A man stands near one and two story wood frame buildings with false fronts in Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. Prominent signs read: "U. S. Post Office Breckenridge, Colo." "Quaker State Motor Oil", and "Gates Tires".
Breckenridge (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Buildings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1940-1950.; False fronts--Colorado--Breckenridge--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1940-1950.; Post offices--Colorado--Breckenridge--1940-1950.; Stores &...
View of Boreas Pass and what is identified as the "Hook-eye curve" near Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. Shows probably Denver, South Park, & Pacific or Denver, Leadville & Gunnison railroad tracks, a trestle, snow fences, and a tunnel...
Six men of the Breckenridge Volunteer Fire Department of Breckenridge, Colorado, pose with their safety bicycles in front of a false fronted store. Wearing soft hats and suspenders, they have bedrolls and boxes tied to their handlebars. The...
Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
On Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, two-story, gable roofed buildings on the left are at 123 and 121 South Main, both dating from the 1880's. The near one has a false front with a bracketed cornice and sash windows, and has projecting signs...
View of a Tonopah Placer Company bucket-line hydraulic gold dredge in the Blue River, at Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. "Two-Mile Bridge" is to one side; placer mine tailings are against hills, men and a parked car are in the foreground.
Tonopah Placer Company--1910-1920.; Dredges--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Mining Machinery--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Blue River (Colo. : River)--1910-1920.; Breckenridge...
View of the Colorado and Southern railroad depot in Breckenridge, Colorado. The one story, frame building has a gable roof and brick chimney. A sign reads "Breckenridge." Pedestrians and horse-drawn buckboards are beside the depot. Lettering on a...
Colorado and Southern Railway--1910-1920.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
This view of a snow tunnel in Breckenridge, Colorado, is from the winter of 1898-1899, which brought record snow to Breckenridge. This was one of many tunnels that were dug on Main Street to allow passage for the townfolk. A smiling girl in high...
View of a hydraulic gold mine in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado; shows eroded embankments, falling water, jets of water from "monitor" nozzles, sluices, flumes, a crane, and miners. Mountains are in the background.
View of a Royal Tiger Mining Company hydraulic placer gold dredge in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado; lettering on the treatment plant reads: "Tiger Dredge No. 1." The bucket-line and stacker extend from the half-submerged vessel; houses,...
Miners work on timber supports near a crane at the Gold Pan Pit near Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. Other miners aim monitors or nozzles at the ground nearby.
Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Gold Pan Mine (Summit County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Holes--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.;...
The Carter Museum, in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a one story, hewn log house with white chinking and a shed roofed addition built on the side. A sash window is next to an open door, and stovepipes rise from the roof. A pile of rounded rocks and...
Edwin Carter Museum (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1920-1970.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1920-1970.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Breckenridge--1920-1970.
A large crowd is gathered on sloping ground at the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone of the Summit County Courthouse in Breckenridge, Colorado. The men are in suits and hats, the women are in dresses and elegant hats. A touring car with four...
View of Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, shows pedestrians and heavily loaded wagons with teams and drivers crowding the dirt street. A buggy with lady passengers is in the foreground. Frame buildings line both sides; the wide corniced,...
Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.
View of the Blue River Placer Mining Company (or Continental Mining Company) bucket-line dredging boat, in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. The covered stacker of the hydraulic mine and processing plant extends over tailing piles; a person is...
View of Gold Run hydraulic placer gold mine, near Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado; shows miners, monitor nozzles, water jets, sluices, pipes, and electrical power poles.
A girl in high button boots, a light-colored frock, and dark blouse with wide lace collar tips her wide brimmed hat and smiles as she looks through a snow tunnel in Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. This was one of many tunnels that were dug...
View of the interior of the Wapiti Mining Company office in Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. A rocking chair with a cushion sits next to a wood stove and chimney in the center of the room. A lamp hangs over a desk in the corner, next to a...
Loggers work at Wapiti Saw Mill on Bull Creek, Breckenridge, Colorado. Two men hold a crosscut saw; horses pull a large log. Shows piles of lumber and logs strewn about, wood frame buildings and snow covered mountains in the distance.
View of the Methodist Church in Breckenridge, Colorado. It was the first church building in Breckenridge, built by the Reverend John Lewis Dyer in 1880 on French Street. The one story frame building features gothic arched windows, a projecting,...
This view of Main Street, in Breckenridge, Colorado, includes a building, on the left, which was built in 1880, and housed the Miner's Home Saloon. It has three sash windows on the second floor that have ornamented, pedimented heads. A first floor...
This view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking southwest, shows the frame, gable roofed, one story Saint Mary's Catholic Church with a cross on its gable peak and a ladder on its snow dusted roof. It has a gothic door and windows, and a round window...
