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70 x 110 mm. A view taken from the road and through the trees of the Cathedral Spires.

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151 x 248 mm. A view showing these tall thin rocks of exposed sandstone with a man standing at their base to give an indication of scale. A finely exposed and printed photograph, probably by W.H. Jackson.

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125 x 75 mm.

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253 x 151 mm. A fine photograph of the eroded sandstone formations that lie just northwest of Colorado Springs, beautifully exposed and printed to reveal a rich range of tones. Photograph probably by W.H. Jackson.

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251 x 150 mm. A view from a hillside above the town, looking down on Maniton Springs, a small settlement five miles west of Colorado Springs. The town lies in a hollow at the foot of Pike’s Peak, and in the background can be seen the southern end of the Rocky Mountain Range. Photograph probably by W.H. Jackson.

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251 x 150 mm. A view looking along the newly completed railway, with felled pines on either side of the track and Mt. Ouray in the distance. The Marshall Pass and Mt. Ouray lie in the southern part of the Sawatch Range in Colorado.

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251 x 152 mm. A view looking out over the city, with the Rocky Mountains visible in the distance. Denver was first settled in 1858, and as this picture shows in the abundance of large, solid houses, grew quickly in the 1870s and 1880s with the discovery of gold and silver in the area. The less crowded suburbs and their smaller houses can also be seen in the distance.

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250 x 151 mm. A view looking out through a gap (or cave mouth) in the rocks known as the Siamese twins, across scrubland towards Pike’s Peak, a 14,110 feet mountain which likes ten miles west of Colorado Springs in the southern part of the Front Range in the Rocky Mountains. Photograph by Jackson (the initials are dimly visible in a dark area of the print, and look as though they have actually been written on the rock before the photograph was taken).

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152 x 250 mm. A view looking along the single line railway, with the Arkansas River at the right of the picture, and with steep cliffs rising on either side of the track. Photograph possibly by W.H. Jackson. The handwritten caption here seems to be geographically inexact, this section of the line (beyond the junction of the Colorado and Arkansas Rivers) lying in the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas rather than Black Canyon.

Scope and Contents 153 x 254 mm. Another fine photograph looking down on the road which threads its way through the pass, with a river and waterfalls to the left of the road. In the distance men can be seen standing beside the road near a pony trap. They appear to be looking at part of the road’s fencing which has collapsed, either through landslide or subsidence. The Ute Pass, which lies just north of Pike’s Peak and rises to a height of 7600 feet used to be one of the main routes used by miners on their way...