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"26 Deer" (Caption from photo album) Photo taken on May 7, 1929 on Senior Sneak Day.
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Students of Brush Creek School pose with their giant snowman. Photo dated 1940s.
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""Squeak", Melissa, and Jane" (caption from photo album)
An unnamed girl, Melissa Larsen, Jane Bemis, and a dog pose together on a dirt road. There is still snow on the ground.
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"Us." Unknown boy and girl. Part of the Schlegel Family Collection.
5) Aspen, 1950s
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A postcard of Aspen, sent by Ivan and Rachel "Rae" Staton to Alda (Borah) Farnsworth. The postmark is dated September 11, 1958, from Glenwood Springs.
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An unidentified man standing at the back door of the bachelors' quarters in Gilman. Behind him [follow the arrow] is the Gilman Hospital. Both Alan Knight and Patricia Knight Hoffman were born in that hospital.
Front: "Hospital where Trish and Alan were born, Gilman looking north"
Verso: "Back door of bachelor house in Gilman"
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Biew of Black Mountain Ranch in February 1939. Animal is grazing at far right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The ranch buildings on what later became the Black Mountain Ranch. When this picture was taken in 1935 [photo has both 1934 and 1936 written on it], it was a working ranch (with emphasis on work) and had about fifty acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland. Pioneers named the hill in the background Sawmill Mountain. Until 1915 the hill was a paradise for grouse and to see fifty or sixty in a flock was...
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Looking down on Black Mountain Ranch from Sawmill Mountain. The sawmill was located at the foot of the mountain and Dick Webb was the sawmill operator. Photo taken January 1936.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"February, 1936. The Black Mountain Ranch when John Ambos and his mother were living there. It shows the 1925 burn on the northwest side of Black Mountain, caused by carelessness of sawmill operator Dick Webb whose mill was located at the foot of the mountain." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 244
An automobile at lower left is approaching the ranch; a horse harnessed to a sled is standing to the right of the automobile.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared...
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Students build a snowfort together at Brush Creek School in Brush Creek, Colorado.
12) Buster Beck
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Buster Beck with a cant hook log roller, positioning cut and trimmed logs into a pile. A piece of lumber is being used as a wedge.
13) Cabins
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Caption reads "Cabins at Sweetwater Lake" although this may not match the actual location. (Leadville?) There are nine men in the photograph-- two are standing on either side of the main cabin at center with the door open. Both wagons are full.
15) Castle Peak
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A view of Castle Peak taken by Bill Heicher on March 8, 2015. John Jodire of Gypsum noted the sloughing of the easternmost [far right] turret of Castle Peak. Bill Heicher took the confirming photograph.
16) Castle Peak
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A view of Castle Peak covered in snow. Castle Peak is located near Eagle.
17) Castle Peak
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A view of Castle Peak covered in snow. Castle Peak is located near Eagle.
18) Christmas 1938
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Gilman, Colorado, on Christmas morning 1938, taken from the Knight family's front door. Stacks of mine timbers are visible at right foreground and left midfield.
Verso: "view from our front door on Xmas AM, Gilman 1938"
19) Clara Forster
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Clara Forster poses on a rock in Redstone, Colorado, on Senior Sneak Day, May 7, 1929.
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Climbing Fancy Pass to the Holy Cross Mining District. From left: Harold Stoner, Buster Beck and MacDonald Knight. The Holy Cross District covered 100 square miles of the intervening country between the headwaters of Cross and Homestake Creeks. Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps.
Verso: "Big'un Stoner, Buster Beck, Don Knight climbing Fancy Pass 1939"
"Harold Stoner was known by his Missouri Family as 'Big'un.' He had...
