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Caption: Handle With Care!
Additional Description: Photo courtesy of the Contra Costa County Historical Society Collection. The inscription on the bottom left of the photo reads, "I helped build Pike's Peak R.R. by myself." This advertisement for Giant Powder appears to be similar to a ca. 1880s photo by J.G. Hiestand, owner of the Ute Iron Springs, Manitou, Colorado.
Submitted: April 28, 2016, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p350969
File Size: 0.107 Megabytes

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