Pencil sketches of Colorado: its cities, principal towns and mountain scenery / by A.E. Mathews.
Published / Created:
[New York] : [publisher not identified], 1866.
Physical Description:
[16] pages, [23] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 x 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Tinted lithographs, with additional hand-coloring. Plates lithographed by J. Bien, N.Y.
Contents:
Snowy Range of the Rocky Mountains; from Bald Mountain, near Nevada -- Denver, City of the Plains -- F Street, Denver -- Blake Street, Denver, Colorado -- Laramie Street, Denver -- Golden City -- Black Hawk, looking up Gregory and Chase's Gulches -- Central City; looking up Spring Gulch -- Central City; from the side of Mammoth Hill looking up Gregory and Eureka Gulches -- Nevada, Colorado -- Russell Gulch, Gilpin County [and] The Chief, Squaw and Papoose, as seen from Idaho -- Idaho, Clear Creek County [and] Fall River, Clear Creek County -- The Old Mountaineer, Fall River [and] Profile Rock, Fall River -- Empire City, Clear Creek County, from near the foot of Silver Mountain, looking towards Elizabethtown [and] Elizabethtown, Clear Creek County, from the Griffith Tunnel -- South Park -- Mount Lincoln. The town of Montgomery is seen at its base -- Twin Lakes -- Pike's Peak and Colorado City -- Garden of the Gods -- Monuments, near Monument Creek -- [Mining and Stamp Process, four images on one sheet:] Gulch Mining. Colorado Gulch. Spanish Arastra - on Clear Creek. The Stamp Process. Mr. Sensenderfer's Mill. Shaft or Lode Mining. Interior of No. 1, on the Gregory, the Black Hawk Co.'s Mine -- [The Keith Process. Hope Gold Company's Works, four images on one sheet:] The Ore Breaking Room. Blake's Ore Breaker. The Furnace. The Ore Pit, or Drying Room. Amalgamating Room -- [The Smelting Process. James E. Lyon & Co.'s Smelting Works; four images on one sheet:] Ore Dressing Room, The Buddle and Jiggs. Reverberatory Furnace. Cupel Furnace. Scotch Hearths.
Subject Terms:
Colorado -- Pictorial works. | Colorado -- Description and travel.