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Sanborn photo postcard [W-1116] looking south down Broadway St., Eagle, Colorado, showing downtown buildings. Highway 40 sign in intersection. Texaco station on left. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of Wolcott, Colorado, on U.S. Highway 24. On front: "Panorama of Wolcott, Colo. on Hwy. U.S. 24, Sanborn W-3385"
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Broadway, the main street through Eagle, showing several homes. There is a sidewalk and a fire hydrant is visible in the foreground.
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Family group standing in the sideyard next to the Kavanaugh home in Minturn. Front gate visible on right. From left to right: 2 neighbors, Hilma Kavanaugh holding baby Mary, John Kavanaugh and Blanche Wyatt Kavanaugh.
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Looking down Main Street in Minturn. There is a man at mid-block on the right, in front of a store front. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Looking north from McCoy Lane, with Rock Creek flowing through the tree line in the background. There are several log buildings, including a barn at midground. In front of the barn is a root cellar in the embankment. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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[5,000th image added to the collection] A view of Broadway St. in Eagle, taken at the intersection with 3rd St., looking north. There is a streetlight post in the middle of the intersection with "Keep Right" written at the base. Castle Peak is on the horizon. A directional sign to U.S. Highway 24 is at the right at midground On the left, the Dice building [2 story brick] is the closest building on 2d St. At the northern end, the Koonce Chevrolet...
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Main Street (Railroad Avenue) in Basalt, with the Basalt Drug Co. in the building closest to the photographer.
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The McCain house on Wall Street with upstiars and living room additions. Tricycle is parked in the front yard.
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Tom Doran (on left) of Eagle, Colorado, and Chuck Shaw of Minturn, Colorado, with pack horses at Holy Cross City. Six buildings and the remains of other structures are visible in the background. "By 1881, Holy Cross City was, itself, a reality. In a meadow, 11,407 feet above sea level, were "'two rows of houses facing each other with other buildings wherever a level spot could be found.' ...Between 1881 and 1883, Holy Cross City could boast...
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
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Looking south down First Street toward Eagle Street in Gypsum circa 1905. The Travelers' Hotel is the second building from the left. There is a boardwalk between buildings. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

13. Gypsum

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Panoramic view of historic downtown Gypsum.
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A view of the town of Gypsum, looking south. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Panorama of Water Street in Red Cliff, Colorado, showing road repair. Photo is marked "Plaintiff's exhibit 3, 10-26-81."
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The fire brigade and hose cart for the Red Cliff fire department, posed in front of the Town Hall. The fire department was in the bottom floor of the Town Hall building. "The first fire department was organized by Aaron Graham in 1888. It was of the push cart type but an improvement over the old bucket brigade type."--A History of Eagle County, p.5. Since the bottom floor of the Town Hall was the fire department, an estimate of 1888-1889 is used...
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Red Cliff with Ft. Arnett and the railroad bridge visible at right midground. [One of a series of ten photographs included in postal mailer: Frashers Quality Photos, Ten Scenic Views souvenir from Canon City to Leadville, Colo. Frashers, Inc., Pomona, Calif. Required 2 cents postage.]
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Looking north on Eagle Street in Red Cliff. Boardwalks visible in front of buildings. Horses ridden and pulling carriages. Chickens at lower right.
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Main Street in Red Cliff (possibly 1892-1907), storefronts visible for bakery and restaurant, general mercantile ("boots and shoes made to order") and Quartzite Hotel. A wagon and horse team are parked in left foreground. The street is not paved and appears to be muddy. "The Quartzite Hotel (sign atop building behind the flag pole on the right) was run, and presumably, owned by the William Greiners for several years between 1900 and 1910. This...
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The Family home of Theodore Stremme in Gypsum, Colorado. The well-attended buildings are surrounded by a white picket fence.