View of the Happy Valley Placer Co. mining camp in the Grand Island Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado with tents and a buggy. John H. Kemp leans on the fence to the left; Engineer August Mathez stands with a transit instrument and tripod...
Happy Valley Placer Company (Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1900.; Mining camps--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Kemp, John H.;...
Water cascades over a ledge at Highland Mary Falls (also known as Kemp's Falls) about 4 miles west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Trees and rocks stand on both sides of the waterfall. A mountain ridge is in the distance.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.
Water cascades around large rocks at Highland Mary Falls (also known as Kemp's Falls) about 4 miles west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Trees stand on both sides of the waterfall.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Rocks--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.
Two unidentified women stand on a rock ledge near Highland Mary Falls (also known as Kemp's Falls) about 4 miles west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Tall pine trees stand near the women. Both women both wear checkered shirts and pants. One...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Pines--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.; Rock formations--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.
Water cascades around large rocks at Highland Mary Falls (also known as Kemp's Falls) about 4 miles west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Trees stand on both sides of the waterfall. A mountain ridge is in the distance.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.
Several log cabins stand in the background at the base of a mountain in Happy Valley near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. A ridge of mountains is in the distance. Tall pine trees stand in the midground and along the side of the mountain. A row...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Mountains--Colorado--1930-1950.
large pine tree is in the foreground.; The town of Eldora is nestled between two mountain ridges in Boulder County, Colorado. Eldora saw its boom near the end of the 19th century when mining camps started to develop in the surrounding area. The...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
A fence stands in the foreground in front of large mounds of snow near a log cabin in Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, after the "Great Snowstorm" of 1899. The cabin is almost buried in snow except for the door, which has been cleared....
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
deposit more than 100 feet thick and was soon determined to be an unsuitable site and the plan was relocated to where the present Barker Dam sits east of Nederland. Several log cabins stand at the base of the hill in the background as well as in...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nederland (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.; Tree limbs--1890-1900.
A large group of residents is gathered on Eldorado Avenue in Eldora, a small mining district in Boulder County, Colorado, for the town's Labor Day celebration. A band plays in the right midground of the crowd. Several businesses face the street,...
Labor Day--1890-1910.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Bands--1890-1910.; Celebrations--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1910.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1910.; General stores--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1910.;...
A fence stands in the foreground in front of large mounds of snow near a log cabin in Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, after the "Great Snowstorm" of 1899. The cabin is almost buried in snow.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
A group of people sits on a stack of logs on a tram car pulled by a horse at a sawmill in Woodland Flats west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Among those in the group are Mrs. J. H. Kemp (seated on the logs with a younger son) and...
Lumber--Transportation--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Sawmills--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Logs--1890-1900.; Kemp, Donald Campbell,...
A log cabin stands in the foreground in Woodland Flats, a snow- covered ridge west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Several tree stumps and a dead tree lie in the foreground. Pine trees and some trees with bare branches stand in the...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Pines--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Tree stumps--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
A saddled horse eats grass in a meadow by pine forest and wildflowers in Boulder County; strato cumulus clouds top Arapaho Peak in the distance.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora, Lake (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; North Arapaho Peak (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Horses--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; Tree stumps--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.
Two pine trees stand among large rocks on the near shore of Diamond Lake in Boulder County in this view looking toward Arapaho Peak in the distance on the border of Boulder and Grand counties in Colorado. Small patches of snow are on Arapaho Peak.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Diamond Lake (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; North Arapaho Peak (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; Pines--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.
Snow blankets the ground and pine trees near the mining town of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Telephone poles stand in the right midground. A ridge of mountains is in the distance.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Mountains--Colorado--1930-1950.; Pines--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
Log cabins stand in the background at the entrance to Happy Valley at the base of a ridge of mountains in Boulder County, Colorado. Tall pine trees stand around the cabins and on the mountains. Telephone poles stand along a dirt road in the...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; Mountains--Colorado--1930-1950.; Pines--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; Valleys--Colorado--1930-1950.
The snow-capped peaks of the Continental Divide stand in the distance of this view of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Eldora experienced its mining boom for about two years starting in 1897, when gold tellurides and sulphides were discovered on...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Gold mining--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Mountains--Colorado--1930-1950.
Small log cabins stand near a pile of tailings from the Fourth of July Mine northwest of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Several tree stumps stand interspersed among small pine trees in the foreground. Taller pine trees stand in the background...
Tailings (Metallurgy)--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
A pine tree, possibly a Limber Pine, stands in the foreground of a view of several houses and buildings at the base of a mountain ridge, possibly near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado.
Limber pine--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Buildings--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
An unidentified man stands in the background on a snow-covered ridge in Jasper Basin, west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. A track made by large snowshoes leads back to where he stands.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Snowshoeing--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
An unidentified man holds a pair of large, wood snowshoes at his side on a ridge near Jasper Lake, west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Several trees with bare branches are in the foreground. A second pair of snowshoes is propped against a...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Snowshoeing--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
Water cascades around large rocks in Kemp's Falls west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. The falls were named for photographer Donald C. Kemp's father, John H. Kemp, who staked a claim on the Happy Valley Placer on September 5, 1891. Kemp had...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
An unidentified woman sits on a large rock on a hill above Lake Eldora near Spencer Mountain in Boulder County, Colorado. The woman holds a cowboy hat on her lap and faces toward the sun with her eyes closed. A large pine tree stands near her....
