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Frank Willis sits at a desk in his house in Breckenridge, Colorado. Behind him is a curtained window with rows of plants on the windowsill.

Studio portrait photograph of Martha (Silverthorn) Finding, wife of Charles A. Finding and resident of Breckenridge, Colorado.

Northwest 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.

Students pose outside with their teacher in front of the windows of a clapboard building, probably the 1882-built schoolhouse located on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. The wood frame schoolhouse was torn down and replaced with a brick structure in 1909. On the reverse is handwritten: "school pix - (?)".

Men sit or stand on the wooden boardwalk fronting Charles A. Finding's hardware store on the east side of Main Street, Breckenridge. Reflections of buildings across the street can be seen in the two large storefront windows and transom above the door entrance. Finding's redstone facade store is flanked by wood false-front buildings. Pictured on the left is the Livery. Handwritten on the reverse: "Finding Hardware store, Breckenridge" and "Miner". Circa 1885-1910.

William W. Boyd and his apprentice, Arlington Fincher, stand in front of Boyd's blacksmith shop located at the northeast corner of Main Street and Carter Avenue (now named Wellington Road) in Breckenridge, Colorado. Boyd owned the shop from 1886 through March 5, 1904, when he sold his shop to Fincher. Boyd, dressed in a suit and hat, stands outside the front-gabled building with horizontal wood clapboard. Fincher, wearing a blacksmith apron, stands opposite, with his hand on his hip. In view through the open doorway is a grinding wheel, probably foot-powered.

Looking north at the trench through avalanche debris from the Curtin avalanche path just south of Frisco, Colorado, in the Ten Mile Canyon. Circa 1889-1900. Note the man standing next to the railroad tracks in the right foreground. Quoted from text handwritten on the reverse: "effects of snow slide in Ten Mile Canyon showing open cut of slide (could be the Curtin slide - FBR)".

Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado on May 10, 1899 with four feet of snow. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Main St. Breckenridge four ft of Snow, May 10th 1889."

The Finding residence on North Main Street, Breckenridge. Charles stands beside the open gate and his wife Martha holds the reins of a horse on the front lawn. Their daughters, Charline Antoinette "Tonnie" (in dark dress) and Agnes (wearing a striped dress under a white pinafore) stand on the street side of the fence. Laying on the ground between them are two dogs, probably the family's pets. An unpainted picket fence encloses the tree-covered property and in the front yard is a large water fountain.

A young girl stands in the doorway of a rough hewn log structure. Handwritten on the reverse: "This may be the telegraph station on Boreas Pass" and photographer's stamp: "O. Westerman, Photographer, Breckenridge, - Colorado." Circa 1890s.

A man and several women stand on the full length balcony that tops the portico of a two story, side gable building in Montezuma, Colorado. Above them a sign has the words: "Bullion King of Montezuma". On the covered wooden boardwalk fronting the building two men lean against the column posts. Flanking both sides are a rough hewn log cabin (left) and a one story, front gable wooden building or house (right). Mountains in the background.

Southwest view overlooking toward the town of Breckenridge. Snow-covered peaks of the Tenmile Range (including Mt. Quandary, Mt. Helen, Peak 10 and Peak 9) in the background. In the foreground is a wood structure. Handwritten on the reverse is "Breckenridge Colo". Circa 1890s.

A man stands near a cabin snowed in at Boreas Pass. Photographer's stamp: "O. Westerman Photographer Breckenridge, Colorado" and handwritten "cabin in mid winter snowed in at Boreas Pass".

Charles A. Finding (left) and another man stand in the doorway of Finding's redstone-front hardware store. A coal burning or parlor stove is visible through the open door. Etched in the glass window above the doorway is "C.A. Finding"; painted across the window frame are the words "Stoves, Tinware, Steam & Gas Fittings, Rope, Iron, Steel and Nails". The reflection of buildings across the street is visible in the large storefront windows. Adjacent the sidewalk and street is a standing water spigot. Quote from handwritten text on the reverse: "Finding Hardware Store - Mrs. Miner's father".

The frame has a raised design of dragons. Tacked to the back of the frame is a small metal plaque engraved with "Made in Japan." Enclosed in the frame was a portrait photograph of Martha (Silverthorn) Finding, wife of Charles A. Finding and hidden behind this photograph was another portrait of an elderly Martha (Silverthorn) Finding.

A family poses outside a house, probably in Breckenridge, Colorado. A woman sits upright in a hammock strung between the corner of the house where it meets a one story addition. Next to her a man wearing a bowler or derby hat sits in a chair. Two young boys, one wearing a straw boater hat, stand nearby. A picket fence borders the two story side gable clapboard house. Circa 1890s.