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Front view of the Fleming Lumber & Merc. Co., Red Cliff, CO, showing front door and boardwalk. Date in lower right corner: 1/7/1926. R. E. "Eddie" Tippett on left in doorway; Malcolm McLeod on right in doorway. John Fleming on Tippett's right. The children are Blanche, Bernice and Richard Tippett.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Wedding photo of Ralph and Stella Allaria Marfitano, May 24, 1919, in Ouray, Colorado.
"...they had four children, Joy, Roy , and lost the other two. Son, Louie, died as an infant (buried at Ouray) and daughter, Esther died at birth (buried at Red Cliff). Ralph started working for the D&RG Railroad in 1919 on the section gang in Ouray/Ridgeway (7 years) before relocatiing to be the section foreman in Red Cliff from 1926 until 1944 when he was transferred...
10. Ellinora Beck
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Studio portrait of Ellinora "Ellie" Williams Beck. She graduated from Red Cliff Union High School and married Theodore Beck at the Presbyterian Church in Red Cliff. Ellinora's mother, Martha Williams, was postmaster in Red Cliff. Ellie served on the hospital board in Grants, New Mexico, and taught in the literacy program at the women's prison there. She passed away in 2007.
11. Buster Beck
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16. Clarence V. Dump
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18. Deer hunters
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Rifle and leather gun scabbard with initials RRM; leather glove.
Roy Ralph Marfitano (RRM) first purchased the scabbard to use on his horse in 1940. The horse wasn't around very long so Roy's dad, Ralph, then started using the scabbard to protect his 1927 Winchester Model 94-32 Special rifle (shown in photo) while traveling the tracks on his railroad "putt-putt" car.
The Model 94 rifle was a very popular big game rifle in those days (1920s-1980s)....