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1) Sarah Ellis
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Studio portrait of Sarah Jane Arthur Ellis, Mrs. Charles Ellis, who died on Dec. 28, 1920. She was grandmother to Earl Beck.
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Earl Beck married Dessie M. Tomlin in 1918. They moved to Red Cliff in 1921 and had six boys. Earl died in 1939 of a ruptured appendix and Dessie died in 1947.
5) Anthony Beck
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Anthony Beck, two months old, tucked into a Dupont dynamite box on the porch of the Beck home in Red Cliff, February 1957.
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Earl (Ira Earl) Beck standing with his sister, Sattie Beck, family dog between them. This is probably in Salida, Colorado. The Beck family moved to Salida from Baliot, Iowa, in 1908, and then to Red Cliff in 1921
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Margaret Ellis Tomlin standing in the Beck family yard in Red Cliff (1937). She is wearing Earl Beck's new leather cap and wool mackinaw.
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Bruce Beck and Albert Quinn Beck at the Beck home in Red Cliff. Bruce was later killed in Korea on Heartbreak Ridge. Quinn is wearing his Navy uniform.
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Studio portrait of the Joseph H. Fear family of Red Cliff.
Back from left: Angela Fear (Beck), Lawrence Fear, Joseph A. Fear
Front from left: Johanna Kolenc Fear, Christine Fear, Joseph H. Fear, Gloria Fear (Hennen)
10) Buster Beck
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Buster Beck standing in front of the doors of the Holy Cross Garage in Red Cliff. "The doors in the background were used every day so it can be assumed that the accumulation of ice took place over night." -- T. Bud Beck
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Buster (at left) and Bud Beck with Fred Moore at right. They're in the canyon about a mile below Red Cliff. Cribbing visible at upper left, roadway and railroad at lower left.
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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.
13) Beck Family
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Studio portrait of the Beck Family circa 1899. The family was living in Iowa at the time. Ira Earl Beck, lower left in portrait, is the progenitor of the Beck Family in Red Cliff, Colorado.
Mother: May Abduie Scott Beck (Wisconsin; Scottish)
Father: Chambers Mortimer Beck (Johnstown, PA; Pennsylvania Dutch)
Children: Aura Bell (born April 13, 1886); Floyd Mortimer (born July 14, 1887); Viola Agnes (born April 14, 1888); Ira Earl (born March 13,...
14) Lunch after Mass
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Lunch following Sunday Mass, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, on April 1, 1974, at the home of Buster and Angela Beck. "Our Mass in Red Cliff ended at lunch time. We often had the priest at our home for lunch." -- Angela Beck
From left: Buster Beck, Rev. Nugent, Patricia (Beck) Rowe, Fr. Robert White
15) Beck boys
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From left, Quinn, Buster and Bud Beck, perched on rocks possibly at lower Homestake near the white wooden horse bridge at the trailhead to Peterson gulch and Fall Creek.
16) The Becks
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Angela Beck holding Christine Beck and Buster Beck holding Patricia Beck, January 1952.
19) Rhubarb hats
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Buster Beck with grandson, Conrad Fox Beck, wearing the annual Spring rhubarb-leaf hats. Both gentlemen are holding rhubarb stalks. In the background is the end of Monument St. and Leo Medina's house.
"There is a short growing season but somehow we, mostly grandmother Mom, managed to raise carrots, radishes, green onions and leaf lettuce. There were some rhubarb plants and some of the most atomic horseradish ever known to mankind. There were...
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Studio portrait of brothers Robert A. (at left) and Stuart Ellis.
