United States, Colorado
1870s image; ribbon 1902
Albumen stereo view with period ribbon
Standard stereo card format
Provenance: Jim and Evelyn Wright, Westminster, Colorado
Silver Cliff, Colorado was a silver mining boomtown that rose rapidly in the late 1870s and attracted documentary photographers recording the built environment of the frontier mining West. This stereo view by Charles E. Emery of Silver Cliff shows the town's early streetscape and structures, typical of the commercial stereo views produced to document and promote mining communities of the era. The accompanying period ribbon dated 1902 connects the image to a later commemorative or civic context, adding a second layer of documentary interest to the object.
Stereo views were the dominant form of photographic entertainment and documentation in the late nineteenth century, produced in large quantities but surviving in varying condition. Examples by identified local photographers with intact provenance and associated ephemera are less common than anonymous commercial views. The Wright provenance from Westminster, Colorado gives this piece a clear regional collecting history.
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United States, Colorado
1870s image; ribbon 1902
Albumen stereo view with period ribbon
Standard stereo card format
Provenance: Jim and Evelyn Wright, Westminster, Colorado
Silver Cliff, Colorado was a silver mining boomtown that rose rapidly in the late 1870s and attracted documentary photographers recording the built environment of the frontier mining West. This stereo view by Charles E. Emery of Silver Cliff shows the town's early streetscape and structures, typical of the commercial stereo views produced to document and promote mining communities of the era. The accompanying period ribbon dated 1902 connects the image to a later commemorative or civic context, adding a second layer of documentary interest to the object.
Stereo views were the dominant form of photographic entertainment and documentation in the late nineteenth century, produced in large quantities but surviving in varying condition. Examples by identified local photographers with intact provenance and associated ephemera are less common than anonymous commercial views. The Wright provenance from Westminster, Colorado gives this piece a clear regional collecting history.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
