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Abandoned cabin [negative found in envelope labeled "Pando"]. The cabin is chinked log with a metal roof. Windows appear to be broken out (window and door frames are painted blue). Snow is banked around the building. [Film scanned to produce digital image January 2009]
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Photo postcard of the Lutheran Church in Gypsum, built in 1888. The writing at the top is "Church, Gypsum, Co." in Swedish.
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Bell's Camp, Colorado, between Gilman and Red Cliff [sticker affixed to back: 0386] Photo taken from above the camp showing six large structures and various outbuildings. A crowd of people are standing in right midground. Myers, Rex. The Upper Eagle River Valley, 1964. p. 14: " Celeveland, first called Bell's Camp, clustered around the Black Iron and Ground Hog Mines which provided the support for the settlement. The town was founded around...
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Webster cabin at Lake Creek, built in 1914. Woodpile in foreground.
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The McPhee-Lindner ranch house built in 1889 on Sheephorn Creek. Two unidentified men are in the yard; a whetstone is visible. Ladder on roof for access.
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Restored Brett Ranch house at mouth of Lake Creek, near Edwards, Colorado. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"A revival meeting at the McCoy Hall in 1916. In the back row of the group are: Florence Scrivens (a sister to Elsie Brooks), Reuben Stifel, Ed Robinson, Cora Mulnix, Mrs. Lovett, Gladys Mulnix, Perry Ault, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bailey, Preacher Tom Smith, Mrs. Kibbler, Mary Walters, Lulu Horn, Elizabeth Ault, Inez Robinson, Hazel Skiff, Pauline Schomers, Frank Panting Jr., Frank Ault. The three young children are: Frank and Edna Mulnix and Leonard Horn. In...
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The original ranch house on the Whittaker Ranch, built by Charles Zartman (circa 1906). The ski tow warning house is in the left background.
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Deep Lake Ranger Station on the Flat Tops (White River National Forest, Garfield County). Log buildings and corral visible with outhouse further up the hill. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Red Cliff, Colorado, showing the "twin houses." The building to the left and below the houses is the Fleming Lumber Company hay barn.
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Joe Dice on Sally, the mare, at the Half-Way barn up Brush Creek. Rex, the dog, is visible under the horse's belly. Joe, ten years old, rode past the barn on his way to school. The Half-Way barn (at the entrance now in 2007 to Sylvan Park) was a stage stop for the Eagle to Fulford stage line. The barn was long with plenty of room and freight wagons could be parked. The teamsters switched horses here and, if necessary, could sleep in the hay.
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The Simpson's house at Wolcott in 1915. There have been additions to the original log house; several outbuildings behind the main house.
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The Lindner barn built in 1924 at the junction of Sheephorn Creek and Cottonwood Creek.
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Original Avon School before addition, taken prior to 1915. The horse barn has not been built. Fence surrounding school yard visible. Shows the Eagle River on right with "water spruce" hanging over the river and Johnson Lane (named for homesteader Joe Johnson) that was the road into Bachelor Gulch. The road eventually became Highway 6, located about 300 yards west of the current Avon Road. View is to the west. This picture was hanging on the...
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Walter Hyde cabin at Gold Park, which is up Homestake Creek, south of Gilman. Walter was born on September 4, 1872, in Fairplay, Colo. In the early 1880s, the Hyde family settled at the mouth of Lake Creek. Water was a prospector and was a miner in Utah for many years. In the 1930s, he lived in Gold Park, mining in that region. When his health deteriorated, he spent most of his time in Red Cliff. He died in Denver in 1942. His sisters were Laura...
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A team of horses (Bill and Tom) pulling a sled of wood in the canyon above Black Mountain Ranch, 1928. Cabins visible in background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Bailey Family log cabin with cows standing on the roof. Shovel is leaning up against the rock chimney.
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John Kelley Edwards and his grandson, "little" Joe (Joseph Klyde) Edwards.
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The road into Bell's Camp in the summer time. The second house from the left was Eben Young's family house. Eben's father, Eben P. Young, Sr., and Fanny M. Young were very early settlers in Gold Park, before living at Bell's Camp. The Youngs moved to Red Cliff where they are included in the 1910 Federal Census. Eben P. Young Jr. married Virginia Rockwood, the granddaughter of John Wesley Phillips, who built the Gore Creek School, and daughter of...
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Three men seated in a field with 2 dogs in front of the Doll Brothers' Ranch. They are probably members of the Doll family. Lucy Doll wearing coat and shawl, stands behind them. Barns, farmhouse and outbuildings shown with cattle grazing at left background.