Photographic Study Collection

Spanning the history of photography, this collection brings together examples of ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, cased photographs, stereographs, photographic postcards, silver gelatin prints, and more. The topics covered in the collection primarily focus on the general history of the American West.

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: Mrs. John Stevens with child

: Mrs. M. A. Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum; No. 14 Text on front of card reads: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by M. A. Maxwell, in the Office of Congress at Washington." Text on back of card reads: "Mrs. Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum Series. This Museum is the result of the untiring labor and artistic skill of Mrs. M. A. Maxwell, the proprietress, who, besides killing many of the Birds, Mammals and Reptiles, has prepared and arranged them all. The Zoological department contains specimens of nearly every Beast and Bird in Colorado, numbering nearly five hundred; many of these are rare, some new to science. The Museum has become the receptacle of representative specimens, not only of the fauna, the flora, the minerals and the relics of the Rocky Mountains, but alos of all that tells of the grandest utilities and manifold curiosities, and the rarest beauties and mysteries of the world of nature. These views are for sale at the Museum; also at Chamberlain's Photographic Rooms, Cor. Larimer and 15th streets, Denver, CO.

: Mrs. M. A. Maxwell, in the work room.; The Evans Lever Action Rifle, made between 1873 and 1879 at the Evans Repeating Rifle Company, Mechanic Falls, Maine, was a gift from the Colorado and Kansas commissioners of the 1876 Centennial Exposition for her efforts there.