Title:

Stevens' Views: The man that made Colorado famous

Author:

Stevens, Fred P.

Place Published:

Colorado Springs, Colo

Publisher:

Foltz & Hardy

Date Published:

c.1900

Description:

[24] pp. Illustrated from photographs. 14x8.5 cm (5½x3½"), pictorial wrappers.

Charming little sales brochure for photographs of Colorado by Fred Stevens, for which Foltz & Hardy were the distributors. Includes lists and descriptions of the views, prices for the various sizes and types (platinum prints, colored or uncolored versions, specially mounted, prints on Cyko paper, etc.). OCLC/WorldCat lists only three copies, at the University of Arizona, the University of Oklahoma, and Yale.

Frederick P. Stevens (1896 Cornell graduate) was one of Colorado Springs’ most admired photographers. His studio, Stevens’ Fotographerie, was located at 24-26 E. Bijou. His father, H. Hoyt Stevens, was the president and manager of the Alta Vista Hotel on Cascade Avenue, which is where Nikola Tesla stayed during hi