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Posts by Randel Metz

Blogs

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ The Family Car

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ The Architecture of Conquest

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Dreams of Summertime

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Cañon City Penitentiary

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ 10th Mountain Division

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Tiny Houses

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Cell house #1
[between 1950 and 1960?]
1st bldg.
1869
A.H. Davis alias James Harris, Albert Davis and Albert Harvey.
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Bakery had capacity of 1200 loaves of bread a day
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ca. 1900
Bird in a gilded cage
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1959
Captain at lock-up box State Prison
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[between 1910 and 1930?]
After the battle
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1929
State prison cell block showing damage after 1929 riot
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1929
Colorado pen riots corridor where convicts committed suicide
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1929
Colorado penitentiary break 1947
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1947
Colorado Penitentiary break 1947 Werner Schwarzmiller, convict
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1948
Colorado penitentiary escapes
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1947
Colorado Penitentiary escapes
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1962
Colorado penitentiary interior
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1918
Colorado prisoners break 12/31/47
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1947
Colorado State Penitentiary
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[between 1900 and 1910?]
Electric eye search
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
Gas chamber
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1966
Ready for execution
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1966
George Levy, M.A. CSP psychologist
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1966
Hanging cells
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
Marching in line
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1937
Old gray mare
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1890?
Old Gray Mare
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
Picking potatoes : washing & packing 1920's
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
Prison auditorium
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[betsween 1890 and 1900?]
Prison band
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[between 1900 and 1910?]
Prison band leader
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[between 1890 and 1900?]
Prison festivities
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[between 1920 and 1940?]
Prison visiting area
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[between 1930 and 1950?]
Prisoner in cell at state prison
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
Prisoners frisked in yard
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1937
Richard F. Heilman
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1948
State prison boiler room : prisoners doing laundry and playing cards
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
State Prison exercise yard
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
Typical cell
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1944
Warden Wayne K. Patterson and Sylester Garrison
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1966
Werner Carl Schwartzmiller : the convict who kidnapped Guard Capt. Chet Wms. Yeo
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1948
West gate
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1900
Artillery used during prison riot 75 millimeter fielpiece.
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1929

Cañon City Penitentiary

Indians Pueblo Taos missions exterior
[between 1915 and 1920?]
2nd Pueblo - Taos
[between 1915 and 1920?]
2nd Pueblo - Taos missions
[between 1915 and 1920?]
2nd Pueblo - Taos
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[between 1890 and 1900?]
Cochiti
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[between 1890 and 1910?]
Acoma
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[between 1890 and 1920?]
Indians, Pueblo, Laguna
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[between 1915 and 1926?]
Indians, Pueblo, Laguna, missions
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[between 1915 and 1926?]
Indians, Pueblo, Laguna, missions
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[between 1915 and 1926?]
Laguna
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[between 1880 and 1900]
Isleta
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[between 1900 and 1930?]
Nambe
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1911?
Old church at pueblo of Acoma, N.M.
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Old Mission Church, Zuni Pueblo, N.M. view from the plaza
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San Felipe
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[between 1880 and 1900?]
Santa Ana
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[between 1920 and 1930?]
Santa Clara
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1911?
St. Francis Mission, Ranchos de Taos, N.M.
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[1920?]
The church of San Miguel, the oldest in Santa Fe, N.M.
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View in Isleta, old church of San Augustine, New Mexico
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[1885]
Zuni
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1911?
"The Delight Makers" home. Tyuonyi, the most interesting ruin in Pajarito Park
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[between 1900 and 1916]
Altar - Mesa No. 3
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[between 1880 and 1910?]
Bandelier National Monument
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[between 1880 and 1900]
Balcony House, looking east
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[1900?]
Cave rooms in cliff Pajarito Park
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[between 1908 and 1916]
Zuni Pueblo
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[between 1880 and 1900]
View in Pueblo Acoma, N.M.
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[between 1880 and 1900]
View in the aristocratic quarter of Oraibi Moqui Village, Arizona
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[between 1884 and 1890]
Walpi
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[between 1880 and 1890?]
Walpi, Arizona
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1912
Taos
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1880

The Architecture of Conquest

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