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dc.date1940?-1949?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:57:53Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:21:25Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:57:53Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:21:25Z
dc.identifierlibimagesSC924
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/10101
dc.descriptionBaby Doe Tabor, the Silver Queen.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2000-10-26.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: SC924.
dc.descriptionUnmounted; text on front.
dc.descriptionHeld in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.
dc.description.abstractPostcard showing Baby Doe Tabor's face; image appears to be a newspaper photograph. In 1883 Horace Tabor, who was a wealthy silver mine owner and community leader in Leadville, divorced his wife and married the young divorcee Elizabeth McCourt Doe (Baby Doe). Their wedding was attended by Leadville's most prominent men, but their wives refused to attend the scandalous marriage and snubbed Baby Doe. Poor investments and the crash of the silver market in 1893 depleted the Tabors' wealth. Horace Tabor died penniless in 1899. After his death, Baby Doe tried unsuccessfully to get funding to repurchase the Matchless Mine, which had produced millions of dollars in silver for them. The owners of the Matchless Mine gave her permission to live in the supply cabin next to the mine shaft, and she lived there in poverty until the time of her death from a heart attack in 1935. Baby Doe's frozen body was discovered in the cabin by the neighbors a week later.
dc.description.sponsorshipSponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.rightsRights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html
dc.subjectBaby Doe, -1935
dc.subjectPeople
dc.titleBaby Doe Tabor
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionArthur Lakes Library
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionRussell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive


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