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cou-bha BHA.0006-008-004 · Part · circa 1880s-1903
Part of J. Frank Willis Photograph Album

Inside 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, Otto
"Gulch mining"
cou-bha BHA.0006-036-001 · Part · circa 1880s-1903
Part of J. Frank Willis Photograph Album

Placer 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, Otto
cou-bha BHA.0006-022 · Item · circa 1880s-1903
Part of J. Frank Willis Photograph Album

136-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, Otto
cou-bha BHA.0006-032 · Item · circa 1880s-1903
Part of J. Frank Willis Photograph Album

Hydraulic 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, Otto
"View on Farncom hill."
cou-bha BHA.0006-026-001 · Part · 1895
Part of J. Frank Willis Photograph Album

The 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, Otto
cou-bha BHA.0006-021 · Item · 1895
Part of J. Frank Willis Photograph Album

View 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, Otto
cou-bha BHA.0006-043 · Item · 1895
Part of J. Frank Willis Photograph Album

Hydraulic 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, Otto
cou-bha BHA.0020-162 · Item · 1899
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Risdon 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.
Robert H. Sayre Collection
cou-bha BHA.0007 · Collection · 1910-1929

Sheet 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.
cou-bha BHA.0020-160 · Item · 1917
Part of Summit Historical Society Photograph Collection

Tonopah No.1 dredge operating on the Blue River near Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1917. It was built in 1907-1908 on the lower Swan River by the Colorado Dredging Company and first called the Colorado I. The dredge worked downstream, but ceased operations in 1910 when it arrived at the Swan River's confluence with the Blue River and broke down. It sat idle until The Tonopah Placers Company purchased it in 1914.

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