A group of people pose on long wooden skis. They hold long wooden poles for balance. The women wear hats and ankle length ruffled skirts and long wool overcoats. One small child is seated on a sled. The snowy mountain peaks of the Tenmile Range are in the background. Title quoted from printed caption on card mount: "Snow-Shoe party in the Rocky Mountains, Breckenridge, Colo, April 10th, 1884. Snow 4 feet deep."
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Well-dressed young women and one young man pose with dogs on the covered front porch of Judge Marshall and Agnes (Ralston) Silverthorn's house on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1910s. The two women sitting on the porch's lower steps may be the Silverthorn's granddaughters, Agnes Eleanor Finding (left, in a contrasting vertical stripe dress and cradling a small dog) and her sister Charline Antoinette (right, wearing a dark dress with white paneled front and a large brimmed hat with white plumes). Between them, sitting on the top step, is a girl holding a puppy on her lap and a large dog. Another woman sits on a chair by the front door, her gloved hands folded across her lap. A bicycle leans against a chair in the lawn.
UnidentifiedConrad Leslie (C.L.) Westerman's house on French Street, between Lincoln and Carter Avenues, in Breckenridge, Colorado. The two-story front gable wood frame home with bay window faced south. Covered front porch trimmed with decorative brackets. Two women sit on each gate post at the entrance to the home while three smartly dressed men lean on the fence. A wooden sidewalk runs along the front of the property and abruptly ends in dirt.
Westerman, OttoTwo women sit on the covered front porch steps of the house known as the William F. Forman House, located on the northeast corner of High Street and Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado. Originally designed and built in 1881 by Breckenridge architect Elias Nashold, the home was sold to the Forman family in 1885. In 1901, Mr. Forman added a second story to the house. The two-story cross gable clapboard house featured a brick chimney, dormer and bay windows, and a stone foundation. A rounded wrought iron fence encloses the property. Circa 1929.
UnidentifiedWilliam and Rose Forman pose with their sons on horses by the picket fence surrounding their home on High Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1885-1900. William holds the reins to the horse that Deber, their youngest son, sits astride. George, the oldest child, is on the other horse. Rose stands on the grass inside the fenced yard, and a large dog lays on the wooden sidewalk. The 1881-built one story multi-gable house has a covered portico and square bay window. A second story was added in 1901.
UnidentifiedTwo-story, multi-gable roofed frame building with bay windows on the east side of South Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1930s. A sign leaning in the front bay window reads: "Owens Mortuary". Originally built in 1891-1892 as a residence for C.O. and E. Anna Linquist. In 1905 it was the home of Fred and Minnie Bruch. Later, Lester C. Owens operated a funeral home here from 1932 until 1951.
UnidentifiedHouses on the east side Main Street at Adams Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1915. From left to right: Barney L. Ford's original house/cottage (constructed by Ford in 1881, Nels Pehrson owned the property circa 1914s); Pehrson's house (built by Pehrson in 1899, he added Palladian windows and a new front porch in 1909) and the Linquist house (constructed 1891-1892). Nels' son Sam stands on the dirt road directly in front of a stopped horse-drawn carriage piloted by Albert Schatz. There is a utility/telegraph pole near the street. Boreas Pass can be seen in the background.
UnidentifiedCharles and Miriam Walker's house on Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado. Built during the months of March 1880 through February 1881, the two-story hewn timber house featured stacked square-bay windows. Behind the house (south) is a two-story board and batten wood building once used as a barn.
UnidentifiedEast facing side of Charles and Miriam Walker's two-story log house and wooden barn on Lincoln avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado. To the south (pictured left) is a white frame house bordered with a fence decorated with flags and banners draped from trees.
UnidentifiedJ. Frank Willis' one and half story front gable frame house on Gibson Hill, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1880s-1903. Outside, Willis holds his bicycle by the handle as he props his left foot on the bike pedal. A second bike leans against a tree by a dirt path. He wears a cap, coat, and knickers with stockings.
UnidentifiedAn L-shaped cross gable house on the west side of South French Street in Breckenridge, Colorado in the early 1900s. A two-horse drawn carriage or wagon is stopped on the dirt street. The house was built between 1896 and 1902 for John H. Ziegler. In the 1980s it became known as the Markey House.
UnidentifiedA group of men dressed in suits pose on the sandstone steps of the red brick Summit County Courthouse on Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado. The portico facing Lincoln Avenue is centered below a gabled pediment with the words "Summit County" in raised black letters. Circa 1910s-1920s.
UnidentifiedThe Reverend stands outside St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and French Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa early 1900s.
UnidentifiedGroup portrait of all grades attending Breckenridge Public School in 1901. The students pose with their teachers in front of the 1882-built two-story frame building on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. A group of boys stand on top of the portico behind a sign with the words "Public School District No. 1". One student is identified: 3rd row, from the front, 7th person on the left is Roberta Klinesmith (married name Sharp). The schoolhouse was torn down and replaced with a brick structure in 1909.
UnidentifiedGroup portrait of students and teachers posed outside the 1882-built two-story wood frame schoolhouse on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Above the portico is a sign with the words "Public School District No. 1". Circa 1890s-early 1900s.
UnidentifiedSchoolhouse on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado sometime after it was built in 1908. Two people stand near one of the two entrances on the east side of the three story brick building. On the front lot is a tall, freestanding wood frame bell tower with bell. The brick building served as the Breckenridge Public School between 1909 and 1961.
UnidentifiedStudents and teachers pose for a group portrait in front of Breckenridge Public School on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1911. The Mission Revival Style brick building was constructed in 1908-1909 and served as the Breckenridge Schoolhouse until 1961.
UnidentifiedBreckenridge, Colorado, circa 1867. Log buildings and cabins line the west side of the rocky, dirt packed Main Street. The two story, side gable log building is the 1862-built Silverthorn Hotel. A covered horse-drawn carriage is stopped out front. More wagons pulled by horses or oxen crowd the street. In the foreground a young boy (possibly Eli Fletcher) sits on a tree stump. In view (far right) is a pump and trough for horses and oxen (removed in 1881).
UnidentifiedBuildings fronted with concrete sidewalks line both sides of Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, looking north. Circa after 1912. Utility poles line the east side of the dirt packed street. Across the street, two men and a dog stand outside the building adjacent to Evans Pharmacy. To the right is the Denver Hotel. The balcony and covered portico has been removed and boards are placed across the second floor doors. Next is a front gable two and half story frame building, then Bruch's Barbershop and Store with a barber pole out front. Further north is the Silverthorn Hotel.
UnidentifiedThe west side of North Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1890s-early 1900s. Men stand on the wooden sidewalk outside the Corner Saloon owned by Johnny Dewers. Next door is a two-story flat roof building with awnings that advertise "W.P. Condon - Hardware - Dry Goods". More false front and wood frame buildings line the dirt packed street.
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