"Photographer Leonard Ping (middle) prepares to snap photographs of deer browing in town. Leonard, who took many of the photographs that appear in this book, is standing on the porch of the Ping Hotel on Capitol Street." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.124
Front: "4th & Main Gilman, Colorado [photo postcard] [house is at far right, where electrical lines end] Unidentified people shoveling snow after a heavy snowfall in Gilman.
Mr. Spear shoveling debris and mud from the platform at Belden, below Gilman in the Eagle River Canyon. Tram tracks are at the right; railroad tracks are in the foreground.
Building construction at the Methodist Church in Eagle, Colorado. Men are pictured with shovels and a concrete mixer in the center. A tractor can be seen in the right background.
A group of men work to add on to the existing Methodist Church in Eagle, Colorado. There is a cement mixer in the midground, towards the left, and most men are holding shovels.
Thirteen men with shovels and wearing boots, overalls, and hats, doing the annual ditch cleaning on Gypsum Creek. Ed Erickson is next to the end on the right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Bernice Hart has her shovel in a small creek or ditch, near Brush Creek in Eagle. She has an exceptionally large bow on her head and there is a house visible in the background.
The Conger Mesa Ditch crew, lined up and ready for work in 1922. They are standing in front of their horses holding shovels; a dog is at far right. From Left: Ed Schrupp, Martin Theisen, Warren Henry, Martin Schomers, Joe Tuyls.