A woman and young girl are standing in the snowy landscape to the east of Edwin Carter's log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. Looking west with a view of Peak 8 of the Tenmile Range in the background. Circa 1898-1899.
UnidentifiedA woman smiles as she sits on a piece of board placed across the wooden beams of a mine structure east of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1890s. She wears a straw boater style hat, high collared shirtwaist, and ankle length skirt with matching jacket. The jacket has a button front and puffed sleeves. The snowy peaks of the Tenmile Range in the background.
UnidentifiedA woman wearing a hat and fur-collared coat stands at the end of a path cleared in the snow outside of George Watson's house in Breckenridge, Colorado. Looking east with Barney Ford Hill and Bald Mountain (Mount Baldy) in the background. Handwritten caption on the reverse: "Breckenridge Big Snow 1899".
UnidentifiedA woman wearing a hat and fur-collared coat stands at the end of a deep trench cleared in the snow outside of George Watson's house in Breckenridge, Colorado. Looking east with Barney Ford Hill and Bald Mountain (Mount Baldy) in the background. Handwritten caption on the reverse: "View from y'd at G.B. Watsons April 20th '99".
UnidentifiedAerial oblique photograph taken in 1964 shows the town of Breckenridge, Colorado and the Breckenridge Ski Area on Peak 8. Photographic print mounted on board. Quoted from text handwritten on the back of the board: "For Andy Love - To remember his summer of labor on the mountain - 1964! Sincerely, S[illegible] Catlin, Pres. Breckenridge Lands Inc." Also on the board backing is a round Breckenridge Lands Inc. sticker with the mountain sunburst B logo.
UnidentifiedBen Stanley Revett and another man in a two-horse drawn carriage coming down a steep dirt road on the French Gulch side of Farncomb Hill, near Breckenridge, Colorado. Mount Guyot in the background. Circa early 1900s.
UnidentifiedBreckenridge, Colorado, looking west, with a view of the snowy peaks of the Tenmile Range in the background. A dirt road winds through the trees in the foreground. Circa 1882-1909.
UnidentifiedLow lying clouds hang over Breckenridge, Colorado, and the Tenmile Range. Looking west over a dense stand of evergreen trees, circa 1896-1900.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. The one story front gable log cabin with shed addition was built in 1875. The fenced property also included a secondary structure (log outbuilding) on the south side. Outside the cabin is a pile of antlers. Town buildings and a view of the Tenmile Range in the background. Circa 1899.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's log cabin and museum in Breckenridge during the winter of 1899. The one story front gable log cabin with shed addition was built in 1875. The fenced property also included a secondary structure (log outbuilding) on the south side. Snow-covered town buildings and the Tenmile Range in the background.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. Built in 1875, the one story front gable log cabin has a shed addition on the south side. In the foreground is a pile of rocks and antlers. Circa 1900s.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. The one story front gable log cabin with shed addition was built in 1875. The fenced property also included a secondary structure (log outbuilding) on the south side. Outside the cabin is a pile of antlers. Town buildings and a view of the Tenmile Range in the background. Circa 1899.
UnidentifiedThe elevated wooden scaffold at the Gold Pan Mining Company in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa early 1900s. Far left, a sluiceway with a rubber conveyor belt moved rocks from the gold excavating pit and into an ore trolley. The trolley moved up the elevated wooden scaffold and dumped the rocks over the edge, eventually creating a massive tailings pile. The Gold Pan Mine operations nearly reached the buildings and houses on the southern edge of town. Tenmile Range in the background; the Colorado and Southern (C&S) Railway tracks are in the foreground.
UnidentifiedEzra Stewart, wearing a cape overcoat and hat, stands in almost waist deep snow outside Hawkins' cabin on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Ridge Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. In view (center right) is the Fireman's Hall building, with a bell tower and adjacent hose drying tower. Snowy Tenmile Range in the background. During the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899.
UnidentifiedEzra Stewart stands with other men on top of the rotary snow plow clearing the railroad tracks on its way into Breckenridge, Colorado, in April 1899, during the Big Snow event of 1898-1899. View of Bald Mountain in the background.
UnidentifiedA gold dredge operating in the snow, probably near Breckenridge, Colorado. Along the dredging route are snow-covered boulder and rock piles. Snowy mountains in the background.
UnidentifiedGold Pan Mining Company operations at the southern outskirts of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa early 1900s. A sluiceway with a rubber conveyor belt moved rocks from the gold excavating pit and into an ore trolley. The trolley moved up the elevated wooden scaffold and dumped the rocks over the edge, eventually creating a massive tailings pile. The Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) tracks ran under the conveyor system and crossed a trestle to the west side of the Blue River. In the foreground is a wood frame house with a square bay window, facing east. A rail fence borders the property. Tenmile Range in the background.
UnidentifiedGough's house and secondary structures (outbuildings) in Breckenridge, Colorado, are almost buried under snow during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. Quoted from handwritten text on reverse: "Gough's house from the hill".
UnidentifiedHandwritten on reverse: "Y & M [Yingling and Mickles], Block 8, Lots 5-6". The grassy lot is east of the Alice Milne House at 102 North Harris Street. Far left is a view of Father Dyer Methodist Church at 105 South French Street, before it was moved to Wellington Avenue. Longbranch Condominiums and the Tenmile Range in the background.
UnidentifiedNorthwest view overlooking the town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and the hookeye curve of the railroad tracks below Barney Ford Hill. Quoted from handwritten text on the reverse: "Breckenridge in NW, Nigger Hill, center. Hookeye curve foreground". Circa 1882-1890s.
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