Title   The Cosmopolitan
Call Number   X-84
Summary   Interior view of the Cosmopolitan, Telluride, Colorado, a saloon and gambling club. Men in suits and hats are seated at gaming tables with stacks of poker chips, a roulette wheel table is in left foreground, and a bartender stands behind long wooden bar. Marshal Kenneth Angus Maclean leans with his back against the bar; a Black man kneels next to brass foot rail and polished brass spittoons. Bar area features a large mirror with deer heads above, decorative spindles and shelves with liquor bottles, glasses and cash register on back counter.
Date   [between 1905 and 1915].
Photographer   Byers, Joseph E.
Notes   Title and photographer's signature hand-lettered on bottom of original negative.
  Stamp on back of photoprint: Homer E. Reid, Telluride Colo.
  Inked on white border of photoprint: Telluride, Colorado.
  Penciled on back of photoprint: "1910-15?".
  Formerly F19731.
Photo Materials   1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.)
  1 photoprint ; 14 x 19 cm. (5 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Copyright   Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
See Also   Maclean, Kenneth Angus.
  Afro-Americans 1900-1920. Colorado Telluride
  Bars 1900-1920. Colorado Telluride
  Telluride (Colo.) 1900-1920.
  Film negatives.
  Photographic prints.
  Imaged.
  Interiors.
URL   http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?10000084+X-84

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