Bird's eye view of Buena Vista, Colo. county seat of Chaffee County. 1...
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 55 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and ind... More
Cash-Criss-Stark Building, North side, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (h...
Significance: This building illustrates the changing economy of St. Elmo as it passed through its final boom. Stores decreased in number; demand for rental rooms and houses increased. Mrs. Stark responded by ... More
Hyman-Fleck-Wilber House, On slope south of east end of Main Street, S...
Significance: The cabin illustrates the practice of some miners to erect cabins on public land outside the St. Elmo townsite. The land belonged to the U.S. Government; the house to the builder, usually under l... More
Scene on the farm of Ellsworth Painter, FSA (Farm Security Administrat...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Elmo Temple, Chaffee County, Colorado rehabilitation client and his wi...
Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hortense Bridge, Spanning Chalk Creek on State Highway 162, Nathrop (h...
Significance: The bridge is technologically significant as a rare existing example of a very common early bridge, a timber/iron Queenpost truss. It is historically significant as an early span associated with a... More
Hortense Bridge, Spanning Chalk Creek on State Highway 162, Nathrop (h...
Significance: The bridge is technologically significant as a rare existing example of a very common early bridge, a timber/iron Queenpost truss. It is historically significant as an early span associated with a... More
Four Mile Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River, Buena Vista, Chaffee County...
Survey number: HAER CO-35 Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Iron City Cemetery, Iron City (historical)...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Iron City Cemetery, Iron City (historical)...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-G Public domain photograph - cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Paramount Mine, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
For additional information, see HABS No. CO-72, St. Elmo Historic District. Survey number: HAER CO-23
St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...
Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More
Dalrymple-Guynn House, 21700 Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Cha...
Significance: One of the first generation log cabins of St. Elmo in well-preserved condition. The building illustrates several of the features typical of the early cabins: saddle notching, four over four windo... More
Horses on the farm of Ellsworth Painter, FSA (Farm Security Administra...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a man and a woman, possibly related to: Mrs...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
George Arnold, FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation clien...
Photograph shows a man checking beehives in a field. Image related to insects. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washi... More
Sheep on the farm of Elmo Temple, rehabilitation client in Chaffee Cou...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Sawatch mountains near Buena Vista, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain view of a mountain range, mountainous landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mill & Tailings, Iron City (historical), C...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Roads Building I, South side, Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical)...
Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Superintendent's House, Iron City (histori...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Iron City Cemetery, Iron City (historical)...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Town of Romley, Romley (historical), Chaffee County, CO
See also HABS No. CO-73 for additional information. Survey number: HABS CO-73
Town of Romley, Romley (historical), Chaffee County, CO
See also HABS No. CO-73 for additional information. Survey number: HABS CO-73
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Boarding House, Iron City (historical), Ch...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Paramount Mine, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
For additional information, see HABS No. CO-72, St. Elmo Historic District. Survey number: HAER CO-23
St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...
Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More
St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...
Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More
A black and white photo of a man holding a sheep, Colorado. Farm Secur...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cattle on the farm of Ellsworth Painter, FSA (Farm Security Administra...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Paul Arnold, son of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Chaffee...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, funerals, monum...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a burial, cemetery, funeral, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Horses on the farm of Ellsworth Painter, rehabilitation client. Chaffe...
Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
A couple of men standing next to each other on a field, possibly relat...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Denver South Park & Pacific Railroad Truss Bridge, Romley (historical)...
Survey number: HAER CO-24 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Paramount Mine, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
For additional information, see HABS No. CO-72, St. Elmo Historic District. Survey number: HAER CO-23
St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...
Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More
Merrill-Vickerson House, 21698 Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), C...
Significance: Another log cabin of the early 1880's surviving in well-preserved condition. A.C. Merrill may have erected this house as a duplex for rental purposes, as suggested by the two entry doors. At lea... More
Russell-Thorp Building, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Cha...
Significance: Represents the first commercial buildings erected in a Colorado Rocky Mountain mining camp of c. 1880 after the sawmill was established. Vertical planks were hastily put together to form the char... More
Heavrin-Hughes-Pearis House, West end, North side of Gunnison Avenue, ...
Significance: Like the Roof House to the east, this house illustrates the accretionary history of St. Elmo residences during the initial 1880's boom. The log cabin was the initial dwelling, built of available ... More
Scene on the farm of Ellsworth Painter, FSA (Farm Security Administrat...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Louise Temple feeds some of her turkeys on their farm in Chaffee ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a man and a woman feeding turkeys, possibly...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
A black and white photo of a man holding a sheep. Great Depression FFS...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Elmo Temple, Chaffee County, Colorado rehabilitation client with a par...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A black and white photo of a herd of sheep, Colorado. Farm Security Ad...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Hortense Bridge, Spanning Chalk Creek on State Highway 162, Nathrop (h...
Significance: The bridge is technologically significant as a rare existing example of a very common early bridge, a timber/iron Queenpost truss. It is historically significant as an early span associated with a... More
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mine Shaft House, Iron City (historical), ...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-C Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Four Mile Bridge, Spanning Arkansas River, Buena Vista, Chaffee County...
Survey number: HAER CO-35 Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction
Town Hall & Jail, 21900 Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee ...
Significance: Both the Town Hall and Jail are well preserved examples of governmental buildings erected in Colorado mountain mining camps during the 1880's. The buildings and their furnishings vividly recall t... More
St. Elmo School House, Northwest corner, First Street & North Avenue, ...
Significance: The St. Elmo Schoolhouse is a well-preserved illustration of the wooden frame, one-room school built in many mining camps of Colorado during the 1870s and 1880s. Few other mining camp schoolhouse... More
St. Elmo School House, Northwest corner, First Street & North Avenue, ...
