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dc.date1900?-1999?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:57:36Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:27:13Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:57:36Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:27:13Z
dc.identifierlibimagesSC632
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/9931
dc.description1550 -Telluride, Colo., (Alt. 8756 Ft.) and Smuggler Road. Famous Mining Town in Southwestern Colorado.
dc.descriptionTelluride is a dream city set in vast bowl of the most rugged mountains imaginable. Famous in mining history it is one of the many interesting spots of the trip from Dolores and Rico over Lizard Head Pass through some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the world.--Verso.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2000-10-19.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: SC632.
dc.descriptionUnmounted; text on front and verso.
dc.descriptionHeld in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.
dc.description.abstractPostcard showing a painting of Telluride, Colorado. Promising gold discoveries in 1875 resulted in a rush of prospectors to the area. The town of Telluride (originally Columbia) was established in 1878. The Telluride district was one of the top gold producers in the US by the 1880s. The arrival of a rail line in about 1890 allowed ore to be shipped to smelters more economically and led to a period of renewed activity. Mining in Telluride declined in the 1900s and most of the mines closed by the 1920s, but a few mines were still producing through the 1950s. In all, the mines around Telluride are estimated to have produced close to a quarter billion dollars worth of silver and gold.
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.subjectMining towns
dc.titleTelluride, Colorado
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionArthur Lakes Library
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionRussell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
dc.contributor.institutionSanborn Souvenir Company


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