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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two men stacking hay using a Mormon Derrick at Squaw Creek. A hay slide is at right foreground, between a man and a boy. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joe Edwards at far left. The men are sorting potatoes by size into sacks, the sorting equipment being pulled by a horse.
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Workers digging and sacking potatoes in the field. Two horses with potato boxes are at the right with field workers sacking from the boxes. A horse team is at the left, possibly digging potatoes. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1930-1940: Using a Mormon Derrick to lift hay onto a rick. Horse team in midground; farmer standing on hayrick. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Fall cutting of alfalfa on the Pearch place using a two-horse team. There is a couple standing to the left of the horses, the woman holding a child on her hip. [Thomas Pearch was born in 1917 so it could be he.] A boy is seated on the seat of the cutter with a woman standing next to him. Vern (Elmo Levern) Pearch was born in 1878 and came to Leadville in 1881. Several years later, he located a homestead on Squaw creek. "He was always interested...
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Threshing crew on the Borah Ranch, Eagle, 1914. Man on top feeding the thresher; chaff blown out; men bagging at right.
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Two hands are picking up potatoes and throwing them on the sorter, which is pulled by a horse. Ed Schrupp is at the back of the sorter, filling sacks. Other horses and sorters are seen at right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Grain binder with horse team and workers. The binder cuts the grain and binds it in sheaves.
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Roland Bearden with a two-horse team cutting hay near Edwards.
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Photo postcard of threshing grain on the Ambos Ranch. Surrounded by threshing equipment, Jim Jones, Martin Schomers, and L. E. Kirby are standing on the sorter platform. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"John Winslow at his ranch on Cottonwood Creek, Sheephorn, 1906." -- verso caption [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Haying on the Beecher Gulch Place. Mr. Cain is driving the buck rake horse team in right foreground. Fred Dice is on the haystack, distributing the hay from the International Overshot Stacker. Tractor in background, possibly driven by Joe Dice.
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Emma Newby Edwards and Joe Edwards with their son, Joseph K. [Little Joe], who was born in 1924. The horse team is hitched to a wagon filled with lettuce crates.