Thomas Moran Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wood Engraving: Approach of the Black Canyon showing the Dillon Pinnacles from the railroad line of the D&RG Colorado, 1889 Sketches, Picturesque and Historic within and beyond the States, from Our Great Continent, Read More

Thomas Moran Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wood engraving: Black Canyon of the Gunnison, with Chipeta Falls Colorado, 1889 Sketches, Picturesque and Historic within and beyond the States,from Our Great Continent,  Collection of HACB

unknown artist Colorado 1888 engraving of Mount of the Holy Cross Mt. of the Holy Cross.  From Digging Gold Among the Rockies. HACB Collection.

William Henry Holmes View from Italian Mountain. (Hayden Survey) Sheet side numbers 35, 36, 37, & 38. EXPLORATION: U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Colorado, June 1, 1885. Photographic reproduction of original sketches. Courtesy of USGS Library. William Read More

Frank Dean Gunnison, Colorado 1882 photograph by Frank Dean of the Gunnison Town Council from HACB

George Mellen Gunnison, Colorado 1882 photograph by George Mellen of Gunnison Skaters from HACB

Frank Dean Clear Creek, Colorado 1882 photograph by Frank Dean of the Buillion King Mine from CBMHM

Gunnison Newspaper Gunnison, Colorado 1882 Advertisement for Brumfield’s Gallery in the Gunnison Newspaper from HACB

Michael Brumfield Gunnison, Colorado 1882 photograph of Gunnison’s Main Street with Brumfield’s Gallery.  

The earliest known working photographer based out of Crested Butte was C.F. Blacklidge. His cabinet card in this exhibition depicts a mining claim in the Slate River Valley. Photographers in the 1880s found work documenting mining claims, advertising for railroads, Read More

William Henry Jackson Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado 1880 photograph of the Curecanti Needle in the Black Canyon before the Morrow Point Dam and Reservoir    

George Mellen Gunnison, Colorado. circa 1880 photograph showing George Mellen’s cart at a campsite in Gunnison with teepee, camera and the photographer holding a glass plate negative.