Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
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
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
More than two feet of snow fell in one night in Telluride, once a mini...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
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
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
Mountain-sunset view from Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a ...
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
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
A house with delicate gingerbread trim in Silverton, the seat of San J...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At the northern terminus of the Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge railway line, Silverton is now (2015) mostly an Old West tourist destin... More
The unique TellurideMountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a m...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
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
Covered wagon at the Encampment Museum in the little town of Encampmen...
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 Wyoming Collection within ... More
Snowboards and skis at a point along the route of a gondola that makes...
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
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
View of buildings and old fire tower at the Encampment Museum in the l...
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 Wyoming Collection within ... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
This old mining town has seen many restorations, financed by revenue f...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
An old violin, more likely used as a "fiddle" by a mining family, at t...
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 Wyoming Collection within ... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
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
A house with delicate gingerbread trim in Silverton, the seat of San J...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At the northern terminus of the Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge railway line, Silverton is now (2015) mostly an Old West tourist destin... More
View along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
Rugged peaks above in Telluride, Colorado, a mining boomtown originall...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. More than 350 miles of mining tunnels (the approximate distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco) run from Telluride under the Rocky ... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
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 old miners' union hall in a former elegant residence in Telluride,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. More than 350 miles of mining tunnels run from Telluride under the Rocky Mountains to Silverton, another old Colorado mining boomtown ... More
View along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
Row of residences in snow in Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
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
Coffee kiosk in a small trailer on a day when heavy snow covers the ma...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 Nugget Theatre entrance in downtown Telluride, once a mining boomt...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Nugget Building that houses the movie house was first the Old First National Bank Building, built by Lucien L.L. Nunn in 1892 to h... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Plowed lane leading to an old mining structure outside Telluride, once...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
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
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 unique TellurideMountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a m...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
Drug store in downtown Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a pop...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This building was once the San Miguel Valley Bank, site of the first bank robbery in 1889 by Butch Cassidy, a colorful outlaw made fam... More
Downtown biker on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Tell...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
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
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
A happy-looking carved bear on a day when heavy snow covers the main s...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Peace does come to Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular...
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
Plowed lane outside Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popula...
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 along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
One of four stops of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola abov...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Ore cars are displayed at the Encampment Museum in the little town of ...
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 Wyoming Collection within ... More
Plows have done their work in downtown Telluride, once a mining boomto...
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 mountains above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now ...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
Ski-trail view above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popul...
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
Snowy lane at dusk in Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popu...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Co...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Telluride, the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, began as silver-mining camp on the San Miguel River. The first... More
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
View along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
Peace does come to Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular...
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 along the ski-lift route above Telluride, once a mining boomtown ...
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 from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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 along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With its opening in November 1996, the gondola became the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the U.S. The... More
View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now...
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