Keywords: Irregularly placed tombstones at the old Hillside Cemetery, on Boulder Mountain above Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary gold-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 LCCN2015632230.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 ; This venerable old burying ground a place of wild grandeur is sprawled over twenty acres on the side of the rugged mountain At an altitude of more than 9 300 feet the cemetery where early silver miners and their families and those who died in a devastating flu epidemic in 1918 are interred is constantly struggling against the harsh elements of nature which endlessly threaten to damage tombstones rock walls and fences ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632230 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/32200/32215a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 32215 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 32215 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive San Juan County Colorado Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |