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Canon City,CO - Fremont County - c1875 - Colorado State Penitentiary Stereoview :

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Photographic Images Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
Canon City,CO - Fremont County - c1875 - Colorado State Penitentiary Stereoview :
Images of Colorado State Penitentiary, with part of the town of Canon City, Colorado, in the background. Measures 7" x 4", mounted on beige cardstock. Contrast is medium, while focus is good. The images is very fine, with minimal blemishes noticeable. The matte is also VF, with even the corners intact. On the reverse is an attached paper: "Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views, Published at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Scenes on the line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway," while "22, Canon City" have been added in pen. Included is a paragraph describing the establishment of the penitentiary in 1868. The drive to locate it in Canon City was from Thomas Macon, a local attorney and member of the Territorial Legislature who was fairly new to the area at that time [Ref: colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/pen]. While "Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views" is not mentioned in Mautz, Byron "Ben" H. Gurnsey was active in Pueblo (1872-75, with Eugene Brandt (1875), and in Colorado Springs (1872-80) [Mautz, 1977, p. 169].