01.11.2021 (12:33:56)
#X2219 - The Old National Hotel at Cripple Creek, Colo (Now Demolished). In Its Hey Day the Largest Hotel in Colorado.
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This view of Cripple Creek shows the Cripple Creek Enterprise Mining operation at the City Mine, or Cripple Creek City Mine, or other variations of similar names in foreground left, and the massive National Hotel more in center back. It also has a sign to the right of the hotel reading the name of two photographers Schedin & Lehman up on top front of a structure, which should be helpful in dating the image as there should be a way to learn when they did operate in the District, but I do not possess that info at time of this writing (30.03.2018).
Not the best quality but at that time it was the only one I ever seen so I did not want to complain, and later I saw it in a publication, still not great quality.
My Collection; Postcards.

• Page 60; The Cripple Creek Times; New Years 1903 Issue - Published in 1903.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; #X2219 - The Old National Hotel at Cripple Creek, Colo (Now Demolished).
• My Website; Photolink: ⊞ Colored Version of the View in the 1903 Cripple Creek Times Issue [I-00509]

P-00224
Photograph/Image [#276]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#27610.04.2018 (12:18:18)
Cripple Creek City Mine. National Hotel in Background, Cripple Creek, Colo.
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This view of Cripple Creek shows the Cripple Creek Enterprise Mining operation at the City Mine, or Cripple Creek City Mine, or other variations of similar names in foreground right, and the massive National Hotel more in distance right. Not the best quality but I have one even worse, so I shall not complain.
Dating this is not easy, as this image is used in an December 1904 article it can't be younger than November 1904, but I have lot of doubts it is that young, I think it is up to at least a year older. But it is hard to tell, nothing in the view to date it from. Though, I have seen from a different source an image that is similar to this one, and that is said to be from 1903 and linked to a J.E. Stimson, which was a photographer of Cheyenne, Wyoming it seems. The dumps on those two views looks identical so I assume they are from same timeframe and possible same photographer, other views from same time frame used in the publication Mining World was from his hand.
The view itself is of a printed quality type, showing several men posing on the dump in front of what is generally known as the Cripple Creek City Mine, a Head-Frame used to get down into the ground below the city, located south of the National Hotel seen in background left. Myers Avenue with its trolley line/tracks would be in the foreground, outside this view, possible the pole seen is a line-side pole for the Trolley.
My Collection; Postcards.

• My Website: ⊞ Postcards Overview; Cripple Creek City Mine. National Hotel in Background, Cripple Creek, Colo.

P-01907
Photograph/Image [#283]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#28325.02.2017 (11:21:20)
The Cripple Creek Enterprise Gold Mining Company's Gallows Frame and Shaft House.
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View of the head frame – named Gallows frame – of the Cripple Creek City Mine, or the Cripple Creek Enterprise Gold Mining Company's mine in the town of Cripple Creek.
My Collection; From page 16 in the Official Guide to Cripple Creek District, August 1903 (Vol. 2, No. 3).

• Page 16; Official Guide to Cripple Creek District (Vol. 2, No. 3); August 1903 - Published in 1903.

I-01215
Photograph/Image [#65]
www.cripplecreekrailroads.com/01main/all_known_entities/pics_list-evry1_sort-newtop.php#65

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