Snowy landscape at sunset with a view (from left to right) of Peak 2 (known as Tenmile Peak), Peak 1, Mount Victoria and Mount Royal of the Tenmile Range in Colorado.

Chairlift 2 midway on Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski resort in Colorado. Spruce Run at right. Chairlift 2, a Heron double lift, was installed for the 1965-1966 ski season. It ascended over Callie's Alley Run to the top of Peak 8. It was retired in 1997 when Rocky Mountain Chair was built.

Deep snow-covered slopes with pine trees, at Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado.

A man drives a sled pulled by a team of Siberian Husky dogs through the deep snow off Boreas Pass on Bald Mountain. In the background to the west is a view of the ski runs on Peak 8 at the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado.

Frost-covered trees and tall grasses, somewhere in a mountain valley, probably near Breckenridge, Colorado.

Snowy landscape in French Gulch, southeast of Breckenridge. In view are snow-covered piles of dredged rock leftover from the two gold dredging boats that worked the gulch from 1898 to 1942.

Snow-covered pine and spruce trees line both sides of a snowy road near Breckenridge, Colorado.

Pine trees cast long shadows on the snowy slopes at Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "Breckenridge Slopes from Boreas Road". View of the ski runs on Peak 8 at the Breckenridge ski area. East of Breckenridge, Colorado.

Snow-covered dredge tailings (rock piles leftover from gold dredging operations) with a view of the ski runs on Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado.

Snowy landscape with a view of Peak 9 and Peak 10 of the Tenmile Range in Colorado. The photograph was taken before ski runs or trails were cut on Peak 9 in 1970.

Photomechanical print of a photograph by John Topolnicki shows a view of a snowy landscape from Boreas Pass road on Bald Mountain, with the Tenmile Range in the background. East of Breckenridge, Colorado. Stamped: "Colorado Photography Topolnicki".

Gough's house and secondary structures (outbuildings) in Breckenridge, Colorado, are almost buried under snow during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. Quoted from handwritten text on reverse: "Gough's house from the hill".

The Finding residence on North Main Street, Breckenridge. Charles stands beside the open gate and his wife Martha holds the reins of a horse on the front lawn. Their daughters, Charline Antoinette "Tonnie" (in dark dress) and Agnes (wearing a striped dress under a white pinafore) stand on the street side of the fence. Laying on the ground between them are two dogs, probably the family's pets. An unpainted picket fence encloses the tree-covered property and in the front yard is a large water fountain.

View of a mountain range and a river in the valley below. In the foreground are trees and one utility pole. Stamped on the reverse is "O. Westerman, Photographer, Breckenridge, - Colorado."

Four people sit in a rowboat near the edge of Black Lake in the Gore Range mountains with Mount Powell in the background. Handwritten on the reverse "Blake [sic] Lake. Below Dillon showing Mount Powell 500 feet above [illegible] the lake." Photographer's stamp: "O. Westerman, Photographer, Breckenridge, - Colorado."

View of the Great Flume in American Gulch, located on Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1896. The mill, originally built for the Victoria Gold Mining Company in 1887, is in view on the steep hillside.

Men stand outside the Minnie Mine and Mill boardinghouse on Mineral Hill in French Gulch, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. The one-and-half story log building featured a shingled, side gable roof and exterior wooden stairs. A wooden boardwalk fronts the building. The Minnie Mine and Mill was owned by the Blue Hill Mining Company from 1890-1904.

Mine waste dumps or mine tailings at the Wellington Mine in French Gulch east of Breckenridge, Colorado. In the background is a view of the snow-covered peaks of the Tenmile Range.

Gold Pan ditch under construction. Men use shovels and a horse-drawn dirt scraper to dig the four foot deep trench from May to November, 1900. The ditch ran north collecting water from the Blue River and Pennsylvania and Indiana Creeks and was used for the Gold Pan Mining Company hydraulic operations south of Breckenridge, Colorado. Stands of dead trees cover the dirt hillside.