Charles Weitfle
Central City, Colorado
1870s
Albumen prints on card mount
Jim and Evelyn Wright, Westminster, Colorado
The stereo view shows a Leadville street during the boom years, false fronted stores running down the right with the sign of W. Boesch, dry goods, boots and shoes legible, wagons and figures in the roadway, cut logs in the foreground, and the bare mountains rising behind the town. The paired albumen prints are mounted on the photographer's card, toned warm with wear to the mount edges.
Charles Weitfle (born 1836) was a German born photographer who worked in Washington, D.C. before coming to Colorado, where he bought the Central City studio of Joseph Collier in 1878 and built one of the largest stereo view businesses in the state. He was awarded the Colorado Industrial Association medal in 1878 for the best collection of photographic views of Colorado scenery, and his numbered series covered the mining towns, railroads, and canyons of the region, with Leadville among his best known subjects. His views are held in the Library of Congress and remain among the most collected Colorado stereographs.
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Charles Weitfle
Central City, Colorado
1870s
Albumen prints on card mount
Jim and Evelyn Wright, Westminster, Colorado
The stereo view shows a Leadville street during the boom years, false fronted stores running down the right with the sign of W. Boesch, dry goods, boots and shoes legible, wagons and figures in the roadway, cut logs in the foreground, and the bare mountains rising behind the town. The paired albumen prints are mounted on the photographer's card, toned warm with wear to the mount edges.
Charles Weitfle (born 1836) was a German born photographer who worked in Washington, D.C. before coming to Colorado, where he bought the Central City studio of Joseph Collier in 1878 and built one of the largest stereo view businesses in the state. He was awarded the Colorado Industrial Association medal in 1878 for the best collection of photographic views of Colorado scenery, and his numbered series covered the mining towns, railroads, and canyons of the region, with Leadville among his best known subjects. His views are held in the Library of Congress and remain among the most collected Colorado stereographs.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
