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Cripple Creek (Colo.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Newspaper Photograph of General Chase and Staff, 1903

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Identifier: B091.01.0002.00001.00001
Abstract

Newspaper photograph of General Chase and staff during breakfast at the Colorado militia's camp during the 1903-1904 strike in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Colonel Milton Louis Anfenger was an aide-de-camp to Colorado Governor James H. Peabody and militia Brigadier General Sherman M. Bell during Colorado's response to the 1903-1904 strike. The loose photograph is between pages 36 and 37 of Milton Anfenger's scrapbook.

Dates: 1903

Oral History Interview with A. Campbell Denman, Edna McGee, and Fred Polkinghorn, 1974 November 21, 2006 August 5

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Identifier: PPLDoh-v-13
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Computer Hardware: 3 Intel Celeron 1.8GHz/224 MB RAM PCs manufactured by PowerSpec, each with a Firewire hard drive (2 manufactured by MicroNet, and 1 by LaCie); M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; External Firewire Hard Drive

Dates: 1974 November 21; Digitization: 2006 August 5

Oral History Interview with Sam Flax, 1976 November 3

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00005
Abstract "Sam Flax recounts his early years of growing up in Russia, then later moving to the United States, first to New York City and then to Colorado. He details the jobs he held in New York and later in Cripple Creek and Victor, Colo. He describes his experiences of raising a family in Denver and his real estate ventures.Sam Flax was born in Russia in 1887 and spent his early years there before immigrating to the United States. He lived in New York and later moved to Colorado,...
Dates: 1976 November 3

Pioneering Jews of Colorado, 1987-1988

 File
Identifier: B230.03.0003.0008
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File folder contains materials about the documentary entitled "A Pioneering Legacy: The Jews of Colorado". The materials include a video orders list, correspondence, program credits, announcement and flyer for film premiere, and a VHS order receipt.

Dates: 1987-1988

Portrait of Mr. L. H. Guldman, between 1920-1930

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00015
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Leopold Guldman, owner of the Golden Eagle Department Stores in Leadville and Denver, Colorado is pictured smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper.

Dates: between 1920-1930

Portrait of Philip Hornbein Reading, 1938

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00004
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Philip Hornbein is reading in a chair with a cigarette in his hand. Hornbein was one of Colorado's top trial lawyers, a leader in the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, and chairman of Colorado's Democratic Party during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from the University of Denver School of Law, practiced in Cripple Creek, then Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1938

Portrait of Philip Hornbein Reading, 1938

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Identifier: B063.08.0008.00093
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Philip Hornbein is reading in a chair. Hornbein was one of Colorado's top trial lawyers, a leader in the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, and chairman of Colorado's Democratic Party during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He graduated from the University of Denver School of Law, practiced in Cripple Creek, then Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1938

Sam and Bertha Flax and Their Sons, circa 1915

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Identifier: B063.05.0013.00015
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East European Jewish immigrants Sam and Bertha Flax stand in front of a building. Sam Flax holds their baby son Leo as Bertha rests her hand on their older son Isidor's shoulder as he stands in front of them.

Dates: circa 1915

Sam Flax, circa 1979

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Identifier: B111.03.0003.0015
Abstract Sam [Afsey] Flax (1887-1979, SSI) was born in Kovna, Russia to a large family. He originally intended to study at a local yeshiva, but had to leave for America in 1905 due to Czarist persecution. Flax spent eleven months in New York before following his sweetheart Bertha and her family to Cripple Creek, Colorado. Sam and Bertha were married in Cripple Creek on August 1, 1909. They went back to New York for a brief period, but after finding little success, returned west to Denver, Colorado,...
Dates: circa 1979

Victor and Cripple Creek, 1975 May 12

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Identifier: B229.01.0012.00001
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Silent color film depicting scenes from Victor, Colorado and Cripple Creek.

Dates: 1975 May 12