Title quoted from printed caption: "Ella Foote on horseback Main Street". Young Ella Foote poses with her horse on top of a snowbank in front of R.C. McKillip's Livery and Feed Store on the east side of Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. A horse drawn sleigh with passengers is stopped near the livery entry. The building with the bell tower is Fireman's Hall. Circa 1899.

Young Ella Foote, dressed in an overcoat, bonnet and scarf, uses a pole for balance and wooden skis to cross Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. During the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899 heavy snowfall reached the second story of most buildings. In view is the false-front of R.C. McKillip Livery and the bell tower of Fireman's Hall. Left foreground shows part of the Denver Hotel's covered portico.

Handwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Block 11, Lots 10-11, Building 138, East face".

Handwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Block 11, Lots 10-11, Building 138, East face".

Handwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Block 11, Lots 10-11, Building 138, East face".

Schoolhouse on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado sometime after it was built in 1908. Two people stand near one of the two entrances on the east side of the three story brick building. On the front lot is a tall, freestanding wood frame bell tower with bell. The brick building served as the Breckenridge Public School between 1909 and 1961.

A boy stands in the snowy landscape outside the schoolhouse on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1898. Built in 1882, the two-story wood frame schoolhouse featured a bell and bell tower centered on the simple gable roof, and a shed addition on the south side. Brick chimneys rise from both gable ends and sash windows are pedimented throughout. Next door is a side gable frame house. In the foreground is a wooden sidewalk running along the east side of Harris Street. The schoolhouse was torn down and replaced with a brick structure in 1909.