Weitfle, Charles
American (b. Germany, 1836-after 1910)

TITLE ON OBJECT: High Trestle Bridge.
SERIES TITLE: Views on Colorado Central R.R. from Black Hawk to Central City.

ca. 1878
albumen print stereograph
9.5 x 7.8 cm. (each) on 10.0 x 17.8 cm. mount
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
81:8623:0004

OLD GEH NUMBER: 888
NON-GEH NUMBER: 20.

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in image) "20. High Trestle Bridge." mount verso-(printed) "Views on Colorado Central R.R. from Black Hawk to Central City." "Colorado Industrail Association..." "Awarded to Charles Weitfle, Best Collection Photographic Views of Colorado Scenery 1878" "The most wonderful piece of railroad engineering ..." "Photographed by Chas. Weitfle, Central City, Colo. Headquarters for Colorado Views. Over 300 different Views for Sale. Also Awarded the Silver Medal of 1879." (in ink) 28 April 89"

FRAME: oversize gray mount

NOTES: Catalogued 12/98, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, trestle bridge
landscape, mountains