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Blasting rock during the construction of highway through Glenwood Canyon. The Colorado River is at the right; there is snow on the hills in the background. Large rocks in foreground with debris from the blast rising in the air in center midground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Jack Williamson's cabin on Rock Creek, snow on the ground. The cabin was built circa 1909 and burned in about 1922. This photo was taken in 1920.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A panoramic view of the Sherman Brothers Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. Five still photographs were taken to form this photo [2010.005.050]. This is the fifth and final photo, from left to right, making up the panoramic view.
66) Foxie
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"Foxie" [otherwise unidentified] climbing the bridge over the Eagle at Kent. Three pines visible in the right background.
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The Roaring Fork Valley in the 1940's. Mount Sopris is in the background. The Roaring Fork River goes through Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield Counties.
68) Tom Knight
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Tom Knight, standing on the foot bridge that crosses Homestake Creek in Gold Park.
Front: "on the foot bridge across Homestake Gold Park;" verso: "Tom."
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Looking down on the Denver & Rio Grande W. roundhouse at Minturn, with the town at back on the right, sometime in the 1930s.
In 1928, a new 120-foot turntable was set in place, replacing the old 100-foot table installed in 1912. The older turntable could not accommodate the 3600-series simple-articulated locomotives assigned to the area. The turntable and roundhouse dominated Minturn
70) Red Point
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Man standing on the cliff at Red Point, on the north side of the Eagle River. The railroad tracks can be seen in the valley below. Leonard Horn frequently jumped his horse across the crevice between the cliff and the hillside.
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Ranchers taking cattle to summer pastures in the Frying Pan River Valley.
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Blasting in Glenwood Canyon during road construction, 1936-37. Snow present on canyon sides.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
73) Dowds Junction
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Dowds Junction, above Minturn, where the Eagle River meets Gore Creek and where the D.&R.G. goes up the Gore Creek Valley.
74) Sherwood Bridge
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Looking down on the Sherwood bridge from the Sherwood quarry drum. Hwy 6 is at the top, the Eagle River is flowing under the Sherwood bridge and I-70 is at the bottom.
At the turn of the century, major routes in the Colorado mountains were steep, rocky grades, little more than wagon tracks. By 1910, cars were becoming more prominent but Colorado roads were in terrible condition. That year, the State Highway Commission established Highway 10 from...
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The Brooks water wheel on the Colorado River, near McCoy. Yarmony Mountain is in the background.
Earl and Elsie Brooks sold the McCoy Hotel in 1919 to "Edith Stifel and purchased the former Charles Nelson place on the Colorado River. The place was badly rundown when Earl bought it and there were no improvements to speak of. So beginning from scratch they started the big undertaking of making it a modern ranch. Almost the first things which had to...
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Kroelling's house about 1/2 mile west of Avon. Metcalf Gulch is in the background. Highway 6 is in the foreground. Bridge over the Eagle River is in right foreground. Note belfry on house. The house and all the outbuildings were replaced by the Sunridge Condominiums.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A panoramic view of the Sherman Brothers Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. Five still photographs were taken to form this photo [2010.005.050]. This is the second photo, from left to right, making up the panoramic view.
78) Cement bridge
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The cement bridge near Kent, looking downstream along the Eagle River toward the west. Kent is most likely Leonard Horn's place.
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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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Two engines meet head-on between Belden and Red Cliff in the Eagle River Canyon. Groups of men in the foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
