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This is a Colored, Scaled, Cropped view of a DPL photo {Call Number X-62589, Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Special Collections] of miners posing outside the office of the Victor Mine on Bull Hill. Titled to possible be the 12:30 Shift at the mine, posing outside in the snow as this was taken February 16, 1893 by photographer William J. Gillen. The area is also known as Bull Cliff, which would been somewhere at the left, unsure how much the photographer would have turned to be able to capture the 'cliff face' though. In background right are seen part of the Pike's Peak range of mountain terrain. I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. Source is gray-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes for the moment.
Media Info Last Updated:
08.04.2024 (14:21:20)
Title on Image:
12:30 at the Victor, Feb 16, 93, Cripple Creek, Colo.
Photographer [Date]:
William J. Gillen [16.02.1893]
Description:
This is a Colored, Scaled, Cropped view of a DPL photo {Call Number X-62589, Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Special Collections] of miners posing outside the office of the Victor Mine on Bull Hill. Titled to possible be the 12:30 Shift at the mine, posing outside in the snow as this was taken February 16, 1893 by photographer William J. Gillen.
graphic for visual presentation of text The area is also known as Bull Cliff, which would been somewhere at the left, unsure how much the photographer would have turned to be able to capture the 'cliff face' though. In background right are seen part of the Pike's Peak range of mountain terrain.
graphic for visual presentation of text I did procure the colored version of this image, as I think it makes a nicer/better view. Source is gray-toned, or in common speech black & white. Used an online service and tweaked and worked with image to get what looks best to my eyes for the moment.
Image Note:
Colored, Scaled, Cropped view of a DPL photo; Call Number X-62589, Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Special Collections. I did procure the colored version of this image.
Copyright Notice:
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
P-01853
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#547]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#547
Sadly, the image quality is not great on this view, my second copy, larger than my first one but suffering badly from bad storage and I've lost about 1/7 of the width on the left due to exposing to light/sun. When viewing this on a high-resolution scan like 1200dpi one can see what appears to be dirt or similar appearing on the source original that this is a copy from. Makes me think this might be a photo of a glass plate negative laying on a light-table or similar, and that means there might be a chance of a better sharpness on the source image, but I can't tell for sure as I've never seen the original, thinking this view was an original one as per seller's info but it is a copy… The whole view appears sort of foggy which is sad as it holds so much very interesting info. Got slightly better when I enhanced the view, but it still is a long way from what I thought I had got hold of. This goes for both copies of this scene that I own from same seller. Location is at what I know as Victor Pass, direction of View is westerly, and when I scanned this I see that there are rails of all three railroads in this area; the Midland Terminal, the Short Line, and the Golden Circle 3-foot railroad. There are many railroad cars seen along the M.T. mainline, there is also railroad cars at the Short Line grade, both up along the mainline passed the 'Black Sampler', also seen in the left lower third of the image below the T. & B. Sampler, where The Short Line had a small yard. Also, the even more interesting part, the view of two Samplers and several Mines! * Foreground just left of the sideway center, the whitish structure is the Taylor & Brunton Sampler, which later seems to have been also known as Copeland Sampler and Eagle Sampler even later some info indicates – and this photo was marked as Eagle Sampler on the backside, so that might be the reason, but further research is needed to get the story line of the ownership of that Sampler Structure in order. What is cool, and I did not know till I saw this photo on my 1200dpi scan, there are Dual Gauge tracks at this Sampler! It seems to be at both levels of it also, for sure on the upper level as I count 3-rails going into the shed. The Golden Circle seems to have had a spur down the southern leg of the M.T. wye seen about 1/4 in from right-hand side and following the track down the hill using a sort of switchback method to reach the sampler. I first suspected the connection was behind the House/Office seen about 2/5 up from bottom and about 1/3 in from left-hand side, but that seems to be a dead-end switching spur only as there is a height difference I can't make out to have been evened out, so I think they dual-gauged the M.T. tracks instead, using the wye and switchback spur down to the Sampler. * About center top/down and just to the right of the sideway center is the 'Black Sampler', of the Cripple Creek Sampling Company, also known as the Cripple Creek Sampler, or Bull Hill Works and other names it appears, at one time served by dual gauge as the Golden Circle railroad had a spur here. Also served by the Short Line I assume as it runs straight passed it. * Up near right-hand top corner, the Victor Mine is seen in its glory look, located along the Golden Circle Mainline tracks towards Vista Grande, with the Bull Cliffs part of Bull Hill seen at the top left of the mine structures. Looks to have been a Huge Mine structure! * In addition, the Easter Bell Mine is seen to the right of the 'Black Sampler', about middle top/down and just over 1/4 in from right-hand side. Seen with a small Head-frame and a small single slope Hoist House. * Further up the hill, about halfway up to the Victor Mine from the Easter Bell, and about 1/6 in from right-hand side the structures of the Little May Mine are visible on my enhanced view, with other mines also seen, but my 1903 topographic map has not numbered those, so I can't tell who they are at this time. * The Venture Mine is seen to the left of the Victor Mine structures but are hard to pick out as a mine up there as the structures in that area blends into each other from this angle.
