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Photographs of the Victor Fuel Company mines
Title
[Photographs of the Victor Fuel Company mines].
Production
[Colorado], [circa 1900-1910]
Physical Description
29 photographs : albumen prints ; photographs 13 x 18 cm and smaller
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript annotations in English.
Provenance
From the estate of the Congdon family. Purchased from Michael D. Heaston on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2018.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
John S. Congdon (1877-1956) left Sedgwick, Kansas, for Colorado in the 1890s. Congdon first found work as a miner in the Cripple Creek District for the Victor Fuel Company; by 1910, he was a high school instructor in Cripple Creek.
Summary
Photographs taken by John S. Congdon of the Victor Fuel Company mines, circa 1900-1910. Depicted are unidentified employees of the company, as well as the company’s buildings and mine entrances. Included are photographs of Cripple Creek.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 19, 2020
References
John S. Congdon, Photographs of the Victor Fuel Company Mines. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
John S. Congdon, Photographs of the Victor Fuel Company Mines. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Albumen prints.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
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