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  • Breckenridge dwellings
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    Exterior view of residences in Breckenridge, Colorado, shows one story, frame, gable roofed dwellings. The hose drying tower of Fireman's Hall is near the center. A plank fence is in the foreground, and peaks of the Tenmile range are in the...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Tenmile Range (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Dwellings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Fences--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900- 1920.
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    [between 1900 and 1920?]
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  • Breckenridge dwellings
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    Residences in Breckenridge, Colorado, include one story, frame, gable roofed dwellings. The hose drying tower of Fireman's Hall is near the center. The house on the right has two sash windows flanking a paned glass door. A plank fence is in the...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Tenmile Range (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Dwellings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Fences--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900- 1920.
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    [between 1900 and 1920?]
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  • Breckenridge dwellings
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    Exterior view of residences in Breckenridge, Colorado, shows one story, frame, gable roofed dwellings. The hose drying tower of Fireman's Hall is near the center. A plank fence, clapboard wall, ladder and chair are in the foreground, and peaks of...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Tenmile Range (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Dwellings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Fences--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900- 1920.
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    [between 1900 and 1920?]
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  • Breckenridge
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    This view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looks west at frame dwellings with fenced yards and the roof of the Arlington House hotel and the hose drying tower of the Fireman's Hall. In the foreground, a man, two women and two Labrador type dogs are posed...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Dogs--Colorado--Breckenridge--1870-1880.; Men--Colorado--Breckenridge--1870-1880.; Women--Colorado--Breckenridge--1870-1880.
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    [between 1870 and 1880?]
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  • Breckenridge
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    View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking southeast, includes tents, frame and log dwellings and commercial buildings dotting the flats next to the Blue River which winds up to and through town. The foothills of Boreas Mountain are in the left, and...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.
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    1881
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  • Fire in Breckenridge
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    A fire in Breckenridge, Colorado, devastated all but the frame of the storefront where is was centered. Men stand near it, and spectators line the street in the background. A false fronted storefront to the right of it is also damaged and leaning,...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fires--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
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    [between 1900 and 1910?]
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  • Harry's family house
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    A woman in a puff sleeved blouse stands in the open screen door of this frame, clapboard sided dwelling in Breckenridge, Colorado. The yard in the foreground is enclosed by a chickenwire and 2 x 4 fence. A man in a sack suit and silk tie with a...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Dwellings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.
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    [between 1900 and 1915?]
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  • Summit County Courthouse
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    The Summit County Courthouse, in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a two story brick building with a hipped gable roof, a slightly projecting gabled entry, and a cupola with sash windows. The cornice is dentiled all around. The lintels, sills,...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Construction--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
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    [between 1911 and 1915?]
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  • Summit County Courthouse, Breckenridge, Colo 1910
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    In this view of the Summit County Courthouse looking northwest, the two story brick building's hipped gable roof, a slightly projecting gabled entry, and a cupola with sash windows are visible. The lintels, sills, entablature and pendants are of...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
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    1910
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  • Tonopa shops
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    The Tonopa machine shop in Breckenridge, Colorado, some three hundred feet long, is a corrugated tin and frame structure with a monitor roof. A dock along the length of the building has snow on it; a large flywheel is half exposed above the ground...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Machine shops--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
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    [between 1910 and 1920?]
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  • Football game 1900's
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    During a sporting event on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, American flags hang from buildings in the left. People are on the balcony of the Denver Hotel and a sign over them reads "Evans Pharmacy." Taken from the balcony of the Arlington...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Football--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Running races--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
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    [between 1900 and 1910?]
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  • Johnnie Dewer's Place (present town hall)
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    Men pose around the wooden bar in a saloon in Breckenridge, Colorado. One holds a corncob pipe. The backbar pediment has carving and spindlework; bunting is tacked around the mirror. A cash register and metal sculptures of swordsmen are on it, and...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Interiors--1890-1900.
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    1894 or 1895
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  • Main St 1936
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    View of Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. A path has been cleared in deep snow which is piled onto both sides of the street. The Denver Hotel and part of the cornice of the Arlington House are on the left; a triangular "Conoco" sign is mounted...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Breckenridge--1930-1940.; Winter--Colorado--Breckenridge--1930-1940.
