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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- Freight train near Minturn
- A freight train near the town of Minturn. Taken in the 1980s or 1990s. The railroad employee next to the diesel locomotive is unidentified. The front diesel locomotive is an EMD GP40-2, and is number 3100. The Denver and Rio Grande ordered 37 EMD GP40-2 diesel locomotives, all of which we transferred to the Union Pacific Railroad following a merger between the two railroads in 1996.
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- Frenchy's Cabin
- A plein air oil by Barb Bomier. "Frenchy's Cabin," in Red Cliff, was owned by the Tetreault family of Red Cliff. Members of the Tetreault family worked in Red Cliff and Gilman at the Eagle Mine, which was owned by the Empire Zinc Company.
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- Freshman Initiation, McCoy High School
- Freshman Initiation at McCoy High School. The boys wore girls' clothes and the girls wore boys' clothes. From left to right: ?, La Vere Seaman, Emma Handley, Koy (Sheets) Wolverton, Lawrence Dooley