Edwin Carter's log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. Built in 1875, the one story log cabin has a shed addition on the south side and a wooden split rail fence around the property. A ladder temporarily leans against the front gable. Town buildings and a view of the Tenmile Range in the background. Circa 1899. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Carter Museum."
Westerman, OttoEdwin Carter's bird taxidermy in his log cabin and museum on Ridge Street in Breckenridge. Specimens include a bald eagle, a variety of small birds perched on tree branches, and numerous bird eggs in cartons. In the left foreground is a pheasant taxidermy posed standing on a branch mount.
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 collection of ptarmigan taxidermy mounts displayed on wood shelves in his log cabin home and museum on Ridge Street in Breckenridge. Carter sought to collect a specimen for every day of the year to record its seasonal plumage colors, from white in the winter to gray-brown in spring-summer.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's taxidermy on display in his log cabin and museum on Ridge Street in Breckenridge. Specimens on the shelves include, from top to bottom, bighorn sheep, bald eagle, a variety of birds perched on tree branches, and numerous bird eggs in cartons. In the foreground is a pheasant taxidermy posed standing on a branch mount.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's taxidermy inside his log cabin and museum on Ridge Street in Breckenridge. Specimens include bison, bobcats, wolf, and bighorn sheep full body mounts, and deer and elk shoulder mounts. A black bear taxidermy mount is posed standing with a wine bottle.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's taxidermy on display in his log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. Specimens include bison, bobcats, mountain lions and deer full body mounts, and bison, bighorn sheep, deer and elk shoulder mounts on the wall. Far left is a black bear taxidermy mount posed standing with a wine bottle.
UnidentifiedEdwin Carter's taxidermy on display in his log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. In the foreground is a taxidermy full body mount of a mountain goat posed standing on a wooden crate. Above is a golden eagle taxidermy with a white snowshoe hare or rabbit in its claws. Several rifles hang on the wallpapered wall with bighorn sheep and deer taxidermy shoulder mounts.
UnidentifiedTwo boys pull a sled in the snowy landscape to the east of Edwin Carter's log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. Town buildings and a view of the snow-capped Tenmile Range in the background.
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