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Photo postcard of Earl Beck holding onto the reins of two horses. Fence in background. Earl was an employee of the Empire Zinc Company and a veteran of World War I.
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Fumiko and Charles Ellis. Charlie was the son of Frank and Laverne Ellis and a cousin to the Beck boys. He grew up and went to high school in Red Cliff and later served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars (U.S. Navy). He met Fumiko Ganaha while stationed in Japan and they were married in 1974.
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Group of 44 children and adults (including May Taylor, teacher), posing on a rock outcropping during an outing. Three of the boys in front are holding fishing rods. List of names on back of photo: Elizabeth Daggett, Ruth McLeod, Eleanor Daggett, Vivian McCauly, Emery Nussbaum, Merrit Dismant, Frank Sobey, Leslie MacGovern, Phil Collins, Dick Hart, Carl Summ, Harriett Daggett, Rosa Justice, Hazel Howard, Frank Gilpin, Walter Howard, Helen Keating,...
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Ollie Graham (Meyer), wearing a middy blouse with tie and a hat.
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Quinn Beck, Don Knight, Bruce Beck and Glen Schmidt hiking in the snow.
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Ollie Meyer in a studio portrait wearing a ruffled hat and matching shirtwaist dress. Inscription on back: Ollie Meyer, Red Cliff, taught Ethel Lesmont piano lessions, taught Sunday school, taught many girls piano lessons."
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Passengers waiting at the Red Cliff railway (Denver & Rio Grande) depot, circa 1915. Several trunks are on the platform. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Formal portrait of the wedding party of John L. and Jane Martinez, Aug. 5, 1943. From left, Best Man Herman Manzanarez, Groom John L. Martinez, Bride Jane D. (Medina) Martinez, Maid of Honor Eva Manzanarez.
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Bill Moore, an electrician for Empire Zinc Co., Gilman, wearing leather chaps, mounted on a horse. They're standing in front of a building on Monument St. in Red Cliff. Moore died Dec. 25, 1953, after a family shooting at Gilman on Christmas Eve 1953.
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Margaret Ellis Tomlin standing in the Beck family yard in Red Cliff (1937). She is wearing Earl Beck's new leather cap and wool mackinaw.
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Three ladies wearing hats standing next to a Fleming Lumber truck festooned with bunting for Fourth of July Parade, 1919. The woman at the far left is Blanche Tippet. Small boy in truck cab, pretending to drive. His left arm is bandaged.
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Richard DaLee (L) and Jack Elliott (R) holding rifles standing in the rain next to deer carcasses. Automobile and buildings in the background.
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From left, Bob McDougall and Buster Beck, standing in front of the Beck house on Water Street in Red Cliff. Bob was a life-long friend of the Beck brothers. His father's 1937 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe features frequently in Bud Beck's writings. [Photo taken August 31, 1987] "Many of the kids from other parts of town came there also so we knew a lot of them but weren't really close friends with them. Our closest friends were Ray Tippett, Fred Moore,...
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Jack Elliott (L)and Richard DaLee (R) (grandson and son of Gilbert DaLee) standing in the rain in front of the first house in Red Cliff built by Gilbert DaLee and William Greiner. Deer carcasses from hunting are piled on a sawhorse and a dog is in the left foreground.
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Wedding photo of Ethel Boies and Howard G. Bayer. They were married June 20, 1918, settling in Minturn, Colorado. Howard was an engineer and carpenter; Ethel taught at Minturn High School.
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Buster (at left) and Bud Beck with Fred Moore at right. They're in the canyon about a mile below Red Cliff. Cribbing visible at upper left, roadway and railroad at lower left.
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A photo of Elsie DaLee Elliott taken on May 15, 1909. Elsie DaLee was born in Red Cliff Sept. 12, 1891, daughter of Elizabeth DaLee and niece of Dora Griener. Elsie was educated in the Red Cliff schools and Mt. St. Scholastica Academy, Canon City. She married Joseph P. Elliott who died in 1928. They had four sons, Lee, Jack, George and Robert, and one daughter, Babe.
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Buster Beck (L) and Bob (Charles Robert) Warren on horseback on Water Street, Red Cliff. "Twin houses" in right background. Fleming Lumber Company at upper left background. "Lou Brady was the last owner of the twin houses. He lived in one and was tearing down the other one for firewood. After he died, Alan Albert, school teacher, helped tear down the one Brady lived in and they found some money hidden in the wall."--Angela Beck
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Stewart Ellis in hat and suspenders standing next to an automobile. Seated on the boot of the automobile are Bruce, Quinn, Bud, Buster, and Jack Beck (L to R).
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Theodore Beck in baby carriage, planning his escape.