Eldora (Colo.) and Nederland. 1899-1939.

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Lake, Harry H.,. Eldora (Colo.) and Nederland.

Eldora (Colo.) and Nederland. 1899-1939.

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This folder contains 6 views of the neighboring towns of Eldora and Nederland, Colo. Print #16 shows the start of the 1899 Labor Day celebration in Eldora. A band in the street seems to be tuning up for the opening concert, as the populace assembles. The streets are decorated; many trees have been cut down and hauled in to line the borders of the sidewalks on Eldorado Avenue. The man wearing a tall silk hat and cutaway coat at the bottom right (rear view) may be Charles Eaton. Print #17, looking east, shows Nederland in 1899. Harry Lake took the photo. In the center of the picture is one of the old mills built to treat the rich ores from Caribou, Colo.; the mill was built by Messrs. Breed and Cutter in 1872. The 2-story white building to the right of the mill is the old Hetzer House, later the MacKenzie Hotel, which burned in 1939. Print #18 is a panoramic view looking west across the Nederland valley to the snow-covered Continental Divide. The peaks, from left to right, are Arapaho, Albion and (far right) Audubon. Print #19 is one of the photos that Harry Lake took during his visit to the region in Aug. 1899. It is a view of Nederland, looking northwest from Deal Hill. Hetzer House is to the right of center. Print #20, by Donald C. Kemp, shows Nederland from about the same camera site as in print #19. This photo was taken after a 1926 fire had destroyed the frame mill built to process Caribou ores in 1872. By the time of this photo, several new structures had replaced the old store buildings shown in Harry Lake's 1899 photo (print #19). Print #21 (neg. #1877) shows Main Street, Nederland, looking west. Donald C. Kemp took this photo in April 1916, at the height of the town's second tungsten boom. Buildings visible in the picture include (from left to right), the east end of the Hetzer House, the Lacer House hotel, an unidentified building, a theater, a store (bakery?), an auto stage line depot ("next car to Boulder...") and the Tanner Brothers Grocery store on the corner.

6 photographs.

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