Significance: The St. Elmo Schoolhouse is a well-preserved illustration of the wooden frame, one-room school built in many mining camps of Colorado during the 1870s and 1880s. Few other mining camp schoolhouse... More
Pawnee Mill Stable & Blacksmith Shop, Poplar Street, South Side, Saint...
Significance: The only buildings surviving in St. Elmo associated with mining and milling. Also illustrates the role of horses and wagons in the mining and milling operations and the type of construction verti... More
Pushor-Stark Building, North side, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (histo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...
Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More
Lowe House II, 19575 Pitkin Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee C...
Significance: Possibly built by the Lowe clan, owners of much St. Elmo real estate, operators of a saw mill, and officers in the St. Elmo Land and Improvement Co., the townsite company. This house is part of a... More
Root-Greenstreet House, 21980 Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical)...
Significance: A well-preserved balloon frame cottage of the 1880's surviving north of Chalk Creek on Gunnison Avenue. Shows the rapid advent of dwellings constructed of sawed, dimensioned lumber. Unprocessed ... More
Root House, 22005 Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee Co...
Significance: An interesting illustration of the changes in log cabin construction technique from the initial boom of 1880-81 to the later 1880's is seen in the two-part log house of A.W. Root: Saddle notching ... More
Cattle on the farm of Ellsworth Painter, FSA (Farm Security Administra...
Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
George Arnold and his son inspect some of the hives which produce a co...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Elmo Temple, Chaffee County, Colorado rehabilitation client with one o...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of sheep, lamb, farm animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Son of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Chaffee County, Co...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
The Sawatch Mountains, near Buena Vista, Colorado
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Hortense Bridge, Spanning Chalk Creek on State Highway 162, Nathrop (h...
Significance: The bridge is technologically significant as a rare existing example of a very common early bridge, a timber/iron Queenpost truss. It is historically significant as an early span associated with a... More
Lowe-Davenport-Ignee House & Barn, South side, Gunnison Avenue, Saint ...
Significance: A small log cabin of the initial 1880's boom, illustrating the "Anglo-Western" type of plan, i.e., entrance set in gable end. The barn is one of few surviving stable buildings in St. Elmo. The o... More
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mine Shaft House, Iron City (historical), ...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Roads Building II, South side, Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical...
Significance: One of two commercial buildings surviving from secondary business district of 1880's on Gunnison Avenue. The applied moldings and careful remodeling of facade to create pediment show the refineme... More
Stark House, South side, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Ch...
Significance: An example of the wooden, balloon framed cottage that appeared in Rocky Mountain mining camps after first building boom, when carpenters, saw mills, and pattern books were available. Survey numbe... More
Bird's eye view of Buena Vista, Colo. County Seat of Chaffee County 18...
15906 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1882 & pub. by J.J. Stoner This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist and P&AGA catalog cards. Associated name on shelflist card: Beck & Pauli. Caption card t... More
St. Elmo School House, Northwest corner, First Street & North Avenue, ...
Significance: The St. Elmo Schoolhouse is a well-preserved illustration of the wooden frame, one-room school built in many mining camps of Colorado during the 1870s and 1880s. Few other mining camp schoolhouse... More
St. Elmo Historic District, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, C...
Significance: St. Elmo is unique for its vernacular wood frame and log architecture and its high degree of architectural integrity as a late 19th century Rocky Mountain mining town. Through its extant architec... More
Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882.
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 73 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 710/1
Williams-Hurley House, West side of First Street, South of Chalk Creek...
Significance: One of the original log cabins erected in 1880, in the initial boon. Illustrates log construction popular in Chalk Creek District in 1880: rounded logs, saddle notching, clapboard or vertical pla... More
George Arnold, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, Chaffee Coun...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hogs on the farm of George Arnold, FSA (Farm Security Administration) ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Denver South Park & Pacific Railroad Truss Bridge, Romley (historical)...
Survey number: HAER CO-24 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, We...
Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St.... More
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Sluice, Iron City (historical), Chaffee Co...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mill & Tailings, Iron City (historical), C...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hellman's Saloon & Miner's Exchange, North side of East Main Street, S...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mine Shaft House, Iron City (historical), ...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mine Ore Bin & Chute, Iron City (historica...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Boarding House, Iron City (historical), Ch...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
St. Elmo School House, Northwest corner, First Street & North Avenue, ...
Significance: The St. Elmo Schoolhouse is a well-preserved illustration of the wooden frame, one-room school built in many mining camps of Colorado during the 1870s and 1880s. Few other mining camp schoolhouse... More
Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Williams-Hinman-Soderlind House, 21970 Main Street, Saint Elmo (histor...
Significance: The house's architectural integrity is largely gone. Historically the house is interesting for the changes in ethnic background and occupation of its owners; from Anglo-Saxon small businessman Wi... More
Helmer-Savard House, South side, Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historic...
Significance: A log cabin of the mid-1880's in good exterior condition, but also with an interior that illustrates the daily residential life of the miner: original wall coverings, furnishings, and appliances h... More
Elmo Temple, Chaffee County, Colorado rehabilitation client, with four...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Arnole exhibits a super of honey raised on his farm in Chaffee ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
George Arnold, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, with turkeys...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A couple of horses that are standing in the grass, Colorado. Farm Secu...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Snow-capped mountain near Buena Vista, Colorado
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Sluice, Iron City (historical), Chaffee Co...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary Murphy Mining Complex, Mine Shaft House, Iron City (historical), ...
Survey number: HAER CO-26-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description