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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- Smith's Ranch, Ruedi
- Two unidentified women sit in a boat at the Smith Ranch. The postmark is dated May 10, 1909. An unidentified individual is sitting on the porch of the house. Smith's Ranch was located near Ruedi, Colorado. John Ruedi settled on the land after snowshoeing up from Basalt in 1885. Ruedi would later sell his ranch in 1906. Other settlers followed including Bill Smith. Once located in the Fryingpan River Valley, the land where Ruedi was located was eventually flooded as part of the Fry-Ark Project. Today Ruedi lies submerged beneath the Ruedi Reservoir and Dam, constructed between 1964 and 1968.
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- Sneak Day
- Gene Graves, Mary Frances Bayer, and Garth Byers on Sneak Day from Red Cliff Union High School.
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- Sneak Day
- A group of Red Cliff students on Sneak Day: Durbin McIlnay, Garthy Byers, Mary Frances Bayer, Gene Graves, Emerson Medina, Stewart Warren. The group is sitting on a sculpted rock wall (Red Rocks Amphitheater?) with large rocks in the background.
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- Sneve Ranch
- The William Johnson Ranch, formerly the Anthony Sneve Ranch on West Brush Creek. The patent on the ranch was established in 1911. The ranch was purchased by Edna Chambers in 1935. Chambers in turn sold the property to William S. and Nora Johnson in 1938. It is now the site for Sylvan Lake State Park. [A History of Sylvan Lake State Park, by Kathy Heicher]