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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- Tom Pearch
- Tom Pearch looks through aladaide on a plane table, a common tool of surveyors, on New York Mountain looking south. Plane table surveying is a graphical method of survey in which the field observations and plotting are done simultaneously.
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- Tom Pearch and Barbara Gleason
- Tom Pearch and Barbara Gleason standing on a church lawn on Sept. 16, 1947. They were married November 9, 1947 in Eagle. [Her obituary says Nov. 9, her oral history says Sept. 16] Tom was raised on Squaw Creek. He worked as a heavy equipment operator at Camp Hale and Climax but was probably most known for his work as an auctioneer. In 1950, Tom and Barbara bought the Bert Billings house on Brush Creek so that they could have horses and live out of town.
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- Tom Pearch and Barbara Gleason Pearch
- Tom and Barbara Pearch in Glenwood Springs, July 1979. "Barbara kept books for Koonce Chevrolet and sold show tickets in the evening for John Greve at the Eagle Theater. She worked for the Independent Lumber Company from 1941-51. She then went to work for Mr. Hubbard in the Abstract Office until she retired in 1975." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise, Apr. 3, 2007 p.A9