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Hay barn on west side of Beaver Creek at the Wiltshire (Eaton) Place. One of the Eaton men is drinking from the stream by balancing on his stomach on a rock .
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Restoring the Brooks Water Wheel in the fall of 1993.
"This past week, while Comer was reading a morning newspaper in his home, he heard a major crashing noise and immediately knew his beloved water wheel was taken out by the mighty high waters of the Colorado River." -- Raymond Bleesz, History in Need of Repair, Vail Daily June 4, 2014 p.A2
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Bridge over the Eagle River on Eagle Street, in Red Cliff. Taken on June 8, 1959, the spring runoff is quite hight and debris is collecting on the bridge pier. A dog appears to have found something of interest.
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"Scene in Kansas, where we fish, swim, and boat ride" (caption from photo)
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"Mount at Dead Horse Creek in Grand Canyon east of Glenwood Colo near Hanging Lake, 1914" - caption on verso, Alda Borah. Dead Horse Creek begins high in the mountains above Glenwood Canyon, feeding into the now-infamous Hanging Lake. The creek forks into an east/west at Hanging Lake before meeting the Colorado River at the bottom of the canyon.
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Winter scene of Brush Creek flowing between snowy banks, below the bridge.
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A postcard with a photograph of Shoshone Falls Power Plant located in Glenwood Canyon near the Hanging Lake tunnels. The power plant is still in operation; the best view is from I-70 westbound. Alda wrote a message to her mother while visiting in Glenwood Springs on the back postmarked August 24, 1915: " Dear mother, got here about 1:30. We tried to get you from Eagle but the --- was out. Mrs. Collins isn't here yet. I met Helen Shyrack on the street....
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Water fall that runs only in the spring. "Go up Bush Creek Road, past Woods Lake, down Lime Creek about 1/2 mile off Burnt Mountain Road."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
