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221. On the Tractor
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A man on a tractor pulling farm machinery; it appears to be harvesting potatoes. He is wearing a hat and has a pipe in his hand.This man could be Claude Gerard or another member of the Gerard family.
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Cattle on Brush Creek in Eagle County, Colorado.
223. Branding
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Branding cattle on the Gerard ranch.
224. Gerard Group
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Three men drive cattle down a dirt road. On the far right is Keith Gerard with a stray calf in front of him.
225. Threshing oats
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"Threshing oats by a group that moved equipment from farm to farm near Eagle, Colo" - Alda Borah. Dated 1915.
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A photograph of the Eagle Valley Feed Mill in downtown Eagle. Edward A. Michael operated the mill between 1912 and 1920, when he sold to Andrew Christensen. Railroad tracks can be seen in the foreground, making this a good location for business and shipment. This photograph is sometime between 1917 and 1920 after the Michael family expanded their operations to stable and livery (the second building with a sign on top reads ""GARAGE LIVERY AND FEED...
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Edward A. Michael opened the Eagle Valley Feed Mill around 1912 until 1920 when he sold to Andrew Christensen. Around 1917, he added on to the existing operation with another barn, livery, and stable. This photograph shows both with finished signage. Two children are standing in the large open barn door of the first building and several wagons are outside the stable. A fire hydrant can be seen on corner of the dirt street.
228. Conger Mesa
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Congor Mesa looking east from Tunnel 49. Train at midfield. Photo date is 1924; Album 1 index date is 1936.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
229. John Walker Bailey
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John Walker Bailey seated in front of a hay stacker with two dogs at his feet. He has a pitchfork in his right hand. A child is watching him.
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Threshing on the Frank Groh Ranch on lower Rock Creek, below McCoy, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Three men standing in front of the E. Carlson Blacksmith shop, Red Cliff, Colorado.
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Date discrepancy: photo says 1932, McCoy Memoirs p.275 says 1925.
"A Conger Mesa spud picking crew on the Joe Tuyls ranch about 1925. Of the six man crew, only four can be identified, they are: Sam Moniger, Frank Ault, John Ambos and Joe Tuyls, all to the left of the sorter. A good crew could pick up to 400 bags per day, providing the yield was good. This crop was well below average with a yield of less than 100 bags an acre." -- McCoy Memoirs,...
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Potato digging at the Hart Ranch in 1915 near Brush Creek in Eagle County, Colorado. Caption from verso, Alda Borah.
234. Edwin & Leo
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Leo Daugherty and Edwin Reynolds with shocks of grain on the ranch near Brush Creek, Colorado.
235. Eagle Ranch
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John Ewing and Chester Mayer once ranched what is now known as the Eagle Ranch subdivision. This photograph, taken in 1937, is an aerial view of the same area donated by the Kite family, family friends of the Mayers.
236. The Laytons
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Jack & Ella Layton pose for a photograph in a cornfield. Caption says Eagle, Colorado.
237. Working on the farm
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Leo Daugherty works a horse-drawn hay rake (?) on the Borah farm in Eagle.
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Glen Staton takes a seat in the alfalfa field on Brush Creek. He's wearing gloves and has his hands perched on a tool.
239. Threshing time
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"On the old home farm, threshing time" - from Alda Borah. Leo Daugherty and Alvin Kilgore are carrying a heavy sack over to the pile. Another man oversees the bagging process. The threshing machine is a Gaar Scott & Co, who introduced steam engine threshing machines around 1884, then went out of business in 1911.
240. 4-H picnic
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Participants in a 4-H picnic over Cemetery Hill in Red Cliff, Colorado, 1965.
Back row, from left: Wilma Medina, ----, ----, ----, ----, Christine Beck (Banicki) Mary Lou Albert, Patricia Beck (Rowe)
Blonde standing in middle : Sheila Warren
Sandra Albert (Rose) squatting
Johanna Beck, standing in front of Patricia Beck (Rowe)
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