Archive Search Results
Showing
61 - 80
of 307
, query time: 0.01s
62. Walter Gates
Format:
Image
Studio portrait of Walter Gates (1879-1947), son of Madison Cassius "Cash" Gates.
"Walter worked for the Kodak Company and he took a lot of pictures whenever he visited. It seemed like he was always taking pictures. (We are grateful for that because many of the pictures in this book were taken by him.) -- The Gates Genealogy
Format:
Image
Looking down on the Denver & Rio Grande W. roundhouse at Minturn, with the town at back on the right, sometime in the 1930s.
In 1928, a new 120-foot turntable was set in place, replacing the old 100-foot table installed in 1912. The older turntable could not accommodate the 3600-series simple-articulated locomotives assigned to the area. The turntable and roundhouse dominated Minturn
Format:
Image
Bivans' ledger, Avon Store, spine and front cover.
"In the town of Avon, at the mouth of Beaver Creek, Stephen Bivans kept a store in a single-story log building. When Bivans left for Utah in 1908 Charles and Esther Adams, from Pennsylvania, arrived to take over the business." -- Beaver Creek by June Simonton, p. 44.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
69. Hugh Luby
Format:
Image
Hugh Luby, on right, standing on the boardwalk in front of a business establishment (possibly Minturn Mercantile prior to the brick building) in Minturn. An unidentified man is standing next to the barbershop adjoining the business building.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
70. Broadway
Format:
Image
Broadway in Eagle. The building on the right was built by the First National Bank of Eagle County. The two story half of the building was occupied by general merchandise stores (F. Hugus and Co.; later, the Lewis store); the one story side by the bank.
The line of wagons and carriages may be a parade.
Same as 1991.001.046 Photo only scanned once into Past Perfect.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
71. Mercantile
Format:
Image
John E. Kavanaugh, 10 or 12 years old, standing between two men in a store, possibly in Minturn. John was born in Salida, Colorado, December 6, 1910. His parents were Henry O. Anderson and Hilma Lindgren Anderson. His name was later changed from Anderson to Kavanaugh when he was adopted by his mother's second husband, William "Billy" Kavanaugh, an engineer on the D&RG Railroad.
Many products are visible, such as bananas hanging in the center...
Format:
Image
View of the Brush Creek Lodge from the brochure, "Spend your vacation this summer...at Brush Creek Lodge." [photo mounted on p.5] The Lodge was situated south of Eagle. Taking Brush Creek Road, travel eleven miles to the fork; take the left fork and drive four miles to the lodge, near Yeoman Park. Mrs. Jo Wirsching, owner, manager; rooms by reservation only.
"For those who enjoy beauty never-to-be-forgotten, Eagle County offers scenes indescribable."...
Format:
Image
Same as 1992.004A.056
The VanCamp road house, a stage stop, in Routt County. There is an antler fence around the building and sod roof, resulting in its being the subject of many photographs.
"Although noot at all in the McCoy area, this book would be incomplete without the oft photographed VanCamp house in Yampa, an early day stage stop and road house. Note the vegetation growing on the dirt floor [sic. roof]." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 313
[Title...
Format:
Image
Beginning of the deconstruction of the Nogal-Ping hotel and cabins in Eagle by Claude DeGraw. Nogal's Hotel, built in 1892, was later purchased by the O. A. Ping family in 1923. It was occupied by siblings Leonard and Garnet Ping most recently. Leonard died in 1988 and Garnet moved to Gypsum in the late 1990s, passing away in 2003. It stands at the corner of Hwy 24 and Capitol Streets and was the town's first permanent hotel, boasting 13 rooms...
76. Minturn Store
Format:
Image
Wagon loading/unloading goods in front of the Minturn Store. Several children, women and men are on the boardwalk in front of the store. Tent with sign ("Photographs") in between the store and the house on the right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
77. Avon Store
Format:
Image
The old Avon Store and the shed next to it, located on the north west corner of Avon Road (above the building) and Hwy 6 (in front of the building). The Avon bridge crosses the Eagle River. The store is unused in this photo. It was moved to Chambers Park and the Information Center in Eagle as part of the Eagle County Historical Society museum complex.
Format:
Image
"At the time the mail route was still run by way of the McCoy ferry, Whipple purchased two Concord stages from a mail contractor in Oklahoma. The double-decker coaches were slung on heavy leather straps instead of strings. They could carry fifteen to twenty passengers as the above picture shows. The stage route came into being from Wolcott in 1887 and continued to operate for the next twenty years or more." -- The Gates Genealogy