Hugh F. Watts collection

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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.

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: Hugh F. Watts albums

Call Number 125-1

Date 1895-1902

Contents 2 photograph albums.

Description This archival box contains two photograph albums owned by the Hugh F. Watts family. There is an inventory available in the box.

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: Librarium: page one

Call Number 125-1-1

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 6 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 1 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page two

Call Number 125-1-2

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 1 photograph, on one album page.

Description A torn photograph pasted onto Page 2 of an album titled "Librarium." It is of a house that appears to be on a city street (possibly Boulder). Young deciduous trees are planted on either side of the sidewalk. An untorn print can be found at 125-1-90.

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: Librarium: page three

Call Number 125-1-3

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 2 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 3 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page four

Call Number 125-1-4

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 4 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 4 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page five

Call Number 125-1-5

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 2 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 5 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page six

Call Number 125-1-6

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 3 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 6 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page seven

Call Number 125-1-7

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 3 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 7 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page eight

Call Number 125-1-8

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 5 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 8 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page nine

Call Number 125-1-9

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 2 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 9 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page ten

Call Number 125-1-10

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 1 photograph, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 10 of an album titled "Librarium."

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: Librarium: page eleven

Call Number 125-1-11

Date [1895-1897]

Contents 2 photographs, on one album page.

Description Photographs pasted onto Page 11 of an album titled "Librarium."

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