VICTORIAN HAIR PINS

VISITING THE SHACK WHERE BABY DOE TABOR LIVED TILL DEATH

GAZETTE (LEADVILLE) VISITING THE MOUNTAIN SHACK WHERE BABY DOE LIVED AND DIED

Once one of the richest women in the world, for thirty years Baby Doe Tabor lived in what was once a tool shed.  In other references this dwelling is called a miner's cabin on a hill side (Fryer Hill) of the mine that she and her husband once owned, the mine that he told her, when he was on his way out of this world not to sell.

Excerpt: ..."She cut her firewood and lugged her water.  Most nights, she enjoyed and endured extravagant Technicolor dreams, which she chronicled in detail when she awoke.  In those dreams, she met Jesus and the Virgin Mary and demons and deceased relatives.  ... She wore tattered dressed and wrapped her feet in burlap...


From the YouTube posting:  The story of "Baby Doe" and her silver fortune in the late 1800's.  Written and produced by Anya Rose with artistic direction from Stephanie Stewart and intro animation by Alyssa Fong.

LADY and GENTLEMAN CIRCA LATE 19th century

The late 19th century - over 100 years ago - was a time in which mistresses were understood to be part of life in the upper classes of Europe and America. But it would be another few decades until CoCo Chanel became the mistress of a man who would fund her shop and clothing line.