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1) "Delphina"
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Friends frequently exchanged photographs. This is "Delphina" from Colorado Teachers' College. "Loving by Delphina / CTC 7/1932" is written in the bottom right corner of the photograph.
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A portrait of Leo Daugherty's (a friend of Alda Borah) cousin, Orville Dempsey. Alda notes that "he's sure cute" on the verso.
3) "Uncle"
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"Uncle," a relative of Mary C. (Grant) Borah, sits for a portrait photograph in the late-1800s. Uncle could be William H. Grant (1831-1921), Thomas Grant's brother. Uncle could also be John Wesley Cissna (1822-1896), Mary Jane (Cissna) Grant's brother.
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George Nelson Yost sends a his official United States Air Force photograph to a special person. The photo was originally black and white but has been colored in.
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6th, 7th, and 8th Grade classes in 1925.
Top row, left to right: ___, Willie Johnston, ___,___, Ethel Cowden, Mr. Pemberton (Teacher)
Middle row, left to right: ___, Robert Brown, Melissa Larsen, ___, John Lewis, Boyd Carlson (?), Edith Arnold
Bottom row, left to right: Pearl Tuttle, Ellis Bearden, John Hartman (?), ___, Grace Edge, ___, Marilla Reynolds, Amy Jerrell, and Bernard Ginther.
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Studio portrait of Addison L. and Bird Crawford Hockett, early pioneers of Eagle County. He married Birdie Crawford on November 22, 1898. They lived in Gypsum and had six children. Addison's father, Barclay Hockett, first settled on the mouth of Brush Creek in 1882, in an area now known as Hockett Gulch. Barclay Hockett was Eagle's first postmaster. [Thanks to Bill Stephens, Sr., for this information.]
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Adrian Reynolds, Jr., in a studio wedding portrait. He married Rhoda May Wall on October 12, 1898, in Arkansas City, Kansas. Mr. Reynolds acquired the Eagle Valley Enterprise in 1918 and published it until 1947, when his daughter, Marilla Reynolds McCain, and her husband, Howard McCain, took over.
8) Albie Barlow
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High school graduation photo of Albie Barlow, Red Cliff Union High School.
9) Alda Borah
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Alda Borah sits for a portrait photograph in the early 1910s. Taken at a photo studio in Eagle.
10) Alda Borah
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Alda Borah stands for a portrait photograph. Her left hand is resting on a blanket draped over a chair. She is holding a handkerchief in her left hand.
12) Alexander Allen
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Alexander Allen was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland on March 8, 1841. His family emigrated to the United States, making their way to Colorado before the turn of the century. He died in Olive Springs, TN on January 10, 1931.
13) Alfred Borah
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A portrait photograph of Alfred Borah. Taken between the 1890 and 1905. This image was used in the biographical dictionary, "Progressive Men of Western Colorado," originally published by A. W. Bowen & Co. in 1905.
14) Alfred Borah
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Alfred Borah, father of Alda Borah, sits with a rifle on his lap at the entrance to a tent. A bucket is at his feet and he's wearing a wide-brim hat. Caption on verso says this photo is at a "campsite in the mountains of Colorado".
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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.
16) Alice George
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Studio photograph of Alice George [Colburn], Elizabeth George's daughter, at the age of 18 in 1892.
17) Allen Family
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The Allen family poses for a family portrait in January of 1951. "Daddy and Mother were on way to Kansas City where he was going to be Pres. of Stock Growers."
Top row (l-r): Jean Allen, Joe Allen, Helen Hart Allen, Judith Allen.
Bottom row (l-r): Dick Allen, Joyce Allen.
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Portait of Andrew Elias Messersmith of Gypsum, Colorado. Andrew is buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Andy married Ouida Lucille Gerard, the daughter of George Nathaniel Gerard who came to Gypsum with his brother, Andrew Robert Gerard, from Indiana.
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Portait of Andrew Elias Messersmith of Gypsum, Colorado. Andrew is buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Andy married Ouida Lucille Gerard, the daughter of George Nathaniel Gerard who came to Gypsum with his brother, Andrew Robert Gerard, from Indiana.
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Andrew Oleson, Gypsum, Colorado. Mr. Oleson is seated for a formal photograph, in suit with bowtie.
Born in Tornum, Nord-Schleswig, Denmark, October 22, 1864, Andrew attened German Trades schools, learning shoemaking. He joined his father in Colorado in 1883. Andrew worked in Red Cliff at first and then joined his family on the homestead in Gypsum Valley, the Sam Oleson Place. In 1902, he purchased the Shippey Place in Gypsum Valley which he owned...
