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  • Daguerreotype Cover Glass Used in Suicide Attempt
  • Group portrait in front of Opera HouseGeorge Washington Stiffler, Longmont’s First Permanent Photographer
  • View of TellurideOtto Ward Courtney, Photographer and Miner in Telluride
  • Portrait of JessieJessie L. Bartoo, A Creative Photographer from Indiana, Had A Brief Career in Florence, Colorado
  • stereoMartin W. Mealey, the Leading Photographer of Pueblo
  • The Millers Photography Business in Trinidad, Colorado
  • Man standing with hatThe Final Years of Dana B. Chase’s Career
  • Erie signDana B. Chase’s Early Career in Trinidad, Colorado
  • Hook, Pikes PeakHow to Photograph a Burro
  • RosaRosa Davis’ Short-Lived Studio In Walsenburg
  • Big potatoA Giant Potato–Was It Real or A Hoax?
  • Women with instrumentsA. H. Jones, Grand Junction Photographer
  • Scenes Along the Colorado Midland Railway by J. L. Clinton and W. I. Rudy
  • Portrait of CobbsOliver Aultman’s Portrait of a Buffalo Soldier
  • Arvilla MeekerBates & Nye’s Photographs of Women Held Hostage by Native Americans
  • PaintingAmelia Norder, Studio Assistant to Denver Photographer Joseph Collier
  • 1855 censusResearching George Mellen’s Journey to Colorado
  • John E. Beebe, Photographer, Dry Plate Manufacturer, and Advertising Executive
  • Back of cabinet cardBritton Bros. and Their Unusual Photo Mount
  • Watermelon Day In Rocky Ford, Colorado by J. E. Orr
  • Lower CreedePhoto Studios in Mineral County, Colorado
  • Summer Road Trips
  • Portrait of PoleyHorace S. Poley and Co., The Pike’s Peak Photographers
  • Photo tentViews of Colorado by Benjamin E. Hawkins
  • Wedding photoA Trip to a Denver Photo Studio
  • William R. Armington, Photographer and Painter in Brighton
  • Steele studioThe beginning and the end of a short-lived Denver photographic studio in 1886
  • Ute Iron SpringsJ. G. Hiestand, Official Photographer of the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway
  • HomelessVictor, “The City of Mines,” Goes Up in Flames in 1899
  • Meet the Brown Family

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  • Daguerreotype Cover Glass Used in Suicide Attempt
    I thought this news story was appropriate to post on Halloween. Wm. S. Van Horn attempted, yesterday afternoon, to commit suicide by opening a vein with a fragment of glass.  After his conviction and sentence, whilst still remaining in the jail at Central City, he was given, at his solicitation, Daguerreotypes of some of his […]
  • George Washington Stiffler, Longmont’s First Permanent Photographer
    George Washington Stiffler was the first photographer to settle permanently in Longmont, Colorado.  His portraits and views of local events bring the past to life.   G. W. Stiffler was born on May 10, 1835, to George W. Stiffler and Nancy Ann Dust Stiffler, one of thirteen children. The family lived on a farm in […]
  • Otto Ward Courtney, Photographer and Miner in Telluride
    Otto Ward Courtney was born around 1869 in Ohio (His obituary states that he was born in Kentucky, but census records consistently list Ohio as his birthplace).  He moved to Colorado as a young man and settled in Telluride. One of his early experiences in Telluride came while hunting, when he encountered a mountain lion.  […]
  • Jessie L. Bartoo, A Creative Photographer from Indiana, Had A Brief Career in Florence, Colorado
    Jessie L. Bartoo was born on May 19, 1863, near Niles, Michigan, to Lafayette F. Bartoo and Arabella Mahala Blood Bartoo.  She grew up on a farm in Jasper County, Indiana, the fourth of six children.  She attended Rensselaer High School for two years. In 1885, Jesse was employed at the Republican newspaper office, where […]
  • Martin W. Mealey, the Leading Photographer of Pueblo
    Martin Williams Mealey was born in Canada in October 1847 to Lawrence Alonzo Mealey and Elizabeth Williams Mealey.  (The 1850 census lists his birthplace as New Brunswick, while the 1860 census records Prince Edward Island.)  The family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, known for its textile mills, when Martin was very young.  His father was a […]
  • The Millers Photography Business in Trinidad, Colorado
    Richard B. Miller was born in September 1853 in Illinois to Robert B. Miller and Mary Ann Austin Miller. His father was a grocer, and Richard also worked in the grocery business. The 1880 census recorded him as working in the grocery field in Prairie, Illinois, and noted that he was lame from a broken […]
  • The Final Years of Dana B. Chase’s Career
    My last post looked at D. B. Chase’s early career in Trinidad, Colorado, and New Mexico.  This post examines the final years of his career. In 1891, Dana B. Chase opened a studio in Denver, Colorado, with his wife Belle.  In the capital city, they concentrated on portrait photography, rather than views.  They acquired new backgrounds from […]
  • Dana B. Chase’s Early Career in Trinidad, Colorado
    Dana Boardman Chase was born on September 20, 1847, in Waldo, Maine, to John A. Chase and Lydia Sylvester Lane Chase. By 1860, the family was living in Atchison, Kansas, where John A. Chase operated a photography gallery. His son, Henry A. Chase, also practiced photography in that city. Dana most likely learned the trade […]
  • How to Photograph a Burro
    I was on the road last week, visiting a couple of archives in southern Colorado, and thought I would share one of my favorite photographs from the trip.  This photo by William E. Hook is from the collections of the Trinidad Carnegie Public Library. It seems the photographer was having trouble getting the burro to […]
  • Rosa Davis’ Short-Lived Studio In Walsenburg
    Rosamund (Rosa) Goerke immigrated to the United States from Prussia in 1876 at the age of twenty. On September 11, 1878, she married Theodore F. Braun, a prosperous assayer and business associate of her brother Paul, in Pueblo, Colorado.  In October 1880, after the birth of their first child and while pregnant with their second, […]
  1. Cindy MotZ on George Washington Stiffler, Longmont’s First Permanent PhotographerOctober 27, 2026

    Love seeing your work!

  2. 19thcenturycoloradophotographers_d5uooh on Jessie L. Bartoo, A Creative Photographer from Indiana, Had A Brief Career in Florence, ColoradoSeptember 15, 2026

    I know! Based on the few images I have seen, she truly enjoyed making photographs.

  3. Martha Kennedy on Jessie L. Bartoo, A Creative Photographer from Indiana, Had A Brief Career in Florence, ColoradoSeptember 15, 2026

    Thank you for an excellent, interesting post. It's sad that Bartoo became so ill and died when she was rather…

  4. 19thcenturycoloradophotographers_d5uooh on Fred L. Knight Photographs Life on the PlainsSeptember 2, 2026

    Hi Sylvia, Thank you for your email. The photo in the blog post is the only one I have ever…

  5. Sylvia louise Berges on Fred L. Knight Photographs Life on the PlainsAugust 31, 2026

    This is my great, great grandfather. I would love to see any pictures of his if there are any left…

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