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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- School portrait?
- Group photo in front of an unidentified building. The second girl in the front row is Evelyn Marguerite Lea, daughter of William H. Lea of Gypsum, Colorado. Possibly a group photo of a school students and teachers.
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- Schoolhouse Postcard
- A photo postcard addressed to "Mittie Borah" from Fleda Biglow postmarked November 6, 1909. Fleda writes: "Dear Friend, I am sorry for not writing sooner but I haven't my hand & couldn't hold a pencil and received your cards well. Mittie I will close, Fleda Biglow". The photograph is a schoolhouse with a group of children and a teacher in front. A dog is also in the front yard. Fleda is identified by the "x" above her head. Many thumbprints are on the right side of the photograph from handling the negative.
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- Season's Greetings from the Yosts
- The Yost boys, George & Freddie, are pictured on a Yost family Christmas card. George was 2 years old at the time.
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- Second School on Congor Mesa
- "The first school on the Conger Mesa was held in a small cabin on the Schrupp ranch in 1911. The second one was held in this log house built by John Conger in 1892 and abandoned by him a few years later. The building was none too warm and the school furnishings crude but after seven years without a school, no one complained. The building served as a school until a frame building was built in a more central location in 1916. In the fall of 1912 when this picture was taken, the school term was only three months, but that was a lot better than none at all. Attending that year were, from left to right, Lena Schrupp, Marie Theisen, Emma Theisen, Ethel Gray, John Ambos, Katherine Ebert, Kate Pound (the teacher), Mary Ebert, Emma Schrupp, Cecil Gray and Ed Schrupp. The Conger cabin, no longer in existance was located about 250 yards north of what is now the Raymond Horn house." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 42 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- Second tunnel, Canon of the Grand
- A postcard showing the second tunnel in the Grand River Canyon (now Glenwood Canyon) on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.