O.T. Davis
Hand-Colored Photos of a Colorado Farm, 1920s
Hand-colored silver prints (12)
Each 8 x 10 inches
With Davis's credit sticker verso
With Davis's credit sticker verso
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This beautiful suite of delicately hand-colored photographs documents farm-life in Southern Colorado in the early 20th-century. From the Denver Public Library: O.T. (Ory Thomas) Davis documented the building of railroads...
This beautiful suite of delicately hand-colored photographs documents farm-life in Southern Colorado in the early 20th-century.
From the Denver Public Library:
O.T. (Ory Thomas) Davis documented the building of railroads and highways, the settlement of Walsenburg, La Veta, Alamosa and Blanca and the scenery of Colorado. Davis was born in Decatur, Iowa in 1859 and moved with his family to Nebraska in the 1860's. He worked on the railroad in Iowa and Nebraska and later at a Copper Mine near La Veta Pass in Southern Colorado. After the mine closed he briefly ranched in the area and then moved to La Veta in 1888. It was here that he started taking photographs, he continued to photograph Southern Colorado until is death in 1945.
From the Denver Public Library:
O.T. (Ory Thomas) Davis documented the building of railroads and highways, the settlement of Walsenburg, La Veta, Alamosa and Blanca and the scenery of Colorado. Davis was born in Decatur, Iowa in 1859 and moved with his family to Nebraska in the 1860's. He worked on the railroad in Iowa and Nebraska and later at a Copper Mine near La Veta Pass in Southern Colorado. After the mine closed he briefly ranched in the area and then moved to La Veta in 1888. It was here that he started taking photographs, he continued to photograph Southern Colorado until is death in 1945.