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.
Westerman, OttoThe Risdon No. 1 dredge under construction on the lower Swan River, north of Breckenridge, Colorado. Built by The North American Gold Dredging Company in early 1898, the dredge began operating by the middle of May that same year. It was dismantled in the autumn of 1899.
UnidentifiedLog cabins and structures are buried under deep snow, somewhere near Breckenridge, Colorado.
Westerman, OttoPeople on or above the rotary snow plow stopped in one of the cuts through the deep snow drifts at Boreas Pass, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. Standing on the tracks below, a man holds a shovel high against the exposed side walls to show the snow depth. With him is another man and a boy with two dogs. Circa April 1899.
Westerman, OttoA man standing outside Kaiser's Market looks at the enormous piles of snow remaining on Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado after the "Big Snow" winter of 1898-1899.
UnidentifiedRisdon No. 3 gold dredge on the lower Swan River near Breckenridge, Colorado, in July 1899, prior to construction of the housing. This was the third Risdon dredge built by the North American Gold Dredging Company. Operations began by August 19, 1899; it sank on July 27, 1900. Despite being raised, the dredge did not operate again.
Scott, Clinton H.Snowy landscape view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking east toward the railroad tracks on Barney Ford Hill. Plumes of smoke are visible rising from the rotary snowplow railroad engines. Bald Mountain in the background. During the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899.
Westerman, OttoDerailed Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) train after a collision on the tracks along Fremont Pass, heading down the west slope from Climax to Kokomo, Colorado. Circa 1907. Engine 54 is on its side, with demolished freight cars in the background.
UnidentifiedLooking 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.
UnidentifiedReal-photo postcard number 91695 shows view overlooking the town of Breckenridge, Colorado. Bald Mountain in the left background. Circa 1900s.
UnidentifiedMen on the bank of the Swan River watch the Colorado Gold Dredging Company's Bucyrus dredge (called Colorado II) bring up gold bearing gravels from bedrock on June 13, 1913. The Colorado II was the seventh dredge built in the Breckenridge, Colorado area.
UnidentifiedTonopah No.1 dredge operating on the Blue River near Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1917. It was built in 1907-1908 on the lower Swan River by the Colorado Dredging Company and first called the Colorado I. The dredge worked downstream, but ceased operations in 1910 when it arrived at the Swan River's confluence with the Blue River and broke down. It sat idle until The Tonopah Placers Company purchased it in 1914.
UnidentifiedView of the Great Flume in American Gulch, located on Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1896. The mill, originally built for the Victoria Gold Mining Company in 1887, is in view on the steep hillside.
UnidentifiedMen stand outside the Minnie Mine and Mill boardinghouse on Mineral Hill in French Gulch, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. The one-and-half story log building featured a shingled, side gable roof and exterior wooden stairs. A wooden boardwalk fronts the building. The Minnie Mine and Mill was owned by the Blue Hill Mining Company from 1890-1904.
UnidentifiedA man stands near the edge of a pond on a hill, with a view of the Brooks-Snider Mine and Mill in the distance. A buck and rail fence borders the property. On the left is a log cabin. Near Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1890s-1900s.
Ward, PJMen outside the buildings at the Groundhog Mine, west of Breckenridge, Colorado. Some of the men are identified by a handwritten number on the photograph: 1. Scott Cooke; 2. Bert Walker; 3. Vene; 4. Frank Brooks. Circa 1898-1913.
UnidentifiedCarl Fulton stands outside the log-reinforced portal to the Hot Air Mine. He holds the end of a rope looped around the neck of a small deer with antlers. In the background is a large log structure, probably a mill, on the steep hillside. Near Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1880s-1900s.
McLeod, N.E.The Wellington Mine upper and lower mills in the 1920s. The mills temporarily closed from late October 1920 through 1924 due to a reduced demand for lead and zinc. Looking northeast, in French Gulch near Breckenridge, Colorado.
UnidentifiedMine waste dumps or mine tailings at the Wellington Mine in French Gulch east of Breckenridge, Colorado. In the background is a view of the snow-covered peaks of the Tenmile Range.
UnidentifiedOffice in the Gold Pan Mining Company building on South Ridge Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa early 1900s. A heavy wood table with six chairs centers the room, and two roll top desks are placed against adjacent walls. Windows flank a sideboard with a desk lamp, and under one window is a tufted leather chaise couch. Framed portraits or prints hang on the floral patterned walls.
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