Details
Title

Ruth DeLong Avery Henderson collection

Date

1890-1929

Call Number

BHS 126

Contents

71 photographs, in 15 folders.

Description

This collection contains photographs of Boulder, Colo., buildings, churches, individuals, organizations, and faculty and students of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

History

Ira DeLong participated in the establishment and operation of Boulder's city manager form of municipal government; he was president of a 23-member commission that drafted a city charter and constitution in 1917. A layman in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he also was active in the Boulder Club, the Boulder Country Club and the Boulder Lions Club. In 1914 the University of Denver conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, recognizing his long civic service.
Ruth DeLong Avery Henderson and Edith E. DeLong Smith were daughters of Ira Mitchell DeLong and his first wife Elizabeth A. Wright. Dr. DeLong was linked with the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1888 when he began as professor and head of the mathematics department until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1925. Active in the community, he helped to organize the Mercantile Bank and Trust Company of Boulder in 1904, as well as the Colorado Chautauqua Association.
Ruth DeLong married William W. Avery in 1910. She and Otto Wiederhold operated the Star Stables in Boulder, Colo., from ca. 1920 to 1940. She married Alvin Henderson in 1952, and died in 1969.

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

Henderson, Ruth DeLong Avery 1891-1969

Subjects

DeLong, Ira M, 1855-1942
Wiederhold, Otto A, 1884-
DeLong family
Henderson, Ruth DeLong Avery, 1891-1969
Smith, Edith DeLong Jarmuth, 1880-1919
University of Colorado Boulder.
Alethea Society (Boulder, Colo.)
National State Bank (Boulder, Colo.)
Colorado Chautauqua Association.
Processions--Colorado--Boulder
Parade floats--Colorado--Boulder
Church buildings--Colorado--Boulder
School buildings--Colorado--Boulder
Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder
Universities and colleges--Colorado--Boulder
Packhorse camping--Colorado--Boulder
Landscape photography--Colorado--Boulder
Parades--Colorado--Boulder

Acquisition Note

Donor: Ruth DeLong Avery 1341 Broadway, Boulder, CO. Gift 1938 [?]

Note

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

Pages

DeLong family photographs
DeLong family photographs
Call Number 126-1-1
Date [1898-1906]
Contents 6 photographs.
Description Four portrait photographs of Ira M. DeLong, one of his daughter Edith, and a group shot of ten women and DeLong.

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Unidentified people photographs
Unidentified people photographs
Call Number 126-1-2a
Date [1890-1919]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Unidentified photographs: portraits of two men, and a colored group portrait of 9 adult picnickers by a stream, marked "Foothills." These may be friends of the Ira DeLong family.

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Edward Snell and wife photographs
Edward Snell and wife photographs
Call Number 126-1-2b
Date [1888]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Photos of Edward Snell and his wife Linnie (or Linna) Barney Snell. These were probably taken around the time of their marriage in September, 1888.

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Victor and Wilbur Adams photographs
Victor and Wilbur Adams photographs
Call Number 126-1-2c
Date [1900-1909]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Photos, mounted together, of twins Victor and Wilbur Adams.

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Gladys and Helen Boggess photographs
Gladys and Helen Boggess photographs
Call Number 126-1-2d
Date 1917
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Photos of sisters Gladys and Helen Boggess.

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Margaret M. Davis
Margaret M. Davis
Call Number 126-1-2e
Date 1891
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Photo of Margaret M. Davis, infant daughter of Joseph Allen Davis and Elizabeth (Libbie) Davis.

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Margaret Hankins photograph
Margaret Hankins photograph
Call Number 126-1-2f
Date 1890
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Photo of Margaret Hankins, young daughter of James C. and Emma Hankins, Boulder residents whose friendship with the DeLongs began when they all lived in Monroe, Iowa.

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Mary Keyser and Eva Corley photographs
Mary Keyser and Eva Corley photographs
Call Number 126-1-2g
Date [1900]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Photos of Mary E. Keyser and Eva Corley, friends of the DeLongs.

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Boulder (Colo.) Flatirons views
Boulder (Colo.) Flatirons views
Call Number 126-1-3
Date [1880-1919]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Two views (cyanotypes) of the Flatirons mountain formation from the plains of Boulder, Colorado. A few buildings and telephone poles are shown in the foreground.

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Boulder (Colo.) buildings
Boulder (Colo.) buildings
Call Number 126-1-4
Date [1890-1919]
Contents 5 photographs (4 views).
Description Four views (cyanotypes) of three Boulder buildings: the National State Bank (built in 1899), Mapleton School, and the First Presbyterian Church.

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Chautauqua scenes
Chautauqua scenes: Boulder, Colo
Call Number 126-1-5
Date [1899-1903]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Two views taken of or from Chautauqua grounds.

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M.E. Sunday School class
M.E. Sunday School class
Call Number 126-1-6
Date 1893
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Photograph of Ira M. DeLong and the Sunday School class that he taught at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Boulder, Colo. The photo was taken on 9 May 1893. Nineteen of the twenty students pictured have been identified.

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