University of Wyoming
Homer Reid operated the Busy Bee Corner Drugstore in Telluride, Colorado, in the 1960s. He owned a collection of negatives showing the Telluride area in earlier years.
The Homer Reid photographs are prints from negatives created between circa 1900 and circa 1920. The majority of the images are stamped with the name Byers. They depict the towns of Telluride and Ophir; the Smuggler-Union and Tomboy Mines; Smuggler-Union Mill; Primos Chem Company Mine and Mill; Alta, Black Bear, and Keystone Mines; Bridal Veil Lake; Ophir Needles; Marshall and Savage Basins; and other scenes in the area of western San Miguel County, Colorado. Scenes in Telluride include Miners Union Hospital, Cosmopolitan Saloon, images taken during the 1903 strike, Mule Skinners Ball Committee, and the visit of William Jennings Bryan in 1903.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no other known archival collections created by Homer Reid at the date of processing.
The photographs were purchased by Gene M. Gressley, a former director of the American Heritage Center, in
The collection was processed by D.C. Thompson in January 2003.
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Homer Reid photographs, circa 1900-circa 1920, Collection Number 11251, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.