This book is in what I consider to be great shape, with very little wear and tear. The paper cover is slightly of in the bending around the inner pages, but the string holding it together is intact, but some holes starts to appears on a few pages so if it will last another 100-year in this shape is maybe not so likely. It contains 44 unnumbered pages including the cover, with 19 pages of 1 or more images, rest of the pages are either blank or with small pieces of text.

The views spans from a few along the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad, to town/city, street and mining scenes inside the Cripple Creek District. Most of the views are known views often seen, and there are several combination images where the publisher has combined images into a larger one to fill the page.

Talking about the publisher, it is a Denver company called 'The Merchants Publishing Co.' but is stated to have been for 'W. D. Armstrong', a Stationer in Cripple Creek. There are no dates in the book, but I think it is from the first half part or so of the first decade of the 1900's.

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