Estes Park Heritage Festival

August 20 & 21, 2011

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Celebrating Estes Park's Heritage
Photos of Estes Park, CO

Photos taken by

Fred P. Clatworthy

First Settlers Traveling up the Canyon to

Estes Park

The Town of Estes Park - circa 1907

Tents used at the Estes Park YMCA of the Rockies - circa 1908

MacGregor Ave. - Modes of Transportation

circa 1900

Steaming to Estes Park circa 1900

Estes Park Sepia Panoram circa 1925

Dedication of Rocky Mountain National Park

	Fred Payne Clatworthy (1875 - 1953) was a renowned photographer - with photos appearing in National Georgraphic,and on the covers of Farm Journal, the Literary Digest and Sports Illustrated. He was also a merchant in Estes Park, town leader and 2nd mayor. Clatworthy was also the first person to have a telephone line in town! Clatworthy promoted tourism in Estes Park with his traveling show of autochromes - (1st natural color film process patented in 1907 by the LaMiere Brothers in France). Clatworthy used his his photographs to promote the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park.

	All photos on this web site were taken by Fred Payne Clatworthy courtesy of Barbara Clatworthy Gish. *Photos hand colored by Cheryl Pennington.*








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