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Studio portrait of Abraham and Martha McGlochlin, parents of Lura Belle McGlochlin Heyer.
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Mayo and Trudie Lanning, Christmas Day 1947, standing on the road in back of their house at Gilman. Autobiography of Mayo W. Lanning, p. 33: "I could not hold alcohol in the radiator of my 1933 Chevvy at the 9,000 foot altitude. (Leadville was over 10,000'). The solution was to drain the radiator. Then on Saturday fill it with boiling water and also put some on the rear wheel brakes which were always frozen. After a few minutes we were ready to...
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Studio photo of Pierre (pron. and most often spelled Perie) Hockett Green and Winslow Green.
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Lloyd Mayer sitting on a couch, surrounded by toy trucks and equipment. The photo was taken several months before his death in February 1953, of a cerebral hemorrhage. "Lloyd was born at Glenwood Springs June 9, 1941, the second son of Chester and Ruth Mayer.He lived his short life on the ranch established on lower Brush creek by his grandfather, the late Wm. P. Mayer, and attended the Eagle Public School where he was not only a model student, but...
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From L to R: John, Ed, Hortense (mother of Joy), Annie (Hart's wife), Teddy, Grace [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Pauline George, daughter of Frank George and Rowena Walker George; granddaughter of Elizabeth George.
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Edna George Hesse's daughters, Elizabeth and Marguriette, in 1920. Their grandmother was Elizabeth George.
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John Holden and father, James, standing on the porch of their house in Avon. The house is log and frame. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster George, wife of William Henry "Bill" George, at Derby Mesa, Burns, Colorado, in 1930. She's standing in the fenced yard with antlers in the background.
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Family photograph taken in front of log house: L to R: Joe and Selina [sic.] Johnson, Lula and Pearl Perch (mother and daughter), Durward Litton and mother Blanche Johnson Litton and father Earl Litton (brother-in-law of Steve Bivans) [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From left, Buddy and Kevin Doll at the Dotsero house,standing next to snow-covered station wagon in December 1954. The dome covered structed in the background is the ice house; the other structure is the spring house. They still reside on what is now the Stephens property.
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Studio portrait of Lena Schrupp Anderson and her son, Melvin, taken in 1921 (from verso of photo). "Lena was first married to Bill Anderson, a son of "shorty" Anderson in 1922, their marriage failed and Lena later married Eric Smith, an Episcopalian minister, in 1927. Rev. Smith died in 1969 and Lena, who is the mother of two children, Melvin and Elizabeth, is presently living in Denver." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 226 [Title supplied from catalog prepared...
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A long-married couple cutting their anniversary cake.
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Three people standing in front of a log building, probably on Brush Creek. The man on the right is Morton White. The man on the left may be Ben White. The women in the appliqued apron is unidentified. The White family were major landholders in the Brush Creek area. The photo was developed by Ping on September 21, 1940.
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Joe and Jane Dice, wearing jackets, standing in front of raspberry canes on the Beecher Gulch Place, Eagle County, Colorado.

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Unidentified family group standing on rock ledge. Possibly the Rundells.
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The Azoulay-Knight and Weddell families posing for phototgrapher MacDonald Knight during a trip to Holy Cross City. Caption: "On the road to Holy Cross City, Mt. Whitney in background" From left: Lionel and Louise Azoulay with son Joel; Micheline Knight, Marcelle Azoulay (Memere), Tom Knight holding Patricia Knight, and the Weddells.
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"Another old cabin on the Black Mountain Ranch that served as a temporary home for people who made all or part of their livelihood doing timber work from 1914 to 1930. Leonard and Maude Hudson spent part of their honeymoon here during the winter of 1919-1920 when Leonard was hauling timber products for Fred Hall. Clyde and Mae Gilbert lived here, while Clyde was working for Dick Webb in 1923 and 1924. It was named the Honeymoon Cabin. The aspens...
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Nicholas and Mary Owen Buchholz at center, surrounded by five of their children. In 1882, Mr. Buchholz and his famly came to the Eagle River valley, ranching on what was later the Sherman Brothers Ranch at Eagle. This ranch was sold to Z. T. Hollingsworth and the Buchholz family relocated to the Buchholz Mesa. This ranch was sold to E. M. Tabor, and Nick Buchholz and his son, John, opened a livery stable in Eagle. In 1890, Nick opened a butcher...
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Fannie Jane Powers, age 87, taken on June 4, 1944. Fannie died on March 27, 1945, in Eagle. She was born Fannie Jane Brock in Excello, Mo., on Nov. 29, 1856, residing for 65 years of her life in Eagle county, most of that time near Wolcott. She was married to John Ridgeway with whom she had seven children, all of whom preceded her in death. John died and, in 1923, she married Charles Powers. who died in 1930. She is buried in Sunset View Cemetery....