Agriculture
Showing
281 - 287
of 287
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Image
Grace and Emmett Nottingham standing on sledge drawn by horse team in front of the old house in Avon. Dog and cats are around the sledge. View is to the northwest overlooking the future Avon town site. Railroad track visible in background. Harry Nottingham place at Buck Creek is in right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Compound
Howard Shults talks about life growing up in Collbran, Colorado in the early Twentieth century, including farming, local schools and his father’s teaching career in “trouble” schools, local people, and his juvenile hijinks. He also discusses breaking horses, “leaded horses” exposed to the pesticide lead arsenic, wild horses, raising and driving hogs from Collbran to De Beque, and winning the Ft. Logan Military Training School boxing championship....
Format:
Image
The Conger Mesa Ditch crew, lined up and ready for work in 1922. They are standing in front of their horses holding shovels; a dog is at far right. From Left: Ed Schrupp, Martin Theisen, Warren Henry, Martin Schomers, Joe Tuyls.
Format:
Postcard
From the Shryack Family Collection. The image on the front of this postcard shows a group of unidentified people, a man, a woman, and a boy, investigating crops in a field that is situated in front of mountains. The exact location depicted in this photo is unknown, but presumed to be in Eagle County. If you have any information about the content of this item, please reach out to the EVLD Local History Librarian at history@evld.org or (970) 328-8800....
285) Chicken pen, Undated
Format:
Image
This photo is from the Shryack Family Collection. The subject of the image is a chicken pen in a field in front of some mountains. The exact location of this photo is unknown. The photo is undated, but presumed to be from the early 20th century.
Format:
Image
From the Shryack Family Collection. This photo of two men, who seem to have either finished or are about to finish loading a cart with what appear to be potato sacks, is undated, but was likely taken at some point in the early 20th century. Neither man in the photo has been identified, yet. If you have any information about the content of this item, please reach out to the EVLD Local History Librarian at history@evld.org or (970) 328-8800.
Format:
Image
From the Shryack Family Collection. This photo of a leashed calf is undated, but was probably taken at some point in the early 20th century. You can see snow on the ground, and in the background there are farm buildings and what looks like possibly two de-wheeled carts. If you have any information about the content of this item, please reach out to the EVLD Local History Librarian at history@evld.org or (970) 328-8800.
