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Wedding portrait of Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Flynn and Thomas Gill, March 1921.Kate is holding a bouquet and is wearing pearls and a lace blouse. Tom is in suit and tie.
"Wedding bells. Charming Katie Flynn, known far and wide in Eagle and adjoining counties, where her pleasant smile and pleasing manners made her untold friends, will be missed in social circles here, but then Salida will be the gainer, so we will have to take our medicine and...
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Studio portrait of Thomas Gill. He worked at Wolcott in the bridge and building department of the Rio Grande, meeting Kate Flynn at Kent, just west of Wolcott.
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Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's engine 1508 after an accident near Salida in 1923. The accident was the result of a washout following heavy rains the night before.
"John T. Mangan, fireman, was killed this morning in a wreck one and one half miles Wiest of Salida. The headlights of a switch engine in the Salida yards at 3:30 o’clock this morning probably saved the lives of the passengers on train No 16, which was wrecked just beyond the bridge...