Dining tables are set with food and dishware for Christmas dinner. Handwritten on both sides of this photograph as pasted into the album on page 7 is: "Flint- Idaho Mining Co. Xmas 1886 - dinner table 140 diners. Pig roasted entire in the big tin dish in center of right-hand table- Man with scotch cap is Surveyor Balcom, now building the Rio Grande, R.R. [railroad] extension down Eagle River to Aspen in Colorado. Little child is Anna Stanton Her father is to the left. Between them are Mrs S[Stanton] and little Bob 'suffused' with light from the south window." The Stanton family (Robert Brewster Stanton and his wife Jean) is identified, including the oldest, "Anna" (Anne Stanton) and the next oldest, "Bob" (Robert Brewster Stanton, Jr.).
