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Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Ranch near Meredith, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Ranch near Meredith, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Cong...

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

Bird's eye view of Gunnison, Colo. county seat of Gunnison County, 1882.

Bird's eye view of Gunnison, Colo. county seat of Gunnison County, 188...

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 70 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Ranch near Meredith, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Ranch near Meredith, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Cong...

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

Frying Pan Creek, excellent fishing grounds. Near Meredith, Colorado

Frying Pan Creek, excellent fishing grounds. Near Meredith, Colorado

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Alpine Station, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cabins in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Cabins in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season lo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Art carved from marble in the town of Marble, below the quarry in Gunnison County, Colorado, where the town's namesake mineral has long been mined

Art carved from marble in the town of Marble, below the quarry in Gunn...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Meridian Lake in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado along the alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above the city of Crested Butte. The mountain in the distance is Mount Crested Butte, from which the city gets its name

Meridian Lake in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains of Color...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Meadow and Rocky Mountain view in Gunnison County, Colorado

Meadow and Rocky Mountain view in Gunnison County, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Frying Pan Creek, excellent fishing grounds. Near Meredith, Colorado

Frying Pan Creek, excellent fishing grounds. Near Meredith, Colorado

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in what remains of an old mining town, Crystal, high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Although called a mill, it is more correctly a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor to run power ... More

Alpine lake high with a reflected Rocky Mountain view high above the town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Alpine lake high with a reflected Rocky Mountain view high above the t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A curious but wary ground squirrel along the high, dirt Washington Gulch Road above Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado

A curious but wary ground squirrel along the high, dirt Washington Gul...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, southwest of Aspen

Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Maroon Bells are two peaks (Maroon and North Maroon) in the Elk Mountains, separated by about a third of a mile. Both peaks are wh... More

One of many large reservoirs and lakes in the Curecanti National Recreation Area along the once-wild Gunnison River in Gunnison and Montrose counties in Colorado. The water playground is named after a Ute Indian sub-chief who roamed through eastern and southern Colorado in the 1860s and '70s

One of many large reservoirs and lakes in the Curecanti National Recre...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Old City Hall, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Old City Hall, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Survey number: HABS CO-183 Public domain photograph of a city hall, public building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sapinero, Colorado. Workmen spraying a bridge with silver paint

Sapinero, Colorado. Workmen spraying a bridge with silver paint

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Road along Frying Pan Creek with stacks of wheat on the hillside. This is an excellent fishing area. Near Meredith, Colorado

Road along Frying Pan Creek with stacks of wheat on the hillside. This...

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

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to reach) historic sites in Colorado

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mill sits in what is now mostly a ghost town, whose few residents leave the area in the brutal winters of the High Rockies. The se... More

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison C...

Survey number: HABS CO-181 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christian Hall, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Christian Hall, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Survey number: HABS CO-182 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

A worker power washes a multi-ton, freshly quarried block of white marble at the processing facility owned by Colorado Stone Quarries in the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

A worker power washes a multi-ton, freshly quarried block of white mar...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

The "fire protection" station in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

The "fire protection" station in Crested Butte, a town heavily populat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The rushing Crystal River in Marble, a tiny community high in the mountains of Gunnison County, Colorado

The rushing Crystal River in Marble, a tiny community high in the moun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

The 1892 powerhouse above the Crystal River in what is now the virtual ghost town (except for a handful of summer-only residents) of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

The 1892 powerhouse above the Crystal River in what is now the virtual...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often called the Crystal "mill," the building, atop a high outcropping, it used water power to create compressed air that drove an air... More

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in what remains of an old mining town, Crystal, high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Although called a mill, it is more correctly a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor to run power ... More

Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, southwest of Aspen

Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Maroon Bells are two peaks (Maroon and North Maroon) in the Elk Mountains, separated by about a third of a mile. Both peaks are wh... More

Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, southwest of Aspen

Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Maroon Bells are two peaks (Maroon and North Maroon) in the Elk Mountains, separated by about a third of a mile. Both peaks are wh... More

Alpine Station, Tunnel Gulch Water Tank, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Tunnel Gulch Water Tank, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It was the second of 2 spring-fed tanks that provided water for the engines as they ascended over 2,300 feet from Pitkin to the Alpine Tunnel through the cont... More

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison C...

