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1898: Frank Doll with horses brought from Ohio, standing in front of cabin at Dotsero. Frank and Lucy Doll with their children, Sam and Susan, spent the Fall and Winter of 1887 here. The one-room log cabin appears to be on a rock foundation with steps leading up to a small porch at the front door.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1928: Dotsero School. Five children standing between a fence and the schoolhouse. Cupola with bell and stove pipe clearly visible.
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Dotsero Drug Company building, no longer in existence. The building was left after the railroad boom and was used as a house for many years. Kenny Schultz was an occupant. Automobiles and a truck are parked by the building. The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
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Buildings in Dotsero, from left:
Delco Light Company, which used a gasoline engine to charge batteries. It was a 32 volt light plant after World War II.
Cafe between the Light Company and the Dotsero Drug Company, which may also have been a bar. There were two bars in Dotsero during the railroad years.
Dotsero Drug Company at far right, providing service to railroad construction workers and their families.
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Avery's Texaco station in Dotsero, with gas pump out front. There is a kerosene pump next to the ice house, where 100 pounds of ice cost 50 cents. Gas price of the day was 14 cents per gallon. Advertisements for Nehi and ice cream are on the station buiding.
6) Doll Family
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A group at the original Doll family cabin at Dotsero. Lucy Doll is standing at far left; Susan Doll is sitting on the porch rail next to Franklin Doll. The others are not identified. The Doll's moved to Gypsum Valley 1n 1888. [Either this photo or 2012.012.001 is flipped.]
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Cabins built by Nels Yost and rented to railroad construction workers. There are cherry and apple trees behind the cabins, close to the riverbank. They were located north of where the Colorado River Road meets Hwy 6. The photo was printed on April 2, 1933. The automobile at right appears to have a flat tire.
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"Built in 1887 the Quinlan Homestead cabin east of Dotsero is still standing. Elizabeth, Mary and Gertrude were born under its dirt roof. The family only lived here a few years before locating near McCoy." -- McCoy Memoirs p.141
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1928: Five boys line up in front of the Dotsero School. From left to right: Edwin Yost, Therman Yost, Freddie Yost, Clyde Hayes, Eddie Wilds. The teacher at this time was Myrtie Stephens. The boys are wearing overalls. There is a fence in the right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
10) Log house
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Log dwelling at Dotsero built in 1932. Piece of culvert in right foreground.
11) Shoe shop
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A tent building in Dotsero used as a shoe shop for railroad construction workers. The photo was printed on April 2, 1933.
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"John and A. P. Rundell at our pump." -- verso
Two men, right one at the pump, the other holding the bucket and ladle. Ranch buildings in the background.
13) Lucy Doll
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Lucy Doll standing in front of the original Doll family cabin at Dotsero. Franklin and his brother Samuel arrived at Dotsero in 1886. They purchased a ranch in Gypsum Valley which became the Doll Brothers and Condon ranch. Franklin brought his wife Lucy and children Sam and Susan to Dotsero in 1887, coming from Ohio. The family spent the winter of 1887 in this cabin. [Either this photo or 2012.012.001 is flipped.]
14) Restaurant
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Three women standing under a "Restaurant" sign in front of a tent building in Dotsero. The clientele for the restaurant would be railroad construction workers.
15) Doll cabin
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The log cabin built by Frank and Lucy Doll in Dotsero and which was moved to Gypsum around 1890. Most likely Lucy and Frank on the porch with large crate and antlers.
16) Dotsero cafe
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A cafe next to the Dotsero Drug Company, one of the buildings left from the railroad boom at Dotsero. There are two men seated outside the cafe. It probably also functioned as one of two bars in town (the other was located on Riverside Way on the river bank). The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
Duplicate photo in 2008.015.
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Twelve children, oldest in back row, standing in front of the school building with their teacher. The log school building has a wide front porch and windows on either side of the front door.
Front row: Jessie Lindsley, Mary Stout, Shirley Lindsley, Hazel Stout.
Second row: Richard Stout, Bill Schultz, Georgia Stout, Junior Schultz.
Back row: Elbert Schultz, Leo Stout, ---------, Kenny Schultz.
Teacher: Vera Goodenberger
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The White Eagle Gas Station (Conoco Inc.) in Dotsero, with gas pump out front. Photo was printed April 2, 1933.