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora, Lake (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Spencer Mountain (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; Mountains--Colorado--1930-1950.
Robert H. B. (Bob) Little poses at his desk, probably in the late 1890s, at his home in Eldora, Boulder County, Colorado. Little was the town's first clerk and later served as mayor for several years just after the turn of the century. He was also...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Desks--1930-1950.; Mayors--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Pianos--1930-1950.; Pioneers--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Rocking chairs--1930-1950.; Little, Robert H. B.
A large pine tree, possibly a Bristlecone Pine, stands in the foreground with its branches growing toward one side near Rollins Pass in Gilpin County, Colorado. Additional pine trees stand in the background along the hill. Photographer titled the...
Bristlecone pine--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1950.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Pines--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1950.
Silver Lake stands in the foreground in Boulder County, Colorado, with a ridge of mountains in the distance. Tall pine trees stand on the far shore of the lake. Patches of snow are on the distant peaks. Rocks are on the near shore of the lake in...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.
A set of wagon wheels sits half submerged in the water on the edge of Lost Lake west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. A portion of the nearer wheel is missing. Pieces of wood float near the set of wheels.
John C. White, a stage driver during the mining boom in Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, poses for a studio bust portrait. Eldora experienced its boom near the end of the 19th century. White drove the stage route between Eldora and Boulder...
Driving of horse-drawn vehicles--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Stagecoaches--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; White, John C.
A train is stopped at the Eldora Railroad Station at the base of Spencer Mountain in Boulder County, Colorado (Denver, Boulder, & Western Railroad Company) . Three young boys stand on the small hill in front of the station. Two women stand on the...
A man and young child, possibly John H. Kemp and one of his sons (either Robert or photographer Donald as a young boy), stand on a dirt road in front of a one-story house with a long front porch in Central City, Colorado. Another child sits on a...
Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hammocks--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Central...
Deep piles of snow line the area in front of several cabins in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado, after a large snowstorm in 1899. Two large trees with bare branches stand in the foreground near the porch of one cabin.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
A group of men, women and children poses in front of the Kemp family log cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp sits with young Don and his brother Robert on the steps to the cabin. Kemp was...
Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Collins, Edgar.; Collins, Margie Becker.; Kemp,...
A woman, possibly John H. Kemp's wife, stands next to a mule with two small children, possibly Donald and Robert Kemp, on its back. The group is near a log rail fence in front of the Kemp family cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. A...
Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fences--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Mothers &...
A group of men, women and children poses in front of the Kemp family log cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp sits with young Don and his brother Robert on the steps to the cabin. Kemp was...
Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Becker, Margie.; Collins, Edgar.; Kemp, John H.;...
A group of men, women and children gathers in front of the Kemp family cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Two hammocks hang on the front porch of the log cabin. A log rail fence is in front of the group. John Kemp (father of the...
Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fences--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Hammocks--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
The Kemp family log cabin is framed by a circle in this image taken when the cabin was first completed in 1893 near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp was a mine operator in Central City in Gilpin...
Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
began operating in the summer of 1899 but was forced to close down a few months later when Bailey's main financial backer in New York City was killed in a fire. In desperation, Bailey turned to his family for financial backing. The treatment...
Ore-dressing plants--Colorado--Eldora--1900-1910.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Eldora (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Log buildings--Colorado--Eldora--1900-1910.
Snow is piled up in front of the Assay Office of Welch and Bancroft on Eldorado Avenue in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. An unidentified man sts on a log in the left midground at the base of a mound of snow where two young boys...
Assayers--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Children playing in snow--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Sleds & sleighs--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
Several buildings stand along dirt roads, probably including Eldorado Avenue, in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. The town experienced its mining boom for about two years starting in 1897, when gold tellurides and sulphides were...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
Court, four of the nine men were released for lack of evidence. The remaining men were found not guilty. The Bailey Mill was never operated for any extended periods of time after Bailey's death. Several different owners tried varying ore treatment...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dams--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Kemp, John H.
An unidentified man walks across a dirt street in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. The town was originally named Eldorado but its name was changed to avoid its being confused with Eldorado, California. Two children walk behind the...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Pedestrians--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
The schoolhouse is the most prominent building in this view of Eldora, Colorado. The commercial business district, mine dumps, and residences are included.
Several women, one man and a young boy stand in front of a log cabin near Eldora, Colorado. The cabin is a single story structure with hewn log walls, chinking, and one visible doorway. A sign over the door reads: "Call of the West." One of the...
Partial view of Lake Eldora near Eldora, Colorado; several canoes tied to small boat ramp or dock, log & wooden frame cabins on hillside; partially submerged boat ramp; advertised by Denver, Boulder & Western Railroad as fishing, boating, & picnic...
Eldora (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Eldora, Lake (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Canoes--Colorado--Eldora--1910-1920.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Eldora--1910-1920.