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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.]
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Moving pigs on the ranch. The photo may have been taken on the Gerard ranch in Eagle, Colorado.
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Guy Barnes hauling hay with a team of horses and wagon. "Guy Barnes was hired as a herdsman by a man named Andrew Christiansen. Mr. Christiansen raised Hereford cattle and needed someone to help with caring for the cattle. Mr. Barnes cared for the cattle on Mr. Christiansen's land in town during the Winter but during the late Spring, Summer and early Fall, Barne's job took him to Mr. Christiansen's cattle on pasture eleven miles North of town."...
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Emma Newby Edwards and Joe Edwards with their son, Joseph K. [Little Joe], who was born in 1924. The horse team is hitched to a wagon filled with lettuce crates.
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Bob & Mary Jo Trezise watching their father, Robert, till their garden with horses, Dick and King. There is a swingset in the left background and a sandbox in the right foreground.
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"Teddy Boy" the foal lays in the field.
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Hans smiles while holding Flossie the foal with Daisy watching.
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Elaine (?) and Jane sit on Mitten, while Melissa holds the horse and was not quite ready for the photo.
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Two work horses, Dick & King, are moving a hay derrick by a hired man. He is standing on the platform of the derrick holding the reins of the horses. There are trees in the background.
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Two young calves stand with a horse in a muddy pasture. There is a shed to the right in the background, along with fences, trees, and a mountain backdrop.
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Moving pigs on the ranch. The photo may have been taken on the Gerard ranch in Eagle, Colorado.
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Duane Larsen stands with Topsy the horse in a field.
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Teddy Boy the foal. There is a hay derrick in the background.
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Teddy Boy the foal has a bright white spot on his forehead. There is a fenceline and telephone line in the background.
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Melissa Larsen sits on Daisy the Horse.
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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.
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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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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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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.