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The Colorado photograph album contains photographic prints of towns, mines, scenery, and people in southwest Colorado, taken during the late 19th century.

This photograph album (21cm x 29cm) contains 25 photographic prints of towns, mines, scenery, and people in southwest Colorado. The first 18 photographs are identified on a printed list of captions enclosed in the volume, and the final seven, which are attributed to W. J. Carpenter of Telluride, Colorado, have captions and negative numbers handwritten on the negatives. The book's covers are wooden boards covered with a soft mohair-like padding; a deteriorated leather cover, now detached, is stamped with the title "Art Album." Each of the photographs shows a scene from southwest Colorado, including street-level and higher-vantage views of Telluride, Ouray, Silverton, the Sheridan Mine entrance, Marshall Basin, the San Miguel River, and numerous mountains. Burros, miners, and a group of Ute Indians are pictured, as well as a group of men in the process of branding cattle, a group of tourists (including women) on horseback, a group of men labeled "Dry Creek Cow Boys at Dinner," and the "highest suspension bridge in the world."