Local History Photo Archive
The Eagle Valley Library District and the Eagle County Historical Society work together to bring you thousands of photographs, artifacts, and many other items from historical Eagle County and the surrounding areas on the Western Slope.
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- Sarah Parkinson's Baby Shower
- The Chambers and Fair children attend Sarah Parkinson's baby shower; Lewis Parkinson would be born in a few months. The girls are pulling a wagon with a high chair and baby doll. Shirley keeps "baby" in the shade with an umbrella and Ladonna pulls the wagon at the front.
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- Save possessions during Gilman fire 1885
- First Gilman fire in 1885. People are trying to save their possessions and are lined up on the road below Gilman. "Smitherums hand," written on verso.
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- Sawing
- Nannie King (left) and Alda Borah saw a cedar log at the Borah ranch in 1915. "1915. Working very hard. Nannie King and Alda Borah at old home. That was a cedar log." -- Alda Borah
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- Sawing
- Mary and Alfred Borah saw a cedar log at the Borah ranch around 1914 or 1915. "Mother and Daddy Borah at wood pile, 1914" -- Alda Borah
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- George Ziegler saws a cedar log at the Borah ranch around 1914 or 1915. "Our old home Brush Creek. George Ziegler, old beau, moved to Ariz[ona], saw him at picnic in 1919." -- Alda Borah
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- Guy Barnes sawing a log. Darrell Barnes is seated on the log; Boyd Barnes is helping at the other end. "Heat for the cabin was furnished by a black four-legged stove which burned wood for fuel. The wood was either sawed or chopped with an ax." -- Homestead Days in Colorado p.1