Through Colorado in a Covered Wagon

Collection

Identifier: C Photo Collection 21

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photographs document an 800 mile trip the Crew family took in 1905 in a covered wagon, starting and ending in Pueblo. The 1908 photographs document a trip to Durango and Silverton, Colorado. Includes images of railroad cars and locomotives, covered wagons, picnics, a clock tower, a mileage sign, mines, men, women, children, log cabins, stone buildings, town streets, lakes, sluice mining, Glenwood Canyon wagon road, Redstone Inn, a hammock, a cabin interior, barns, camp tents, fishing, hotels, the Zebulon Pike monument in Colorado Springs, wagon repairs, a caged monkey, stores, and building construction.

Dates

1905-1908

Creator

Crew, Henry,1859-1953. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Copyright

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Biographical / Historical

In 1905, Henry Crew, age 46, was a professor of physics at Northwestern University. He lived in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and three children whose ages were 12, 10, and 5. Upon advice of his doctor to get away from his desk and academic duties for three months, Professor Crew took his family to Pueblo and there purchased a team of draft horses, a wagon, and some canvas. The latter was rigged over the wagon on hoops in the manner of the old "prairie schooner.

Extent

1 PhotoBox

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, William H. Crew, 1980.

General

Copy photographs and negatives from two loaned photo albums and a pocket notebook photo log. Include maps and letters, and indicates that some negatives were donated, some were copied, and copy photographs were taken from the loaned albums. Includes biographical information for the photographer, Henry Crew, and gives a summary and itineraries for both trips with title: "Through Colorado in a covered wagon."

Subjects

Black-and-white negatives Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Black-and-white photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Camping -- Colorado -- Photographs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Colorado -- Photographs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Glenwood Canyon (Colo.) -- Photographs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ouray (Colo.) -- Photographs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Photograph albums Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Photographic prints. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Redstone Castle (Redstone, Colo.) -- Photographs.