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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.
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A group of potato pickers at Kent. Jim Flynn is third from the left, in front. Inscription reads: "Potatoe Pickers."
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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.]
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George Ziegler (l), horses Nell and Trilby, and a ranch hand in Eagle, 1914. George is holding a hat over Nell's head; Trilby is wearing a hat. The horses are yoked as a team.
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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.]
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1930-1940: Using a Mormon Derrick to lift hay onto a rick. Horse team in midground; farmer standing on hayrick. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Threshing crew on the Borah Ranch, Eagle, 1914. Man on top feeding the thresher; chaff blown out; men bagging at right.
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A truck load of lettuce bound for the Allenton lettuce sheds, near Edwards, Colorado, in 1932. The Penney family is on the truck.
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Men on wagons loaded with potato sacks lined up to load freight cars (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) at the Eagle Depot (visible at far left). [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two men with pitchforks, loading a hay wagon drawn by a horse team on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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A family camp near Edwards, Colorado. The man was working in the lettuce sheds and his family was camping nearby. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Ranchers look over the first cutting of hay on July 24, 1914, at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. Alfalfa and Timoth hay were among the crops that thrived in the mountain valley climate." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.51
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Full sacks of potatoes, lined up on wagon, ready for storage or shipping. A man rests on a sack for the photo, taken on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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John Bunker pushing a lettuce planter on the Offerson Ranch. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two hands are picking up potatoes and throwing them on the sorter, which is pulled by a horse. Ed Schrupp is at the back of the sorter, filling sacks. Other horses and sorters are seen at right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Grain binder with horse team and workers. The binder cuts the grain and binds it in sheaves.
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Photo postcard of threshing grain on the Ambos Ranch. Surrounded by threshing equipment, Jim Jones, Martin Schomers, and L. E. Kirby are standing on the sorter platform. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two work horses, Dick & King, are moving a hay derrick by a hired man. He is standing on the platform of the derrick holding the reins of the horses. There are trees in the background.
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Edith Patton talks about her life in Clifton, Colorado, including her job as a “traveling secretary” for School District 51, working in her mother’s restaurant, baking pies, making and delivering food to farm laborers, and packing fruit. She also discusses her father’s role as one of the original members of the Mesa County Planning Department, and his Mobile gas station on F Road. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History...
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Tom Charles talks about moving to the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1907, his family’s fruit orchards, and the history of fruit growing in the Grand Valley. Emma (Berg) Nagel describes her family’s homestead in the Highpoint area north of Fruita in 1894. She speaks about living in a dugout for three years, clearing the land for cultivation, and the family’s fruit orchard. Charles and Nagel both discuss the various crops grown around...