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21) On the Tractor
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A man on a tractor pulling farm machinery; it appears to be harvesting potatoes. He is wearing a hat and has a pipe in his hand.This man could be Claude Gerard or another member of the Gerard family.
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Frank Schoonover sitting on potato digger with Joe Dice (7 or 8 years old) standing, facing the camera. The digger is pulled by a 4-head team during potato harvest on the Shryack Place, lower Brush Creek. Farm buildings in right background.
23) Potato fields
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Rows of potato plants on the Offerson Ranch. Inscription states: "Another view of the spud patch in 1929."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A large potato field on Jake Borah's ranch near Gypsum.
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View of the potato fields on the Fenno Ranch with potato shed at midfield.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Potato harvest on Bobson Ranch near Gypsum. The unearthed potatoes are put on the horse-drawn sorter by hand. Two men are filling the sack from the sorter. Filled sacks are left upright in the rows to be loaded onto carts.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Potato harvest on Bobson Ranch, Gypsum Creek. Four unidentified men are in a field, potatoes bagged and ready for transport.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Driver with horse team hauling full potato sacks during the harvest on Bobson Ranch near Gypsum.
[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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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
32) Potato picking
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A group of potato pickers at Kent. Jim Flynn is third from the left, in front. Inscription reads: "Potatoe Pickers."
33) Potato picking
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Unidentified man picking potatoes on Conger Mesa. Date discrepancy: front of photo says 1928; verso says 1927.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Potato plants and shed at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Checking potato plants on the Fenno Ranch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
36) Potato sacks
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A field of potato sacks ready to leave Eagle County. A woman stands with a dog at left and other workers can be seen at midground.
37) Potato sorter
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A potato sorter (pulled by horse) shakes potatoes of similar sizes into sacks during the potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Potato fields on the Fenno Ranch; automobile parked in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Full sacks of potatoes, lined up on wagon, ready for storage or shipping. A man rests on a sack for the photo, taken on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
40) The Sorter Gang
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Joe Edwards at far left. The men are sorting potatoes by size into sacks, the sorting equipment being pulled by a horse.
