Downs photograph album
Scope and Contents
Views of oil wells in Ilo Ridge oil field in Hot Springs County, Wyoming and men working. Images of the Gano - Downs Company store and the construction of the Metropolitan Building (later the Metropolitan Hotel) in Denver, Colorado. Includes miscellaneous snapshots of Denver, Colorado, people aboard a ship, a chained bear, billboards, the Denver Club, Arapahoe County Courthouse, and New York City.
Dates
- between 1909 and 1922?
Language of Materials
Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Conditions Governing Access
Contact Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, Denver, Colo.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the author of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Extent
1 photo box(es)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
David Arneill Downs;Denver, Colo.;gift;2003.
General
Title supplied.
General
In addition to the photographic prints the album includes special formats: newspaper clippings and an advertising broadside.
General
Acquisition # 2003.01
Table of Contents
Thermopolis Hot Spgs. -- Ilo Ridge Camp -- Ilo Ridge hell -- Berry Dome well near Ilo Ridge -- [Gano-Downs Company] -- Metropolitan Building.
Processing Information
album is not bound, a few loose photographs and a newspaper clipping.
- Denver (Colo.) -- History -- Pictorial works. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gano-Downs Company (Denver, Colo.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
- Ilo Ridge (Wyo.) -- History -- Pictorial works. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Metropolitan Building (Denver, Colo.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
- Office buildings -- Design and construction -- Colorado -- Denver -- History -- Pictorial works. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oil fields -- Wyoming -- History -- Pictorial works. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oil wells -- Wyoming -- History -- Pictorial works. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph albums Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Photographic prints. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Stores, Retail -- Colorado -- Denver -- History -- Pictorial works. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Downs photograph album[graphic]
- Author
- Finding Aid prepared from MARC data.
- Description rules
- Anglo American Cataloguing Rules
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository
