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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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"Making lettuce crates. Packing and loading platform in right background."
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.19.
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"Lettuce fertilizer plots, experimental farm, Avon. Elevation, 8,000 feet."
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.10.
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Alan Nottingham and his older sister, Winifred Nottingham Mason, standing at the entrance to the College Farm house. Across from Arrowhead in what is now Eagle-Vail, the College Farm was an agriculture experiment station for Colorado A & M College.
[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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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.]
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The College Farm house at Avon, Colorado, in October 1966 during a horned Hereford dispersal sale. The farm served as a Horticultural Experiment Station for the Colorado Agricultural College at Ft. Collins. Owned by Jack Oleson, the farm house burned Thanksgiving 1968. In this photo, Jack's mother is standing in the doorway.
