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28 Horse Team, Wireless Station, Town of Altman, Altitude 10,500."H.L. Woehler, Buffalo, NY; Dresden, Germany. #1843. Great early 20thcentury sepia-tone lithographic postcard of a setting near the lines of this older railroad. Scene depicts 28 horses and a load stopped at the wireless (telegraph) station in the gold-mining town of Altman northeast of Anaconda - the latter of which was between the cities of Victor and Cripple Creek on the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek Railway. Altman covered almost the entire top of a mountain, and it was at the time the highest incorporated town in the world. Composed almost entirely of union miners, the town was center of a great deal of labor violence, including the bloody strikes in 1894. Such a violent town it was, that it's said a particularly busy undertaker offered group rates if all killing was done on Saturdays. A fire of very suspicious origins destroyed quite a few buildings in the business district in 1903. In 1897 the Cripple Creek District Railway was formed to run a standard gauge electric line between Cripple Creek and Victor. In 1899 the name was changed to Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway - also called the Short Line - and a line was added to Colorado Springs in 1901. The Colorado & Southern handled operations between 1904 and 1911. Superb detail and tones, photo and lithographic work. German engineering. Quite rare, I think. A find for Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek/Railroad and Mining collectors! Fairly good condition; slight to moderate corner and side wear with scattered bends and corner indentations from being mounted in an album (one reason it's in such good shape) with scattered moderate multiple creases as well as occasional stains and printing anomalies, back slightly fading with ink transfer from another copy of the same card and occasional abrasions but almost no other perceptible problems. Divided back, posted August 7, 1907 from Colorado City, CO to Venango, PA. Pencilled message touches on the day's train trip to Cripple Creek and Victor, including the whole district - with a slightly graphic mention of the train having killed a steer. PG-13. Image brighter and clearer than scan. Scan with a slight greenish tint not present on image.
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