(WEST COLORADO) Poncha Hot Springs Colorado

Sale 2580 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 438

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(WEST--COLORADO.) Poncha Hot Springs, Colorado. Engraved view of the Town of Poncha Springs on front panel. 6 pages, 9 1/2 x 4 inches, on a tri-fold sheet; minimal wear. Chicago: Franz Gindele, circa 1883

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Discusses the founding of the health spa resort in Poncha Springs in Chaffee County, central Colorado. The facilities were expected to include "a palatial bath house, supplied with the plunge, the vapor, the hot and cold douches, hold and cold showers and pack bath," with "bath attendants, both male and female . . . carefully selected and have had long experience at the Hot Springs of Arkansas." Diseases to be cured by these baths include paralysis, syphilis, alcoholism, "rodent ulcer," and "over-worked brain." None traced at auction or in OCLC.