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Crates of lettuce grown on the Fenno Ranch at Squaw Creek. Label reads: "Snowy Range Mountain Lettuce, Burton Produce Co., Denver, Colo." Lettuce was transported by train to Denver and beyond. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Making lettuce crates. Packing and loading platform in right background." In: High Altitude Vegetable Growing: Lettuce--Cauliflower--Peas, by R. A. McGinty. Fort Collins, Colorado Experiment Station, Horticultural Division, Bulletin No. 309, May, 1926. p.19.
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Millers and Edwards picking lettuce on Bellyache. From left: Terry Miller, Ellis Miller, Karlton Miller, possibly John K. Edwards, and Joe Edwards.
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Family gathering in lettuce fields of Bachelor Gulch. L to R: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chestain; Guy Cates (Mamie Rodgers' brother) sitting on lettuce crate, holding Grace Rodgers (White); Mamie Rodgers; Ed Rodgers; Aunt Teddy Tolbey. Used on p. 64 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Tera Miller with sled and horse team at his place on Bellyache Mountain. Winter weather. Lettuce crates are stacked and covered behind him.
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Looking across a lettuce field at wokers filling lettuce crates. Hillside in background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A truck load of lettuce bound for the Allenton lettuce sheds, near Edwards, Colorado, in 1932. The Penney family is on the truck.
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Esther Edwards [Rogers] chewing on a head of lettuce while supported by her uncle, Ellis Miller. Crates of picked lettuce are in the background. Esther was born in November 1925 on Bellyache Mountain. "Dr. Rucker failed to register my birth. It's not clear to me why that was. ... However, it did cause one problem when I tried to get a birth certificate in order to get a passport." -- Esther Rogers March 3, 2013
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Caption: "Lettuce patch, Bellyache Mtn, Eagle County 1923-26." Horse team in back is pulling a wagon on which the crates will be loaded.
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Lettuce shed at Allentown, Colorado, near Edwards Colorado, 1939. Fort Tidwell Company is on the sign on top of the building. [Title supplied from a catalog supplied by the Eagle County Historical Society]
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Everett Howard's mother-in-law and his sister, Virgie, standing in front of a building. A crate of some sort is visible. The women are dressed for fieldwork, wearing overalls, hats, boots and gloves. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Guy Cates, Doc Rodgers and Ed Rodgers loading lettuce at Bachelor Gulch. Cates is standing next to the wagon loaded with lettuce crates; the other men are in the wagon. A two-horse team pulls the wagon. A tall pine stands at midground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Man in suit and tie standing in front of the lettuce shed filled with crates, on the east railway spur of the Avon Depot. Railroad tracks in foreground. Inscription :"10/15/28." [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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South end of the second Avon Bridge with Buck Creek in the background. Three men are standing at the bridge entrance and one is sitting on the right side rails. Several of the men are holding lettuce crates. Used on p. 63 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by june Simonton. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]