Carriages & Animal Powered Vehicles
Showing
41 - 60
of 104
, query time: 0.02s
Format:
Image
Mowing alfalfa using horse teams on the Mayer Ranch at the south end of the town of Eagle. (This ranch property is developed and is called the "Bull Pasture.") There are three teams, each pulling a cutter on which sits a team driver. The first team is driven by Ralph Robertson, Allan Hibbs is next driving the mules, and Frank Hulett is on the back team
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. The crew is posed on the tongue of the slide stacker. Hay is poised on the stacker in the background, with hayers and pitchforks ready to move it onto the haystack.
Format:
Image
July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
Format:
Image
Stacking hay using a horse team and a Mormon derrick on the J over J Ranch (now the 4 Eagle Ranch) north of Wolcott, Colorado. The Ranch was originally homesteaded by John Welsh and later run by his son-in-law, Charles Hartman. Tractors were never used on the ranch before it left the family in 1930.
45) Hefting potatoes
Format:
Image
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...
Format:
Image
Haying on the Beecher Gulch Place. Mr. Cain is driving the buck rake horse team in right foreground. Fred Dice is on the haystack, distributing the hay from the International Overshot Stacker. Tractor in background, possibly driven by Joe Dice.
Format:
Image
The Oleson family in a sled somewhere near Gypsum in 1909 or 1910. J. P. Oleson is driving and Iva B. Oleson is holding Christine Oleson (Lloyd), born May 27, 1908 (Gypsum). Harry A. Oleson, born October 27, 1905 (Gypsum), is seated in the foot rest are of the sled. J. P. Oleson owned a store in Gypsum.
Format:
Image
Joe Dice on Sally, the mare, at the Half-Way barn up Brush Creek. Rex, the dog, is visible under the horse's belly. Joe, ten years old, rode past the barn on his way to school.
The Half-Way barn (at the entrance now in 2007 to Sylvan Park) was a stage stop for the Eagle to Fulford stage line. The barn was long with plenty of room and freight wagons could be parked. The teamsters switched horses here and, if necessary, could sleep in the hay.
Format:
Image
"In February of 1933 there was no snow at the John Ambos sawmill on the east rim of Rock Creek Canyon and very little anywhere in the McCoy area, for that matter. But a year later, there was plenty of it. The A frame just to the right of the mill shed, supports a heavy aerial cable that Frank Haddon had stretched across the canyon for a log hoisting operation in 1930 which was a dismal failure." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.245
[Title supplied from catalog...
Format:
Image
1908: John Buchholz holding reins of horse in front of "Livery, Feed & Sale Stable," 2d and Broadway, Eagle, Colorado. 7 unidentified men stand on boardwalk in front of building. Wagon is parked to far right of stable with buildings in right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
51) John Root
Format:
Image
"John Root with first shipment of cream Edwards-bound; Mayberry's horse & cart."
"Taken at Hill Ranch on East lake Creek, early 1920s." -- Esther Klatt
Format:
Image
The Kilgore property on Brush Creek is in the foreground; in the backgound are horses hauling a load to market.
Format:
Image
One of the stage coaches that ran between Kremmling and Steamboat.
Format:
Image
Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925.
Verso: "The 'Kid' himself"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Loaded stage drawn by four horses in front of the Star Hotel in Red Cliff. The stage did the Leadville to Red Cliff route.Caption at bottom: "672. Leadville Stage at Red Cliff."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
An unidentified man is leveling field previously plowed, probably disced and/or harrowed. Level or "drag" on which he is standing carries a small amount of soil with it that is shaved off the high places, and then if leaks out underneath into the low places to create a uniform (or level) slope so that irrigation water flows uniformly. Is used only on irrigated ground. Judgement of operator had large influence on success. He is on the Dice Ranch,...
Format:
Image
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.
Format:
Image
Guy Cates, Doc Rodgers and Ed Rodgers loading lettuce at Bachelor Gulch. Cates is standing next to the wagon loaded with lettuce crates; the other men are in the wagon. A two-horse team pulls the wagon. A tall pine stands at midground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
60) Loading potatoes
Format:
Image
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.]
