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Young Photograph Collection
cou-bha BHA.0002 · Collectie · 1965

Photographs taken in January 1965 by Gregory Young while on a ski trip to Breckenridge with his college fraternity.

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cou-bha BHA.0004 · Collectie · 1880-1973, with gaps

Town of Breckenridge, Colorado historical records, including Minute Books, financial statements, invoices, cancelled checks and miscellaneous receipts from the 1890s-1900s, with gaps.

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BHA Oral History Project
cou-bha OHP.001 · Collectie · 2017-2021

The BHA Oral History Project's aim is to understand and share more of Breckenridge’s contemporary history and culture, specifically from the late 1950s until the 1990s. The recorded interviews help BHA preserve its “contemporary” history and memorialize the highlights, challenges and developments that shaped Breckenridge and its community.

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cou-bha BHA.0017 · Stuk · 1911

Diary belonging to an unidentified Breckenridge, Colorado resident. Circa 1911. Handwritten entries begin on Sunday, January 1, 1911 and end Sunday, December 31, 1911. Contents appear to be a daily log of weather, work activities, and social life. Bound in dark red leather with plain front and back covers; embossed with "The Excelsior Diary 1911". Printed pages include a church calendar, astronomical information, monthly calendars for 1911, lists of states and territories, values of foreign currencies and more.

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cou-bha BHA.0009 · Record group · 2000-2018

The Town of Breckenridge completed Cultural Resource Surveys for buildings and structures within the Historic District to assess properties’ eligibility for individual listing in the National and State Registers, for local landmark designation, and whether or not they qualify for National Register listing as contributing resources within the historic district. Cultural Resource Surveys include historical and architectural information for each building and structure. Surveyed properties are widely-dispersed throughout the Historic District, including addresses on Adams, French, Harris, High, Main and Ridge Streets, on Lincoln and Washington Avenues, and on Ski Hill and Wellington Roads. Properties are in the following historically platted additions and subdivisions: Abbett’s, Bartlett and Shock, Snider, Stiles, Valley Brook Cemetery, and Yingling and Mickles. The survey area comprises approximately 72 acres.

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cou-bha JTS.001 · Collectie · 1959-1972

Postcards and photographic material created by photographer John Albert Topolnicki Sr. featuring the Colorado natural landscape, mountains, abandoned mine sites, ski areas and similar subjects. His photographs are considered the best historical record of Breckenridge Ski Resort and Summit County, Colorado landscapes in the early 1960s-1970s.

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cou-bha BHA.0020 · Collectie

Digital objects created by Breckenridge History of original photographs and sheet film negatives from Summit Historical Society's holdings in Dillon, Colorado. Represents various people and industries relevant to Breckenridge and the greater Breckenridge area, circa 1870s-1900s. Includes images of placer mining operations, gold dredges, the railway and railroad facilities, and buildings along Main Street, Breckenridge.

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cou-bha BHA.0011 · Record group · 1975-1980

Breckenridge residents Jan M. Radosevich and Anne Ostyre-MacDonald prepared and submitted the National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form in 1980 on behalf of the Town of Breckenridge, Colorado.

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cou-bha BHA.0006 · Collectie · circa 1880s-1903

J. Frank Willis gave this souvenir album as a gift to his sister, Pauline (Willis) Merritt. The album contains photographs by Breckenridge photographer Otto Westerman. Various subjects include town views, mine site landscapes, railroad tracks through gulches and Willis' property on Gibson Hill. Some are of the Ten Mile Canyon outside of Frisco, Colorado, and one photograph is of Tom's Baby (the largest piece of wire gold found in Colorado).

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Agnes Miner Collection
cou-bha BHA.0001 · Collectie · 1880s-1910s

Numbering about 80 mounted and unmounted albumen prints, most are by Breckenridge photographer Otto Westerman. Included among the collection are photographs related to the Finding family, such as portraits of both Agnes (Finding) Miner and her mother, Martha (Silverthorn) Finding, the Finding family posed in front of their Breckenridge home, and Charles A. Finding's hardware store on Main Street, Breckenridge. Of interest are the albumen prints dating from the late 1890s that were showcased in a small 12 panel album. Removed for preservation purposes, these prints are of local residents and snowy landscapes taken during the “Big Snow” of 1898-1899. Several photographs are of men, women, and children either posed near or peering through the openings of snow tunnels that were used to access Main Street, Breckenridge businesses.

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cou-bha BHA.0008 · Record group · 2004-2022

In the 2000s the Town of Breckenridge and Summit County Open Space and Trails Department contracted with Eric Twitty, Mountain States Historical, to complete a large scale, multi-phase inventory of the Upper Blue River drainage’s important historic prospect, mine, logging and settlement sites. Funded by a Colorado State Historical Fund grant and the Town of Breckenridge, the project focuses on sites within a U-shaped concentration of hard rock and placer mines commonly referred to as the “Golden Horseshoe”. The project area also includes sites located throughout Bald Mountain or dispersed around the North, Middle, and South Forks of the Swan River.
Mine Sites Inventories identify sites for historic preservation, recommend management actions, and gather data for academic studies of the mining industry and associated settlement. Inventories include: modern topo maps of the area, general site history, historic photographs (if available), artifact/site mapping of what remains, and site significance.

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