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Globeville History

by Alejandro Hernández on August 27, 2020

Laradon Hall formerly Globeville School

Sam Maestas Jr., home on leave

View of the work yard at the Globe Smelter at 52nd (Fifty-second), Logan, and Washington Streets in Denver, Colorado. A worker pushes an ore cart on the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad tracks past a pile of loose rails. Shows brick masonry buildings. Men work under the eaves by the smelter. Chimneys belch smoke.

View of Globe Smelter at 52nd (Fifty-second), Logan, and Washington Streets in Denver, Colorado. Men work in the yard. Shows brick masonry buildings, furnaces, tall smelter chimneys, ladders, tailing piles, and carts. Several large ore crucibles sit in carts on the narrow gauge tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

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