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1) Loading Hay
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Guy Cates and Aunt Teddy Tolbey standing in lettuce field at Bachelor Gulch. Used on p. 60, Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Gulling Offerson* with superimposed potatoes, one in wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Harvesting potatoes. Avon, Colo. 1902." View of Beaver Creek Valley in background. Howard barn and old house visible on right (east) side of Beaver Creek (apparently the gable of the north/south wing of the Howard/Offerson house). Used in Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
*verifed by Bill Christensen, great nephew of Gulling Offerson
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Looking across a lettuce field at wokers filling lettuce crates. Hillside in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Pastures at Beaver Creek, July 24, 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Everkrisp Lettuce crate label, Stanley Fruit Company, Avon, Colorado. Lettuce was produced in Avon, Beaver Creek and the surrounding areas in the 1920s and early 30s. Used on p. 62 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Willie and Willis Nottingham at Beaver Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Rows of potato plants on the Offerson Ranch. Inscription states: "Another view of the spud patch in 1929."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
10) Nottingham Ranch
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The Nottingham Ranch in Avon, now Beaver Creek. Hay stacker at left. Barn and farm buildings at right.
11) The Hay Meadow
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Large meadow area of Beaver Creek with piles of hay ready for stacking.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Threshing equipment with two men operating the machinery on the Offerson Ranch (near the weaning sheds on Wayne Creek).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Leota Nottingham and Maybelle Robertson in the yard of the Emmett Nottingham residence. Maybelle is pulling Leota. There is fencing and a Case tractor in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
