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"Some Woodpile!" (caption from photo album)
Duane and Hans stand in front of their large woodpile Hans is holding the axe and Duane is leaning against a pole. There is farm equipment directly to the right of Hans and trees in the background.
2) Alice Vernon
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Walter Randall and George Figgins stand togther in similar dress, hats, work floves, and strained expression. There are a fence, a trough(?), buildings, and mountains in the background.
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Bobby & Mary Jo Trezise stand beside the day's hunt, a large elk, on a trailer. The trailer is hooked to a tractor and there are barns and other farm equipment in the background.
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Brush Creek Annual Picnic at the Larsen's on the Sproule Ranch. Many children and adults are gathered in a field; there is a fence in the background with many trees.
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Two calves in the field on Brush Creek. There is a fenceline in the foreground of the photo.
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Claude (Mike) Gerard on the Gerard Ranch. The house is directly to his left and bits of equipment can be seen partially covered with snow behind him.
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Claude (Mike) Gerard on the Gerard ranch. There is a tractor hooked to a spreader on the right and another vehicle on the left. A building is in the background and there is snow and mud, indicating springtime.
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An overlook of Coffin Mountain and a farm on Brush Creek. Coffin Mountain is darker and on the right side of the photograph. Mountains are the backdrop to horses, a gravel road, and many fencelines. There is also a haystack and possibly other farm equipment visible in the background.
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Dick & Queen, the Larsen horses, ready to pull a wagon. There are trees in the background and objects in the wagon.
10) Digging Potatoes
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Hans Larsen can be seen in the background with the horses, wagon, and equipment to dig potatoes. Gladys and Teddy are pictured in the foreground (names from photograph). Teddy appears to be sitting on a full sack of potatoes and there are others scattered throughout the photograph.
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Workers digging and sacking potatoes in the field. Two horses with potato boxes are at the right with field workers sacking from the boxes. A horse team is at the left, possibly digging potatoes.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) Doug Hughes
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Doug Hughes hoeing lettuce on Squaw Creek, circa 1928.
"Melba Yandell Hughes and her family came to Squaw Creek because of the lettuce. Melba had been married when her family lived in Oklahoma, and had lost her husband after their son, doug, was born. Eldest of eight children, Melba moved back home so her son could enjoy family life and the attention of all those brothers and sisters--actually, his uncles and aunts. The youngest of them, Maybelle,...
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Duane and Baby Bobby Trezise on a horse. There is farm equipment in the foreground and background; a large woodpile is also in the background.
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Duane Larsen holds his fishing pole and a fish. There is a fence and a chicken in the background.
15) Duane Larsen
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Duane Larsen stands on a porch dressed in a wide brim hat, chaps, and bandana. There is a house and trees in the background.
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"Duane in the potato patch" (caption from photo album). Duane Larsen stands in the potato patch holding a hoe. He is wearing bib overalls and a long shirt with mountains and trees in the backgound.
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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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
18) Feeding time
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A young boy bottle feeds two sheep. A building (barn or shed) is behind him and the background displays a larger pasture or ranchland.
This photograph was in a group of photographs of ranches and livestock in the Edwards School Scrapbook. The scrapbook was created as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
20) Hans & Chet
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Hans Larsen & Chet Head ride horses. Hans is holding rope in his right hand.
