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This Mallet locomotive is at Minturn. Anatole Mallet, a Swiss engineer, patented the compound engine which was housed under one locomotive frame having six or more sets of axles. The rear set of driving wheels were fixed in the main frame of the locomotive. The extra pull generated made the locomotive useful in mountainous regions but slower on flat terrain.
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Clarence Smaller, in overalls with a cigarette in his mouth, holding two fish in a yard in Minturn, Colorado. A house with clothesline in use is in the background. The picture was taken August 14, 1949.

123. Minturn

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Town of Minturn with the Eagle River running through it.

124. Rodeo

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Automobiles parked with spectators perched on top watching calf roping. The rodeo may have been at either Minturn or what is now Maloit Park in the 1930s. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Floyd Beck and Eleanor Frances McLaughlin in Minturn, Colorado, in the early 1960s.
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A crew with engine 736 at Minturn. Second from left may be Bill Flynn.
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Harvesting ice at Pando. Workers on the right are pulling ice chunks to the bank with gaffs. A pair of tongs is in the foreground. According to the Assessment Roll 1930 Eagle County, the Western Railways Ice Co. (Pando), in School Taxation District Mitchell 2, owned the following, located on railroad property in Minturn: 1 boarding house (18' x 100'), 2 bunk houses (12' x 50'), 1 bunk house (12' x 16'), 1 tool house, 1 boiler house, 1 machine shed...
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1900-1910, the Hugh Luby home in Minturn looking north. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Flynn Brothers in Minturn, Colorado, May 30, 1933. From Left: Jack, Jim, Bill, and Dan.
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Caption by O.W. Randall: "The CCC camp on my ranch. You can see Gilman in the distance. Two companies of CCC boys were on the Holy Cross Project parts of three years." numbered on front; 281261; stamp on verso: 4400 The ranch was located between Cross Creek and Fall Creek on the south side of the Eagle River, southeast of Minturn. The CCC camp was called Camp Tigiwon. Earl Beck was hired by the Forest Service as a foreman for the Civilian Conservation...
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Wedding photo of Ethel Boies and Howard G. Bayer. They were married June 20, 1918, settling in Minturn, Colorado. Howard was an engineer and carpenter; Ethel taught at Minturn High School.
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Ginther family members standing by two automobiles. The first three children, from left to right, are: Carol "Bobbye" Ginther [Beck] 3 yrs. old; Harold Ginther 7 yrs. old; Dorothy Ginther [Ross] 5 yrs. old. The road is unpaved.
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Minturn High School faculty dinner. At back table beginning far left and moving clockwise: Gail Dein, ? , Gail Mather, Hoffmeister, Irma Collins, Ethel Bayer Front table: H.G. Bayer, Connant, Marjorie O'Brian
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Shared marker for: "Williams, Marie A., May 24, 1915--Jan. 2, 1997; David D., Dec. 1911--Apr. 14, 1991," Riverview Cemetery. A book is engraved under Marie's name; a locomotive is engraved under David's name. At center in a heart above two roses is engraved "Married Nov. 3, 1938."
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Shared marker for: "Elliott, Richard Wayne "Luke," Oct. 9, 1928; Lorraine Mae, June 14, 1933; Apr. 13, 2005. Married August 5, 1950," Riverview Cemetery. A mountain scene with pines and aspen is engraved at the bottom.
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Wrought iron marker for: "Charlie Salazar, August 2, 1988--July 20, 2004, Forever Young," Riverview Cemetery. The wrought iron marker is shaped into a cross.
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Wooden cross marker for: "Jerome Gallegos 1987--2004," Riverview Cemetery.
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Shared marker for: "Ferris, H. Lee, 1895--19- ; Elizabeth Mae, 1899--1956," Riverview Cemetery. Roses are engraved on the upper corners of the marker.
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Marker for: "Walter L. Chadwick, 1911--1965," Riverview Cemetery. Pine trees and clouds are engraved on the marker.
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Military marker for: "David Irons, CO. G, 11 Minn. Inf.," Riverview Cemetery.