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Airplane, trucks and cars close to the fire line during 1944 forest fire northeast of Eagle, Colorado. View taken from across a field. Men standing around the airplane are barely visible.
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Right side of ambulance with red cross visible [blurred image]. Barracks in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bud Beck with sunglasses in hand, standing next to a 1941 Ford. There is snow on the ground.
4) Bus in snow
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A Battle Mountain Transportation bus in the snow at Gilman. The license plates reads 1936.
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Field House at Camp Hale with a troop truck convoy lined up in front. Two jeeps are parked facing the convoy.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Entrance to the Carlton Tunnel in September 1989.
The Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route. It connected Aspen and Leadville.
The tunnel was abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy and was converted to one-way auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway...
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Entrance to the Carlton tunnel in 1932, in the snow.
The Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route. It connected Aspen and Leadville.
The tunnel was abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy and was converted to one-way auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway...
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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Cars lined up along Highway 24 for the Dedication and grand opening of the completed Red Cliff Bridge, August 3, 1941.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 13]
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Pedestrians gathered on the Red Cliff Bridge for the dedication and grand opening. The dedication was held at noon on Sunday, August 3, 1941. Governor Ralph L. Carr and other officials attended. The bridge and six miles of new highway built over Battle Mountain cost a total of $636,405. The bridge is 470 ft. long, 209 ft. high; the roadbed is 30 ft. wide and has two 18-inch curbs. It is listed on the Historic Bridge Inventory, Colorado Historical...
11) Dump Truck
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Construction and maintenance of roads in Eagle County, Colorado, using a dump truck. There is a man working and a child watching in the far right corner.
12) Forest fire
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Airplane at the scene of the forest fire northeast of Eagle, Colorado, 1944. Man holding struts on right side of airplane. Automobiles
in left background, belonging to fire crew and watchers. Smoke evident.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
13) Grading Roads
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First use of mechanized graders on gravel roads in Eagle County, Colorado.
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Construction of the Hanging Lake rest area in Glenwood Canyon, part of the I-70 construction project. This photo was taken on June 27, 1994.
The project completed Interstate 70's final, 12.5-mile gap in the transcontinental highway reaching from Baltimore, Maryland, to Interstate 15 south of Salt Lake City.
"Lawsuits, environmental impact studies, and design changes took nearly two decades to resolve before the first shovelful of earth was turned...
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The Ford tow truck from the Holy Cross Garage in Red Cliff, with car in tow. The Walsh family owned the garage.
16) Hwy 6, Eagle
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view of road repair/construction on Hwy 6 just west of Eagle, Colorado. Men are examining the work area; automobiles are parked alongside the road. Steam shovel, dump truck and grader are moving earth.
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Louis Rene Coquoz and Ernie Nogal standing in front of an automobile after hunting. Deer are tied to the front fenders and a deer is in the back seat.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mabelle Robertson (later Mrs. Robert Redwood) in front of automobile with Arizona license plates at the Avon Depot. Daughter, Billy Jo, dressed for cold weather, is seated on the hood of the automobile.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Clyde Nottingham (driving) and younger brother, Harry Nottingham, in front seat. Harry is holding Clyde's daughter, Lola. Clyde's wife, Myrtle is holding baby son Roland in the back seat, next to friend, Lillian Snell, who once worked for the Nottinghams. The automobile is in front of Harry Nottingham's old house at Buck Creek as they leave for a trip to Salida.
It is unknown whether this is the car belonging to Clyde Nottingham and Tom Dice [1906]...
