Wow Photo Wednesday ~ Tiny Houses

Hughy, a man in cowboy boots and a vest, holds a pipe and sits in front of a wood cabin with a wooden shingle roof in Colorado or Utah. A wooden doghouse is by the porch. Metal buckets, a branding iron, a drill bit, bundles of wire, hats, horseshoes, and a workbench are near the cabin.
Hughy
[between 1890 and 1900?]

Wow ~ For people who enjoy seeing how other people live, our Digital Collections is filled with enough material to satisfy every curiosity. A search for "miners," "cabins," or "house" will find a variety of home styles, but if your specialty is simple, small, or improvised structures, you'll need to do a little more sifting. Our gallery below shows a few of the highlights of this genre, but a deeper exploration would be a fun project.

"Wow Photo Wednesday" celebrates photographs in the Denver Public Library's Digital Collections that have "The Wow Factor" and that highlight the myriad delightful nuggets in our database.

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First house in Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is possibly Robert Womack's cabin in Fremont (prior to Cripple Creek incorporation) or Andy Frazier's cabin in Squaw Gulch; the one-story rounded log cabin built into the hillside has a low gable sod roof; three men wearing three-piece suits and knee high boots pose outside cabin; one man leans on miner's pick while another man, wearing a derby hat, sits on stump; additional picks and shovel are near front side entrance of cabin.
First house in Cripple Creek, Poverty Gulch
[between 1892 and 1895]
A prospector with a sledgehammer stands outside his chink and log cabin in Teller County, Colorado; shows a cast-iron stove outside the door of the cabin, a jug, broom, lunch pail, pans, cans, and a dog and her puppies under a table.
A Pike's Peak prospector
[between 1882 and 1900?]
Harry Leonard and Spencer Penrose stand in front of Tutt and Penrose cabin, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one-story log cabin built in 1891 with low gable and sod roof; two saddled horses are teethered to corner of cabin; cabin includes stovepipe and wooden plank leading to front door; sparsely settled hillsides are in the background.
Tutt and Penrose Cabin built 1891 Cripple Creek, Colo.
Feb. 1894

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 13:31

When Tiny Houses were a way of life! I love these photos. The view from the Jenny Lind Gulch is spectacular. I'd take that tiny house!

Submitted by Dog (not verified) on Tue, 03/15/2016 - 18:10

The photos are amazing. I love tiny houses!!!

Submitted by RM (not verified) on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 10:20

I'm so glad people are enjoying this blog entry!

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