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Monica Barnes holding baby Boyd in the sunshine.
"The homestead cabin was built on a hill. ... Water for the cabin came from a spring located up a hill from the cabin. Water for drinking, household use, baths and doing laundry was carried by bucket from the spring. Clothes were washed on a wash board. Water for doing laundry was heated on the wood burning stove and then carried to the tubs used for washing as needed. There was no electircity...
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Monica Heeren Barnes holding son, Boyd Barnes, born July 5, 1920. They are in the cabin door on Castle, the original homestead.
She was born in 1899 in Whiting, Iowa. She was helping her cousin on a ranch in South Dakota when she met Guy T. Barnes, working as a herdsman. They married and moved to Eagle, Colorado, where Mr. Barnes was employed by Andrew Christiansen.
"While living in a cabin owned by Mr. Christainsen, Guy and Monica Barnes began...
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Elizabeth and Annie (Mrs. James) Holden standing on the front port of their house in Avon. They are in the same pose as John and James Holden in a related photo [1986.001.151].
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Verso: "Gold Park and our cabin and ore bin, Mom [Sophie Knight] and Don" [copy made in 1984]
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Frances Sansoti holds her daugher, Lena, for a photograph. Lena was approximately 1 year old at the time.
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Edna Stewart Lemon, at left, and her daughter, Madeline Winifred Lemon, center, with Edna's mother, DelsieBelle Martin Stewart. The flora is not native to Eagle County so the assumption is that they're visiting elsewhere.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Robert Maloit and his mother, Pearl Maloit, sitting on the boardwalk that led from the doorway of their house in Gilman to the coal shed. At the right are the 56 steps that lead up to the main road through Gilman.
The photo was taken after Robert graduated from Colorado School of Mines and before WW II.
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Mabel Thomas (l.) and her mother, Mary Thomas, standing in front of log house.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Studio photo of Pierre (pron. and most often spelled Perie) Hockett Green and Winslow Green.
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Studio portrait of Lena Schrupp Anderson and her son, Melvin, taken in 1921 (from verso of photo).
"Lena was first married to Bill Anderson, a son of "shorty" Anderson in 1922, their marriage failed and Lena later married Eric Smith, an Episcopalian minister, in 1927. Rev. Smith died in 1969 and Lena, who is the mother of two children, Melvin and Elizabeth, is presently living in Denver." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 226
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John, Ella and Harry Lewis standing outside next to their house.
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Bertha McCain holding baby Grace, standing next to an unidentified woman. They are in the yard in front of a log house.
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George Messermith holds Evelyn in front of her great-grandmother Johanna Lea's cabin in Gypsum, Colorado.
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Girls trip to Glenwood Springs. Left to right: Paul Jean Douthit, Evelyn Marguerite Lea, Urdine Bell Messersmith Lea, Evelyn Urdine Douthit, Mary Ellen Douthit (in the back).
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Monica Barnes, holding deer carcass, with Boyd at left and Darrell at right. The dog is interested.
They're at the homestead cabin on Castle.
The rules of the homestead act required fence around the property and other improvements.
"The fence was built totally by Guy Barnes. Every post hole was dug by hand, every fence post was sawed or chopped from trees on the land and barbed wire (usually four strands) was strung on every fence post. Wooden...
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Monica, Darrell and Boyd Barnes, seated in the doorway of the larger cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek). Animals in the yard include a calf, dog, and pig.
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Melba Yandell Hughes [Coulter] and her daughter, Cecyl Bea Hughes, horseback riding.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Monica Barnes hold the reins to the family work horses with Boyd Barnes standing in front of her.
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Lorna Warren (Mrs. Everett) is holding her son, Ted Warren, and Len Dump Dumph is holding the pole. They are balanced on a handmade raft at the beaver ponds near the old ball field at the end of Eagle Street (several hundred yards south of the D&RG section house) in Red Cliff.
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Photo of Mickey and his mother, Nellie, Walsh in Red Cliff, 1915.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]