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45. Ivan Staton
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A postcard advertising Strawberry Day in Glenwood Springs, taking place June 21-22, 1912. An annual event celebrating the strawberry harvest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It began in 1898, and is ongoing. According to the Glenwood Springs Visitor’s Center, it is the longest continually held civic celebration west of the Mississippi River. It began as an agricultural festival. At one time, a bicycle race between Grand Junction and Glenwood was held...
50. Troutville
51. News from home
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A postcard of the main ranch house at the Lucky GJ Ranch.
Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat owned...
53. The Royal Gorge
54. Mount Sopris
55. Minturn depot
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Several individuals wait to board a passenger train at the Minturn depot on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Taken in 1915. A note on the back reads, "Taken at Minturn, Colo. on Rio Grande Ry at noon U.W. Band Tour of Western States, 1915." The University of Wisconsin-Madison band, under the leadership of Charles "Charlie" Mann, toured the Western United States in 1915, before performing at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was...
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A holiday postcard sent by Myrtle and L. J. Borah, possible to Mary (Grant) Borah and Alda (Borah) Perkins. A small poem in the greeting card reads, "Not all the gold / These mountains old / Keep deep within their coffers / Could buy for you / A wish, more true / Than this Christmas greeting offers."