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    1936
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  • Main street, Breckenridge
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    Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, includes the Denver Hotel during festivites. The open porch has a crowd on its balcony, bunting hangs on its balustrade, and American flags are behind the spectators. The two- story, frame building features...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1920.
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    [between 1909 and 1915?]
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  • Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado, before 1893, showing range of mountains 25 miles away as seen in summer
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    Looking north on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, the Evan's Drugstore, Arlington House, and Denver Hotel are the left. Fireman's Hall with its belfry is on the right. Horses, wagons and pedestrians are parked along the boardwalks on both...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
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    [between 1890 and 1892?]
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  • Minnie Dusing Thomas
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    Minnie Dusing Thomas poses for a portrait in Breckenridge, Colorado, in a tight sleeved white blouse with ruffled cuffs, and a simple black dress. Her hair is swept up and back, and she has a high collar. Her arm rests on a carved wood table with...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Interiors--1880-1890.; Thomas, Minnie Dusing.
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    [between 1885 and 1890?]
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  • Looking west on Main Street, Breckenridge, Colo.
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    Looking west on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, there is the Silverthorn Hotel, a two-story, gable roofed frame structure, in the center, flanked by log houses; one with a balcony. The one story, frame sawmill is in the right, with planks...
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    Silverthorn Hotel (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Hotels--Colorado--Breckenridge--1860-1870.; Log cabins--Colorado--Breckenridge--1860-1870.
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    [between 1860 and 1865?]
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  • Main Street, Breckenridge
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    On Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, two-story, gable roofed buildings on the left are at 123 and 121 South Main, both dating from the 1880's. The near one has a false front with a bracketed cornice and sash windows, and has projecting signs...
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    Breckenridge (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Streets--Colorado--Breckenridge--1960-1970.
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    1968 Mar 14
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  • At fire of 10/23/66
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    A firefighter in Brighton, Colorado, crouches in his coat and hard hat, and holds an oxygen mask to his face. His outfit includes low topped shoes, a wristwatch, and a wedding ring.
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    Brighton (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Brighton--1960-1970.
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    1966
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  • At fire of 10/23/66
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    During a fire in Brighton, Colorado, the backs of two firemen are in the foreground; letters on one's coat read "West Adams County Fire Dept," and on his hat "WAC;" the other's reads "BFD." Both face a crane that reaches to the top of a brick...
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    Brighton (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Brighton--1960-1970.; Fires--Colorado--Brighton--1960-1970.
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    1966 [October 23]
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  • Brighton forge
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    The interior of this blacksmith shop in Brighton, Colorado, includes two men in leather aprons posing with an anvil, vises, a forge, and grinders. The walls are hung with tools, horseshoes, and posters advertising "Old Virginia" cheroots.
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    Brighton (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blacksmithing--Colorado--Brighton--1890-1900.; Forge shops--Colorado--Brighton--1890-1900.
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    [between 1890 and 1900]
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  • Buena Vista Hot Springs hotel
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    The Buena Vista Hot Springs hotel, also known as the Cottonwood Hot Springs hotel, in Buena Vista, Colorado, has a mansard roof with a widow's walk, dormers, bay windows and wrap around porches and balconies. This frame structure was the endeavor...
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    Buena Vista (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Buena Vista--1910-1920.
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    [between 1911 and 1912]
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  • Anderson & Sharp's Paint Shop
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    This paint store in Canon City, Colorado, has a variety of brushes, paint cans, and wallpaper displayed in the window and entry. Men pose on the boardwalk; two are in suits with gold chains, the rest are in white painter's clothes. One stands on a...
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    Paint shops--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.
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    1882
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  • Ceylon tea store - 521 Main St., 1903. Robert S. Coolbaugh, Prop.
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    The interior of the Ceylon tea store in Canon City, Colorado, is furnished with bamboo shelves and marblized enamel tables displaying porcelain or china tea service; cylindrical pots with embossed metal dragons or glazed finishes are among them. A...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Tea--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.
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    1903
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  • Elitch's
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    Women, a man, and a baby in a stroller pose by a flower pot at Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado. They are (l to r) O. B. Severson, Nora, Mrs. Ratcliffe, and Burnett (the baby).
