Brush – Jacks Old Photos of Colorado

Photo postcard of “Bethesda,” the Eben Ezer Sanitarium, Brush, Co, ca. 1906 - 1910.

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Post published:May 11, 2025
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The founder of the Eben Ezer Sanitarium was the Reverend Jens Madsen, who was born in Denmark in 1869. In 1893, Madsen emigrated to the United States and entered the…

Photo of Ulysses G. Bleasdale family home, about half a mile southeast of Brush, CO, ca. 1901 – 1903.

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Post published:November 14, 2024
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Ulysses Grant Bleasdale was born October 16, 1865, in Orange Township, Ohio, one of seven children of British immigrant Thomas Calvert Bleasdale and Ohio native Mary Adeline Thorp. They farmed. …

Photo postcard depicting the Great Western Cattle Yards outside Brush, Colorado, ca. 1918.

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Post published:May 3, 2024
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This is the first time I’ve posted a Colorado photo, only to relate a tragic backstory rooted in Texas. The story involved brothers Willie and Arthur Halliburton, who signed the…

Photo postcard signed “Ottoni,” (probably Ottoni Matta Pederson), Brush CO, ca. 1908 – 1910.

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Post published:November 12, 2022
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The girl in the photo wrote on the back of this undated postcard addressed to Ella Pedersen of Brush: “A Merry XMAS and a Happy New Year from your schoolmate,…

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

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PEOPLE AND PLACES

Jack’s Old Photos of Colorado

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PEOPLE AND PLACES

Calhan, CO

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado

Jack’s Old Photos
of Colorado