Mine workers sit or stand by a log stockpile for a group portrait at the Ouray Mine site in Illinois Gulch, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. Behind them is a wood frame building or sawmill. Handwritten on the reverse: "Ouray Mine, Breckenridge".
UnidentifiedManuscript by Agnes (Finding) Miner titled the "Founding and Early History of Breckenridge, Colo. and The Story of a Colorado Pioneer by Mrs. Duane F. Miner".
Miner, Agnes E. (Finding)Part one from the typed manuscript by Agnes (Finding) Miner. Her account of the early history of Breckenridge, titled "Founding and Early History of Breckenridge, Colorado" begins in 1859 with the Georgia Gulch gold rush and continues with the area's mining and railroad history. Agnes also includes the naming of Breckenridge and references to "Colorado, a Summer Trip" by Bayard Taylor and "In the Parks and Mountains of Colorado" by Samuel Bowles. Agnes ends part one of the manuscript with a poem.
Miner, Agnes E. (Finding)Manuscript by Cora Ellen Turner Peabody, Typed, with handwritten notes. Titled "The Biography of Hiram Beede Turner and Families".
Peabody, Cora Ellen TurnerPersonal account titled "My Brother Was Named Summit County" by Cora Ellen Turner Peabody, handwritten when she was 84 years old. Cora Ellen describes how her father, Hiram Turner (born in Maine in 1815) traveled to Colorado in 1859. His wife, Julia (Sneider) joined him in Breckenridge in the spring of 1860. Cora Ellen writes "My mother...was the second white woman in Summit County. Here my brother was born; he was the first white child in the county; and, fittingly enough, was named Summit County." Other mentions include her father's trades and occupations, Pike's Peak Gold Rush, encounters with Native Americans, mining placer claims, and her siblings.
Peabody, Cora Ellen Turner(2) blank forms "Notice in Lieu of Annual Labor." Used by the office of the County Clerk and Recorder to record location certificates for filed mining claims and gives notice of exemption from payment of a Federal Income Tax for the taxable year 1935 by providing for the suspension of annual assessment work on listed mining claims.
Town of Breckenridge Clerk's OfficeJessie Mine and Mill in Gold Run, northeast of Breckenridge, Colorado. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Exterior view of a gold mine."
Westerman, OttoInside the Jessie Stamp Mill mill in Gold Run, northeast of Breckenridge, Colorado. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Interior view of Stamp Mill."
Westerman, OttoThe Washington Mine near Breckenridge, Colorado, with the Tenmile Range in the background. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "The Washington mine, showing ten mile Range."
Westerman, OttoView from Brewery Hill toward Farncomb Hill of mining operations in Georgia and American gulches by the Wapiti Mining Company, northeast of Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1895. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "North slope of Farncom [sic] hill showing the location of the principal Gold mine."
Westerman, Otto136-ounce mass of crystalized gold from the Gold Flake vein on Farncomb Hill called "Tom's Baby". Found on July 23, 1887 by Harry Lytton and Tom Groves outside of Breckenridge, Colorado. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Actual size of a gold nugget, taken from Farncomb hill."
Westerman, OttoThe Great Flume going around the hill opposite Mount Guyot (in background), northeast of Breckenridge, Colorado in autumn of 1895. In the snow, a man stands next to the waist-high wooden flume while a dog sits on top. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "View on Farncom [sic] hill."
Westerman, OttoHydraulic mining at the Kingsbury Placer, northwest of Breckenridge, Colorado. Men stand by as a hydraulic pipe with high pressure nozzle, called a "Giant", forcefully directs water at the hillside. A wooden sluice carries water above piles of discarded rock and small tree branches. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Gold mining by hydraulic power."
Westerman, OttoPlacer mining in Summit County, Colorado. Men use pickaxes and a sluice box to prospect for gold in a placer deposit or gulch. Water from the pond above is diverted into a long, sloping wooden trough with grooves on the bottom to separate gold from the extracted rocks, gravel and sand. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Gulch mining".
Westerman, OttoNarrow gauge railway through Illinois Park, looking west toward Breckenridge, Colorado. Germania mine and mill on the left. A train is traveling on Barney Ford Hill high above the gulch. Handwritten caption on card mount: "View showing Train of Cars going around Niggerhill".
Westerman, OttoHydraulic mining operations in American Gulch below Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1895. Shows the Great Flume, Victoria mill and Wapiti Mining Company's mine buildings. Or, could possibly be the buildings of Dog Town. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Placer mining by hydrolic [sic] pressure on Farncom [sic] hill."
Westerman, OttoDenver, South Park and Pacific (DSP&P) railway next to the Snow Drift Mine at Farnham spur, southeast of Breckenridge, Colorado. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "The Warriors Mark and Snow drift mine at Farnham, Colo".
Westerman, OttoSheet film negatives circa 1910-1920s showing snow slides blocking the railroad in Ten Mile Canyon. Also, views of mine sites and structures east of Breckenridge and near Montezuma, Colorado.
Sayre, Robert H.A man empties an ore car on the side of a mine dump at the Wire Patch Mine on Farncomb Hill in French Gulch, southeast of Breckenridge, Colorado.
Sayre, Robert H.A man sits on ore car tracks coming out of a mine adit (opening) encased with ice. Quote from caption at the bottom of the image: "Ice Tunnel 7:30 6/3/22". Probably the 7:30 Mine on Bald Mountain, east of Breckenridge, Colorado.
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