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![Colorado Springs & Pikes Peak Avenue: 1890 and Now](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/396ca8_0ca630aea26b49ec8868bb383acf3bf0~mv2_d_4142_2765_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/396ca8_0ca630aea26b49ec8868bb383acf3bf0~mv2_d_4142_2765_s_4_2.webp)
Colorado Springs & Pikes Peak Avenue: 1890 and Now
One of my many projects is recreating the same scenes as old photographs of Colorado Springs. So much of the city's old ambiance and arc
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![Dirty Secrets about the 1890s Gilded Age](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/396ca8_020e440e1eb44a2d93a1546765c5ccc7~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/396ca8_020e440e1eb44a2d93a1546765c5ccc7~mv2.webp)
Dirty Secrets about the 1890s Gilded Age
Here is a famous photograph taken by photographer Jacob Riis in New York City in 1890 of three boys asleep on dirty stairs in a tenement aft