St. Mary's Catholic Church (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Tenmile Range (Colo.)--1890-1900.
Looking southeast at Breckenridge, Colorado, the town's churches and the hose drying tower of Fireman's Hall are visible among the many buildings of the town. Mount Baldy and its foothills are in the background.
Baldy, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Churches--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Dwellings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890- 1900.
Fireman's Hall on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a two story frame building featuring a gable roof with flat side extensions, a belfry, and a plate glass ground floor front with transoms. Lettering on the three front windows reads...
Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fireman's Hall (Breckenridge, Colo)--1880-1890.; Buildings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.
The Methodist Episcopal church in Breckenridge, Colorado, was the first church building in Breckenridge, built by the Reverend John Lewis Dyer in 1880 on French Street. The one story frame building features gothic arched windows, a projecting,...
A large crowd is gathered on sloping ground at the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Summit County Courthouse in Breckenridge, Colorado. The men wear suits and hats and the women are in dresses and elegant hats. Within the crowded...
View of the Colorado and Southern railroad depot in Breckenridge, Colorado. A three way switch is in the foreground, splitting a single railroad track into three. A passenger coach sits on the left spur, followed by a freight car. A smoking engine...
Colorado and Southern Railway--1910-1920.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Railroad switching--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
Looking south from the Colorado and Southern railroad depot in Breckenridge, Colorado, shows a three way switch joining three railroad tracks into one. A freight car to the left has "C & S" lettered on it, as do ore and freight cars to the right;...
Colorado and Southern Railway--1910-1920.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Railroad switching--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
This view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest on Lincoln Street, is of a parade of some fifty men in suits, hats, and white Masonic aprons heading east on the dirt street toward the camera. A man with a waist-mounted bass drum leads....
The Denver Hotel in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a two story frame building with a half round window in the gable with "Hotel" lettered under it. A line of sash windows are under the letters, opening to the balcony, which has a snowman on it. Snow...
Denver Hotel (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Winter--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
The banker and city treasurer, George Engle, and his wife, Gertrude, approach through a snow tunnel on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. He wears a topcoat, sack suit and gold chain, and fedora hat. She is in a puff shouldered bodice and...
A miner uses a hydraulic nozzle (monitor) fitted with a rock counterbalance in the pit of the Gold Run Mine, a gold placer mine near Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado.
Gold Run Mine, a gold placer mine near Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado; a miner uses a hydraulic nozzle (monitor) fitted with a rock counterbalance; water flows out of a sluice.
Royal Tiger Mining Company placer gold dredge in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado; lettering on the treatment plant reads: "Tiger Placers Co. Dredge No. 1." The stacker extends over hydraulic mine tailings; buildings and mountains are in the...
View of a Tonopah Placer Company placer gold dredge in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. Men pose by the hydraulic mine operation; a United States flag tops the tern gantry.
Gold dredging--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Mining machinery--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Blue River (Colo. : River)--1910-1920.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.;...
Ridson Company's Couch Dredge, in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. The hydraulic placer gold mining vessel is under construction; miners pose by the furnace, trommel, and bucket-line.
View of Revett's Reliance Gold Mining Company Bucyrus-built hydraulic bucket-line dredging boat, in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. Miners pose on the decks and by the placer processing plant; snow covers mountains in the background.
Dredges--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Mining machinery--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1920.; French Gulch (Summit County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.;...
View of the French Gulch Dredging Company's Reiling Dredge, in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. The Bucyrus-built hydraulic placer gold mine and processing boat has a continuous bucket-line and a covered stacker. A miner is on the gantry.
Hydraulic placer gold mining dredge remains in French Gulch, Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado, consist of the hull and gantry; tailing piles edge the water.
Tailings embankments--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1980-1990.; French Gulch (Summit County, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Gold mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.;...
Hydraulic placer gold mining dredge remains in French Gulch, Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado, consist of the hull, gantry, deck house, and pipe sections; tailing piles edge the water.
Tailings embankments--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1980-1990.; French Gulch (Summit County, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Gold mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.;...
Hydraulic placer gold mining dredge remains in French Gulch, Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado, consist of the hull, gantry, and deck house; tailing piles edge the water.
Tailings embankments--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1980-1990.; French Gulch (Summit County, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Gold mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1980-1990.;...
View of Boreas Pass and "Hook-eye Curve" near Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. Shows Denver, South Park, & Pacific railroad tracks, a trestle, snow fences, a snowshed and the town.
Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railway Company--1880-1910.; Boreas Pass (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1910.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1910.; Railroad...