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8824) Conger Mesa residents
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Conger Mesa residents standing on the porch of a house; dog in foreground. From left: Cliff and Allie Daniels, Mary and Warren Henry, Frank "Shorty" Strutzel.
Found on p. 270 McCoy Memoirs by John Ambos.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From description of video on High Five Access Media website, "The Hahnewald Barn is in danger of being torn down, and would represent a significant loss of history in the town of Avon. In response, a group of citizens formed the Avon Historic Preservation Advisory Board to save the barn and breathe new life into the [barn]." More information about the barn can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/vemlyc9. Video produced by High Five Access Media.
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1895: Formal photo portrait of Myrtie Hockett Gant, who came to Eagle County in 1882 with her father, Barclay, twin sister, Min, and two brothers, Art and Addison Hockett. She is Myrtie Hockett Stephen's aunt. She is standing in a studio, wearing a suit, hat, gloves (carrying one), with her bag over her left arm.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
8827) Benjamin A. Hart
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Benjamin Hart was an Eagle County pioneer, arriving to Red Cliff as a child with his family in 1886. The Hart family were miners and owned, worked, and operated many productive mines near the Battle Mountain area. He married Jennie May Bryant in 1897 and the couple had three children. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Red Cliff.
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Dr. William Lawrence Conway with his granddaughter, Lillian Naomi Higdon, now Starr Doll. Dr. Conway is leaning down and touching Freckles, the dog. Starr's mother died in childbirth and she was raised by her grandparents.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A souvenir booklet titled, "Over the South Park to Leadville." This accordion style booklet was printed by Chain & Hardy, Publishers and Booksellers from Denver, between 1881 and 1890, and shows the Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad between the South Park region and Leadville. Several sites have been illustrated including Kenosha Pass Horseshoe Mountain, several Leadville streets, and the Mount of the Holy Cross.
8830) D&RG RR YMCA
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The D&RG Railroad YMCA (now the International Trade Center) was used as sleeping quarters for railroad men. "It had a big sun porch on the east, and it had a glass-enclosed reading room. The stationary boiler in the roundhouse heated the YMCA building. The two floors above the lobby were used for sleeping rooms….Each room had a hang-down electric bulb with a pull-chain switch. Also, one single bed and a little nightstand.
On the main floor...
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This birthday postcard was addressed to Dorothy Shryack by someone named Victor from Grand Junction, Colorado on January 29, 1913. The text on the front of the card reads, "A wish for your birthday. May you have many, many, birthdays, for each of them is a rose in the garden of friendship."
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Francis Lufkin poses with twins; their names are unknown, but their mother was Lola Figgins, daughter of Frank & Birdie Figgins.
