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Sweetwater School students inside classroom with their teacher. There is a desk in the front left foreground with books visible. There is a landscapte picture hanging on the wall behind the students and a light fixture hangs from the ceiling. Front row: Robert Spears, Tom Jackson, Clarence Stephens, Lester Jackson, Reed Spears, James Stephens, John Gannon. Back row: Harold Spears, May Gannon, Myrtie Stout, Lila Rogers. Teacher: Mrs. Spears. [Title...
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Mount of the Holy Cross in the background with the plaque marking the boulder where William H. Jackson photographed his son, Clarence, and George Beam in 1893. That famous photo is part of the Western History Collection of the Denver Public Library [DPL WHJ-10213]. The plaque reads: "Clarence Jackson was photographed on this boulder in 1893 by his father WILLIAM H. JACKSON, who took the very first picture of the cross on August 23, 1873. This...
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The students of Sweetwater School standing on the porch in front of the school building. 1st row: James Stephens, Buzz (Lester) Jackson, Tom Jackson. 2nd row: Reed Spears, Clarence Stephens, Robert Spears, Teacher Mrs. Spears, John Gannon, Harold Spears. 3rd row: May Gannon, Lila Rogers, Myrtie Stout. [Title supplied from catalog prepared...
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Fruit cake made by Ruth Jackson, Minturn, for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 56th birthday, January 30, 1938. From the Eagle Valley Enterprise, Jan. 28, 1938: Huge Birthday Cake Sent Prest. Roosevelt: Mrs. Ruth Jackson makes a beautiful greeting for president--nearly one month in constructing a wonderful piece of the culinary art for the occasion "A beautiful token of the regard in which Eagle county people hold their president, Franklin D....
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Ruth Jackson and the fruit cake made for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 56th birthday, January 30, 1938. Five people in the photograph, unidentified. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]