Postcards
Showing
1 - 20
of 149
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Image
Sanborn photo postcard [W-1116] looking south down Broadway St., Eagle, Colorado, showing downtown buildings. Highway 40 sign in intersection. Texaco station on left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of the Black Mountain Ranch (1960s), showing the lake and a wagon.
Verso reads: "Black Mountain Ranch, McCoy, Colorado 80463, Phone: Wolcott (303) 926-2300. September view of lake and mountains from front porch of lodge. Open year round. Excellent fishing, hunting, riding, snowmobiling in season. New cabins, good food and fun for the entire family."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of "C. J. Kaho & his chicken, 1917."
Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 20, 1918, p.1: "Mrs. Marguerite Elizabeth Kaho, daughter of F. B. Cowden, passed away at the Emergency hospital in Grand Junction on the night of December 12. She was born in Osage City, Kan., on August 27, 1900, and came to Eagle when two years of age, residing here or in Gypsum the greater part of her life.
On the 17th of last September, she was united in marriage...
Format:
Image
The July 4, 1926, rodeo at McCoy, Colorado. "Ernest Rundell is the rider." -- McCoy Memoirs p.36
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Photo postcard looking down on Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at lower left; Brush Creek Valley is at right midfield. Highway 6 runs from left to right across the midfield. The County courthouse is the square building at right midfield, placing this photograph after 1932.
6) Assay office
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of Gilman with Belden at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. Ore cars are lined up on the tracks and the surface tram is clearly visible.
"Eagle River Canyon and Gilman from Battle Mt. Highway Sanborn W-1102"
7) Taylor Agee
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of Taylor Agee taken in 1915, sent to Miss Katie Flynn, Wolcott, Colo., from Pueblo, Colo., June 25, 10 am, 1917. 1 cent postage stamp affixed and canceled.
"Hey friend I will write you a few lines. Every body is OK from a friend Taylor"
8) Lila Rodgers
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of Lila Rodgers. It appears the photographer has attempted to remove her glasses.
Format:
Image
"This photograph appeared on the inside cover of the 1928 Eagle High School yearbook [Lux Aquilae]. Although there was never a big population of bighorn sheep on Brush Creek, they were known to winter there. The animals could be found in the summer on New York Mountain, Fools Peak, at Nolan Lake and in the Metheney Park area. The sheep population declined in the mid-1950s due to poaching and disease." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.121
Format:
Image
A photo postcard of Henry Owens, standing, and Lemley Gates at the top of the mesa when building the Derby Mesa Road, circa 1923. The men are clearing rock and debris after the road skid has passed.
11) Eloping
Format:
Image
Photographic postcard of two couples in a studio elopement shot. The man at far left is George Harris. George married Julia Koski of Denver in 1915.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) Claire J. Kaho
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of C. J. Kaho. He was a brakeman for the D&RG running between Grand Junction and Minturn.
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway.
"Local veterans march down Eagle's main street in the 1930 Memorial Day parade. Note that the Buchholz Livery is no longer in place. The businesses in the middle of the block (on the east side of Broadway) include a restaurant and the Eagle Valley Enterprise offices." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.80...
14) Broadway
Format:
Image
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.
Format:
Image
"Along with the move of the county seat came an obligation to build a modern county courthouse. Designed by renowned architect J. Francis Pillsbury, the Eagle County Courthouse was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $60,000. The sheriff's office was on the basement floor along with living quarters for the jailer. The jail and courtroom were on the third floor (note the bars on the window at leaft). -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.82
16) Belden
Format:
Image
Photo postcard [Sanborn] of Belden in the Eagle River canyon, below the town of Gilman. Caption: "Eagle River Canon as seen from Highway U.S. 24, Colo." Ore from the mines at Gilman was shipped out from Belden.
17) Maxwell Place
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of the Maxwell place, taken by John Ambos. "Among the very early pioneers of the area were Elliott and Mary Maxwell who located on 160 acres of land at the confluence of the Grand River and Elk Creek, about four miles west of McCoy about 1896. The elevation there was about 6,500 feet, the lowest in the area where most vegetables and some varieties of hardy fruits could be grown." -- McCoy Memoirs p.155
[Title supplied from catalog...
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of Mae Hunt Gilbert Pitney at the age of 20, taken in 1916.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19) Hahn's Peak
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of Hahns Peak, Routt National Forest in 1945.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
20) Gilman
Format:
Image
Photographic postcard of the main street in Gilman. Two men are at left, in front of a storefront. A team of horses is tethered in front of a building at midfield.
