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Dan Rule holding potatoes in a Brush Creek field.
[Photo developed Oct. 9, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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Workers digging and sacking potatoes in the field. Two horses with potato boxes are at the right with field workers sacking from the boxes. A horse team is at the left, possibly digging potatoes.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two hands are picking up potatoes and throwing them on the sorter, which is pulled by a horse. Ed Schrupp is at the back of the sorter, filling sacks. Other horses and sorters are seen at right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Duane in the potato patch" (caption from photo album). Duane Larsen stands in the potato patch holding a hoe. He is wearing bib overalls and a long shirt with mountains and trees in the backgound.
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A brochure/pamphlet for visitors and travelers of Eagle and Eagle County, Colorado, published in the year 1912 by the Eagle Commercial Club based in Eagle.
The pamphlet is 25 pages and includes advertisements for local businesses, hotels, and restaurants; economic and industry information; recreation such as wildlife and fishing; and many photographs from the time period of life in the area. Other towns in the county are mentioned throughout: Gypsum,...
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Edward McHatton cultivates potatoes at his farm near Gypsum. A cabin is visible on the left.
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Harry and Marie Nottingham standing next to the ice house at their ranch at Buck Creek. Between them on a stand is a basket full of exceptionally large potatoes.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A man on a tractor harvesting potatoes. There are several children on the potato harvester with many sacks of potatoes scattered throughout the field for pick-up. Mountains and trees are in the background. The man could be Claude Gerard or another member of the Gerard/Trezise family.
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Disk harvester pulled by a team of horses is harvesting potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Gulling Offerson* with superimposed potatoes, one in wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Harvesting potatoes. Avon, Colo. 1902." View of Beaver Creek Valley in background. Howard barn and old house visible on right (east) side of Beaver Creek (apparently the gable of the north/south wing of the Howard/Offerson house). Used in Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
*verifed by Bill Christensen, great nephew of Gulling Offerson
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11) Hauling potatoes
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"Ammi Hoyt on his way to a railroad siding with a load of potatoes for shipment to market. Until 1925 most potatoes were still being hauled by horse drawn wagons, but shortly afterwards hauling was done by trucks." -- McCoy Memoirs p.199
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) 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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Jesse Sherman, at left, owner of the Sherman Brothers Ranch, standing next to Skeet Koger, doing the irrigating of the potato crop. The potatoe types were "Red McClure and Ohio."
By Marie Louise Ryan
Special to The Sopris Sun
"In the late 1800s Thomas McClure left his family against their wishes. He did so with a single motivation: to strike out on his own in the New World. He sold a prize brood sow to buy passage from Little Kenny, Ireland, and...
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Potato fields on the Johannbroer Ranch. Pershing Post Office is on the left. Discrepancy in dates. Photo is labeled 1932, but the caption in McCoy Memoirs says 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
15) Large Burbanks
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Photo postcard of ten potatoes and a dish of peas. The potatoes are propped on a leather couch. Caption reads: "12 to 14 in. Burbanks, average 2-lbs., grown near Eagle, Colo."
The potatoes were grown on Ben White's Ranch, which was located on lower Brush Creek. A note, written between July 16 and 17, 1923, reads, "The Eagle Valley is a small one but with some nice fields of potatoes. The ones they have photographed are not our ideal of size or...
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Loading 100# sacks of potatoes onto wagon at the Shryack Place (also called the Mosher Place) on lower Brush Creek. From there, the sacks would be taken to "spud" cellars. Two horse team is pulling the wagon; farm buildings in left background.
17) Loading potatoes
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Wagonloads of potatoes and hay brought to the Eagle Depot to be loaded onto D&RG cars.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
18) Loading potatoes
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Men on wagons loaded with potato sacks lined up to load freight cars (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) at the Eagle Depot (visible at far left).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19) Melissa & Duane
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Duane, smaller and in the front, looks at his sister, Melissa, who is piling up potatoes. Potatoes were an important crop to early ranchers and farmers in the Eagle Valley.
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"Mrs. William Johannbroer beside a new potato digger. Four horses were required to pull one of these." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 234
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
