Justen G. "Jess" Oakley and Eli Fletcher carry the mail down snow-covered Main Street, Breckenridge, during the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899. The men volunteered to ski over Boreas Pass to Como, where the Denver, South Park and Pacific (DSP&P) railway was stopped. Heavy snowstorms prevented trains from delivering mail, fresh food and other supplies. Quoted from handwritten text on the reverse: "US mail via snow shoe winter of the 78 day blockade".
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Main Street, Breckenridge, buried under snow during the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899. Snow tunnels were used to access businesses because heavy snowfall had reached the second story of most buildings. The upper half of R.C. McKillif's false-fronted Livery business is in view across the street. Two dogs and people stand outside on the snow-covered boardwalk. Quoted from text handwritten on the reverse: "Main Street February 5th 1899. Breckenridge Miner (Miner)".
Westerman, OttoLooking north on snow-covered Main Street, Breckenridge, during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. False front and wood frame buildings line both sides of the street. In the left foreground, Ezra Stewart, wearing a dark cape overcoat and hat, stands on top of a tall snowbank in front of the Arlington Hotel.
UnidentifiedMen and women sit or stand at the entrance of a snow tunnel used to access the Denver Hotel on the west side of Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado, during the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. Snowfall totaled over 32 feet that winter; it was so deep it reached the hotel's second-floor balcony.
UnidentifiedPeople sit or stand on the concrete sidewalk in front of the commercial buildings that line the west side of Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado, probably sometime after 1912. The snow-covered peaks of the Tenmile mountain range can be seen in the background.
Westerman, OttoPart one from the typed manuscript by Agnes (Finding) Miner. Her account of the early history of Breckenridge, titled "Founding and Early History of Breckenridge, Colorado" begins in 1859 with the Georgia Gulch gold rush and continues with the area's mining and railroad history. Agnes also includes the naming of Breckenridge and references to "Colorado, a Summer Trip" by Bayard Taylor and "In the Parks and Mountains of Colorado" by Samuel Bowles. Agnes ends part one of the manuscript with a poem.
Miner, Agnes E. (Finding)Architectural Inventory Form for 117 South Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name: Breckenridge Town Hall. Date of construction (actual): 1941. This site was the former location of the 1880 Denver Hotel (demolished in the 1940s due to fire damage).
Cultural Resource Historians LLCArchitectural Inventory Form for 130 South Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name: Whitehead Building, Arcade Hotel. Date of construction (estimate): 1892.
Cultural Resource Historians LLCArchitectural Inventory Form for 206-208 North Ridge Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name(s): Adamson House, Brown House, The Brown Hotel. Date of construction (estimate): circa 1880; 1898.
Cultural Resource Historians LLCArchitectural Inventory Form for 127 (formerly 123) South Ridge Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name: Robert H. Whyte House. Date of construction (estimate): 1889. Also includes outbuildings: Burro Barn (present day public restrooms) addressed as 129 South Ridge Street, and Shed, addressed as 131 South Ridge Street.
Cultural Resource Historians LLCQuoted from the 1980 National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: "64. The Claimjumper. 130 South Main. 1880s, two stories, clapboard-faced, rectangular plan, pitch-gable roof, simple projected molding with four brackets delineating the first story."
UnidentifiedShows the east face, or back, of the building facing the alley behind 130 South Main Street, Breckenridge. Two automobiles are parked outside. Left (south) of the building is the east face of E.E. Sumner's Grocery Store. In view on the right, across Main Street, is the front of the building at 123 Main Street (called The Skinny Winter building).
UnidentifiedHandwritten on reverse: "Stiles, Block 1, Lot 3, Building 64 ... " [West face].
Radosevich, JanQuoted from the 1980 National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: "110. The Brown Hotel. 208 North Ridge. Prior to 1880, two stories, clapboard-faced, rectangular plan, hip roof with dormer, projecting roof supported by ornate brackets, two-story bay window with fielded panels and pediment-shaped lintels, two Queen Anne doors with etched glass lights, ornate vine-shaped brackets along the porch."
UnidentifiedHandwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Lots 7 & 8, Building 110, West face".
UnidentifiedHandwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Lots 7 & 8, Building 110, East face".
UnidentifiedHandwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Lots 7 & 8, Building 110, West side".
Radosevich, JanHandwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Lots 7 & 8, Building 110, East face".
Radosevich, JanHandwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Lots 7 & 8, Outbuilding 110, SE face".
Radosevich, JanPeople 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.
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