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- Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the town of Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. The house of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company superintendent sits on a hill outside town. Prominent buildings in town include Union Congregational Church, Crested Butte school house,...
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1900-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1900-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Crested Butte--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- C F & I coke ovens, Crested Butte, Colo
- Denver and Rio Grande box cars carry bituminous coking coal at the C. F. & I. coke ovens, Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Smoke and fumes rise from ovens; Crested Butte mountain is in the background.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Facilities--1910-1920.; Coke-ovens--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1910-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coke industry--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Industrial...
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Crested Butte Mt. & town of Crested Butte, Gunnison Co. Colo.
- View along Coal Creek of the town of Crested Butte with Crested Butte Moutain in background, Gunnison County, Colorado; includes wood frame, log and a few stone structures.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coke ovens and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad box cars on tracks in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Houses and commercial buildings are near the coke ovens, and snow is on the summit of...
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Facilities--1950-1960.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Coke-ovens--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.;...
- 1951 April
- Croatian Hall, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of Croatian Hall located at 512 2nd Avenue in Crested Butte, Colorado. The simple, two-story meeting hall has corrugated sheet metal siding on its false front with original decorative cornice and central half rondel containing the words,...
- Croation Hall (Crested Butte, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Halls--Colorado--Crested Butte--2000-2010.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Croatian Fraternal Union of America Sub Assembly No. 26 (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Croatian Hall...
- 2007
- Crested Butte
- Panoramic view of the town of Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Prominent buildings in town include the Crested Butte Community Church, School, and Elk Mountain House. A large white house sits on a hill. Smoke rises from the smokestacks of...
- Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1890-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920?]
- Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of houses and commercial buildings in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. A bridge crosses over Coal Creek. Snow is on the summit of Crested Butte in the distance.
- Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Streams--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.
- 1951 April
- Crested Butte
- View of the town of Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows commercial buildings, churches, and houses. Prominent buildings include: Union Congregational Church, Crested Butte school house, and Elk Mountain House. Mount Crested Butte is in...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Crested Butte (Mountain: Colo.)--1880-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Union Congregational Church
- View of the Union Congregational Church in Crested Butte, Colorado; features a front gable, decorative bargeboard, arched-pointed windows (above rectangular windows, front facade), horizontal clapboard siding, finials, square bell tower, and a...
- Union Congregational Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1960-1970.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960- 1970.
- 1964
- Tipple at Crested Butte
- Miners stand next to coal cars on a tipple in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows wood frame houses. Crested Butte mountain is in the distance.
- Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1880-1900.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.; Tipples--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Coke ovens, Crested Butte, Colo.
- Denver and Rio Grande box cars carry bituminous coking coal at the C. F. & I. stone coke ovens, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. A laundry line is in distance flying high; smoke and fumes from the ovens blow in the opposite direction....
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Clotheslines--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Coke industry--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Industrial facilities--Colorado--Crested...
- [1910]
- Crested Butte, 1980's
- View of the Crested Butte firehouse in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. The building is a three-story wood sheathed, steel building near aspen trees and an ornate lamp post. Features include a large scalloped sign: "Fire Protection...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Fire stations--Colorado--Crested Butte--1980-1990.
- [between 1980 and 1989]
- D&RGW
- A boy identified as Bill Gilmer poses in deep snow in front of the Denver and Rio Grande Western passenger depot in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Gilmer wears a plaid wool jacket. Shows D&RGW freight car #3271 buried in snow, and deep...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Boys--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.;...
- 1952 March 29
- Coke ovens at Crested Butte, Gunnison, Co
- Men work by a railroad ore car at the C. F. & I. coke ovens, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Facilities--1910-1920.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Coke-ovens--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coke industry--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Crested Butte, 1963 Congregational Community Church
- View of the Union Congregational Church in Crested Butte, Colorado; features a front gable, decorative bargeboard, arched-pointed windows (above rectangular windows, front facade), horizontal clapboard siding, finials, a square bell tower, and a...
- Union Congregational Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1960-1970.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960- 1970.
- 1963
- Crested Butte
- View of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company locomotive 483, a tender, and caboose 0588, beside a water tank at Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. The locomotive vents smoke. Crested Butte Mountain is in the distance.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad cabooses--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Crested...
- [between 1950 and 1956?]
- Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the town of Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colo. Located in a beautiful mountain valley named for the prominent peak in the background, the once grimy coal mining town has been reborn as one of Colorado's best known resort towns.
- Cities and towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--2000-2010.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Crested Butte Mountain (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Cities and towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--Pictorial works.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Crested...
- 2007
- St. Patricks Church, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the old St. Patricks Church located at 108 Maroon Avenue, Crested Butte, Colo. Built in 1890, the structure boasts a prominent front gable with a projecting square tower, pyramidal roof and cross on top. Services where held in the church...
- St. Patricks Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Dwellings--Colorado--Crested Butte--2000-2010.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--2000-2010.; St. Patricks Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Dwellings--Colorado--Crested Butte--Pictorial...
