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The unique TellurideMountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Some of the high Rocky Mountains that surround Telluride, Colorado

Some of the high Rocky Mountains that surround Telluride, Colorado

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 post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot-air balloons at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in the former mining town turned ski resort, but not when the Spring festival is in full swing

The post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot-air balloons at the annual Tell...

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

Bear Creek Falls in the San Juan Mountains, Telluride, Colorado

Bear Creek Falls in the San Juan Mountains, Telluride, Colorado

Title devised by Library staff 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 Pho... More

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

A colorful, winged hippo? hot-air balloon ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A colorful, winged hippo? hot-air balloon ascend shortly after dawn, w...

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

A jailbird-themed hot-air balloon makes an appearance in the heart of downtown prior to the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A jailbird-themed hot-air balloon makes an appearance in the heart of ...

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

Fall spectacle on a hillside overlooking Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado

Fall spectacle on a hillside overlooking Telluride in San Miguel Count...

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

A cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when 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

Ingram Falls, upper left, and Bridal Veil Falls, lower right, above Telluride, Colorado. Ingram Falls is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps -- the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge. The two-pronged Bridal Veil Falls is a 365-foot waterfall at the end of the box canyon overlooking Telluride, Colorado. The falls were opened briefly in the 1990s to ice climbers, but the area, is private property so climbing was soon legally prohibited. This does not stop all daredevils from attempting the dangerous climb

Ingram Falls, upper left, and Bridal Veil Falls, lower right, above Te...

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

Crews get the morning assembly of balloons started at the Telluride Balloon Festival in Telluride, Colorado

Crews get the morning assembly of balloons started at the Telluride Ba...

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

Cabins laden with heavy snow outside Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado

Cabins laden with heavy snow outside Telluride in San Miguel County, 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

Scene on a day when heavy snow covers the main street of Telluride, Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

Fall splendor in a valley outside Telluride, Colorado

Fall splendor in a valley outside Telluride, Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

Mountain-sunset view from Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Rustic cabins in snow outside Telluride, once a mining town and now a skiing destination in the Colorado Rockies

Rustic cabins in snow outside Telluride, once a mining town 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

Rocky Mountain reflection in one of the string of Alta Lakes outside Telluride, Colorado

Rocky Mountain reflection in one of the string of Alta Lakes outside 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

Snowboards and skis at a point along the route of a gondola that makes four stops on a mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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, Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

A cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when 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

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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, Colorado

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

Information panel: A snapshot of the Geology at Bear Creek Falls in the San Juan Mountains, Telluride, Colorado

Information panel: A snapshot of the Geology at Bear Creek Falls in th...

Title devised by Library staff 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 Pho... More

Remnants of the old Idarado gold mine operation along the "Million Dollar Highway" between Silverton and Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

Remnants of the old Idarado gold mine operation along the "Million Dol...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Tunnels of the Idarado extend 5 miles beneath 13,000-foot mountains to an old mill near Telluride, a trip of more than 60 miles by hig... More

Residences in Mountain Village, a planned community adjacent to Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado

Residences in Mountain Village, a planned community adjacent to Tellur...

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

Remnants of the old Idarado gold mine operation along the "Million Dollar Highway" between Silverton and Ouray, high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

Remnants of the old Idarado gold mine operation along the "Million Dol...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Tunnels of the Idarado extend 5 miles beneath 13,000-foot mountains to an old mill near Telluride, a trip of more than 60 miles by hig... More

Cabins laden with heavy snow outside Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado

Cabins laden with heavy snow outside Telluride in San Miguel County, 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

Rustic cabins in snow outside Telluride, once a mining town and now a skiing destination in the Colorado Rockies

Rustic cabins in snow outside Telluride, once a mining town 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

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Ingram Falls, above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart Bridal Veil Falls. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps -- the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge

Ingram Falls, above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked co...

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

Ingram Falls, above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart Bridal Veil Falls. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps -- the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge

Ingram Falls, above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked co...

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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, Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 along the route of the unique TellurideMountain Village gondola above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Ingram Falls (seen in the notch beneath the snow-covered peak), above Telluride, Colorado, is a frequently overlooked compared to its nearby counterpart Bridal Veil Falls. Instead of being visible more or less at eye level, Ingram Falls drops out of a basin over 2,000 feet above the town, falling somewhere around 280 feet in three steps, the largest being a prominent 175 foot plunge

Ingram Falls (seen in the notch beneath the snow-covered peak), 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

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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, Colorado

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, Colorado

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

Some of the high Rocky Mountains that surround Telluride, Colorado

Some of the high Rocky Mountains that surround Telluride, Colorado

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 leading to an old mining structure outside Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the 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

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 originally named "Columbia" that became a popular skiing destination in the 20th Century

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

Crews get the morning assembly of balloons started at the Telluride Balloon Festival in Telluride, Colorado

Crews get the morning assembly of balloons started at the Telluride Ba...

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 jailbird-themed hot-air balloon makes an appearance in the heart of downtown prior to the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A jailbird-themed hot-air balloon makes an appearance in the heart of ...

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

Rustic cabins in snow outside Telluride, once a mining town and now a skiing destination in the Colorado Rockies

Rustic cabins in snow outside Telluride, once a mining town 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

Cabins laden with heavy snow outside Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado

Cabins laden with heavy snow outside Telluride in San Miguel County, 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

A jailbird-themed hot-air balloon ascends during the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A jailbird-themed hot-air balloon ascends during the annual Telluride ...

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 old miners' union hall in a former elegant residence in Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

The post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot air balloons at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in the former mining town turned ski resort, but not when the Spring festival is in full swing

The post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot air balloons at the annual Tell...

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 lone, 400-foot spire atop Lizard Head peak in the San Miguel Range of the Rocky Mountain is a favored progress marker for the many hikers in the area, around the ski-resort town of Telluride, Colorado

A lone, 400-foot spire atop Lizard Head peak in the San Miguel Range o...

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 jailbird-themed hot-air balloon ascends during the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A jailbird-themed hot-air balloon ascends during the annual Telluride ...

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 snow-capped mountains surrounding Telluride, a historic Colorado mining town turned ski resort

View of the snow-capped mountains surrounding Telluride, a historic Co...

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 "Free Box Mural," actually a mosaic, in Telluride, Colorado. The artwork salutes the town's recycling efforts

The "Free Box Mural," actually a mosaic, in Telluride, Colorado. The 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

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 New Sheridan Hotel in Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

The New Sheridan Hotel in Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The hotel name is accurate but not exactly what you'd think: the "new" reference dates all the way back to 1895, when the "old," wood... More

View from the mountain above Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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 a popular skiing destination in Colorado

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

Symbols on a banner at the Masonic hall in Telluride, Colorado

Symbols on a banner at the Masonic hall in Telluride, Colorado

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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