SOLD Meat Market, Bakery, Presumed Photographer's Tent, Historically Notable Colorado Gold Rush Era Mounted Photo by David Lamon froggy I hurried up the coast

I hurried up the coast to get them

bright and crisp and beautiful

Another in my never-ending collection of whimsies

I really love the manner in which this woman's face was painted

and she initialed the seascape painted on top EMW

SOLD Meat Market, Bakery, Presumed Photographer's Tent, Historically Notable Colorado Gold Rush Era Mounted Photo by David Lamon froggy I hurried up the coastI think this is a stunner, and also a historically notable document, about which I have done some piecing together of information that leads me to believe (exciting to me!) that it captures the convergence of photographer David Lamon and prospector, capitalist and philanthropist Winfield Scott Stratton, who made his fortune in gold mining in and around Cripple Creek, Colorado with one of the area's rich gold veins apparently discovered by none other