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Photo postcard of Myra --, Harry Lewis, John "Jack" Lewis and Imogene Lewis at a front door, taken in 1914. Jack is riding a tricycle.
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Caption: "All the kids at Holy Cross City. Lionel's [Azoulay] house in background. Mica. Summer 1949" The Knight-Azoulay children playing on a boulder near the Azoulay house in Holy Cross City.
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Monica Barnes holding baby Boyd in the sunshine. "The homestead cabin was built on a hill. ... Water for the cabin came from a spring located up a hill from the cabin. Water for drinking, household use, baths and doing laundry was carried by bucket from the spring. Clothes were washed on a wash board. Water for doing laundry was heated on the wood burning stove and then carried to the tubs used for washing as needed. There was no electircity...
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Monica Heeren Barnes holding son, Boyd Barnes, born July 5, 1920. They are in the cabin door on Castle, the original homestead. She was born in 1899 in Whiting, Iowa. She was helping her cousin on a ranch in South Dakota when she met Guy T. Barnes, working as a herdsman. They married and moved to Eagle, Colorado, where Mr. Barnes was employed by Andrew Christiansen. "While living in a cabin owned by Mr. Christainsen, Guy and Monica Barnes began...
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Tom (seated on porch) and Ella Lewis with John, Harry and Imogene in front; in back are Herman and Mrs. Kluge. Kluge was a partner with Thomas E. Lewis in the Lewis & Kluge mercantile at Eagle. Together with Mr. Lewis and Robert McHatton, Kluge also owned the Gypsum Mercantile Co. store at Gypsum. Lewis bought out Kluge's interest in the Eagle store.
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Tom Knight and his grandson, Alan Knight (son of MacDonald and Micheline Knight) in 1955. "Tom and Alan Spring of 1955"
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Mrs. Harris, at left, standing in the yard in Eagle. Daughter Jennie Horner is next to her. The the end is daughter Mrs. Ginther with the Ginther children in front of her.
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Mac Macdonell at a family reunion in Marg and Joe Morris' backyard in Glenwood Springs. George Macdonell's second wife's son-in-law, Stu, is in the background
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Howard McCain and baby Pam (McCain Schultz) in their backyard in Eagle.
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Joe and Jane Dice standing outside the Beecher Gulch Place in the snow. Jane is wearing a snowsuit. Joe is in shirtsleeves with mittens, boots, and helmet. The log building has icicles hanging off the roof. This building is still standing [2007].
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Young boy, possibly Everett Howard, dressed for a formal photograph. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Franklin Pierce Forster at the age of 6, before his family left Iowa for the West.
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[Information taken from "The Margaret A. Downing Branch of the Lauffer Family," prepared by Blanche Tracy Kyes in June 1989, and provided by John Flynn.] Ma: Margaret A. Lauffer, married on Sept. 20, 1872, to James Madison Downing in Guthrie County, Iowa. Pa: James "Jim" Madison Downing, born in Cedar County, Iowa, and died March 21, 1937, in Marble, Colorado. "Jim Downing, considered to be one of the 'most fearless' bear hunters in the Rockies."...
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Brothers-in-law, Frank Kolenc (stooping at top of group) and Joe Fear (married to Johanna Kolenc Fear) with cousins. From left, Joe is holding Patricia Kolenc and Angela Fear (Beck) is holding Mary Margaret Kolenc. They are in a front yard in front of a car parked on the street.
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Ida Herwick and her children, Thanksgiving 1894, at church services in Wolcott. Back row, L to R: Paul, age 10; Frederick, age 13; WIlliam C., age 15 Front, L to R: Tina, age 3; Ida, Age 33; Mary, age 18 mos.; Oren age 5; Birdellah, age 17; Guy, age 6 "For several months she had been putting a little money away for a special occasion, and she intended that having a family portrait done would be it. Of all the things she could think of, having...
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Caption: " Joe, Lois, Esther." "The automobile may have been the only one in the families, and may have been the one my grandfather Miller drove from Kansas, or the one the Edwards traveled in when they abandoned their homes on Bellyache in 1929 and journeyed to Chandler, Arizona. Most travel was by horseback or horse and buggy (wagon?)." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013.
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Elizabeth and Annie (Mrs. James) Holden standing on the front port of their house in Avon. They are in the same pose as John and James Holden in a related photo [1986.001.151]. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Gulling Offerson and grandson, Robert. Mr. Offerson is wearing overalls and standing in a yard in front of a hedge. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From left to right: family dog, Bill Kavanaugh, John Kavanaugh, Hilma Kavanaugh holding baby Mary. The family is standing in the yard next to the Kavanaugh home in Minturn, Colorado, August 1936.
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Five generations of women in one family, probably taken at the "Halfway House," once on the Fulford Ranch, about .5 mile north of the forks. 1. Elizabeth Halloran; 2. Sarah Jane Fulford; 3. Adelaide Morgan; 4. Nettie Peterson; 5. Lillian Peterson [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]