Colorado

On The Trail of S. A. Stevens : The Minor Family Album

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The second, third, and fourth pages of the Minor Family Album were all taken by Oliver Eugene Aultman, in his West Main Street studio, in Trinidad, Colorado.  I made a thorough study of the photographs' internal clues and narrowed down the timeframe for the shoot as being between 1889-1893.  With no annotations to aid my … Continue reading On The Trail of S. A. Stevens : The Minor Family Album

A Well Dressed Woman: (almost) wordless wednesday

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One hundred and twenty-four years ago Oliver E. Aultman welcomed a well dressed woman and her family to his newly opened third floor gallery in the West Building, the "finest (photography studio) of its size west of Chicago" according to the local papers. Trinidad, Colorado was a booming town in 1890, supporting the surrounding mining … Continue reading A Well Dressed Woman: (almost) wordless wednesday