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    Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Elitch Gardens (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Amusement parks--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Infants--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
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    [between 1930 and 1940?]
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  • Firemen's race, Canon City
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    Firemen in Canon City, Colorado, wearing undershirts and shorts, strain in harness pulling their hose cart. Some spectators have ribbons on their lapels. Behind the spectators are commercial buildings. A sign reads: "Central Hotel;" window...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.
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    [between 1890 and 1900?]
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  • Flour mill
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    This flour mill (destroyed by fire in 1916) in Canon City, Colorado, is a five-story brick or stone building with a gable roof and lettering: "Canon City Mills." A gable roofed two-story building nearby has a sign: "Kuner's." Tracks of the Denver...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Mills--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1920.
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    [between 1900 and 1916?]
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  • Interior of C. H. Whitmore & Co. store
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    The interior of the C. H. Whitmore & Co. store in Canon City, Colorado, is filled with hardwood dressers, desks, mirrors, china, glass, dinnerware, kerosene lamps, coathooks, rolls of paper, framed pictures, and a manual carpet sweeper display...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Home furnishings stores--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Interiors.
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    [between 1900 and 1905]
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  • Mack's lumber yard N W corner Main & Sixth St.
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    The office of this lumberyard in Canon City, Colorado, is a frame saltbox structure with a false front. Curving lines of letters on it read: "Easte(?), Chic(?), Wholesale, mouldings, lath, shingles, hardwood, picket fence, glass, cement, plaster,...
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    Lumberyards--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.
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    1875
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  • The Merriam & Pedley Drug Store on the north side of Main Street between 3rd and 4th
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    This two-story storefront in Canon City, Colorado, is built of rusticated stone with a wooden cornice. The awning reads: "Merriam & Pedley. Drugs;" other signs read: "Family Drug Store, Paints, Oils & glass." Sponge garlands and apothecary bottles...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Drugstores--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
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    1887
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  • Mrs. Peyton's ladies finery
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    The interior of Mrs. Peyton's Ladies Finery store in Canon City, Colorado, has glass display cases filled with hats, lingerie, bloomers, lace and milinery; shelves hold shoeboxes and toiletries and have artificial flowers and busts atop them. A...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Interiors.; Lingerie--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1910.; Millinery--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1910.
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    [between 1899 and 1905?]
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  • Old military band and cadets
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    At Seventh and Macon Streets in Canon City, Colorado, uniformed cadets are in formation with bayoneted (fake?) rifles at the shoulder. One has a United States flag. A suited brass band leads with horns and drums. Brick, two story residences in the...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cadets--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Military bands--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
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    1884
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  • The southeast corner of Main and 4th Streets, 1878, showing James Clelland's store and Engleman & Thompson's store
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    This two-story brick building in Canon City, Colorado, has a bracketed wood cornice with pendants and letters reading: "Engleman Clelland's." Window lettering reads: "Millinery fancy goods boots and shoes dry goods notions clothing groceries and...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Millinery--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
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    1878
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  • View of our store - Canon City Colo.
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    On Main Street in Canon City, Colorado, Texas wagons with teams of horses in harness and uncovered bows are loaded with full gunny sacks and hay. Men pose among them and under the covered stoop of a brick store with a sign reading: "McGee & Mack."...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
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    [between 1870 and 1880?]
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  • Canon City Composer's Club
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    Men and women of the Composer's Club of Canon City, Colorado, pose wearing cravats, oversized buttons, puff shoulders, a variety of fabrics, feathers, pleats, ruffles and applique.
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Composers--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.
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    1897
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  • Colorado State Penitentiary about 1884
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    The State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, consists of three-story stone buildings surrounded by stone walls, with a square corner tower. The two-story Administration Building is built into the wall, and has arched windows, and a cottage roof...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
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    1884
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  • Stagecoach
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    Men, women, and children ride a stagecoach with a four horse team in Canon City, Colorado. Stagecoach features ornate flourishes, lamps, and a roof rail; boy with a baby donkey stands by the wheel. Brick Methodist Church has stone, angular...
