Donald C. Kemp collection

1870-1949

BHS 138

150 photographs, in three boxes.

This collection contains photographs taken or reproduced by Donald C. Kemp. Box 1 holds 80 black and white 8 x 10" prints, which include many views of people and sights in the southwest corner of Boulder County, Colo. (the vicinity of Eldora and Nederland, especially) where Kemp's father lived in the booming mining days of the 1890s. Kemp took most of these photos himself in the 1930s; A. M. Thomas and Harry H. Lake took most of the early views around the turn of the century.
Boxes 2 and 3, which are very large, contain 70 display-quality mounted photos, most size 11 x 14," in mats size 50 x 39 cm., which Kemp prepared for an exhibit that was displayed at the Chicago (Ill.) Camera Club and other cities east of Colorado around 1940. Some of the photos in these boxes are enlarged duplicates of prints that are in box 1. (These two boxes are oversize.)

Captain Donald C. Kemp was one of two sons of John H. Kemp, pioneer resident of Eldora, Colo., who discovered the Happy Valley Placer in 1891. Donald Kemp maintained a small photo studio in Nederland during the first 8 years that he lived in Eldora. By his own account, he photographed summer and winter scenes in Boulder County for 25 years starting in 1938, and continued to take photographs during 17 years' winter residence in Mexico.

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.

Photographs.

Lake, Harry H.
Kemp, Donald C. (Donald Campbell)
1889-1975
Thomas, A. M.

Kemp family
Landscape photography--Colorado--Boulder County
Photography, Artistic--Colorado--Boulder County

Donor: unknown Date unknown

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