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Sanborn photo postcard [W-1116] looking south down Broadway St., Eagle, Colorado, showing downtown buildings. Highway 40 sign in intersection. Texaco station on left. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard looking down on Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at lower left; Brush Creek Valley is at right midfield. Highway 6 runs from left to right across the midfield. The County courthouse is the square building at right midfield, placing this photograph after 1932.
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"This photograph appeared on the inside cover of the 1928 Eagle High School yearbook [Lux Aquilae]. Although there was never a big population of bighorn sheep on Brush Creek, they were known to winter there. The animals could be found in the summer on New York Mountain, Fools Peak, at Nolan Lake and in the Metheney Park area. The sheep population declined in the mid-1950s due to poaching and disease." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.121
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Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway. "Local veterans march down Eagle's main street in the 1930 Memorial Day parade. Note that the Buchholz Livery is no longer in place. The businesses in the middle of the block (on the east side of Broadway) include a restaurant and the Eagle Valley Enterprise offices." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.80...
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Photo postcard looking up Broadway (the main street) in Eagle, Colorado, north toward Castle Peak in the backround. The Eagle theatre is on the far left.
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"Along with the move of the county seat came an obligation to build a modern county courthouse. Designed by renowned architect J. Francis Pillsbury, the Eagle County Courthouse was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $60,000. The sheriff's office was on the basement floor along with living quarters for the jailer. The jail and courtroom were on the third floor (note the bars on the window at leaft). -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.82
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Photo postcard of action at the Eagle Rodeo in 1925. There are two mounted horsemen in front of the rodeo stands. A dog is in the foreground.
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Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway.
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Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway, having made a left-hand turn from 2nd St. The E.E. Glennn store is the focal point.
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Photo postcard of the railroad depot at Eagle, Colorado.
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Photo postcard looking northeast of James E. Ullman's Castle Peak Ranch in Eagle. Ullman bought the ranch from John Carey in September 1919 for $28,000. It included ninety acres of farming land in the home place and included summer range on Castle. [EVE Sept. 19, 1919 p.1] The ranch was purchased by Holly Brooks in 1931.
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Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Wilson (Thelma) with children, Willard and Shirley, on a photo holiday greeting postcard. The family is shown as tiny persons standing on a very large camera of early vintage. Shirley later married Bob Shelton. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A postcard print of Eagle, possibly taken around 1929. Highway 6 traverses the photograph at center alongside railroad tracks.
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A postcard of an open field near Eagle. Taken in September of 1911.
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A postcard showing a "birdseye view of Eagle." The E.E. Glenn and Co. sign is visible near the right of the image.
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A postcard sent to Alda Borah from Art Stremme. The postmark is dated August 23, 1919, from Gypsum.
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A panoramic postcard of Eagle. Taken in the 1940s. This appears to have been taken from where Sunset View Cemetery is located. The Eagle County Courthouse and Eagle School are visible at midfield on the left.
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A postcard print collage of Eagle. Clockwise from the top left: the Eagle River at Eagle, a mountain biker, Broadway Street in Eagle. The verso reads, "Eagle, CO. Come to this wonderful mountain town for fishing, hiking, biking, golf, water sports."
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Photo postcard of ten potatoes and a dish of peas. The potatoes are propped on a leather couch. Caption reads: "12 to 14 in. Burbanks, average 2-lbs., grown near Eagle, Colo." The potatoes were grown on Ben White's Ranch, which was located on lower Brush Creek. A note, written between July 16 and 17, 1923, reads, "The Eagle Valley is a small one but with some nice fields of potatoes. The ones they have photographed are not our ideal of size or...