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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- Dump family at dinner
- The Ivan Dump family seated around the dining room table for dinner in the early 1950s. The wallpaper and metal kitchen cabinets in the background are appropriate to the era. From front left, going around the table to the right: Ed Dump, Ernie Dump, Ralf Marfitano, Ivan Dump, Joy Marfitano Dump, Stella Marfitano, Len Dump and Betty Mae Dump (Elsberry).
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- Dump-Marfitano birthday get-together
- Birthday party get-together at the home of Ivan Dump on Eagle Street in Red Cliff, Colorado, taken in the early 1950s. Siding had been added to the house after 1948. The wishing well in right background was made with bricks salvaged by the Dump siblings after a truck went off the grade above the Silver Bridge, landing near the Eagle River and railroad tracks. From Left to right: Ivan Dump (sitting on walkway), Rose Marfitano, Ralph Marfitano (Sitting on chair), Len Dump Dumph, Ernie Dump Dumph, Stella Marfitano, Eddie Dump Dumph, Betty Mae Dump Elsberry and Joy Marfitano Dump Boltjes. [Notes courtesy of Len Dumph]
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- E. E. Glenn & Co.
- The E. E. Glenn & Co. General Merchandise store on Broadway in Eagle. The Post Office was also located in the building. There are boardwalks around the building. A dozen men and two children are standing in front of the store. "Ed Glenn was first attracted to this county by the mining camp at Fulford when that camp was at the boom stage, and later married Mrs. Belding who owned the store located on the site in the same building now occupied by Rule electric. The business was known as E. E. Glenn & Co., and was for years one of the leading mercantile concerns of this part of the county....you could buy anything from a toothpick to a threshing machine." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 9, 1948 p.1