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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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Skiers on Whittaker Hill (Bruce Creek, off Brush Creek) with cattle in the background. Ping's photo finishing date Oct. 24, 1939.
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A winter scene at Ruedi. Taken around 1910 at the Bess ranch.
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Dan (right) and Larry Rule, showing cattle. [Photo developed Jan. 23, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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Shrine Pass in the snow taken on Christmas 1986.
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Dorris Johnson at the firing range camp at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Taken in 1944.
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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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Margie Haas holding a camera, standing in the snow at the Haas Ranch, Sandstone Creek. The barn is in the background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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.
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Ice train wreck in Red Cliff. Ice was being transported from Pando to the ice houses in Minturn, Colorado, to be used in refrigerator cars. The brakes on the train froze and the train wrecked in the Red Cliff city limits. Several men are examining the wreckage. The accident occurred December 31, 1927. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A view of Castle Peak taken by Bill Heicher on November 16, 2009.
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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."
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The "Big Hook" steam-powered wrecker, based in Grand Junction, moving the Ice Train engine into an upright position. Damaged box car in foreground. "Volunteer labor was called for and many miners from this place went to work with the men rushed to the scene by the railroad company to clear the line." "Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
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A house buried in snow drifts at Gilman, Colorado.
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Two unidentified men in front of the Post Office at Gilman, Colorado.
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Mule train visible through the snow. The shot is taken from behind barracks at Camp Hale with spruce trees blocking the view. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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A view of Beaver Creek Resort taken sometime in winter prior to August of 2008.
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A winter scene of the town of Gilman. Taken between 1950 and 1952. "[Wynona] Nonie Stanley Collection"