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Photo, Print, Drawing Knorr Ranch, main house, log barn, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado

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About this Item

Title

  • Knorr Ranch, main house, log barn, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (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

  • -  Index data: 1, Knorr house with log barn at right, looking across a road and embankment; 2, Same as preceding, showing the barn, project documentation reports that both buildings had been moved uphill in the winter of 1942-43, pulled on log skids with caterpillar tractors by the Knorr family when the then-new Green Mountain Reservoir was filled with water, log building was built by Judge William Guyselman's brother George Guyselman, described by Karl Knorr as a "good axe man," both had been dwellings but the log house was converted to a milk barn ca. 1920; 3-5, Series of photographs copied from the Karl Knorr family album, many snapshots had been made by Knorr's mother, Corinne Guyselman Knorr. Judge William A. Guyselman (Karl Knorr's maternal grandfather), logo indicated that the portrait was made by the Post studio, 1206 15th St., Denver; 6-8, William [Wilhelm] Peter Knorr ("Grandpa Knorr," Karl's father); 9-11, house that is (as of 1980) the Karl Knorr residence before the move in 1942-43 required by the new reservoir, log barn in background, includes an automobile (may be Plymouth or Dodge Business Coupe, ca. 1940); 12-15, frame house in Breckenridge, CO, built by Karl Knorr's father William Peter Knorr, c. 1900, with his favorite Saint Bernard dog named "Duke," house later sold to Theodore and Josie Knorr, as of 1980, it has been fixed up and is used as a ski shop; 16, group portrait described as a "picture post card" of Knorr's German relatives in their hometown of Weinbach bei Weilburg, Hessen-Nassau, Germany, August Knorr and his wife and seven children; 19-20, Hereford cattle in winter, made by Karl Knorr with a Kodak Bantam camera, ca. 1950.
  • -  Summary note: Karl Knorr residence, 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).

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/031: HM-20

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:

Marshall, Howard W. Knorr Ranch, main house, log barn, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado. United States Summit County Colorado, 1980. Summit County, Colorado. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_hm_20/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W. (1980) Knorr Ranch, main house, log barn, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado. United States Summit County Colorado, 1980. Summit County, Colorado. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_hm_20/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W. Knorr Ranch, main house, log barn, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado. Summit County, Colorado. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_hm_20/>.