Survey number: HABS CO-181 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cooper-2BR Ranch, Barn, Gunnison, Gunnison County, CO

Cooper-2BR Ranch, Barn, Gunnison, Gunnison County, CO

Survey number: HABS CO-25-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1881- ca. 1906 Initial Construction

Alpine Station, Stone Storage Cellar, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Stone Storage Cellar, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It was constructed in 1907 from materials salvaged from the 1906 engine house fire. The cellar was excavated some 3 feet below grade, lined with wood planking... More

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

A worker power washes a multi-ton, freshly quarried block of white marble at the processing facility owned by Colorado Stone Quarries in the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

A worker power washes a multi-ton, freshly quarried block of white mar...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

High valley and a distant barn along the steep and treacherous one-lane road up from the town of Marble to what is now (except for a handful of summertime-only residents) the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

High valley and a distant barn along the steep and treacherous one-lan...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

High-country view of meadows and the distant Rocky Mountains of Colorado, along the alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above the city of Crested Butte

High-country view of meadows and the distant Rocky Mountains of Colora...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Alpine Station, Tunnel Gulch Water Tank, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Tunnel Gulch Water Tank, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It was the second of 2 spring-fed tanks that provided water for the engines as they ascended over 2,300 feet from Pitkin to the Alpine Tunnel through the cont... More

Alpine Station, Telegraph Office, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Telegraph Office, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It was built in 1883 and served as living and working quarters for the telegraph operator. The present structure is a replica constructed in 1992 by the Denve... More

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elk Avenue, the main street of Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Elk Avenue, the main street of Crested Butte, a town heavily populated...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

View of the Crystal River, a high-Rocky Mountain stream, near the town of Marble, Colorado

View of the Crystal River, a high-Rocky Mountain stream, near the town...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Sep 1910. 5 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Cooper-2BR Ranch, Bunkhouse, Gunnison, Gunnison County, CO

Cooper-2BR Ranch, Bunkhouse, Gunnison, Gunnison County, CO

Survey number: HABS CO-25-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1881- ca. 1906 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished

Tony's Conoco Service Station, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Tony's Conoco Service Station, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison Cou...

Survey number: HABS CO-184 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Frying Pan Creek, excellent fishing grounds. Near Meredith, Colorado

Frying Pan Creek, excellent fishing grounds. Near Meredith, Colorado

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, on a precipitous, a four-wheel-drive-only road between Marble and Crested Butte

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the up...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many buildings still stand in Crystal, but its handful of residents live there only in the summer. Crystal was incorporated in 1881 bu... More

The (sometimes) rushing Crystal River, one of Colorado's noted trout streams, in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains above the town of Marble. The white stones on the riverbank are, in fact, scraps of marble from the Colorado Marble Quarry, where high-quality white marble, once a staple of the economy before it was thought that the vein had played out, is again extracted following the discovery of a large, new vein

The (sometimes) rushing Crystal River, one of Colorado's noted trout s...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Crested Butte, a town heavily p...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Flowery alpine meadow along the high, dirt Washington Gulch Road above Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado

Flowery alpine meadow along the high, dirt Washington Gulch Road above...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Cooper-2BR Ranch, Barn, Gunnison, Gunnison County, CO

Cooper-2BR Ranch, Barn, Gunnison, Gunnison County, CO

Survey number: HABS CO-25-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1881- ca. 1906 Initial Construction

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Patricia Neal Gray, one of the handful of summertime-only residents of Crystal, Colorado, stands before her home

Patricia Neal Gray, one of the handful of summertime-only residents of...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Crystal is a virtual ghost town in a valley on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, on a precipitous, a four-wheel-drive-only r... More

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road from the town of Marble in the Crystal River Valley up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Christian Hall, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Christian Hall, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Survey number: HABS CO-182 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alpine Station, Frame Boarding House, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Frame Boarding House, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The 2-story wood framed boarding house was completed in 1907 to house and feed railroad employees. Documentary evidence indicates that the first floor had roo... More

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alpine Station, Stone Engine House, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Stone Engine House, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Art carved from marble in the town of Marble, below the quarry in Gunnison County, Colorado, where the town's namesake mineral has long been mined

Art carved from marble in the town of Marble, below the quarry in Gunn...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Meridian Lake in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado along the alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above the city of Crested Butte. The mountain in the distance is Mount Crested Butte, from which the city gets its name

Meridian Lake in Gunnison County, high in the Rocky Mountains of Color...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A colorful cottage that matches the purple lupin flowers out front in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

A colorful cottage that matches the purple lupin flowers out front in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison C...

