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Bill Luby's music teacher (Gene Luby's aunt) seated at a piano in a parlor. Gentleman standing next to the piano.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Verso: "Don, Tom, Sam Anderson, and Harold Stoner at Gold Park cabin loading ore from the Glengarry Mine to be hauled to the Leadville smelter."
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Cora and Joe Carter, standing in front of an automobile in Leadville, Colorado. The license plate is for 1942.
"Sam and Russell's mother was Cora Fenno (daughter of Emma Fenno Graham), who married Joe Carter in Leadville in 1904. Soon after that, the two took up a homestead in the pretty draw that bears their name. They continued living in Leadville, 'proving up' on the land during the summer. Then in the 1920s, they built a two-story white clapboard...
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Wedding photo of Joseph Henry Fear (04-01-1904 to 11-12-1995) and Johanna Kolenc Fear (10-21-1901 to 10-03-1972). They were married on June 26, 1927, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Leadville, Colorado. Joseph was born in Salida; Johanna was born in Leadville. The couple moved to Red Cliff in 1929.
The groom is wearing a three-piece wedding suit and a boutonniere (the suit is now in the Red Cliff Museum). The bride is wearing a tea length beaded...
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Studio portrait of sisters Angela Fear [Beck] (born May 4, 1930) and Johanna Fear (born September 4, 1927; died January 1, 1937). Johanna, almost 4 yrs. old, is holding Angela's hand. Angela is 14 months old.
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The second Malta school house, south of Leadville, which operated from 1902-1945, now part of the Leadville Historic District.
"My Uncle Bob worked down in the canyon at the Gillman Mill. My Uncle Bob and my Aunt Thelma, my Mother's sister, and their family lived in Red Cliff. On the Denver Public Library there is a picture of the Red Cliff Depot with icicles. When I showed this picture to my Cousin he said his Dad went by the depot on his way...
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Studio wedding photo of Ivan Lon "Ike" Dump and Joy Marfitano Dump. They were married on July 20, 1941, but, due to circumstances were unable to have their wedding picture taken until December 7, 1941, in Leadville. "While having their picture taken, they listened to breaking news about Pearl Harbor on the radio." -- courtesy of Len Dumph
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The Booze Brothers, playing in the Leadville Slowpitch League 1993.
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Elaudia and Procopio Velasquez at a funeral in Leadville.. Elaudia lived in Truchas, New Mexico. She married Procopio Velasquez November 26, 1949. The couple moved to Colorado and Procopio worked for many years as a miner for New Jersey Zinc at Gilman. He passed away in 2005.
10) Ernest Rundell
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"Ernest Rundell & Friends." -- verso
Studio photograph of Ernest Rundell (seated lower left) and five other young men.
11) Tennessee Pass
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Photo postcard of U.S. Hwy 24 at the top of Tennessee Pass (Alt. 10,240 ft,) between Leadville and Red Cliff, Colorado. [Sanborn W-1181] There is snow on the ground.
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The Dump/Dumph Family reunion in 2007. This house in Leadville is the Ivan "Ike" Dump house as shown in the 1942 Dump Family reunion [2010.006.017]. Standing, left to right, Bobbie Clarke Marfitano, Ruby Dump Crye, and David Marfitano.
13) Kilns
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Remains of kiln at Shrine Pass, used to make charcoal for the smelters in Leadville.
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A get-together of the Kolenc-Fear family.
From left: Julia Kolenc [Julia Johanna, born Feb 16, 1905, Lake County, Leadville, Jack Town];
Tony (Anthony Frank) Kolenc [born Mar 21, 1921, Lake County];
Aunt Mary Welte Kolenc [born May 15, 1915, Creede, CO];
Grandma Johanna Pavlic Kolenc [born 1885, Vas Verblin, Ljubljana, Slovenia];
Johanna Kolenc Fear [born Oct 21, 1901, Lake County, Leadville, Jack Town];
Frank Kolenc [born May 17, 1908, Lake County,...
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C.1900: Miners who came from Leadville and homesteaded property formerly owned by Hubert Peterson. Right to left: George Mosher and John Monroe, standing; John Pfeifer, seated on wagon. George Scheifelbeins owned the property before Hubert Peterson. Log structure (fence?) and hay stack in background. Taken along the Eagle River in Edwards where Reserve is now.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
16) Michael Beck
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Michael Beck, All Tournament Most Valuable Player, Leadville Slowpitch League, 1993, playing with the Booze Brothers. Michael died March 26, 1994.
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1885: Dr. Joseph G. Gilpin, physician in Leadville and Red Cliff, Colorado. Dr. Gilpin stands holding a cane in his right hand and a small case in his left hand.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Dump Family reunion in the summer of 1942 after Betty Mae Dump (Elbserry) was born. It was at the Leadville home of Ivan "Ike" dump and Joy Marfitano Dump (Ike was working at Climax Mine).
The family, from left to right: Ralph and Stella Marfitano, Chuck Dump, Joy (Marfitano) Dump (Boltjes), infant Betty Dump (Elsberry) held by Ivan Dump, Dick Mize, Vic Morgan, Ethel "Sis" Morgan (Dump), Ruby (Dump) Crye, Blanch Dump (Gay) Harry and Pearl (Dump)...
19) New Grandparents
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Ralph and Stella Marfitano with Grandma Blanche Ethel Gay Dump holding the new baby, Betty Mae Dump (Elsberry). They are at the home of Ivan and Joy Dump in Leadville in May 1942.
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Meeting minutes for the Neighbors of Woodcraft Kinnikinick Circle, District No. 12 from 1949. The Neighbors of Woodcraft were a fraternal benefit society. Originally located in Leadville, the headquarters was relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1905, where it would remain through the 1970s. The society eventually merged with the Woodmen of the World in July of 2001. This district was comprised of the towns of Leadville, Climax, Red Cliff, Buena Vista,...
