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[The Walsh mine at Ouray, Colorado: Red Mountain City, Colo.] – Vintage Print

[The Walsh mine at Ouray, Colorado: Red Mountain City, Colo.], [ca. 1901] — historic photograph
[The Walsh mine at Ouray, Colorado: Red Mountain City, Colo.], [ca. 1901]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [The Walsh mine at Ouray, Colorado: Red Mountain City, Colo.] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The Walsh mine at Ouray, Colorado: Red Mountain City, Colo.]

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Red Mountain City, a mining camp high in Colorado's San Juan Mountains near Ouray, takes its name from the red-stained slopes above it, and this view of the Walsh mine places the operation within that rugged district. The area drew prospectors during the silver and gold booms of the 1880s and 1890s, when steep terrain and harsh winters made every shaft and road expensive to build and keep open. The print comes from the Evalyn Walsh McLean Collection, and its caption card, whose details are unverified, files it under geography and mines. The picture is worth studying for how it shows a working landscape, not just a single building.

Created / published[ca. 1901]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesEvalyn Walsh McLean Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Mines.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,026 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145652

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