Re: Beaver Brook: The Devil is in the Details.

Posted by Todd Hackett on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Beaver-Brook-The-Devil-is-in-the-Details-tp1903p1906.html

Chris Walker wrote
...There is another detail that may, may date this picture to the time of C&S ownership...
What detail is that?
My copy of this photo is a cabinet card from W. H. Walker in Idaho Springs. The "Biography of Western Photographers" lists him as having a studio in Denver from 1887 to 1897, but only in Idaho Springs in 1891. I don't know how late the structures were there, but it wasn't probably very late. All of the photos of that spot seem to be fairly early. I have several photos that show that part of the tank without obstructions, but this is the only one that shows the order board.

here's a close-up: