Telluride, Colorado
dc.date | 1900?-1999? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:57:36Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:27:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:57:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:27:13Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesSC632 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/9931 | |
dc.description | 1550 -Telluride, Colo., (Alt. 8756 Ft.) and Smuggler Road. Famous Mining Town in Southwestern Colorado. | |
dc.description | Telluride 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.description | Date scanned: 2000-10-19. | |
dc.description | Identifier: SC632. | |
dc.description | Unmounted; text on front and verso. | |
dc.description | Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines. | |
dc.description.abstract | Postcard 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.sponsorship | Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | |
dc.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
dc.subject | Mining towns | |
dc.title | Telluride, Colorado | |
dc.type | StillImage | |
dc.contributor.institution | Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
dc.contributor.institution | Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive | |
dc.contributor.institution | Sanborn Souvenir Company |