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    Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Churches--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Stagecoaches--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
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    [between 1873 and 1880?]
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  • Richthofen Castle
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    Aerial view of Richthofen Castle at 7020 East 12th (Twelfth) Avenue in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; shows 11th (Eleventh) and Olive Streets, landscaping, and adjacent residences.
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    Von Richthofen, Walter, Baron, 1848-1898--Homes & haunts.; Richthofen Castle (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Montclair (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.
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    [between 1924 and 1940?]
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  • A.T. & S.F. employee
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    A railroad maintenance employee steps off of an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe freight car. He wears overalls and a cap with, goggles attached, and carries a wooden tool box.
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    Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1950-1970.; Railroad employees--1950-1970.; Railroad freight cars--1950-1970.
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    [between 1950 and 1967?]
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  • Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver Zephyr, contestants boarding
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    Female beauty contestants, fashionably dressed, board the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver Zephyr in Chicago, Illinois. "Queen Virginia Roper" wears a crown and shakes hands with Ralph Budd the president of the railroad. The other contestants...
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    Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company--Public relations--1930-1940.; Denver Zephyr (Express train)--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940.; Chicago (Ill.)--1930-1940.; Beauty contestants--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Business...
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    1936 Nov. 13
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  • Colorado and Southern shop employees
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    A group of Colorado and Southern Railway employees pose near a railroad passenger car in Denver, Colorado. The men wear overalls and hats. An inscription on the car reads "Colorado and Southern". One man holds a sign that reads: "C&S Coach Shop...
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    Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Railroad employees--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Railroad passenger cars--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
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    1926 August
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  • Royal Gorge, Grand Canyon of the Arkansas
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    View of Denver & Rio Grande Railway Hanging Bridge beside the Arkansas River in the Royal Gorge, Fremont County, Colorado shows the tracks below vertical canyon walls.
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    Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Arkansas River--1880-1890.; Fremont County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Royal Gorge (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--Fremont County--1880-1890.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.;...
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    1880?
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  • Royal Gorge
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    Aerial view of the Royal Gorge on the Arkansas River in Fremont County, Colorado shows the steep canyon walls along the river with standard Denver and Rio Grande or Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad tracks.
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    Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Arkansas River--1910-1920.; Fremont County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Royal Gorge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Canyons--Colorado--Fremont County--1910-1920.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Fremont...
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    [between 1910 and 1920?]
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  • West end of the Toltec Tunnel
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    View of a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad trestle, the Toltec Tunnel, and a cliff near the Toltec Gorge in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.
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    Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Rio Arriba County (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Rio Arriba County--1880-1890.; Railroad tunnels--Colorado--Rio Arriba County--1880-1890.; Trestles--Colorado--Rio Arriba...
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    [between 1881 and 1886?]
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  • Fraser Community Church, Fraser, Colorado
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    Fraser Community Church in Fraser, Colorado, is an L-shaped clapboard building with a tower which has a pyramidal roof and four conical turrets. The leaded windows have translucent glass and the base of the building is of rounded stones. A house...
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    Fraser (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Churches--Colorado--Fraser--1930-1950.
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    [between 1930 and 1950?]
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  • Street cave-in in Englewood Flood - S. Broadway & Hampden
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    A view from above shows the cave-in of the Little Dry Creek Bridge at South Broadway and Hampden in Englewood, Colorado, in 1927. Large sections of the wood plank bridge slant into the river below, and the street is shiny with rain and mud on...
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    Englewood (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Little Dry Creek (Colo.); Floods--Colorado--Englewood--1920-1930.
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    [1927]
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  • The Good Old Days: Grigsby Family History
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    Intensive document covering the Grisby family history starting in the early 1870's in Iowa.
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    2012 June 20
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  • Annual: East Denver High School, 1917
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    1917 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
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    East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
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    1917
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  • East High spotlight: vol 17 no 8
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    Newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
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    East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
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    1931 January 14
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  • "If I Were White" by Clarence F. Holmes (unofficial title)
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    Speech notes made by Clarence Holmes at Grace Church, Young People's Meeting (Denver, CO)
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    African Americans--Colorado--Denver.
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    1933 January 15

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