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1930: Front view of the Gypsum Hotel, including an automobile and bicycle (on boardwalk). It is a two story structure with siding. It was built in 1900 by "Banty" Skiff and his wife, you had a dry goods store in part of it.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Studio portrait of Francis Marion Skiff, 1847-1910.
A History of Eagle County [1940], p. 186: "F. M. Skiff owned the town site of Gypsum, Mrs. Skiff owning the first dry goods store and running the first post office. Mr. Skiff built the first two story building in Gypsum [1900]. This bulding is now the Lundgrens store. p. 187 The upstairs of this place was used for a school."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
4. Edson Skiff
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Fifteen students standing next to the porch of the Sweetwater School. Teacher was Myrtie Hockett.
Back row: ---- Moore, Warren Thatcher, Jim Skiff, Tom Moore, Freeman Thatcher, Duane Skiff, ---- Cate, Mintferd Baer, Wallace Thatcher (extra name or someone is hidden behind the front row).
Front row: Roy Hanson, Maxine Stewart, Fern Moore, Marcia Stephens, Marie Moore, Clifford Skiff.
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Studio portrait of Rosamond Skiff Coombs and Harvey N. Coombs.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 3, 1948 p.1: "Mr. Coombes [sic.] was one of the early settlers of Eagle county, coming in with the laying of the railroad following the work from Red Cliff to Gypsum. In Gypsum he met and married Rosamund M. Skiff on Dec. 11, 1895, and the couple spent their married life together in Eagle and Garfield counties."
Mr. Coombs was buried in Fairview Cemebery...
8. Skiff Family
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Ten students standing in front of the Sweetwater School (Myrtie Hockett, teacher). Snow on the ground.
Back row: Warren Thatcher, James Boni, Mintferd Baer ?, Margaret Ross (Diamond Jack Alteris' sister-in-law), Duane Skiff, Mintfered Baer ?.
Front row: Wallace Thatcher, LaVonne Skiff, Jack Stewart, James Skiff.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of the Gypsum Hotel (formerly the Skiff Hotel) after the fire in 1912.
Eagle Valley Enterprise, Feb. 9, 1912, p.1: GYPSUM TOWN HAS BIG FIRE. Early Sunday Morning Blaze Destoys Three Buildings and Portion of Contents.
The most disastrous fire in the history of Gypsum or Eagle county took place in that town last Sunday morning at four o'clock, and before the fire was discovered it gained such headway that every effort to quench the flames...
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Interior of the Sweetwater School classroom. Three children (LaVonne Skiff, Mintferd Baer and Roy Hanson) are standing at the blackboard behind the teacher's desk, facing empty desks. Bookcase is on the far left
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]