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Photo, Print, Drawing Holzwarth Homestead, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, Colorado

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About this Item

Title

  • Holzwarth Homestead, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, Colorado

Names

  • Natanson, Barbara Orbach (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Grand Lake, Colorado, August 29, 1980

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Colorado
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Colorado -- Grand County -- Grand Lake

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Frame note: Online digital image numbers may be offset by multiple digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Index data: 12A, Old ranching equipment in the vicinity of the Holzwarth homestead (Holzwarth Historic Site (former family ranch and dude ranch) in the Kawuneeche Valley, near Grand Lake, Grand County, Colorado, part of the Rocky Mountain National Park), including a wagon (?) frame and wheels, sulky (dump) rake for hay; 13A, Holzwarth homestead complex with a wagon in the right foreground; 14A, Holzwarth homestead complex with farm implement in foreground, the "Mama" cabin (the main cabin of the complex), stands behind it; 15A, Holzwarth homestead, cabin (hidden by trees) and wagon (formerly used to transport museum visitors to this outdoor museum site); 16A, Three-quarter view of "Rose" and "Twin I" cabins standing in Holzwarth homestead complex, had served as guest cabins when the Homestead was run as a dude ranch; 17A, Seasonal park interpreter speaks to visitors in the kitchen of "Mama" cabin, Holzwarth homestead, photographer's notes state that "kitchen duty," which involves tending to the baking of sourdough bread in the cabin's old oven and distributing it while answering visitors questions, is one of the many duties interpreters dressed in period clothing perform at this museum site; 18A, Fieldworker Elke Dettmer enjoys Homemade sourdough bread in the kitchen of the "Mama" cabin; 19A, Bed covered with handmade bedding in the middle room of "Mama" cabin; 20A, One of the two beds that stand in middle room of "Mama" cabin, next to the bed stand a basket with rug-braiding materials (and a chamber pot?); 21A, Chaps and saddles displayed on rear porch of Mama cabin; 22A, Pans and homemade lye soap resting on table on rear porch of "Mama" cabin; 23A, Wooden bureau, sewing machine, wash basin, mirror and chair, the furnishings of a cabin bedroom; 24A, side exterior view of log ice house with square-notch cornering and sod roofing; 25A, Front three-quarter view of "Papa's taxidermy shop" with implements resting on front porch; 26A, Seasonal park interpreter discusses the Holzwarth homestead and museum operations with fieldworkers Elke Dettmer and Rusty Marshall; 27A, Cabin seen through the trees; 28A, Wood pile and wooden sawbucks, photographer's notes state that woodcutting is one of the tasks that park interpreters perform as they demonstrate characteristic aspects of life on the homestead and dude ranch in the early 20th century; 29A, Wagon at the Holzwarth homestead, formerly used to transport visitors the mile from the highway to this outdoor museum site in Rocky Mountain National Park; 30A, fieldworkers Rusty Marshall and Elke Dettmer obtain pamphlets about the Holzwarth homestead at the trailhead for the site, photographer's notes state that visitors may borrow pamphlets and return them as they leave, or may purchase them with a donation; 31A, Restored cabin at the trailhead, introductory information is displayed inside the cabin's sparse interior; 32A-33A, Details of restored log building at the Holzwarth homestead trailhead, porch, hewn log ends and dove-tail cornering, doorway with buck and wooden pegs; 34A, Detail interior showing rafters; 35A, Sign for visitors to the Holzwarth homestead site, at the side of the highway that runs through Rocky Mountain National Park, wording includes the statement that visitors "may explore and experience the life of the early pioneers at this living history exhibit."

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/031: 165738-32

Source Collection

  • Colorado Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/031)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Colorado Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/031), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Natanson, Barbara Orbach. Holzwarth Homestead, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, Colorado. Grand Lake United States Grand County Colorado, 1980. Grand Lake, Colorado. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_165738_32/.

APA citation style:

Natanson, B. O. (1980) Holzwarth Homestead, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, Colorado. Grand Lake United States Grand County Colorado, 1980. Grand Lake, Colorado. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_165738_32/.

MLA citation style:

Natanson, Barbara Orbach. Holzwarth Homestead, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, Colorado. Grand Lake, Colorado. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_165738_32/>.