Pike S Peak Donkey

$250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Pikes Peak, ca. 1890 . Albumen print photograph, 4.25” x 7”, on paperboard mount. CONDITION: Very good, with toning in the margins and on verso of mount, light bumping to rounded-off corners, strong tonality. A cabinet card photograph of a Pike’s Peak donkey bearing a sign reading: “I Helped to Build Pikes Peak Rail!” The donkey is loaded down with a crate of explosives, a variety of axes, shovels, a can of water or gas,

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