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Eagle County dentist, Dr. O. W. Randall, with his assistant, Mary Splaner, working on a patient at Gilman, Colorado. Dr. Randall visited the various communities in Eagle County, providing dental services. He also is known for his involvement with the Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
62) Durbin McIlnay
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Durbin McIlnay trimming a log. Across the log at the bottom of the photo is an 8 foot measuring stick. The logs were cut to the same 16-foot length before being loaded on a skid.
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Three men standing in front of the E. Carlson Blacksmith shop, Red Cliff, Colorado.
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The E. E. Glenn & Co. General Merchandise store on Broadway in Eagle. The Post Office was also located in the building. There are boardwalks around the building. A dozen men and two children are standing in front of the store.
"Ed Glenn was first attracted to this county by the mining camp at Fulford when that camp was at the boom stage, and later married Mrs. Belding who owned the store located on the site in the same building now occupied by...
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From left, Tom Dice, Andrew Christensen, John Love, and Ed Glenn in front of the E. E. Glenn Store, at the corner of 2nd and Broadway, Eagle, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Members of the Eagle High School class of 1925 gather for a photograph at their 25th class reunion, August 1950, in front of the Koonce Chevrolet dealership.
Eldon Wilson is 3rd from the left. Ruby Ping is 4th from the left. Charlie Thomas is at far right.
The other members of the class of 1925 were Myron McGinley, Marjorie Jerrell, Dorothy Quick, Frank Gleason, Vinta Byers, Morton White and Loyal Carlson.
67) Eagle Cafe
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A group of diners at the Eagle Cafe. Happily, the calendar on the wall identifies the date as September 1952.
From left: Dennie Eaton, Howard McCain, Marilla McCain, Lucille Eaton and the Cafe owner.
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The Eagle County Historical Museum at its present location at Chambers Park in Eagle, Colorado. The Chambers horse barn was originally located at the site of the present I-70 interchange on the Chambers Ranch. It was moved to temporary storage in 1981, while the Eagle County Historical Society raised funds for a foundation to be built. It was seated on the foundation in 1984 and opened to the public as a local history museum in 1991.
The historic...
69) Eagle Street
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Continuing down Eagle Street, Martinez Liquors is the tall building with the false front at center. The town park is visible at left.
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MacDonald Knight and friends, standing in the middle of Eagle Street in Red Cliff.
Verso: "Main Street Red Cliff, Fraysur and I and George Elliot"
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Business card for the Eagle Valley Enterprise during Howard and Marilla McCain's ownership, 1947 to 1972.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, Dec. 30, 1999: ""Ade" Reyolds...remained active as The Enterprise publisher until his death on Oct. 10, 1949.
His daughter, Marilla Reynolds McCain, had been on the receiving end of practical training in the newspaper business from the time she was 7 years old. At the time of her father's death, Mrs. McCain was serving...
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A group of young people in front of the Eagle Valley Feed Mill in Eagle. The Eagle train station is visible in the background.
E. A. (Edward) Michael opened the business in 1912. In 1917, he bought some ranch holdings for $6,500, adding to his residence, feed mill and warehouse properties in Eagle. Due to his wife’s health [Edna Dewey Michael], Michael was forced to sell the ranch to Andrew Christensen for $13,000 in 1920. "The ranch consists...
73) Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
74) Early Gypsum
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Panoramic photograph of early Gypsum, Colorado. The photograph is dated "about 1902".
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Two of the tent buildings on First Street across from the railroad station in Gypsum [circa 1900]. The first buildings providing services to railroad employees had wooden platforms with tent structures on top and sometimes a false front. Many of the buildings housed saloons and, in this photo, even a bank/saloon combination.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
76) Ed Glenn
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Ed "E. E." Glenn with a cane in his left hand, standing in a yard. He owned the E. E. Glenn Store in Eagle, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Eagle River at Edwards [Wilmore stop]. Lettuce shed next to the railroad with the old water tank in the background. Benny Klatt's home and small store on Highway 6. Benny Klatt was killed by his brother-in-law, William Wellington, over the ownership of the cabin in which Wellington lived.
78) Eldon Wilson
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Studio photograph of Eldon Wilson taken in 1941.
"Wilson was the first in Colorado to supply a television signal to the residents of mountainous areas using antennas and transfers." He "was deeply interested in the [Eagle County] airport and contributed many hours trying to get it developed and funded, beginning in the late 1930s."
"Wilson was one of a small group of people that started and maintained the ice skating rink in Eagle in the 1930s, as...
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An elephant walking down Broadway in Eagle (man's legs visible behind trunk), advertising the Dickinson-Allison Lumber and Hardware Co. Whether part of a parade or not (Flight Days, a circus?), it was a unique means of getting attention.
[Used in Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher, p.67]
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Studio photograph of Ella Rose Berger Lewis, posed with her hand on a metal pitcher. Ella married Thomas E. Lewis on March 3, 1907, in Grand Junction and moved to Eagle in 1915.
