Salida Centennial Photo Collection

Salida, Colorado celebrated its centennial in 1980. The Salida Centennial Committee compiled this collection of old photographs to help preserve the history of Salida and the surrounding areas. Photos were donated from: • Frank Thomson • Donna Nevens • Salida Museum • Alice Chinn • Salida Fire Department • Josephine Soukup (Kratky) • Ernest Brownson • Alta Proctor • Janice Pennington • Dick Dixon

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The Stein Children
The Steins (France, Walter, Alfred, and Martin) in front of their house looking north. Smeltertown's warehouse and assay office are in background. R.M. Stein
The Stein Family
A. B. Stein is now a Master Mechanic, and is pictured with his family in front of their house in Smeltertown. The children are pictured left to right: • Walter, age 10 • Alfred, age 8 • Martin, age 6 • Frances age 2. R.M. Stein Collection.
The Tramps
Calling themselves “The Tramps,” this group of young men display the latest in late 19th. century male fashion. Seated are W. R. Kirkbride, Lewis Kirkbride, Frank Bogue, Harvey Russell and an unidentified man. The two standing are Charles Bogue and Edward H. Kirkbride. The painted backdrop is an effort to stimulate outdoor portrait photography in the days before cameras could conveniently be carried on location. Donna Nevens Collection.
The View from the Salida Smokestack
The view from the top of the 365-foot smokestack in Smeltertown, Colorado.
Three Denver & Rio Grande Switch Engines
This lineup of three switch engines was photographed in Salida in 1890. No. 213 was a narrow-gauge 1881 Grant-built 2-8-0, No. 576 was a standard-gauge 1889 Baldwin 2-8-0, and N. 218 was another narrow-gauge Grant 2-8-0. Note the arrangement of coupler pockets on the locomotives, which enabled them to handle either standard- or narrow-gauge cars. The D&RG seldom purchased new switch engines (No. 106 in Salida being one early notable exception) until the diesel era. Instead, old, small, or surplus road locomotives were converted for switching duty by adding front and rear footboards, as well as rear headlights, as these three locomotives demonstrated. John Ophus Collection.
Tombstone of Albert E. Hanks
Tombstone of Albert Edmund Hanks, buried at Fairview Cemetery in Salida, Colorado. Haley-Bratton Collection.
Touring
A driver with five passengers out for an automobile ride in what looks like the Monarch Pass area. Image taken by John Kratky. Josephine Soukup Collection.
Trees on Tenderfoot Mountain
Trees on Tenderfoot Mountain are alive and well when this photograph was taken March 20, 1895. They began dying shortly after the smelter opened – upwind – in 1902, and by 1917 there were almost none left. Two foot paths up the mountain were used by hundreds of visitors who wanted to get a view of the city while they waited to change trains. The mountain was a favorite picnic spot for locals as well. The Denver & Rio Grande Depot, F Street Bridge, and the Monte Cristo Hotel are in the foreground. Alice Chinn Collection.
Tug of War
This photograph shows a group of men engaging in a tug of war match, with a small group of onlookers in the foreground. Nellie Ellis Collection.
Union Pacific Locomotive #1473
Union Pacific Railway Engine No. 1473. Photo taken by John Kratky. Josephine Soukup Collection.
Unknown Church
Photograph of unknown church. Ernest Brownson Collection.
Unknown Town
Unknown town. Possibly Fairplay, Colorado.

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