Showing
1 - 20
of 29
, query time: 0.1s
Format:
Image
Studio portrait of Alice Bell Tomlin, Dessie Tomlin Beck's half-sister. Their father was A. Q. (Albert Q.) Tomlin. Mr. Tomlin divorced Margarete "Maggie" Ellis Tomlin, Dessie's mother, and married Jessie Tomlin, Alice's mother. In the 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Jessie and Alice Tomlin [then 9 yrs. old] lived at 332 Virginia St., Idaho Springs, Colorado. Alice's married name was Roberts. Born April 4, 1931; died Feb. 14, 1997.
2) Anthony Beck
Format:
Image
Anthony Beck, two months old, tucked into a Dupont dynamite box on the porch of the Beck home in Red Cliff, February 1957.
3) Beck Family
Format:
Image
Studio portrait of the Beck Family circa 1899. The family was living in Iowa at the time. Ira Earl Beck, lower left in portrait, is the progenitor of the Beck Family in Red Cliff, Colorado.
Mother: May Abduie Scott Beck (Wisconsin; Scottish)
Father: Chambers Mortimer Beck (Johnstown, PA; Pennsylvania Dutch)
Children: Aura Bell (born April 13, 1886); Floyd Mortimer (born July 14, 1887); Viola Agnes (born April 14, 1888); Ira Earl (born March 13,...
4) Beck boys
Format:
Image
From left, Quinn, Buster and Bud Beck, perched on rocks possibly at lower Homestake near the white wooden horse bridge at the trailhead to Peterson gulch and Fall Creek.
Format:
Image
Bruce Beck and Albert Quinn Beck at the Beck home in Red Cliff. Bruce was later killed in Korea on Heartbreak Ridge. Quinn is wearing his Navy uniform.
6) Buster Beck
Format:
Image
Buster Beck standing in front of the doors of the Holy Cross Garage in Red Cliff. "The doors in the background were used every day so it can be assumed that the accumulation of ice took place over night." -- T. Bud Beck
Format:
Image
Buster (at left) and Bud Beck with Fred Moore at right. They're in the canyon about a mile below Red Cliff. Cribbing visible at upper left, roadway and railroad at lower left.
Format:
Image
Dessie Beck with her first child, Theodore (Ted, Bud) Beck, who was born at Salida, Jan. 14, 1923. She is sitting on the front porch of a house.
Format:
Image
Bridge going across to Peterson's place in the Homestake Valley. From left to right:
Buster Beck holding Jack; Quin; Bruce (standing); Dessie; Bud climbing on bridge.
Format:
Image
Studio portrait of Donald and Mabel Ginther taken for their 58th wedding anniversary on Dec. 12, 1988. After retirement, they moved from Minturn to Salida, Colorado, where this photo was taken. Don worked at Gilman and then for the Climax mine. He was also a handy man. He built a corner cupboard for Angela Beck to house some of Ollie Meyer's china. Mabel worked at the Minturn Post Office for Tad Collins. Their daughter, Carol, married Russell...
Format:
Image
Earl Beck married Dessie M. Tomlin in 1918. They moved to Red Cliff in 1921 and had six boys. Earl died in 1939 of a ruptured appendix and Dessie died in 1947.
Format:
Image
Earl (Ira Earl) Beck standing with his sister, Sattie Beck, family dog between them. This is probably in Salida, Colorado. The Beck family moved to Salida from Baliot, Iowa, in 1908, and then to Red Cliff in 1921
Format:
Image
Floyd Beck and Eleanor Frances McLaughlin in Minturn, Colorado, in the early 1960s.
Format:
Image
Ginther family members standing by two automobiles. The first three children, from left to right, are: Carol "Bobbye" Ginther [Beck] 3 yrs. old; Harold Ginther 7 yrs. old; Dorothy Ginther [Ross] 5 yrs. old. The road is unpaved.
18) Lunch after Mass
Format:
Image
Lunch following Sunday Mass, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, on April 1, 1974, at the home of Buster and Angela Beck. "Our Mass in Red Cliff ended at lunch time. We often had the priest at our home for lunch." -- Angela Beck
From left: Buster Beck, Rev. Nugent, Patricia (Beck) Rowe, Fr. Robert White
Format:
Image
Mabel, Carol "Bobbye," and Don Ginther posed in front of automobile. Donald Burdett Ginther was born Nov. 3, 1910, in Belvidere, Nebraska. He married Mabel Gehr on June 30, 1930. They lived in Minturn while Don worked as a miner at Gilman.
Carol Ginther married Russell Beck.
20) Margaret Tomlin
Format:
Image
Margaret Ellis Tomlin standing in the Beck family yard in Red Cliff (1937). She is wearing Earl Beck's new leather cap and wool mackinaw.