Manitou Springs, Saratoga of the West, 1880s

Containers:
Box 3, Image RL.11785-P-0297
Physical description:
17 3/4 x 11 1/2 cm; albumen; card mount
Scope and content:

Column of rock on top of a cliff face, with small figure crouched inside arch at bottom of column. Title derived from back. Printed on back: "Artistic Views of Colorado. Manitou Springs. Saratoga of the West…" followed by a chemical analysis of water in the various springs, and a description of the area and the resort, followed by: "Photographed and published by Mrs. A. Galbreaith, Manitou Springs, Colo." Wording is slightly varied from other views by the same photographer.

Biographical / historical:
Anna Galbreaith was a photographer who also ran a boarding house in Manitou Springs, Colorado, mid-1880s. [Source: blog post online by novelist Ann Parker, viewed August 4, 2021: http://patriciastoltey.blogspot.com/2011/10/thousand-words-at-least-by-ann-parker.html]

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