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2. Mae Smith
3. Loading Hay
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Gulling Offerson* with superimposed potatoes, one in wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Harvesting potatoes. Avon, Colo. 1902." View of Beaver Creek Valley in background. Howard barn and old house visible on right (east) side of Beaver Creek (apparently the gable of the north/south wing of the Howard/Offerson house). Used in Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
*verifed by Bill Christensen, great nephew of Gulling Offerson
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Austin Offerson is standing with his right arm across the neck of his horse, Midnight, in front of a rail corral. Offerson is wearing leather chaps. There is another horse in the corral. Inscription: "Austin and Midnight."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
11. Albert Smith
13. Austin Offerson
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Barn and fencing near the old farmstead once owned by Gulling Offerson. Unpaved road with visible rocks in foreground. Buck Creek is in the background and Swift Gulch is at far right. The site is just up the hill from the Avon general store.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
16. Offerson House
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Items found in Howard/Offerson attic, displayed for accessioning. From back to front, left to right:
Small American flag between two rolls of wall paper
Umbrella, letter, dressmaker's form, Harper's Weekly
Document Ladies' Home Journal, Eagle County Times, Ladies' Home Journal, photo of a young boy
The Golden Eagle, penmanship book, The Household
Used on p. 57 of Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
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Bob, Edward and Mike Nottingham, sons of Willie and Willis Nottingham. The boys are standing in the yard of their home at the bottom of Beaver Creek (the old Offerson Ranch). They are dressed up in matching suits.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]