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Birdseye View of Fort Collins
Birdseye View of Fort Collins
TitleBirdseye View of Fort Collins
Image ID NumberH21170
Date1915 c.
Decade1910s
CreatorCharles T. Gilbert
DescriptionBirdseye View of Fort Collins, Colorado, downtown on Mason St. and Mountain Avenue. Fort Collins Morning Express newspaper and Fort Collins Steam Cleaning and Dye Works buildings in the foreground. The scenery fly of the Opera House on College Ave. can be seen in the left side of the photo. Postal date of postcard is 9//11/1910. Card addressed to Mrs. William Horan, 444 N.J. Ave. S.E., Washington D.C. Text: "May you and your people live long, prosper and be happy. Sed". Extract from a letter from Mrs. Ariel N. Rush, Highland Maryland to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Cecil, Fort Collins, Colorado: "Now I thought I'd write to you to send you this card, dated 1910. Sed, was a nick-name for my father. He sent this card to his sister. I do not want to keep it_do whatever you please with it."
Content Typelandscapes - built
Historical ContextSugar Beets 1900-1919
Image SourceHistorical Collection
Formatimage/jpeg
Image CollectionHistorical and Postcard Collection
File LocationCD
LanguageEnglish
Image OriginPrint; Negative
Digitization FormatMicrotek ArtixScan Scanner; Adobe 6.0; TIFF 800 dpi; JPEG 72dpi; GIF 72dpi
Collection NameHistoricPhotographs
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The Water Ways Photograph Database provides 1200 photographs associated with Larimer County water history.

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