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61) Broadway
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Photo postcard looking up Broadway (the main street) in Eagle, Colorado, north toward Castle Peak in the backround. The Eagle theatre is on the far left.
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"Lover's Leap was blasted off to the road level in 1939 by a road construction crew. A hanging bridge will span the canon here." View of the escarpment looking up.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Graphic postcard of the Mount of the Holy Cross, with pond in the foreground. [5231. Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado. Altitude 14,176 feet]
Caption on verso: "Mount of the Holy Cross. This famous mountain, 14,176 feet in height, lies at the extreme northern end of the Sawatch Mountains, near the headwaters of Eagle River. The cross is formed by a deep vertical fissure in the face of the mountain, 1,500 feet in length, intersected by a transverse...
64) Catamount Bridge
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"The Catamount Bridge, looking east, showing the river, river road and railroad with Yarmony Mountain in the right background.
The bridge, built in 1909 stood up well until 1951 when a loaded soft drink truck found a weak place and broke through. Fortunately no one was hurt, but the bridge was out about ten days." -- McCoy Memoirs p.18
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
65) 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"
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Scenic view near Holy Cross City, Colorado, approximately twelve miles from Red Cliff. Holy Cross City and Gold Park were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District. There were two mills in the area to service the mines.
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View looking southeast of the town of Eagle (right midground). Eagle River is in center foreground; Chambers Ranch is in left foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Albert Betz Ranch, Gore Valley, viewed from Gore Creek. Buildings in the background are Fleming's Saw Mill. This is current day Vail, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Looking north from the south side of the Colorado River in the McCoy area, August 23, 1975.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two large frame buildings in winter near Camp Hale, Colorado. Spruce trees and utility poles in foreground; mountain in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
72) Spouting Rock
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"Spouting Rock, Hanging Lake, Glenwood Springs, Colo."
Verso: 3015, A-32452, C. T. Photochrom
Spouting rock is one level above Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon. Erosion through limestone created the feature which feeds into Hanging Lake.
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View of Brush Creek looking toward the Eagle River Valley 1979
74) Hanging Lake
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"7246. Hanging Lake near Glenwood Springs, Colo."
Winter scene with frozen waterfalls.
Verso: "Hanging Lake. Hanging Lake is ten miles East of Glenwood Springs. The lake itself is an emerald sheet of water at the head of a series of terraces, its outer edge projecting somewhat over the wall below, the whole forming a combination of scenic beauty which is absolutely unique."
75) Isabel Nesthouse
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Isabel McCaulay Nesthouse sitting on a boat at a lake. Isabel taught in Aspen and Eagle. The photo was printed October 22, 1940
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Looking into Beaver Creek Valley behind the Offerson house (the original Townsend Ranch property). Wood pile visible on the left side of dirt road.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Verso: "D-158. Mining Town in the Rockies. Perched on the side of Battle Mountain above the deep and narrow Eagle River Canyon, the modern mining community of Gilman is a picturesque sight along U.S. 24 between Leadville and Minturn, Colorado."
79) West Brush Creek
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Looking up West Brush Creek at the Sawatch Range south of Eagle, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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View of Black Mountain taken from Volcano Ridge, Routt County.
"A distant view of the Black Mountain and ranch as it was in 1920. It also shows about a mile of the railroad track between Crater and Rock Creek." --McCoy Memoirs p.244
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
