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Emmett and Grace Brock Nottingham standing in the yard at the Nottingham house in Avon. The house has since been moved to different location in Avon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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C.1909: Studio portrait of Mr. Hurd (bust), who is wearing a dark suit and tie.
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43) Everett Howard
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Everett Howard holding the reins of his horse team (Don and Chubb, as identified by Mamie Rodgers) while standing on timber sled. The sled is empty. Caption reads "after unloading logs at depot." Snow on the ground.
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Everett Howard holding the reins of Tom, the horse. Both are standing in a field. Some timber is visible behind Tom. Everett is wearing overalls and Tom wears a bridle.
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Everett Howard's mother-in-law and his sister, Virgie, standing in front of a building. A crate of some sort is visible. The women are dressed for fieldwork, wearing overalls, hats, boots and gloves.
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Everett and Mildred Howard standing outside. Mildred is wearing a coat and hat.
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Everkrisp Lettuce crate label, Stanley Fruit Company, Avon, Colorado. Lettuce was produced in Avon, Beaver Creek and the surrounding areas in the 1920s and early 30s. Used on p. 62 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
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Looking across a field in Bachelor Gulch with a hayrick in midground, fencing in foreground.
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"Field of lettuce being irrigated on experimental farm at Avon. Note irrigation furrows halfway between rows."
In: High Altitude Vegetable Growing: Lettuce--Cauliflower--Peas, by R. A. McGinty. Fort Collins, Colorado Experiment Station, Horticultural Division, Bulletin No. 309, May, 1926. p.13.
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Three boys standing on rocks at the ford in the Eagle River west of Beaver Creek. Before the first bridge was built, people had to ford the river, preferably at its shallowest point. The shadow of the first Avon Bridge is visible in the foreground.
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51) George Smith
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George Smith, Joe's only son, standing on a bridge (possibly the Avon Bridge). George has his left arm wrapped around a bridge rail on which sits two glass jars. River and buildings in background.
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52) Girls dressed up
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Four young girls dressed up for a special occasion. All wear hair bows.
From left to right: Clare Nottingham Lundgren (formerly of Gypsum, now [2009] living in Grand Junction at the age of 95); Kathryn Redding; Maybelle Robertson; Winifred Nottingham.
The tree-line in back of the girls is the Eagle River. The white spot just over Clare's head is the first Nottingham house in the Gore Valley and currently [2009] the location of Home Depot, Avon....
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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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"Growers inspecting experimental plots of lettuce and peas at College Farm, Avon."
In: High Altitude Vegetable Growing: Lettuce--Cauliflower--Peas, by R. A. McGinty. Fort Collins, Colorado Experiment Station, Horticultural Division, Bulletin No. 309, May, 1926. p.28.
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Gulling Offerson and grandson, Robert. Mr. Offerson is wearing overalls and standing in a yard in front of a hedge.
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Formal portrait of Gulling and Olive Porter Offerson. If it is their wedding photo, it would have been taken in Leadville, April 1899. Used on p. 47 of Beaver Creek: the first one-hundred years, by June Simonton.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
57) Gyp Mountain
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Gypsum Cliffs near Avon and the Offerson Ranch. Inscription: "Gyp Mountain."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
58) Gypsum cliffs
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A view of the gypsum cliffs with the Fleck Ditch flume in foreground and the road running below the ditch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
59) Hahnewald Barn
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"Hahnewalds built this barn - early 1900's. Later became Nottinghams."
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1909: Studio portrait of Harry Arnold Nottingham before wedding. He is seated, hands in lap and legs crossed, wearing a dark suit, tie and wing collar.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
