Local History Photo Archive
The Eagle Valley Library District and the Eagle County Historical Society work together to bring you thousands of photographs, artifacts, and many other items from historical Eagle County and the surrounding areas on the Western Slope.
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- Bell Mountain ski slopes
- "Number 6 chairlift and Bell Mountain ski slopes from Midway Point, Aspen Mountain. View east toward Continental Divide."
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- Ben Bolt
- A portrait of Ben Bolt of Minturn, Colorado. The namesake for Bolt's Lake in Minturn, Bolt was an early homesteader in the Minturn/Avon area.
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- Ben Bolt's home near Minturn
- A view of Ben Bolt's home near Minturn. Ben Bolt, along with his brother S. F., settled on a ranch above Minturn. Bolt was the namesake for Bolt's Lake near Minturn. The Empire Zinc Company purchased the land in 1917, "intending at the time to establish their mining headquarters on Battle Mountain in the adjoining flats." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise, March 10, 1922
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- Ben Butler Family
- "The Butler Family in 1912. The year they arrived on the Conger Mesa and made their home on what is presently the Black Mountain Ranch. Here are Helen, Ben, Katherine and Roger." -- McCoy Memoirs p.266 Katherine "Kate" Johannbroer Butler inherited the ranch from her mother, Helene Johannbroer, in 1911. In 1920, Kate sold the ranch to John Ambos, Jr. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- Ben Emil and Marie Irene Erlandson
- Shared marker for: Erlandson, Ben Emil, Jan. 7, 1894--Aug. 9, 1978; Marie Irene, Oct. 11, 1901--June 3, 1894; married Sept. 2, 1924, in Riverview Cemetery. There is a Masonic emblem above Ben's name., JoAnn Potter Riggle Collection