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Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Bio/Hist: Cripple Creek strike started in the ore-reducing mills in Colorado City, Colorado, but the Colorado and mine owners brought in the Colorado militia to destroy the Wetern Federation of Miners union.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Camp Goldfield, 1903 September 6

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Identifier: B091.01.0002.00001.00003
Abstract

Tents in front of houses and a building with smoke stacks at Camp Goldfield during the 1903-1904 strike in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Camp Goldfield was below the Portland Mine in Goldfield, Colorado, near Victor, Colorado. Colonel Milton Louis Anfenger was an aide-de-camp to Colorado Governor James H. Peabody and militia Brigadier General Sherman M. Bell during Colorado's response to the 1903-1904 strike. The photograph is on page 37 of Milton Anfenger's scrapbook.

Dates: 1903 September 6

Camp Goldfield and Portland Mine, 1903 October 6

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Identifier: B091.01.0002.00001.00004
Abstract Tents at Camp Goldfield during the 1903-1904 strike in the Cripple Creek Mining District. In front of the tents is a railroad bridge, buildings, and a train on railroad tracks. In back of of the tents are buildings, mine dumps, and a building and smokestacks on top of a mountain slope labled "Portland." Camp Goldfield was below the Portland Mine in Goldfield, Colorado, near Victor, Colorado. Colonel Milton Louis Anfenger was an aide-de-camp to Colorado Governor James H. Peabody and militia...
Dates: 1903 October 6

First Officers' Call, Camp Goldfield, 1903 September 5

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Identifier: B091.01.0002.00001.00002
Abstract

Colorado Militia officers posed in front of a tent and buildings at Camp Goldfield during the 1903-1904 strike in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Camp Goldfield was below the Portland Mine in Goldfield, Colorado, near Victor, Colorado. Colonel Milton Louis Anfenger was an aide-de-camp to Colorado Governor James H. Peabody and militia Brigadier General Sherman M. Bell during Colorado's response to the 1903-1904 strike. The photograph is on page 37 of Milton Anfenger's scrapbook.

Dates: 1903 September 5

Newspaper Photograph of General Chase and Staff, 1903

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Identifier: B091.01.0002.00001.00001
Abstract

Newspaper photograph of General Chase and staff during breakfast at the Colorado militia's camp during the 1903-1904 strike in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Colonel Milton Louis Anfenger was an aide-de-camp to Colorado Governor James H. Peabody and militia Brigadier General Sherman M. Bell during Colorado's response to the 1903-1904 strike. The loose photograph is between pages 36 and 37 of Milton Anfenger's scrapbook.

Dates: 1903