2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/8692Top of Mosquito Pass - 1950-1951.Date scanned: 2001-04-03.Identifier: NMHFM-269.Related photographs and slides: NMHFM-140, NMHFM-142, NMHFM-196, NMHFM-263, NMHFM-265, NMHFM-270, NMHFM-344, NMHFM-345, NMHFM-346, NMHFM-347, NMHFM-358, NMHFM-372, NMHFM-374.Unmounted; text on verso.Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.Donor: Charles Burgess.Photograph showing four men standing next to a sign pointing the direction to Fairplay on Mosquito Pass. The view is looking to the east toward Alma. Mosquito Pass, 13,187 feet in elevation, was at about twenty-one miles the shortest route to Leadville from the mining camps of Park County. The Pass was heavily traveled with the new strikes in Lake County in 1878, but was a dangerous route during the winter months. A toll road was constructed by the Mosquito Pass Wagon Road Company by 1879. Construction of a rail line in 1882 replaced most of the traffic over the Pass.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlPeopleScenes, mountainStillImage