Harrison Cobb photograph collection

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Title: Harrison Cobb photograph collection
Date: [1880-1922]
Call Number: BHS 163
Contents: 47 photographs.
Description: Photographs of mines and miners, mining towns and their inhabitants in Boulder County, Colorado. Collected by Harrison Cobb, they are Ernest V. Hunt's photos of early 20th century scenes near Berthoud, Lyons, Salina, Ward and other mining areas in the vicinity of the Colorado Rockies.
History: Harrison Cobb came to Boulder County in the 1920s and has been involved in the mining industry ever since. He is the author of a book on the history of mining in Boulder County, Colorado.
Terms of Use: RIGHTS: The historic photographs and documents, with the Source BHS, belong to the Boulder Historical Society/Museum of Boulder and require attribution when used. These items are on permanent loan to the Carnegie Library for Local History. No duplicated materials may be deposited, or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.
Format: Photographs.
Author/Donor: Cobb, Harrison S.
1908-2003
Subjects: Cobb, Harrison S, 1908-2003
Mining districts--Colorado--Boulder County
Miners--Colorado--Boulder County
Acquisition Note: Donor: Harrison S. Cobb Gift 1987
Ownership Note: Harrison Cobb collected these photos from numerous sources in the course of his research into the history of mining in Boulder County, Colorado.
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

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: Yellow Pine Mine

Call Number 163-1-1

Date 1910-1919

Contents 1 photograph.

Description Twelve miners posed in front of the Yellow Pine Mine in Crisman, Colo., about 1910. Some of the miners are identified.

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: Gold Hill (Colo.) people

Call Number 163-1-2

Date [1880-1919]

Contents 6 photographs (5 views)

Description Photographs of people in Gold Hill and at the Rake-off Mine.

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: Nederland (Colo.) people

Call Number 163-1-3

Date 1910

Contents 1 photograph.

Description Ten members of the Nederland Baseball Club, posed in Barker Meadow (now the site of Barker Reservoir), in 1910. Some of the men are identified.

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: Salina (Colo.) people

Call Number 163-1-4

Date [1900-1920]

Contents 3 photographs.

Description Photographs of miners and children in Salina.

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: Miscellaneous photographs

Call Number 163-1-5

Date undated

Contents 4 photographs.

Description Photographs collected by the Harrison Cobb.

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: Sunshine (Colo.) people

Call Number 163-1-6

Date [1900-1920]

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Fifteen miners holding candles in the Crowe Mine, 160 feet under ground., L. E. Girard in the office of his general merchandise store. Girard was also a state senator. The date on the Wilson and Webber calendar appears to be 1911.

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: Wood Hotel above Wallstreet (Colo.)

Call Number 163-1-7

Date undated

Contents 1 photograph.

Description Group photo of seventeen people posed in front of a hotel west of Wallstreet, built by Gardner P. Wood who arrived in Four Mile Canyon in the 1860s.

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: Ward (Colo.) photographs

Call Number 163-1-8

Date undated

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Photographs of people in Ward.

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: Mines and mills photographs

Call Number 163-1-9

Date undated

Contents 8 photographs.

Description Photographs of mines and mills.

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: Berthoud (Colo.) photograph

Call Number 163-1-10

Date [1900-1909]

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Photographs of school and upaved street in Berthoud.

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: Lyons, Colorado

Call Number 163-1-11

Date [1900-1910]

Contents 3 photographs.

Description Views of Lyons.

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: Horses

Call Number 163-1-12

Date [1900-1910]

Contents 7 photographs, 5 views (2 digitized).

Description Photographs of horses, a woman riding a horse, and a man with a mare and colt.

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