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Photo, Print, Drawing Knorr Ranch, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado

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Title

  • Knorr Ranch, 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: 1-3, Brothers George Knorr and Karl Knorr in the snow, ca. 1916; 4-6, William (Wilhelm) Knorr's first automobile, a 1914 Model-T Ford touring car, with log buildings in background, child with car is probably one of the brothers George or Karl Knorr; 7-8, A picnic at the ranch, ca. 1910, with family, neighbors, and friends, Knorr said that such events featured food, music, trout fishing, etc., picture includes two teams and carriages (buckboard wagons) in a rocky field, people dressed up, although man with back to camera was described as wearing Levi jeans (and suspenders); 9-10, A two-wheeled buggy or cart in foreground, four-wheel buckboard wagon and log barn and outbuilding in background; 11-12, William (Wilhelm) Knorr with favorite his Percheron stallion Smarty at the ranch, ca. 1915; 13-14, Three Hereford cattle in snow, getting water from trough connected to hand pump, ca. 1920, homemade clothesline wheel in right background); 15-16, Branding at the Knorr Ranch, ca. 1910, children hold the rope used to lasso calf's hind legs; 17-18, Horse powered buck rake (bull rake), gathering hay, probably William Knorr at controls; 19, Stacking hay with work horses and a slide stacker, described as "old style," does not include the side gates and thus requires that a person be on the stack to control its shape as hay is added, fieldworker's notes indicate that the man at left is Carl Hedin, a Scandinavian immigrant rancher from the Slate Creek community south of the Knorr Ranch on Blue River, the man with the mustache is probably William (Wilhelm) Knorr, the boys are the brothers George and Karl Knorr, ca. 1916; 20, Stacking hay with work horses and a slide stacker, man guides team of horses pushing hay up the slide (device like the one used in 1980 and called the plunger) to the stack.
  • -  Summary note: At the 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), series of photographs copied from the Knorr family album, many snapshots had been made by Karl Knorr's mother, Corinne Guyselman Knorr.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/031: HM-21

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, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado. United States Colorado Summit County, 1980. Summit County, Colorado. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_hm_21/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W. (1980) Knorr Ranch, copies of photographs in family album, Summit County, Colorado. United States Colorado Summit County, 1980. Summit County, Colorado. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_hm_21/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W. Knorr Ranch, 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_21/>.