- 2007
- Union Congregational Church, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the Union Congregational Church located at 403 Maroon Avenue, Crested Butte, Colo. Eastlake style trim adorns the front-gabled Carpenter's Gothic church with clapboard siding and decorative vertical trim boards. The square corner tower...
- Union Congregational Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--2000-2012.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Crested Butte--2000-2012.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Union Congregational Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Congregational...
- 2007
- Crested Butte, Colorado looking northeast
- Panoramic view of buildings in the town of Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado and the summit of Crested Butte. The Union Congregational Church with bell tower is among frame houses. Shows smoke above Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coke ovens...
- Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1900-1910.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--1900-1910.
- [1909?]
- Crested Butte mountain
- View of the town of Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows commercial buildings, churches, and houses. Prominent buildings include Union Congregational Church and Elk Mountain House. Crested Butte mountain is in the distance.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Crested Butte (Mountain : Colo.)--1890-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920?]
- Snow scene
- Snow flies from the blade of a snowplow as it carves a path after a heavy spring snow in Crested Butte, Gunnison County, or Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Snow plows--Colorado--Crested Butte--1930-1940.; Snow plows--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Blizzards--Colorado--Crested Butte--1930-1940.;...
- Spring, 1936
- City Hall after explosion
- View of destruction caused by a dynamite blast used to create a fire break during the 1893 fire in central business district, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado; shows a large hole in the side of the old City Hall; building...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1900.; City & town halls--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.; Explosions--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.
- 1893
- The trapper Bertie
- Full seated portrait of Bert Gross with a dog and animal skins, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado; his rifle leans on his leg and he wears a feather headdress, gaiters, wool pants and a jacket with fringe.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Gross, Bert.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Yank outstanding Gunnison character
- Full standing studio portrait of Laurent (Yank) Baxter, one of the first ranchers in the Crested Butte district, Gunnison County, Colorado; he wears leather boots, a frock coat, and hat; one leg is raised on a prop tree stump, he braces himself...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Baxter, Laurent.
- 1876
- D&RGW
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad caboose #0588 is pulled by locomotive #486 (2-8-2) in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows a switch, deep snow and a man near the tracks. Snow is on Crested Butte, across the valley.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad cabooses--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Railroads--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.;...
- 1952 March 29
- Kochevar's Saloon & Gaming Hall, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of Kochevar's Saloon located at 127 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, Colorado. The two-story, hand-hewn square timber structure has a symmetrical clapboard false front with bracketed cornice. The second floor is defined on the facade by three...
- Kochevar's Saloon & Gaming Hall (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Kochevar's Saloon & Gaming Hall (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars (Drinking...
- 1995
- Union Congregational Church, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the Union Congregation Church located at 403 Maroon Avenue in Crested Butte, Colorado. Decorative trim adorns the front-gable of the carpenter's gothic style church. A square corner tower tapers to an open cupola with an arched cutout,...
- Union Congregational Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Congregational churches.; Union Congregational Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Crested...
- 1987
- St. Peter's Catholic Church Rectory, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the St. Peter's Catholic Church Rectory located at 303 North Wisconsin Street in Crested Butte, Colorado. The building has a broad pitched roof, an unusual triple gable dormer with Queen Anne style detailing and brackets under the roof...
- St. Peter's Catholic Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Rectories.; St. Peter's Catholic Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Parsonages--Colorado--Crested Butte--Pictorial works.; Crested...
- 1992
- Slogar Bar & Restaurant, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the Slogar Bar & Restaurant located at 517 2nd Street in Crested Butte, Colorado. The two-story, clapboard sided building has a false front with a decorative bracketed cornice. The structure was restored and remodeled with the addition of a...
- Slogar Bar & Restaurant (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Slogar Bar & Restaurant (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars (Drinking establishments)--Colorado--Crested...
- 1995
- Municipal Facts: Volume 9 Numbers 11 and 12, 1926 November-December
- Crested Butte from the north west
- View of frame houses and commercial buildings in the Slate River valley in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Signs on false-front or gabled buildings read: "Bowman House" and "Butte Stable." The three-story clapboard Elk Mountain House is...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1890.
- 1883 July
- Snow scene
- Men with shovels clear the sidewalk in front of wood frame businesses, after a heavy spring snow in Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. A line of electric bulbs hang across street. Signs read: "Liquor," "Fire Station," "Steamboat Harness &...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Blizzards--Colorado--Crested Butte--1930-1940.; Business districts--Colorado--Crested Butte--1930-1940.
- Spring 1936
- Snow scene
- The "John Bazz Shoemaker" shop shows along a narrow path shoveled through deep snow after a heavy spring snow in Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. Icicles hang from the porch roof of the small wood frame house.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Blizzards--Colorado--Crested Butte--1930-1940.; Shoe stores--Colorado--Crested Butte--1930-1940.
