Gypsum, Colorado
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1930: Front view of the Gypsum Hotel, including an automobile and bicycle (on boardwalk). It is a two story structure with siding. It was built in 1900 by "Banty" Skiff and his wife, you had a dry goods store in part of it.
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Portrait photograph of Rosamond Myrna Skiff, six months old, taken on December 21, 1875.
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Studio portrait of Francis Marion Skiff, 1847-1910.
A History of Eagle County [1940], p. 186: "F. M. Skiff owned the town site of Gypsum, Mrs. Skiff owning the first dry goods store and running the first post office. Mr. Skiff built the first two story building in Gypsum [1900]. This bulding is now the Lundgrens store. p. 187 The upstairs of this place was used for a school."
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Studio portrait of Arthur Cabe and Myrtle Skiff Cabe, dressed formally and posed next to a stile.
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Studio portrait of Rosamond Skiff Coombs and Harvey N. Coombs.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 3, 1948 p.1: "Mr. Coombes [sic.] was one of the early settlers of Eagle county, coming in with the laying of the railroad following the work from Red Cliff to Gypsum. In Gypsum he met and married Rosamund M. Skiff on Dec. 11, 1895, and the couple spent their married life together in Eagle and Garfield counties."
Mr. Coombs was buried in Fairview Cemebery...
6) Skiff Family
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Francis M. and Mary Elizabeth Edson Skiff and their children.
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Early Gypsum, Colorado, showing Skiff's ranch building, used as a hotel, at the far right. A group of men and dogs are standing in front of the buildings. Barbed wire fence in foreground.
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Skiff's Ranch building (behind the Lutheran Church in Gypsum) right after it was finished (1900). A group of people including children and a dog are standing in front of the building. It was used as a hotel, drygoods store, and Oddfellows Hall over the years.
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Photo postcard of the Gypsum Hotel (formerly the Skiff Hotel) after the fire in 1912.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, Feb. 9, 1912, p.1: GYPSUM TOWN HAS BIG FIRE. Early Sunday Morning Blaze Destoys Three Buildings and Portion of Contents.
The most disastrous fire in the history of Gypsum or Eagle county took place in that town last Sunday morning at four o'clock, and before the fire was discovered it gained such headway that every effort to quench the flames...
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Studio portrait of Earl and Meleta Skiff. Earl is seated on a chair and Meleta stands to his left.
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Studio portrait of Rosa (Rosamond) and Myrtle Skiff. Myrtle is seated and Rosa is standing next to her sister. The girls are wearing lace collars.
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The Lutheran Church in Gypsum with a view of the Skiff Hotel at lower left. A man is standing on the church steps.
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13) Skiff's Ranch
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Working on roof beams for Skiff's Ranch hotel (later the Oddfellows Hall) in Gypsum.
