A man and two women stand outside Bruch's Barbershop and Store on Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. The building to the south is the Denver Hotel, with a flag hanging over the sidewalk (sometime after the covered portico and balcony was removed). Signs advertising "Laundry - Denver's Best - Tobacco" and "Evans Pharmacy" project from an adjacent building. Further south a man stands under the covered portico of the Arlington Hotel. More buildings line the east side of Main Street, from left to right: Finding's Hardware Store, decorated with banners, bunting and flags; H.C. Rogers and Co. Furniture store, with shed addition; unidentified building; The Arcade Hotel (built in 1892); Sumner's Grocery (built in 1901); Masonic Lodge No. 47, on the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue. In the background are dredge rock piles from Tonopah No. 1. Circa 1922.

Houses on the east side Main Street at Adams Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1915. From left to right: Barney L. Ford's original house/cottage (constructed by Ford in 1881, Nels Pehrson owned the property circa 1914s); Pehrson's house (built by Pehrson in 1899, he added Palladian windows and a new front porch in 1909) and the Linquist house (constructed 1891-1892). Nels' son Sam stands on the dirt road directly in front of a stopped horse-drawn carriage piloted by Albert Schatz. There is a utility/telegraph pole near the street. Boreas Pass can be seen in the background.

People and a two horse-drawn carriage in front of the Summit House in Montezuma, Colorado. The hotel was built in 1869 and was originally named the Preston House. Mountains in the background.

Handwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Block 5, Lot 4W, Building 177, NW face".

Handwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Block 4, Lot 13, Building 172, SW [sic] face".

Handwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Block 2, Lots 12-16, Building 159".

Students from the Missouri School of Mines travel by horse-drawn wagons down Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, on June 13, 1913. The group was on a school field trip to study the mines and mills in Valdora, Montezuma, and Argentine. Buildings line the west side of Main Street (pictured left to right): The Denver Hotel, after the portico and balcony was removed; The Denver Hotel's dining room, the two-story front gable building; Bruch's Barbershop and Store (with awning); a two-story false front building; a one-story false front building; and the Silverthorn Hotel, with side gables and a row of windows facing the street.

Looking south on Main Street, Breckenridge, a group of men and one boy stand with their bicycles decorated for an Independence Day celebration or parade on July 4, 1893. The curvilinear false-front of the Arlington House (Hotel) is partly visible in the right foreground. Title quoted from printed text on the item: "4th of July, 1893".

Men sit or stand on the wooden boardwalk fronting Charles A. Finding's hardware store on the east side of Main Street, Breckenridge. Reflections of buildings across the street can be seen in the two large storefront windows and transom above the door entrance. Finding's redstone facade store is flanked by wood false-front buildings. Pictured on the left is the Livery. Handwritten on the reverse: "Finding Hardware store, Breckenridge" and "Miner". Circa 1885-1910.

Members of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Blue River Lodge No. 49 pose for a group portrait dressed in sack suits and the ceremonial I.O.O.F. sash. Most are wearing white gloves. The men stand side by side or sit in chairs placed in rows along the wooden boardwalk and on the dirt packed street. The photograph was taken in front of a wooden building with large four-pane casement windows, probably in Dillon, Colorado.

Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1867. Log buildings and cabins line the west side of the rocky, dirt packed Main Street. The two story, side gable log building is the 1862-built Silverthorn Hotel. A covered horse-drawn carriage is stopped out front. More wagons pulled by horses or oxen crowd the street. In the foreground a young boy (possibly Eli Fletcher) sits on a tree stump. In view (far right) is a pump and trough for horses and oxen (removed in 1881).

Looking north down Main Street, Breckenridge. Frame buildings line either side of the dirt street. On the left is the Arlington Hotel, with its curvilinear false front, and a view of Denver Hotel's portico over the boardwalk. Opposite, one lone man stands outside the Arbogast building (later the site of Masonic Lodge No. 47) on the corner of Washington Avenue and Main Street. Wooden sidewalk/boardwalk in the foreground.

Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado looking north. Hotels and businesses line both sides of the dirt road. In the left foreground is the Arlington Hotel, recognizable by its curvilinear false-front and wide open porch with balcony. A few doors down is the Denver Hotel with a sign for Evans Pharmacy. Across the street is the 1892-built front-gable Arcade Hotel. Barely visible in the background is the hose drying tower on Fireman's Hall. Along the wooden sidewalks are utility poles.

Looking west from High Street down Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1890-1899. The two-story frame schoolhouse on Harris Street stands prominently in view. Built in 1882, the school featured a bell tower centered on the multi-gabled roof. The large white frame building in the left background is St. Mary's Catholic Church on French Street, before it had a bell tower (installed in 1899). Far right, on the north end of French Street is Father Dyer United Methodist Church, at its original location before the courthouse was built on the same lot in 1908.

Looking west on Lincoln Avenue from High Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1909-1910, soon after the brick school building (left) was constructed in 1909 and before the 1882-built frame schoolhouse (center) was demolished. The Summit County Courthouse (right) is under construction on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and French Street; sharing the lot is Father Dyer United Methodist Church (far right), before it was moved to its present location on Wellington Road.

Gold Pan Mining Company property where the Goldpan machine shops and pipe manufacturing plant were later constructed. Building began in late summer of 1900, and the shops were fully operational a year later. In the background are log cabins, stacks of lumber, and a wood frame building under construction. A man is seen walking past two boys on a wooden bridge, heading towards the railroad tracks and the south edge of town.

Two women sit on the covered front porch steps of the house known as the William F. Forman House, located on the northeast corner of High Street and Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado. Originally designed and built in 1881 by Breckenridge architect Elias Nashold, the home was sold to the Forman family in 1885. In 1901, Mr. Forman added a second story to the house. The two-story cross gable clapboard house featured a brick chimney, dormer and bay windows, and a stone foundation. A rounded wrought iron fence encloses the property. Circa 1929.

William and Rose Forman pose with their sons on horses by the picket fence surrounding their home on High Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1885-1900. William holds the reins to the horse that Deber, their youngest son, sits astride. George, the oldest child, is on the other horse. Rose stands on the grass inside the fenced yard, and a large dog lays on the wooden sidewalk. The 1881-built one story multi-gable house has a covered portico and square bay window. A second story was added in 1901.

The west side of North Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1890s-early 1900s. Men stand on the wooden sidewalk outside the Corner Saloon owned by Johnny Dewers. Next door is a two-story flat roof building with awnings that advertise "W.P. Condon - Hardware - Dry Goods". More false front and wood frame buildings line the dirt packed street.

Buildings fronted with concrete sidewalks line both sides of Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, looking north. Circa after 1912. Utility poles line the east side of the dirt packed street. Across the street, two men and a dog stand outside the building adjacent to Evans Pharmacy. To the right is the Denver Hotel. The balcony and covered portico has been removed and boards are placed across the second floor doors. Next is a front gable two and half story frame building, then Bruch's Barbershop and Store with a barber pole out front. Further north is the Silverthorn Hotel.