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Calhan, CO
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Photo postcard of mail carrier Earl D. Eddy making his rounds on a street in Denver (probably Englewood), ca. 1917.
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  • Post published:December 17, 2021
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Earl Dawes Eddy, born in Illinois in 1885, provided wonderful provenance for this photo post card when he addressed it to his namesake, Earl Dawes Eddy, Jr., at their family…

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Photo of Mary Agnes and Con Meenan with three miners at mine entrance on Matterhorn Mining Company property, near Ophir, CO, ca. 1910.
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  • Post published:December 17, 2021
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The San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado contain much of what is known as the “Colorado Mineral Belt,” which extends from the Durango area and runs northeast clear to Boulder.  …

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Photo postcard of the Stark family's Home Comfort Hotel in St. Elmo, Colorado, ca. 1914.
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  • Post published:December 5, 2021
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Clara Hinton, the sender of this postcard postmarked in 1914, writes to her husband, Clarence, in Denver:  “Had dinner here.  The rig in the picture is the stage we come…

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McAnaney barber shop and Queen City Laundry drop-off at 4th and Main, Fort Lupton, CO, ca. 1910.
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  • Post published:November 27, 2021
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The proprietor of this barber shop and laundry drop-off was Hugh J. McAnaney. Hugh was born in Wooster, Ohio, in 1872, and it was there in 1895 that he married…

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Welcome!

Welcome to my blog of old Colorado photos.  I’ve always loved old photos, and given my interest in history, it was probably inevitable that I would be drawn to the idea of collecting old images of the Colorado town where I grew up, i.e., Fort Lupton.  Fort Lupton sits on the South Platte River, about halfway between Denver and Greeley, at the western edge of the Great Plains. 

I grew up feeling more connected to the eastern half of the state than to the western half. Maybe that was because I knew the plains were just out the back door of Fort Lupton, so to speak, or simply because I was more familiar with the names of towns to the east. So, a few years ago, when I decided to expand my collecting beyond Fort Lupton, I leaned east.  Since then, though, I’ve gotten the bug for expanding my collection to the entire state.  You'll find that, in its current state, my blog is weighted toward images of Fort Lupton, eastern and northern Colorado, but that will shift as I steadily add images from the Colorado Rockies and western slope.

I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy building and tending to it. Please feel free to leave comments!

  • - Jack

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