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	Search results for Fort Collins > Digital Print Only > 1950s    Refine your search Historical Context World War ii & Post Wa... (92) Urban Renewal 1955-196... (7) Post World War I 1919-... (2) Sugar Beets 1900-1919 (1) Content Type Buildings (81) People (8) Other (6) Person (5) Object (1) Show more... Creator Manly W. Lutz Publicat... (53) The Counselor Magazine (3) John Latimer, Kilgore ... (1) results 1-20 of 103 item(s)  page 1 of 6 : ( <<  1  2  3  4  5  6  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. Overpass on I-25 View of an overpass on I-25. Near the Akin Farm at Fort Collins, Colorado 2. Big snow of 1949 Big snow of 1949 became known as the "Great White Death". Picture taken on Akin Farm at Fort Collins, Colorado 3. Big storm in 1949 In the middle of a very stormy night, lightning, thunder, and a downpour, the phone rang. It had been decided that the excess water would be turned toward the inlet to Hinkley Reservoir. Knowing that the... 4. Big storm in 1949 In the middle of a very stormy night, lightning, thunder, and a downpour, the phone rang. It had been decided that the excess water would be turned toward the inlet to Hinkley Reservoir. Knowing that the... 5. Big storm in 1949 In the middle of a very stormy night, lightning, thunder, and a downpour, the phone rang. It had been decided that the excess water would be turned toward the inlet to Hinkley Reservoir. Knowing that the... 6. Vegatables from the Akin Farm In the Fifties, gardening was discovered on the Akin Farm at Fort Collins, Coloraco 7. Aerial view of Akin Farm The Akin Home Place later sold to the Schnoor Brothers in 1955. Fort Collins, Colorado 8. College Avenue North No traffic problem in Fort Collins, Colorado: Looking north on College Avenue from Armstrong Hotel roof. 9. Ideal Cement Company Ideal Cement Company: Boettcher Plant, located near Fort Collins, Colorado, supplies three-state area. It is one of 15 plants in the Ideal organization. 10. Business Office of General Credit Business Office of General Credit: This is the office of General Credit Corporation, established in January, at 145 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 11. Dona M. Fitch Dona M. Fitch has six years of finance experience. Dona handles insurance and acts as wholesale and finance clerk for General Credit Corporation, having joined the organization in May, 1947. GCC is located... 12. Franklin School destruction Destruction of old Franklin School, located at Mountain Avenue and Howes Street. 13. Quarter Circle Spear Ranch Quarter Circle Spear Ranch. Located in Bellvue, Colorado. Registered Tennessee Walking Horses and polled Herefords. Weanlings to finished horses, best breeding possible. Wilson-Allen Midnight Sun Stallions.... 14. Glendevey Lodge Glendevey Lodge, located on the McIntyre River in Colorado. Owned and operated by Mr. And Mrs. O. H. "Buck" Elliott. 10 furnished housekeeping cabins, hunting and fishing on 3 miles of McIntyre River and... 15. Young's Liquor Store Young's Liquor Store, located in Wellington, Colorado. Complete selection of imported and domestic liquors, wines, scotch, cordials and gin. Owned by: Evelyn and Harry Young. 16. The Akin family homes Aerial view of the Akin ranch the way it was after the creek was straightened. Fort Collins, Colorado 17. Diana Deane & Beulah Thompson McHone Diana Deane & Beulah Thompson McHone, Fort Collins, Colorado. 18. Akin Wool Wagons Loading up truck and trailer with bags of wool from the Akin Sheep Farm and taking it to market. Fort Collins, Colorado 19. Diana Deane Diana Deane on front step of 1150 West Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 20. Sugar beet cycle-cattle feeding The Cycle: Raising beets entitled the farmer to a proportionate share of by-product, beet pulp - for feeding. The by-product of feeding was Manure - Nitrogen rich fertilizer for beets and other crops.... select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-20 of 103 item(s)  page 1 of 6 : ( <<  1  2  3  4  5  6  >> ) :: previous : next
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