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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- Stanley McHatton
- Stanley McHatton stands near a wagon and shed in Gypsum. Taken around 1916-7. He is wearing a military uniform and is holding a shovel. "I thot [thought] a great deal of him, a real clean fellow, studied to be a lawyer back east. Went to Calif. and died there about 1969." -- Alda Borah
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- Stanley McHatton
- Stanley McHatton, World War I.
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- Stanley McHatton
- Stanley McHatton stands on the steps of the Eagle County High School in Gypsum. Taken in the 1910s. The caption states that Stanley McHatton was a professor at the school. This cannot be verified. Stanley attended the Eagle County High School through at least 1913.
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- Stanley McHatton
- A photo postcard ("Carte Postale") of Stanley McHatton with a note on the back: "This was taken a long time ago & isn't a very good picture of me either - Stanley McHatton Overseas". Dated 1916.
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- Stanley McHatton
- Stanley McHatton poses in uniform, 1917. The McHattons lived in Gypsum and Stanley graduated from Eagle High School.
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- Stanley McHatton
- Stanley McHatton poses as he would if writing a letter at a decorated desk. He is in full uniform.
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- Stanley McHatton
- Stanley McHatton, pictured here in 1918, served in the US Army during World War I in France. He is holding a firearm over his shoulder. A thumbprint is visible in the top left corner. McHatton Reservoir, named for these McHattons, is located south of the Eagle County Airport.
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- Star Grocery, Eagle River Series
- A stereoscopic view of Star Grocery, a grocery store tent located along the Eagle River. Taken in the 1870s-1880s. It is unknown where on the Eagle River Star Grocery was located, nor is the history of Star Grocery known. A description of the Eagle River was included on the verso of the view: The Eagle River is a tributary of the Grand. Its source is in the Tennessee Pass, which has an elevation of 10,418 feet. Its course is through pine groves and broad grassy valleys, with the high peaks of the Ten Mile and Blue River mountains to the east and the Mount of the Holy Cross and the Sawatch range on the west. Near at hand rise high cliffs of quartzite, sandstone, limestone and porphyry, belonging to the Silurian group and containing a continuation of the famous carbonate deposits of Leadville and the Upper Arkansas. Fifteen miles below the pass the river is reinforced by Turkey Creek and the Homestake, near the new town of Red Cliff, at an altitude of 8,550 feet. The river here enters a canon from 500 to 700 feet in depth, often nearly perpendicular, plowed by itself through the silurian and granite rocks which form Battle mountain, the scene of a deadly conflict between the Utes and the allied hosts of the Arapahoe's and Cheyenne's in 1868, and over which the old Indian trail and new wagon road passes, following the line of the carbonate outcropping.
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- State Bridge
- State Bridge looking south-west from road to Radium. Ralph McGlochlin was the owner of the lodge and he was the father of Mabel Ethel Brooks who was former County Judge. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- State Bridge
- By June of 1946 when this picture was taken, the bridge's "age was beginning to show and some weak places had developed and there was talk of condemnation, it being unsafe for heavy loads. So it was no great surprise to anyone when truck driver Jim Jardy hauling a heavy bulldozer mounted on a low boy found one of those weak places and dropped through. Jardy and Bernard Ginther, operator of the bulldozer, were extremely thankful that they did not go into the river which was then at flood stage. As it was, no one was seriously injured.” -- McCoy Memoirs p.88 Les Randall was county road supervisor at the time. -- Shirley Fessenden