DENVER GUNSHOP, circa 1873
SPORTSMEN’S DEPOT
FREUND & BROTHER: Patentees of Improvements on Breech-Loading Rifles, Manufacturers, Importers, and Dealers in Guns, Pistols, Ammunition, Gun Materials; Cutlery, Fishing Tackle and Sportsmen’s Articles of all kinds.
Blake Street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth, Denver, Colorado.
Stereo view: unidentified photographer, circa 1874
Exhibited above is the Freund gun shop located at 31 Blake Street, central Denver in 1873. A rifle, 17 feet in length and weighing somewhere near 200 pounds, was a successful attention-getting device employed by the Freunds. It was secured to the second story brick of the corner building. Frank W. and George Freund stand near the stairs.
Freund emblem tipped onto back of stereo view mount.
Now, step inside the Freund gun shop as so many others have … Jim Baker, Charles Adams, James Thompson, Charles Stobie, Doc Shores, Buffalo Bill, perhaps even Otto Mears ….
Stereo view: interior of the Freund gun shop on Blake Street, Denver.
Name the rifle, the Freunds stocked it: Maynard, Sharps, Springfield, Remington, Whitney, and many, many others …
Stereo view, unidentified photographer. Note sign on gun rack: “Hands Off!”
Stereo view: pistols and Colt revolvers in display case; F. W. Freund was awarded a silver medal at the 8th Colorado Territorial Fair.
The Freund gun shop was also awarded first premium at the Colorado Industrial Exposition, Silver Medal for best Colorado made Gun, 1873.
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