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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- Coke ovens near Mitchell
- A view of the coke ovens near Mitchell. "Mitchell is/was on the west side of Tennessee Pass. As one drives east, after passing Pando a few miles, the highway is right next to the railroad. Right at that location, on the other side of the track, are some kiln ruins. During 1890 there would have been a track beside the kilns. Assuming that the location is Mitchell that would be where Camp Hale was located in later years." -- Jimmy Blouch "Took picture, 1917. Coke ovens at Mitchell going toward the Pass." -- Alda Borah
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- Coke ovens on Eagle River
- Coke ovens along Eagle River next to railroad tracks. Several men are on site with dogs, horses, carts, wagons, wheelbarrows, and tools.
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- Coleman truck
- Coleman truck parked in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post, Minturn, Colorado, January 2004. "I remember that Walt Owen had an International two-ton truck with a Coleman front end. It was a County vehicle,... later turned into a wrecker. The tires on that Coleman truck are about what I thought they would be. Back in those days that was a pretty big tire; they were said to have cost $100.00 apiece and I believe that Gates was the only one that made them." -- Theodore "Bud" Beck, 2004 "Now and then I visualize one of them [Coleman trucks] heading up the mountain when it was almost dark; many times there would actually be flames shooting out of the exhaust pipe as well as a good deal of noise." -- Theodore "Bud" Beck, 2011
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- Coleman truck in spring
- Coleman truck parked in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post, Minturn, Colorado, May 2004. The truck has antlers piled on the bed.
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- College Farm house
- The College Farm house at Avon, Colorado, in October 1966 during a horned Hereford dispersal sale. The farm served as a Horticultural Experiment Station for the Colorado Agricultural College at Ft. Collins. Owned by Jack Oleson, the farm house burned Thanksgiving 1968. In this photo, Jack's mother is standing in the doorway.