Onlookers Viewing Train Wreckage Near US 36 in Broomfield

Photograph

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Broomfield History Collections

Converted and cropped lightly on edges from Master tiff copy to jpeg copy by Kevin Smith 4/26/2016.

Converted and cropped lightly on edges from Master tiff copy to jpeg copy by Kevin Smith 4/26/2016.

Name/Title

Onlookers Viewing Train Wreckage Near US 36 in Broomfield

Entry/Object ID

ph.232

Description

Color photograph print of onlookers at the train wreck near the US 36 bridge between 104th avenue and the Broomfield exit, 1985. A woman's back is to the camera at the lower right edge of the photograph, with a man wearing just shorts with a bicycle in front of her. A number of other onlookers, including a child riding a bicycle, are seen in the image. The wreckage itself includes piled, twisted, and burnt train cars with billowing black smoke. A telephone pole is to the left of the wreckage.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1985

Place

Location

Broomfield, CO

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

Trains, Wrecks, Accidents

Search Terms

Railroad accidents--Colorado

Provenance

Notes

Donor Crisp, Walt 8-85