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Front-porch gathering at the Corcoran home, 711 Denver Avenue, Fort Lupton, CO, year unknown. (Photo courtesy of the Fort Lupton Museum.)

Post author:jcamenga
Post published:January 5, 2022
Post category:Fort Lupton
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This group of people have gathered at the front of John and Katie Corcoran’s home at 711 Denver Avenue, which still stands (see Google maps at https://www.google.com/maps ). It’s the…

Arcade photo postcard of Ed and Effie Kouns, Denver, Colorado, 1913.

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Post published:December 31, 2021
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Ed (Isaac Edward) Kouns, born in 1873, was the son of Isaac Hunter Kouns and Sarah Jane (Whitehead) Kouns. Isaac Hunter Kouns was a Civil War veteran, a former river…

Photo of father and son on Moline Universal Model D tractor near Rocky Ford, CO, ca. 1920.

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Post published:December 19, 2021
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This photo shows a farmer with his son, “John D,” on a Moline Universal Model D tractor in a cornfield outside of Rocky Ford. This model, manufactured by the Moline…

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…

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!

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Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

Blog

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Calhan, CO

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado