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Photo, Print, Drawing Jean Knorr, Knorr Ranch, outbuildings and home beef and game butchering room, Summit County, Colorado

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Title

  • Jean Knorr, Knorr Ranch, outbuildings and home beef and game butchering room, Summit County, Colorado

Names

  • Natanson, Barbara Orbach (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Summit County, Colorado, August 27, 1980

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Colorado
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Colorado -- Summit County

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Frame note: Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Index data: Knorr Ranch near the Green River Reservoir near Heeney, CO (project field documentation refers to the operation as the "Knorr Brothers Ranch" and/or "Karl Knorr Ranch" and lists postal addresses in Dillon CO and Kremmling CO): 0 (0A half of a frame), Mrs. Jean Knorr stands in log outbuilding used as a shelter for livestock, located near the main house, photographer's notes state that cattle are brought here to be treated for illness and sometimes for calving, the chains on the wall behind Mrs. Knorr are part of a system used for "pulling calves" (obstetrical chains) when a birth is difficult; 1, Jean Knorr, rope and sundry ranching implements on the wall behind her in the livestock shelter; 2, Jean Knorr in front of the newly-built metal machine shed; 3-04, In the machine shed, horseshoes serve as hooks for hanging welder's masks, photographer's notes state that Mrs. Knorr called attention to them with amusement, saying she didn't know who had made them; 5, Interior of Knorr machine shed; 6, Firewood cutting and splitting in progress at the Knorr ranch; 7, Mrs. Knorr stands beside her plants in her greenhouse, an electrically heated room adjoining the main house; 8, Mrs. Knorr tends to a hanging plant in her greenhouse, where she raises flowers, houseplants, and tomatoes; 9, Mrs. Knorr tends a potted plant on the floor of her greenhouse; 10, Tomatoes in the greenhouse; 11, Mrs, Knorr fetches the mail from a mailbox marked Karl Knorr, and newspaper, from a boxes on the road at their ranch; 12, Beef-butchering chart that hangs in the "meat room" in the basement of the Knorr home, photographer's notes state that the chart also serves as a guide for cutting up elk and deer; 13, The block where the Knorrs butcher their beef, elk, and deer, fashioned from a large tree stump that Karl Knorr (Jean's husband) hauled to the house when Green Mountain Reservoir was being filled, 14-15, Butcher's cleaver hangs from a meat hook in the basement meat room of the Knorr home; 16, Utensils hang from meat hooks in meat room of Knorr home; 17-18, The Knorr's freezer, photographer's notes state that the contents include wrapped meat, fish, and bread, adding that the freezer is one of the modern appliances Jean Knorr really values, that she commented, in her childhood, the inability to preserve meat for any length of time meant little food variety at certain times of the year, salt pork and chicken became tiresome; 19, Jean Knorr prepares home-canned green beans at her stove for the afternoon meal; 20-21, Jean Knorr prepares vegetables at her sink for the afternoon meal; 22-25, The Knorr's clothesline, made from a wagon wheel with wooden-pole extensions; 26, The Knorr garden with cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, kale, spinach, lettuce, and carrots; 27, the creek (Cataract Creek?) that runs just below the Knorr garden; 28, Stone smoke oven (and barbeque?), photographer's notes state that, compared to when it was built, Mrs. Knorr uses it less [in 1980], preferring her newer indoor electric grill; 29, The Knorr ranch buildings, left to right, the cattle barn and livestock shelter, the [hay?] barn (gambrel roof), and metal machine shed; 30, The log bunkhouse on the Knorr property, next to the reservoir near Black Creek, photographer's notes state that the building is now rented out as a sportsman's lodge; 31, Detail of bunkhouse showing how the building is formed from two log structures joined end to end; 32-33, Detail of the foundation of the log bunkhouse; 34, Front view of Knorr bunkhouse, with fieldworker Rusty Marshall in the doorway, documenting the construction of its interior; 35, detail of bunkhouse saddle notch cornering; 36, detail of bunkhouse, exterior segment of stove pipe.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/031: 165738-28

Source Collection

  • Colorado Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/031)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Colorado Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/031), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Natanson, Barbara Orbach. Jean Knorr, Knorr Ranch, outbuildings and home beef and game butchering room, Summit County, Colorado. Colorado Summit County United States, 1980. Summit County, Colorado. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_165738_28/.

APA citation style:

Natanson, B. O. (1980) Jean Knorr, Knorr Ranch, outbuildings and home beef and game butchering room, Summit County, Colorado. Colorado Summit County United States, 1980. Summit County, Colorado. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_165738_28/.

MLA citation style:

Natanson, Barbara Orbach. Jean Knorr, Knorr Ranch, outbuildings and home beef and game butchering room, Summit County, Colorado. Summit County, Colorado. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_165738_28/>.