Byron Gurnsey Stereoview – Tejon St, Colorado Springs Looking South 1870s

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Byron Gurnsey Stereoview – Tejon St, Colorado Springs Looking South 1870s:
$72.25

Offered is an 1870s image of Tejon Street in Colorado Springs Colorado, looking south. Cheyenne Mountain is in the distance. Published in Colo. Spgs. View # 10 from a series of scenes on the line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. Byron H Gurnsey (1833-1880) arrived in Sioux City in 1861 as a soldier, in what later became Company M 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry and that he participated in Gen. Sully\'s 1864 and 1865 Expeditions. In 1865, having just learned the trade of photography (I suspect while in Sioux City the previous winter, probably working with Charles L. Hamilton), Gurnsey brought his camera with him on Sully\'s final expedition. In August 1865, while the troops rested at Fort Berthold, he produced at least nine surviving images. Byron H. Gurnsey operated a photographic gallery in Sioux City, Iowa from about 1866 until he sold out in 1871. Gurnsey moved to Colorado in 1872, locating first in Pueblo and later Colorado Springs, Colorado. He made a trip to New Mexico in 1878. Paper tag on the back. The front has some very light soiling. A touch more soiling on the back.