DPL. And it isn't during the DL&G period: The Congdon stack on the locomotive and the shiny new UP numbers on the tender suggest a date of 1885-1886 to me. And the coach is still lettered Colorado Central. I think you are remembering the Buckwalter photo of DL&G 162 on the high bridge in the 1890s, published in the CRA-10.

The image that I posted is distorted, a photo of a photo, taken at about 45 degrees, not straight on. Anyway, I decided to "take one for the team" and just purchased the image on eBay. When it arrives, I'll make the best resolution scan that I can manage, clean it up and repost it. Perhaps in a new thread "William H Jackson and the Loop".

Meanwhile, what do you make of this keystone stereo image on ebay?


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Colorado-GEORGETOWN-High-Bridge-Loop-Railroad-Train-Stereoview-2367-T365-19863fx/372276817763?hash=item56ad6d6f63:g:~lkAAOSwWbRaqDJ8




A companion view without the train is dated to 1906 in another add. Has anyone seen this one published before, or on DPL?


And for a mere $225.00 you can have this Jackson  portrait of a Colorado Central train on the high bridge; I didn't think I've seen this one either:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Train-on-Highbridge-Georgetown-Loop-by-W-H-Jackson-of-Denver-Colorado-1880s/202310163774?hash=item2f1aa01d3e:g:HgQAAOSwhZ9a9NUI



But wait--the image is available on DPL: http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/13821/rec/58

DPL doesn't cite a photographer! So is this a Jackson or not?

Meanwhile, Alex Martin views only bring in $185.00:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ALEX-MARTIN-GEORGETOWN-CO-LOOP-MOUNTAIN-VIEWS-RAILROAD-CABINET-PHOTO-CARD/273188567948?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D44039%26meid%3Dad7e8c640aa342648ae7a888bdb7b777%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D8%26sd%3D202310163774%26itm%3D273188567948&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&autorefresh=true




A similar Martin image, taken the same day, within the same hour, was published in CRA 10, page 84. In the view above, the photographer had the helper locomotive move on up the line, so that he could better frame the passenger train on the high bridge.