Media Info Last Updated:
02.07.2018 (11:15:54)
Title on Image:
View west on Victor Pass, showing Railroads, the T. & B. Sampler, the "Black Sampler" of the C.C. Sampling Co., and the Victor Mine
Photographer [Date]:
Unknown
Description:
Sadly, the image quality is not great on this view, my second copy, larger than my first one but suffering badly from bad storage and I've lost about 1/7 of the width on the left due to exposing to light/sun. When viewing this on a high-resolution scan like 1200dpi one can see what appears to be dirt or similar appearing on the source original that this is a copy from. Makes me think this might be a photo of a glass plate negative laying on a light-table or similar, and that means there might be a chance of a better sharpness on the source image, but I can't tell for sure as I've never seen the original, thinking this view was an original one as per seller's info but it is a copy…
graphic for visual presentation of text The whole view appears sort of foggy which is sad as it holds so much very interesting info. Got slightly better when I enhanced the view, but it still is a long way from what I thought I had got hold of. This goes for both copies of this scene that I own from same seller.
graphic for visual presentation of text Location is at what I know as Victor Pass, direction of View is westerly, and when I scanned this I see that there are rails of all three railroads in this area; the Midland Terminal, the Short Line, and the Golden Circle 3-foot railroad. There are many railroad cars seen along the M.T. mainline, there is also railroad cars at the Short Line grade, both up along the mainline passed the 'Black Sampler', also seen in the left lower third of the image below the T. & B. Sampler, where The Short Line had a small yard. Also, the even more interesting part, the view of two Samplers and several Mines!
graphic for visual presentation of text * Foreground just left of the sideway center, the whitish structure is the Taylor & Brunton Sampler, which later seems to have been also known as Copeland Sampler and Eagle Sampler even later some info indicates – and this photo was marked as Eagle Sampler on the backside, so that might be the reason, but further research is needed to get the story line of the ownership of that Sampler Structure in order. What is cool, and I did not know till I saw this photo on my 1200dpi scan, there are Dual Gauge tracks at this Sampler! It seems to be at both levels of it also, for sure on the upper level as I count 3-rails going into the shed. The Golden Circle seems to have had a spur down the southern leg of the M.T. wye seen about 1/4 in from right-hand side and following the track down the hill using a sort of switchback method to reach the sampler. I first suspected the connection was behind the House/Office seen about 2/5 up from bottom and about 1/3 in from left-hand side, but that seems to be a dead-end switching spur only as there is a height difference I can't make out to have been evened out, so I think they dual-gauged the M.T. tracks instead, using the wye and switchback spur down to the Sampler.
graphic for visual presentation of text* About center top/down and just to the right of the sideway center is the 'Black Sampler', of the Cripple Creek Sampling Company, also known as the Cripple Creek Sampler, or Bull Hill Works and other names it appears, at one time served by dual gauge as the Golden Circle railroad had a spur here. Also served by the Short Line I assume as it runs straight passed it.
graphic for visual presentation of text* Up near right-hand top corner, the Victor Mine is seen in its glory look, located along the Golden Circle Mainline tracks towards Vista Grande, with the Bull Cliffs part of Bull Hill seen at the top left of the mine structures. Looks to have been a Huge Mine structure!
graphic for visual presentation of text* In addition, the Easter Bell Mine is seen to the right of the 'Black Sampler', about middle top/down and just over 1/4 in from right-hand side. Seen with a small Head-frame and a small single slope Hoist House.
graphic for visual presentation of text* Further up the hill, about halfway up to the Victor Mine from the Easter Bell, and about 1/6 in from right-hand side the structures of the Little May Mine are visible on my enhanced view, with other mines also seen, but my 1903 topographic map has not numbered those, so I can't tell who they are at this time.
graphic for visual presentation of text* The Venture Mine is seen to the left of the Victor Mine structures but are hard to pick out as a mine up there as the structures in that area blends into each other from this angle.
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs. Enhanced, Straightened version of my 300dpi scan.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
P-03715
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#317]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#317
This view is dated 1934 by whoever wrote the title on the backside of the image, where it is also stamped with the name of the photographer. I think the man stood at the Buena Vista dump/mine, on the north slope of Bull Hill, with Bull Cliffs visible in right background, and by pointing his camera southeast got this view with the headframe of the Isabella Mine's Lee Shaft, and its Ore-bin to the left, where there also is a side-spur in a switchback type of run down from the old Golden Circle mainline, but by now standard gauged by the Midland Terminal. First leg of the switchback is seen behind the headframe, and going down from right to left, and then the lower leg of it can be seen coming down a curve about center of view right/left and a little above middle top/down, where it goes down to the Ore-bin seen left of the Headframe. In the background is seen what is left of the Victor Mine, a dump and a crib-wall is seen along the skyline just up from the Lee shaft ore-bin, the old mainline of the Golden Circle used to run on the right-and side of that cribbing.
Media Info Last Updated:
14.11.2017 (16:59:26)
Title on Image:
North Slope of Bull Hill - Showing Isabella Property (Bull Cliffs at Right)
Photographer [Date]:
Harry L. Standley [1934]
Description:
This view is dated 1934 by whoever wrote the title on the backside of the image, where it is also stamped with the name of the photographer. I think the man stood at the Buena Vista dump/mine, on the north slope of Bull Hill, with Bull Cliffs visible in right background, and by pointing his camera southeast got this view with the headframe of the Isabella Mine's Lee Shaft, and its Ore-bin to the left, where there also is a side-spur in a switchback type of run down from the old Golden Circle mainline, but by now standard gauged by the Midland Terminal.
graphic for visual presentation of text First leg of the switchback is seen behind the headframe, and going down from right to left, and then the lower leg of it can be seen coming down a curve about center of view right/left and a little above middle top/down, where it goes down to the Ore-bin seen left of the Headframe.
graphic for visual presentation of text In the background is seen what is left of the Victor Mine, a dump and a crib-wall is seen along the skyline just up from the Lee shaft ore-bin, the old mainline of the Golden Circle used to run on the right-and side of that cribbing.
Image Note:
My Collection; Photographs.
Source, Internet (Found/Seen/Known):
Source ID, My Collection:
P-02361
Type/Category [Media ID]:
Photograph/Image [#249]
Shareable Link to Pic Info:
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#249