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1) Albert Smith
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Albert Smith, wearing overalls and a hat, standing next to the bunkhouse. Wagon tongue leaning against building.
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Items found in Howard/Offerson attic, displayed for accessioning. From back to front, left to right:
Small American flag between two rolls of wall paper
Umbrella, letter, dressmaker's form, Harper's Weekly
Document Ladies' Home Journal, Eagle County Times, Ladies' Home Journal, photo of a young boy
The Golden Eagle, penmanship book, The Household
Used on p. 57 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
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Austin Offerson standing in front of bunkhouse with fishing pole, ready to go fishing.
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Austin Offerson and dog, standing in front of wire fence. Inscription reads, "our cow hand."
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Austin Offerson and a "Dude" from Pennsylvania, mounted on horses. They are standing on a dirt road next to the fenced yard at the Offerson place. There appears to be a chicken in the lower right foreground.
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Austin Offerson and Eileen Randall on the small pond on the Offerson place. Present location of Beaver Creek reception center and helipad. View to the southwest of "Gyp Cliffs."
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Austin Offerson is kneeling behind his three young white rabbits. Inscription: "Austin and his pet rabbits."
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Austin Offerson is standing with his right arm across the neck of his horse, Midnight, in front of a rail corral. Offerson is wearing leather chaps. There is another horse in the corral. Inscription: "Austin and Midnight."
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Avon, looking north-northeast with the Avon Store and Offerson place in midground. The "Gyp Cliffs" to the right and Buck Creek in the top background. Photo taken from Beaver Creek's Strawberry Park.
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Pastures at Beaver Creek, July 24, 1928.
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Gulling Offerson, with back to camera, and Albert Smith, seated, are freezing ice cream next to the porch of the Offerson house. The date is noted as September 28, 1928 (disputed by the foliage).
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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.
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14) Gyp Mountain
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Gypsum Cliffs near Avon and the Offerson Ranch. Inscription: "Gyp Mountain."
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15) Gypsum Cliffs
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Gypsum cliffs at the mouth of Beaver Creek. Inscription says circa 1916; other documentation says 1930s.
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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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Two riders on horseback facing the camera. Barn in background and dogs in left midground. Inscription on photo: "Don't U think our horses nice?"
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John Bunker pushing a lettuce planter on the Offerson Ranch.
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19) Loading Hay
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
20) Mae Smith
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Mae Smith (daughter of Albert Smith?) standing behind the Offerson House.
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