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"640 acre homestead cabin on Lake Creek" - caption on page 17 of Edwards School Scrapbook. The scrapbook was created as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955. The door of the cabin is open displaying a plank wood floor. Snow is piled on top and draping over the edges. Spots in center are fading photograph.
3) 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.
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Sallie Welsh (Hartman) was the first woman in Eagle County to graduate from college (University of Denver) and later served as Superintendent of Schools in Eagle County. She married the son of a friend of John Welsh. Charles Hartman was sent to work for John Welsh and a few years later married Sallie. They took over the ranch and lived there until 1930 when the ranch was lost due to financial problems. They had four children, three boys and a girl....
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"The Binder at work in the oats near Eagle, Colo" as remembered by Alda Borah. From the left to right, from photo caption: Leo Daugherty's sister, Mildred Nutt, and Leo Daugherty. There are three horses pulling the binder with Mildred on the seat. Leo is peeking up behind the horses wearing a hat.
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Red Cliff, Colorado is one of the oldest towns in Eagle County beginning in 1879. The town was the original county seat until 1921, after the fourth and final election deciding to move to Eagle. Red Cliff was bolstered in its early days by a booming mining business, hotels, and travelers through the mountains. Red Cliff's immediate neighbor was the now-abandoned mining town of Gilman, which was shut down by the EPA in the 1980s and declared a Superfund...
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"This showed the entire length of the farm" and the Borah's house is circled (from Alda Borah). The ranch was located on Brush Creek from what is now the Hardscrabble Road up to the red schoolhouse, then east toward Bruce Creek.
10) Potato sacks
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A field of potato sacks ready to leave Eagle County. A woman stands with a dog at left and other workers can be seen at midground.
