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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- Threshing at the Borah ranch
- A team of horses is hitched to a wagon. A threshing machine is visible behind the wagon. Taken at the Borah ranch on Brush Creek.
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- Threshing at the Grundel farm
- A threshing crew works at the Grundel farm in Gypsum. Fred Grundel and his brother, August, owned a ranch in Gypsum. Fred Grundel served as the Mayor of Gypsum from 1926 until his death on December 3, 1927. From left to right: ?, Miss Anderson, Mr. Cowden, Mr. Ulin (back), Minnie Lundgren, Martha Engstrom (Minnie's neice), Fred Grundel, ?.
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- Threshing oats
- "Threshing oats by a group that moved equipment from farm to farm near Eagle, Colo" - Alda Borah. Dated 1915.
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- Threshing time
- "On the old home farm, threshing time" - from Alda Borah. Leo Daugherty and Alvin Kilgore are carrying a heavy sack over to the pile. Another man oversees the bagging process. The threshing machine is a Gaar Scott & Co, who introduced steam engine threshing machines around 1884, then went out of business in 1911.