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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Tom Thumb Wedding, 1913
A Tom Thumb Wedding performed by the Minturn Presbyterian Church in 1913. Several of the local children took part. Olive Price, later Olive Goodale, is in the middle row, fourth from the left.
Tom and Alan Knight
Tom Knight and his grandson, Alan Knight (son of MacDonald and Micheline Knight) in 1955. "Tom and Alan Spring of 1955"
Tom and Ella Lewis
Tom and Ella Lewis, standing in front of a house. Thomas "...was born in Broadtop, Pa., Oct. 12, 1872 and came to Boulder, Colorado as a young man. For a time he managed a store at Erie before coming to Western Colorado and entered the mercantile business at Palisade with the J. W. Hugus Co. There he met Miss Ella Rose Berger, a clerk at the old Fair Store in Grand Junction. The couple was married March 3, 1907 and eight years later came to Eagle." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise, Dec. 14, 1961.
Tom and Mary Carolan
Tom and Mary Carolan sit on the porch of their home on Brush Creek. "I stayed with them part time in 1919 when I left the heat of Phx [Phoenix] for my health. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carolan." -- Alda Borah

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