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Buildings at the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel

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Stereograph dry plate glass negative depicting the buildings located at the construction site for the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel in Gilpin County, Colorado during winter, circa 1922-1923. The buildings housed the workers and foremen who worked to build the tunnel. The photo was taken by either Herman Frederick Hall (1893-1984) or his one of his brothers, Herbert Harold Hall (1893-1961) or Edmeaux Homer Hall (b. 1897). The Hall family was a mixed-race family of African-American descent who lived at 2350 Glenarm Place in Denver.

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History Colorado

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Plains to Peaks Collective