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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- Russell Beck and Poppies
- Russell Beck, age 7, showing the poppies he was selling for Armistice/Remembrance/Veterans Day (Nov. 11) in 1939. The red poppy featured in the poem, In Flanders Fields, by Dr. John McCrae. The poppy as a symbol for the bloodshed in World War I was adopted by the National American Legion Conference in 1919 and the American Legion has been selling poppies on Nov. 11 ever since. The photo bears a good example of fingerprint damage on the upper left corner.
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- Russell and Bobbye Beck 45th Anniversary
- A photo montage of the family tree for Russell and Carol Ginther "Bobbye" Beck in celebration of their 45th wedding anniversary. Names for the left side, top down: Arthur and Anna (Andreason) Gehr; Henry and Winifred (Hanson) Ginther; Donald and Mabel (Gehr) Ginther: Center: Russell (20 yrs. old) and Carol (Ginther) "Bobbye" Beck (18 yrs. old); Russell (51 yrs. old) and Carol Beck (49 yrs. old). Names for the right side, top down: Margaret (Ellis) and A.Q. Tomlin; May Abduie (Scott) and Chambers Beck; Dessie (Tomlin) and Ira Earl Beck; Center: Russell (20 yrs. old) and Carol (Ginther) "Bobbye" Beck (18 yrs. old); Carol (64 yrs. old) and Russell (66 yrs. old.) Beck
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- Ruth Jackson and FDR's birthday cake
- Ruth Jackson and the fruit cake made for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 56th birthday, January 30, 1938. Five people in the photograph, unidentified. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]