SOLD Meat Market, Bakery, Presumed Photographer's Tent, Historically Notable Colorado Gold Rush Era Mounted Photo by David Lamon woman with earring all mounted to dark blue

all mounted to dark blue paper that was pasted into a scrapbook

distinctly mid-century but also timeless

that one was housed in its original wooden crate

but I especially love ones like this that open out

or great on the counter for holding mail

SOLD Meat Market, Bakery, Presumed Photographer's Tent, Historically Notable Colorado Gold Rush Era Mounted Photo by David Lamon woman with earring all mounted to dark blueI think this is a stunner, and also a historically notable document, about which I have done some piecing together of information that leads me to believe (exciting to me!) that it captures the convergence of photographer David Lamon and prospector, capitalist and philanthropist Winfield Scott Stratton, who made his fortune in gold mining in and around Cripple Creek, Colorado with one of the area's rich gold veins apparently discovered by none other