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cou-bha BHA.0020-136 · Item
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Two men sit or stand at the back of the retail room on the second floor of the Gold Pan Shops building at the south end of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa early 1900s. The long narrow room is lined with tall windows flanked by wooden shelves holding various styles of glass lamp globes and shades, and other electrical lighting supplies. From the wooden beams above hang ceiling light fixtures, each with two glass lamp globes. In 1901, the Gold Pan Company began supplying hydroelectric power to the town, putting the Breckenridge Electric Company, a coal-fueled steam plant and the town's supplier since 1892, out of business.

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cou-bha BHA.0020-273 · Item
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Gold Run Flume frozen with icicles caused by an ice dam, during the "Big Snow" winter of 1898-1899. The wooden flume carried water over French Gulch for placer mining operations, connecting to the Gold Run Ditch at both ends. It was located in French Gulch between the towns of Breckenridge and Lincoln City. A woman stands below the flume and another woman sits on a log next to a young boy.

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cou-bha BHA.0020-151 · Item
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Goldpan Engineering and Mine Supply machine shops, a subsidiary of the Gold Pan Mining Company, at the south end of Ridge Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1901. The Goldpan shops consisted of three main buildings and numerous outbuildings: pipe shop (left); machine, blacksmith, wood working shop, and power plant with a tall smokestack (center); and a warehouse for boiler plate storage (right). The two story, multi gable wood frame building with dormer windows is the Gold Pan Mining Company office. In the foreground are the Colorado and Southern (C&S) railroad tracks. Barney Ford Hill in the background.

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cou-bha BHA.0020-029 · Item
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Group portrait of all grades attending Breckenridge Public School in 1901. The students pose with their teachers in front of the 1882-built two-story frame building on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. A group of boys stand on top of the portico behind a sign with the words "Public School District No. 1". One student is identified: 3rd row, from the front, 7th person on the left is Roberta Klinesmith (married name Sharp). The schoolhouse was torn down and replaced with a brick structure in 1909.

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cou-bha BHA.0020-085 · Item
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Group portrait of six Breckenridge, Colorado, fire fighters dressed in parade uniform and insignia cap, sometime between 1882-1900s. From left to right, front row: Horace Morrison, Earl Phillips, Detler Roby. Back row: Jim Hunter, Fred Simpson, Marion Fletcher. Phillips and Fletcher wear the Blue River Hose Company uniform of a pullover shirt, quilted collar and buttoned chest protector; sewn on the front is a shield-shaped patch with the letter "H". Roby and Hunter wear the uniform of the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company (sometimes called the "Hooks"). Their collared dark coats have quilted lapels and buttoned fronts; "Pioneer" is prominent on the cap's insignia. Morrison and Simpson are from the Independent Hose Company. They sport a white collared shirt and necktie under a wide collared pullover shirt.

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cou-bha BHA.0020-084 · Item
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Breckenridge, Colorado's three fire departments are represented in this group portrait, taken circa 1880s. Volunteer fire fighters from the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company, the Independent Hose Company, and the Blue River Hose Company are dressed in their uniforms, which include conductor's caps with metal badges, wide belts with edges bound in white leather, and pullover bib shirts with wide lapels. The Blue River Hose Company uniforms also feature buttoned chest protectors with the letter "H" centered on a herald-shaped patch. Far left is Chester Detwiler (next to the burro); to his right is Harry Detwiler. Carl Phillips stands in the back row, center. The other men are not identified. A plank roofed log cabin and evergreens are in the background.

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cou-bha BHA.0020-252 · Item
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Group portrait of men and women on a wooden boardwalk that fronts the entry of a wood frame house. Sitting on the boardwalk is Irene (Clancy) Boyd. Back row, standing from left to right: Joe Pickett (cradling a baby in his arms), Josephine Pickett, "Mother" Pickett, Bessie (Warren) Blundell, Annie Jobe, "Mrs. Bond", and Lucy Fry. Standing in front row: Charles Bond and Nels Fry. Probably Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1880-1890s.

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cou-bha BHA.0020-110 · Item
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The Brooks-Snider Mill on the north side of Shock Hill west of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1890s. Henry (Harry) and his wife Nellie Rogers stand near a small pond. Three men sit or stand nearby. One man is smoking a pipe. Huge piles of logs are stacked outside the extensive mill operations, and a small log cabin sits at the base of the hill.

Ward, PJ
cou-bha BHA.0020-092 · Item
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Kingsbury (later called Banner) Placer hydraulic mining operations in Iowa Gulch near Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa early 1900s. On the bank above are wooden buildings and log cabins surrounded by piles of stacked logs. A buck and rail (or buck and pole) livestock fence climbs the hillside next to a split rail fence corral.

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