Survey number: HABS CO-181 Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, CO

Crested Butte Historic District, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison C...

Survey number: HABS CO-181 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alpine Station, Telegraph Office, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

Alpine Station, Telegraph Office, Pitkin, Gunnison County, CO

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It was built in 1883 and served as living and working quarters for the telegraph operator. The present structure is a replica constructed in 1992 by the Denve... More

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, on a precipitous, a four-wheel-drive-only road between Marble and Crested Butte

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the up...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many buildings still stand in Crystal, but its handful of residents live there only in the summer. Crystal was incorporated in 1881 bu... More

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to reach) historic sites in Colorado

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mill sits in what is now mostly a ghost town, whose few residents leave the area in the brutal winters of the High Rockies. The se... More

The high, winding, dirt Washington Gulch Road above Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado

The high, winding, dirt Washington Gulch Road above Crested Butte in G...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The incorrectly named Lizard Lake, high above the town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado. The creatures that inspired the lake's name are actually salamanders

The incorrectly named Lizard Lake, high above the town of Marble in Gu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A small, redecorated commercial building, once the local Sears Roebuck department store, in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

A small, redecorated commercial building, once the local Sears Roebuck...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

High-country residences in Gunnison County in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, along the alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above the city of Crested Butte. The mountain in the distance is Mount Crested Butte, from which the city gets its name

High-country residences in Gunnison County in the Rocky Mountains of C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road from the town of Marble in the Crystal River Valley up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

View of the high Rocky Mountains from a precipitous, rock-strewn road ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, on a precipitous, a four-wheel-drive-only road between Marble and Crested Butte

Cabin in Crystal, Colorado, a virtual ghost town in a valley on the up...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many buildings still stand in Crystal, but its handful of residents live there only in the summer. Crystal was incorporated in 1881 bu... More

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in what remains of an old mining town, Crystal, high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Although called a mill, it is more correctly a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor to run power ... More

Alpine lake above the Crystal River Valley town of Marble, Colorado

Alpine lake above the Crystal River Valley town of Marble, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado

The alpine, dirt Washington Gulch Road above Crested Butte in Gunnison...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The tree that appears to block the road in the distance is prevented from doing so as the road turns to the right in front of it. Cred... More

One of several Colorado Outward Bound School cabins and administration buildings, deep in the woods high above the town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

One of several Colorado Outward Bound School cabins and administration...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Here, the first Outward Bound course in America, modeled after that at the original Outward Bound School in Wales, was founded in 1961... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Aug 1886. 4 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Aug 1886. 4 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado

Sep 1910. 5 Sheet(s). Colorado fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Workmen spraying a bridge with silver paint. Sapinero, Colorado

Workmen spraying a bridge with silver paint. Sapinero, Colorado

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Road along Frying Pan Creek with stacks of wheat on the hillside. This is an excellent fishing area. Near Meredith, Colorado

Road along Frying Pan Creek with stacks of wheat on the hillside. This...

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

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. Near Meredith, Colorado

Log bridge across Frying Pan Creek from the road to the ranch house. N...

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

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to reach) historic sites in Colorado

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mill sits in what is now mostly a ghost town, whose few residents leave the area in the brutal winters of the High Rockies. The se... More

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the aptly named town of Marble in Gunnison County, Colorado

Work progresses inside the Colorado Stone Quarries mine high above the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1899, Marble lay below the historic Yule Marble quarry (named not for Christmastide but for one of the mine's early owners)... More

View of a Rocky Mountain peak and meadow from a precipitous, rock-strewn road that snakes from the town of Marble up to what is now the virtual ghost town of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

View of a Rocky Mountain peak and meadow from a precipitous, rock-stre...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

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