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Standing on Hilltop Street [Sunset View Cemetery] looking west toward Gypsum in Eagle, Colorado. The road at the very bottom is Hilltop Street; the road just beyond that and lower is Capitol St./Brush Creek. Photo was developed April 1963.
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Micheline and Don Knight with baby Patricia, taken during the trip to Holy Cross City. The Hound is in the foreground.
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Gold Park and cabin with burros tethered under the trees. The burros were used to pack ore out of the Glengarry Mine.
Verso: "Gold Park and burros 1939, packing ore from Glengary"
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Standing at the Treasure Vault Mill, looking downstream at Cross Creek.
Front: "Cross Creek from Treasure Vault;" verso: "Treasure Vault Mill looking down stream"
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"Judge Lyle named his four guest cabins after Conger Mesa pioneers. This one is the Conger, others are the Theisen, Butler and Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 251
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
6. Shrine Pass
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Shrine Pass in the snow taken on Christmas 1986.
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Scenic view near Holy Cross City, Colorado, approximately twelve miles from Red Cliff. Holy Cross City and Gold Park were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District. There were two mills in the area to service the mines.
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"D. & R.G. Railroad" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 16. The scrapbook was created as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
The railroad would haul zinc out of the mines at Gilman for several decades. Three buildings are visible, including one perched on the mountainside. At far right, a sign says "Eagle Mines of the Empire Zinc Co". A tailings pipe appears to be dumping into the Eagle River (midground). The town of...
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A vehicle stuck in the snow in the town of Gilman in 1943.
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Three children sit together in the grass. There is a house and fence/fence gate in the background. The child in the center is holding onto a stuffed toy.
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The Mount of the Holy Cross with snow delineating the feature.
[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.]
12. Convoy
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Truck convoy negotiating the Old Battle Mountain Road. The original rock supported roadway is clearly visible. Probably the original image from which the close-up [1984.001.018] was made.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Shared marker for: "Kirby, Howard, Feb. 7, 1917--June 12, 2007; Ramona, Aug. 19, 1928-- ," in the McCoy Cemetery. A mountain scene is engraved at the top of the marker. An inscription engraved in a heart reads: "Together 59 years."
14. Tennessee Pass
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Photo postcard of U.S. Hwy 24 at the top of Tennessee Pass (Alt. 10,240 ft,) between Leadville and Red Cliff, Colorado. [Sanborn W-1181] There is snow on the ground.
15. Castle Peak
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A view of Castle Peak taken by Bill Heicher on November 16, 2009.
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From left, Ray tippett, Buster Beck, Bud Beck, and Don Knight, resting on the Holy Cross City Road. Wuinn Beck may be seated just above Buster in the photo [difficult to see].
17. Town of Eagle
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The town of Eagle taken from the Eby Creek area. Highway 6 runs through the photo, with the major main street, Broadway, at center, dead-ending into Chester Mayer's ranch (now the Bull Pasture and Eagle Ranch subdivisions). Chambers Ranch is at the lower right corner, the big white barn now housing the Eagle County Historical Society Museum. The Eagle River runs from left to right with the railroad bridge over the river at midground. Brush Creek...
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Looking east toward Red Point at far right on the horizon, the fields show the great agricultural potential of the Eagle River Valley.
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A group photo at the lookout station, top of Castle Peak in 1918. Each person is numbered as follows: 1- "Mayer"; 2- Earl Carey; 3- Miss Fleming; 4- Harry Dickerson; 5- Cecil Carey; 6- Harry Woods; 7- William Long; 8- Herman Stein; 9- Mr. Dickinson; 10- Marion Dickerson; 11- Dorothy Shryack; 12- Miss Fleming (appears twice); 13- Mayme Long; 14- Mrs. Dickinson; 15- Beulah Buchholz; 16- Leo Carey; 17- Marion Mayer.
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A view of the Mount of the Holy Cross, taken in July. From the verso, "Even in July, the snow blanketing Mount of the Holy Cross outlines the dramatic cross-like natural formation on the mountain's side."