A cabin is buried under snow during the winter of 1898-1899. Handwritten on the reverse: "cabin in Breckenridge Big snow 1899".
UnidentifiedA convoy of train engines on snowy Boreas Pass head for Breckenridge, Colorado. Handwritten on the reverse: "Probably the relief train comi[ng] on top Boreas Pass heading for Breckenridge 1899".
UnidentifiedHardcover photograph album. Single photographs inserted into a paper enclosure sleeve; each sleeve has an open viewing window that frames the image. Title quoted from handwritten text on the inside cover: "Snow Scenes around Breckenridge, Colo. Winter 1899". The front and back cover have a purple floral print on a green background. "Photos" is embossed in silver print on the front cover. The spine has a wide band with a silver embossed pattern on a cream background.
Tall snow banks flank the sides of a shoveled path leading to a house in Breckenridge, Colorado, during the "Big Snow" winter of 1898-1899. Minnie Roby, dressed in a hat, scarf and long coat, stands on the cleared path. A man and woman (probably Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert) are at the front door.
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".
UnidentifiedLooking north on snow-covered Main Street, Breckenridge, during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. False front and wood frame buildings line both sides of the street. In the left foreground, Ezra Stewart, wearing a dark cape overcoat and hat, stands on top of a tall snowbank in front of the Arlington Hotel.
UnidentifiedDuring the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899, Ezra Stewart, in dark cape overcoat and hat, and his wife, Ada, walk a dog with William Briggle on the snowy road in front of Briggle's snow-loaded house on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado.
UnidentifiedMelting snowbank exposes a tunnel on the west side of Main Street, Breckenridge, in April 1899. A man interacts with a dog in the foreground. Behind them stands two false-front buildings and the side gabled Silverthorn Hotel. "April 14th, '99" is handwritten on the reverse.
UnidentifiedThree women look through a snow tunnel across Main Street in Breckenridge during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. The women wear feathered hats and are dressed in puff-shouldered short-waisted jacket bodices over long box-pleat skirts. To keep warm, they hold their hands inside fur muffs. Behind them is the Livery building on the east side of the street.
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.
UnidentifiedSouthwest 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.
UnidentifiedTwo men shovel snow from the entrance to the Boreas post office and telegraph station, on top of Boreas Pass on the route to Breckenridge, Colorado. Handwritten on the reverse: "scene of the snow blockade showing the Boreas Pass Post Office and telegraph station 11500 feet above sea level 1899" and in the lower corner: "G.W".
UnidentifiedTelegraph station at Boreas Pass after the winter of the "Big Snow". In the background are two people with a dog. Handwritten on the reverse: "Photo [illegible] April 1899 great snow blockade showing Boreas Pass telegraph station 11500 feet above [illegible] snowed in under telegraph pole" and "GW". Stamped: "O. Westerman, Photographer, Breckenridge, - Colorado."
UnidentifiedMen watch the rotary snowplow clear snow from the railroad tracks on Boreas Pass, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. Handwritten on the reverse: "Clearing Boreas Pass Big Snow 1899".
UnidentifiedA 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".
Westerman, OttoGroup portrait of men in military uniform holding firearms. On the far-left stand two men with drums. Behind them is a large wood frame building. Location undetermined; could be the G.A.R. building in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa mid- to late 1800s.
UnidentifiedA man standing outside Kaiser's Market looks at the enormous piles of snow remaining on Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado after the "Big Snow" winter of 1898-1899.
UnidentifiedRisdon No. 3 gold dredge on the lower Swan River near Breckenridge, Colorado, in July 1899, prior to construction of the housing. This was the third Risdon dredge built by the North American Gold Dredging Company. Operations began by August 19, 1899; it sank on July 27, 1900. Despite being raised, the dredge did not operate again.
Scott, Clinton H.Snowy landscape view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking east toward the railroad tracks on Barney Ford Hill. Plumes of smoke are visible rising from the rotary snowplow railroad engines. Bald Mountain in the background. During the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899.
Westerman, OttoA young girl looks through a snow tunnel on Main Street, Breckenridge, during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. In the background two women stand in front of the Livery building. Quoted from handwritten text on the reverse: "Big snow 1899".
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