Spillway at Eldorado Springs, Colorado

Photograph

Broomfield History Collections

Cropped lightly around edges and converted to jpeg from master tiff file by Kevin Smith, 03/01/2018

Name/Title

Spillway at Eldorado Springs, Colorado

Entry/Object ID

2017.12.1

Description

Black and white photograph print of a spillway at Eldorado Springs, 1931. The print is 2.5" x 3.5", silver gelatin. The image shows the spillway facing the viewer, with water cascading down into more rushing water. Mountains and tall rock formations, possibly part of Eldorado Canyon, are visible behind the spillway.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Silver Gelatin Print

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1931

Notes

Copy/Orig/Other: Original

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Canyons, Hot springs, Spillways, Springs

Search Terms

Eldorado Springs

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2017.12.2, 2017.12.3, 2017.12.4, 2017.12.5 Photographs were likely taken by the same family in the 1930s, and later grouped together by a common collector before being donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2017.

Provenance

Notes

Group of photographs donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum by Adam Evearitt in 2017. Evearitt obtained the photographs from "postcardsphotospaper" in Columbus, OH through ebay. The original creator and owner of the photographs is unknown.