Description
PDF of digitized glass-plate negatives of pottery made at the Van Briggle Pottery Company in Colorado Springs, from approximately 1907. Includes images of vases, pots and pottery, chalices, plates, bowls, mugs and pitchers, tiles, lamps, and other objects created at the pottery works, as well as images of company workers on the job. Identifiable Van Briggle motifs include 'Lady of the Lily', 'Lorelei' vases, 'Scupper cat', 'Despondency' vase, mermaid-motif chalice, as well as floral-motif tiles and pottery. Also includes two scanned portraits of Artus Van Briggle; copy of Anne Van Briggle photo; a photo aerial view of Colorado College (which includes the Van Briggle Company buildings nearby)