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A postcard sent to Alda Borah from her teacher, Adda Crawford. The postmark is dated June 11.
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A postcard, sent from Audrey Chase of Edison, Nebraska to Anna Ireland of Mitchell, Colorado. The postcard was sent sometime between 1883 and 1909, when the post office at Mitchell ceased operations.
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A postcard of Eagle from around 1917. This view is looking north down Broadway Street.
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A postcard of Main Street in Gilman. The Gilman School is visible in the foreground on the right. This was the "business street" of Gilman. Several cars line the street in front of the various stores. This postcard was sent by an Edward, who lived in Gilman, to Bessie Clark of Grand Island, Nebraska.
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A postcard of the Yule Marble quarry at Marble. Several individuals are pictured standing in the quarry. Marble from this quarry has been used to make historic monuments and structures in Washington D.C., San Francisco, and New York City,
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A postcard of the Basalt Methodist Church, taken between 1900 and 1920. This postcard was published by the Carlson Drug Company of Basalt.
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An aerial view of the Rifle Falls Hatchery, taken in the 1960s-1970s. The hatchery first opened in 1955, and "is the largest state-owned and operated trout production hatchery in Colorado." -- Wikipedia.
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A postcard showing the second tunnel in the Grand River Canyon (now Glenwood Canyon) on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
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A postcard of the Ruedi railway station on the Colorado Midland Railway. A water tank is visible on the right. Two unidentified individuals are standing on the platform. The Colorado Midland Railway came through Ruedi around 1887.
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Vivian Hodges sits atop Billy/Billie, the Borah family horse. Taken in 1914 at the Borah ranch.
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A postcard of Ute Pass, located in the Rampart Range in Teller County, Colorado. Two horses are pulling a small buggy on the road near a lookout point. A creek runs alongside the pass, possible Fountain Creek.
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A postcard of Twin Lakes, located near Leadville. This postcard was published by the Davis Drug Company of Leadville.
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A postcard of the interior of the Vail Village Inn. This was taken in the Inn's Hub Room Bar. Hotel guests are seated around tables lined with red tablecloths. Three musicians can be seen in the background performing for the guests. The Vail Village Inn operated until 2003, when it was closed. The building was demolished the following year to make way for the Vail Plaza Hotel, now known as the Sebastian. The Inn was one of Vail's first hotels. From...
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A postcard print view of the Grand (now Colorado) River at Burns, or Burns Hole, around 1915. The old post office is visible on the right.
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A postcard of Vail Pass. The postmark is dated October 22, 1951. Following the completion of Highway 6 over the pass, the Eagle County Commissioners asked the state highway board to name the pass Vail Pass, after Charles D. Vail, the chief engineer for the State Highway Department. The request, originally put forth in December of 1939, was approved in 1941. The county commissioners were eager to have the pass named for Vail after local residents near...
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Two unidentified women sit in a boat at the Smith Ranch. The postmark is dated May 10, 1909. An unidentified individual is sitting on the porch of the house. Smith's Ranch was located near Ruedi, Colorado. John Ruedi settled on the land after snowshoeing up from Basalt in 1885. Ruedi would later sell his ranch in 1906. Other settlers followed including Bill Smith. Once located in the Fryingpan River Valley, the land where Ruedi was located was...
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A postcard of the Basalt Public School. The Basalt Public School was originally located in a small one-room frame structure until the late-1890s. The school was relocated to this building, which sat on the border between Eagle County and Pitkin County. In 1902, the building was expanded from a one-room school house to a four-room, two story brick building, pictured here. The bell was removed from the bell tower in 1914, due to structural concerns,...
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A panoramic postcard of Eagle. Taken in the 1940s. This appears to have been taken from where Sunset View Cemetery is located. The Eagle County Courthouse and Eagle School are visible at midfield on the left.
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A postcard scene of the Lower Gypsum School, taken sometime in the 1910s or 1920s. The three children in front of the school are unidentified. The Lower Gypsum School was a part of School District No. 16.
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A view of Vail's iconic Covered Bridge, taken in the winter. Peter Runyon Photography, Box 1441, Vail, Colorado 81657; The Continental card, Mike Roberts Color Productions, Berkeley, CA 94710; B14478