Hugh F. Watts collection

Details

Title: Hugh F. Watts collection
Date: [1890-1909]
Call Number: BHS 125
Contents: 271 photographs.
Description: This collection comprises two photograph albums containing a total of 269 photographs, which are albumen prints and cyanotypes, and an envelope of loose photos. They date from about the 1890s. Inventory available in box.
History: Hugh Fraser Watts was born in Wisconsin in 1870. He and his mother moved to the Boulder, Colorado, area in 1897 for health reasons. An assayer and a chemist, he married Claribel Austin in 1898 and died in Boulder in 1946. He was the father of Nina A. Watts.
Terms of Use: RIGHTS: The historic photographs and documents, with the Source BHS, belong to the Boulder Historical Society/Museum of Boulder and require attribution when used. These items are on permanent loan to the Carnegie Library for Local History. No duplicated materials may be deposited, or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.
Format: Photographs.
Author: Watts, Hugh F, 1870-1946
Donor: Watts, Nina Austin
Subjects: Watts, Hugh F, 1870-1946
Acquisition Note: Donor: Nina A. Watts 914 Mapleton, Boulder, CO. Gift [ca. 196-?]
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

Pages

: Librarium: page eighty-three

Call Number 125-1-83

Date 1895-1897

Contents 4 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 83 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Green photograph album

Call Number 125-1-(84-99)-PHOTO

Date [1895-1902]

Contents 71 photographs, in one album.

Description This album, which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover, contains 70 albumen prints and one cyanotype. The photos are of scenes in Boulder, Colo.; the Arapaho Glacier, Colo.; Salt Lake, Utah; Wyoming; and the small town of Hart, Michigan. They include views of gold assaying offices and trains, etc. Some of these photographs are also in the Librarium album in this collection. Many of them are faded.

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: Green photograph album: page eighty-seven

Call Number 125-1-87

Date 1897-1900

Contents 3 photographs, on one album page.

Description These are the photographs are on Page 87 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Green photograph album: page eighty-eight

Call Number 125-1-88

Date 1897-1900

Contents 2 photographs, on one album page.

Description These are the photographs are on Page 88 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Green photograph album: page eighty-nine

Call Number 125-1-89

Date 1897-1900

Contents 4 photographs, on one album page.

Description These are the photographs are on Page 89 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Green photograph album: page ninety

Call Number 125-1-90

Date 1897-1900

Contents 7 photographs, on one album page.

Description These are the photographs are on Page 90 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Green photograph album: page ninety-one

Call Number 125-1-91

Date 1896-1900

Contents 3 photographs, on one album page.

Description These are the photographs are on Page 91 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Green photograph album: page ninety-three

Call Number 125-1-93

Date 1897-1900

Contents 11 photographs, on two album pages.

Description These are the photographs are on Page 93 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Green photograph album: page ninety-five

Call Number 125-1-95

Date 1897-1900

Contents 3 photographs, on one album page.

Description These are the photographs are on Page 95 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Green photograph album: page ninety-six

Call Number 125-1-96

Date 1897-1900

Contents 4 photographs, on one album page (1 digitized).

Description These are the photographs are on Page 96 of an album which has a green cloth cover with the word "Photographs" stamped in gold on the front cover.

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: Hugh F. Watts collection photographs, [ca. 1895-1902]

Call Number 125-1-100

Date 1895-1902

Contents 12 photographs.

Description This envelope contains a dozen photographs and albumen prints that previously were filed loosely inside the green photo album in this collection. The photos are of scenes in and around Boulder, Colorado.

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