- Spring, 1936
- Crested Butte - 1963 New Catholic Church
- View of the "new" Catholic Church in Crested Butte, Colorado; features a steep, bellcast, front gable with a cross on top, shaped stone on the front facade, and vertical boards on the side facade; double door entrance with decorative woodwork; bell...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.
- 1963
- Coal tipple at Crested Butte
- View of a frame coal tipple with men and coal cars, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.; Tipples--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Crested Butte, 1980's
- Detail of sign on the vestibule of St. Patrick's reads: "Historic St. Patrick's Catholic Church 1883-1967, restored as a residence by the Crested Butte Pakg," near First Street on Maroon Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Crested Butte--1980-1990.
- [between 1980 and 1989]
- Crested Butte, 1980's
- The Crested Butte firehouse, Gunnison County, Colorado, is a three-story wood frame structure with a large scalloped sign above the cornice: "Fire Protection District 1974, Crested Butte." Features include tall panel garage doors, a bracketed...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Fire stations--Colorado--Crested Butte--1980-1990.
- [between 1980 and 1989]
- A miner's cabin in winter, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of a log miner's cabin with metal chimneys near Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Snow drifts are on the sides of the structure and on a portion on the roof. Shows a tunnel in the snow, probably to a cabin entrance. Snow is in a...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Crested Butte--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Crested Butte, Colo., street
- A boy identified as Bill Gilmer poses beside a street light and a tall snowbank on Elk Avenue in Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Gilmer wears a plaid wool jacket, and pants tucked into tall laced up boots. Signs read: "Drugs, Bank" and...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Blizzards--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Boys--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.;...
- 1952 March 29
- D&RGW
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive #494 (2-8-2) and passenger cars are stopped on a curve in probably Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. The train is a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion special. Passengers...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Rocky Mountain Railroad Club--People--1950-1960.; Railfans--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Crested...
- 1948 September 18
- City Hall, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the old City Hall located at 132 Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Colo. Built in 1883, the two-story, false-fronted frame structure with central arched entry housed both city offices and fire department until 1952. The building has ship lap...
- City halls--Colorado--Crested Butte--1970-1980.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1970-1980.; City halls--Colorado--Crested Butte--Pictorial works.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1971
- Old Rock Schoolhouse, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of the Old Rock Schoolhouse located at 504 Maroon Ave. in Crested Butte, Colorado. Built in 1893, the two-story, coursed, rough-faced stone building has a central, square front bay with separate boys' and girls' entrances on either side. The...
- Schools--Colorado--Crested Butte--2000-2010.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Schools--Colorado--Crested Butte--Pictorial works.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2007
- Castle Geyser and Crested Spring
- View of Crested Pool hot spring and Castle Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
- Castle Geyser (Wyo.)--1880-1890.; Crested Pool (Wyo.)--1880-1890.; Upper Geyser Basin (Wyo.)--1880-1890.; Yellowstone National Park--1880-1890.; Geysers--Yellowstone National Park--1880-1890.; Springs--Yellowstone National Park--1880-1890.
- [1882]
- Crested Spring and Castle Geyser, Yellowstone
- View of Crested Pool hot spring and Castle Geyser in Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
- Castle Geyser (Wyo.)--1880-1890.; Crested Pool (Wyo.)--1880-1890.; Upper Geyser Basin (Wyo.)--1880-1890.; Yellowstone National Park--1880-1890.; Geysers--Yellowstone National Park--1880-1890.; Springs--Yellowstone National Park--1880-1890.
- [1882]
- Snow scene
- A car parks in a narrow path shoveled through deep snow, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, or Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. License plate reads: "1935," and the spare tire cover reads: "Nash Motors Co., Denver."
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Automobiles--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Blizzards--Colorado--Crested Butte--1930-1940.; Blizzards--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.
- [between 1935 and 1936]
- New Catholic Church
- View of the "new" Catholic Church in Crested Butte, Colorado; shows a steep, bellcast, front gable with a cross on top, shaped stone on the front facade, and vertical boards on the side facade; double door entrance with decorative woodwork; bell...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.
- 1964
- Crested Butte, Colorado, Jacob Kochevar residence
- View of dilapidating clapboard residence of Jacob and Maija Kochevar, Yugoslavian settlers, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. Their son Jacob, "Jakie" built them the false front with three evenly spaced side entrances and...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.; Clapboard siding--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.; False fronts--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1965]
- Crested Butte, Colorado, Jacob Kochevar residence
- Detail of the east side entrance of the 1913 dilapidating clapboard residence of Jacob and Maija Kochevar, (Yugoslavian immigrants) Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado; shows the doornob and keyhole cut out from the corrugated...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.; Doors & doorways--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1965]
- Crested Butte, Colorado, Jacob Kochevar residence
- View includes the dilapidating clapboard residences of Jacob and Maija Kochevar, (Yugoslavian immigrants) Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. Their son Jacob, "Jakie" built the newer false front and decorated the second-story with...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.; Clapboard siding--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.; False fronts--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1965]