Twenty original photographs by Enos A. Mills will be on view for one night at ArtSpace Gallery in Loveland on Friday. The vintage prints, dating from about 1905 to 1920, offer a glimpse of the Estes Valley and the Rocky Mountains as Mills saw them before Rocky Mountain National Park and modern tourism.
The exhibit is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. at the gallery, 140 E. Third St. The photographs will be offered for sale.
After the one-night presentation, prints that remain will go on display at Wilderness Art Quarry, 4412 W. Eisenhower Blvd., beginning Nov. 19, and are expected to stay there through Christmas.
Mills, who was a main figure behind the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park, arrived in Colorado at age 15, seeking better health, and climbed Longs Peak that year…