Baby Doe Tabor

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Title

Baby Doe Tabor

Creator

Greenleaf, Florence M

Date

1930-1940

Description

Baby Doe (Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt Doe Tabor), widow of millionaire miner and U.S. Senator Horace A.W. Tabor, walks out of the shed addition to her cabin, at the Matchless Mine, in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. She wears a long dress, a long sleeved sweater, and she has on a knitted cap. She is missing many teeth. Boards are stacked near the cabin and a wooden block has firewood stacked on it. A wooden bench is in front of the cabin. Her cabin is vertical board construction and has a corrugated tin roof, windows and a metal stove pipe. Mine buildings are near the cabin.

Subject

Leadville (Colo.)
Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)
Cabins
Legislators' spouses
Mining
Older people
Teeth
Women
Baby Doe, d. 1935
Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, 1830-1899--Family

Source

Plains to Peaks Collective

Relation

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p15330coll22/id/86371

Type

image

Citation

Greenleaf, Florence M, “Baby Doe Tabor,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed May 20, 2024, http://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/33574.

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