Agriculture Archive Search Results
Showing
81 - 100
of 134
, query time: 0.01s
81. Chambers Ranch
Format:
Image
The Chambers Ranch at the mouth of Eby Creek in Eagle, Colorado. The white barn became the museum for the Eagle County Historical Society. The site with the buildings is now the Eagle interchange for I-70.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Mounds of hay at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
83. Newell Buffehr
Format:
Image
Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack.
Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis."
Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.
84. Conger Mesa
Format:
Image
View looking southwest from the Black Mountain Ranch in the direction of Castle Peak.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
The Black Mountain Ranch at this time had about 50 acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland....John Ambos and his mother put in twenty years of hard work here, before selling the place to Willard Atwood in the spring of 1941. -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 245
"The main part of the ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Tony Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife...
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of threshing grain on the Ambos Ranch. Surrounded by threshing equipment, Jim Jones, Martin Schomers, and L. E. Kirby are standing on the sorter platform.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
87. Nottingham Ranch
Format:
Image
The Nottingham Ranch in Avon, now Beaver Creek. Hay stacker at left. Barn and farm buildings at right.
Format:
Image
July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
89. Plowing
Format:
Image
Two men, each with a 3-horse team, are plowing. From the skyline, this appears to be the Eagle/Brush Creek area.
Format:
Image
"Mrs. William Johannbroer beside a new potato digger. Four horses were required to pull one of these." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 234
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
91. Judd Lyon house
Format:
Image
"This house was home to Mr. and Mrs. Judd Lyon and their daughter Florence for fifteen years and a number of other families for several years afterwards." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 280
"After the Lyon family left the ranch in Yarmony Park, several different people owned it. Among these later owners were Harry Groh, Roy Sherwood, and Buzz Mugrage. The Lyon ranch was dryland, like many others in the Park, and there was no chance of getting irrigation...
92. Horn Ranch
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of the Horn Ranch taken from the top of Table Rock.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
As the Doll Brothers ranch grew in size, brothers Frank and Sam built this three-story flour mill, circa 1900. "Considered modern in its time, the mill ground all wheat produced in the area, putting out 80 barrels a day. The mill even imported wheat to grind. After the mill burned, suspicion followed that the fire had been deliberately set by disgruntled businessmen in the area." -- Shirley Welch, The Eagle River Valley, p.114
[Title supplied...
94. Horn Ranch
Format:
Image
The camel-back bridge over the Eagle River on U.S. Hwy 6 & 24, approximately 5-6 miles east of Eagle, Colorado.Behind the train, is the Leonard Horn ranch with ranch houses to the left of the tall pine tree at center. Rube Creek flows by the ranch houses. The dirt road at left goes to the ranch.
Format:
Image
"Abandoned horse drawn farm equipment on the Ebert Ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 260
The two-story Ebert ranch house is at far right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
A panoramic view of the Sherman Brothers Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. Five still photographs were taken to form this photo [2010.005.050]. This is the first photo, from left to right, making up the panoramic view.
97. Kathy Schmidt
Format:
Image
Kathy Schmidt, ready to enter the Rio Blanco County Courthouse, Meeker, Colorado, for her second 4-H district demonstration of the day.
Format:
Image
Betty Jo and Glen Schmidt, posed in front of a Caterpillar tractor. It was their last year on the ranch.
Format:
Image
Three men during the potato harvest on Bobson Ranch, Gypsum. Sigurd Bobson wearing glasses is in the middle. The horse is pulling a sorter/bagger on a sledge. Extra bags are held underneath the sorter tray.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
100. Lucy Doll
Format:
Image
Mrs. Frank (Lucy) Doll, at the Doll Ranch, Gypsum Valley, ca. 1915. She is wearing a long shirtwaist dress and is watering young trees with a garden hose.