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1) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
2) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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View of the Chambers Ranch with houses, outbuildings and barn. The barn was moved to its present site at the Eagle Visitor Center in 1986 and donated to the Eagle County Historical Society. The Eagle River is in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Chet Head sitting on a cow in 1945. There is another cow in the background.
7) Early Gypsum
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Panoramic photograph of early Gypsum, Colorado. The photograph is dated "about 1902".
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Ed Erickson, left, and Henry Ulin in a wagon drawn by a team of horses. They are standing outside a farmhouse in Gypsum Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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George Ziegler (l), horses Nell and Trilby, and a ranch hand in Eagle, 1914. George is holding a hat over Nell's head; Trilby is wearing a hat. The horses are yoked as a team.
10) 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.
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Grace and Emmett Nottingham standing on sledge drawn by horse team in front of the old house in Avon. Dog and cats are around the sledge. View is to the northwest overlooking the future Avon town site. Railroad track visible in background. Harry Nottingham place at Buck Creek is in right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Disk harvester pulled by a team of horses is harvesting potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Mowing alfalfa using horse teams on the Mayer Ranch at the south end of the town of Eagle. (This ranch property is developed and is called the "Bull Pasture.") There are three teams, each pulling a cutter on which sits a team driver. The first team is driven by Ralph Robertson, Allan Hibbs is next driving the mules, and Frank Hulett is on the back team
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. The crew is posed on the tongue of the slide stacker. Hay is poised on the stacker in the background, with hayers and pitchforks ready to move it onto the haystack.
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
16) Hefting potatoes
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A man standing on a wagon hefts a full potato sack over his head. A man standing in front of the wagon has a full potato sack over his shoulder. The horse team is waiting patiently during potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
"Farm workers in a celebratory mood hoist 100-pound sacks of spuds into a wagon at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. The next step in the process was for farmers to haul their potatoes to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad...
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Seven hogs rooting in the hog pen on the Chester Mayer ranch. Fencing, corrals and outbuilding in the distance.
18) Horn Ranch
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Photo postcard of the Horn Ranch taken from the top of Table Rock.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19) Keith Gerard
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Keith Gerard stands with a pig in the pigpen. He is wearing tall boots and knee-high waders to get through the mud. A barn is on the right and ducks stand together by a fence in the background.
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Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925.
Verso: "The 'Kid' himself"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
