Details
Title

Edwin Tangen collection

Date

1906-1936

Call Number

BHS 141

Contents

1,404 photographs.

Description

This collection contains panoramic views, stereographs and photos of everyday events in and around Boulder County, Colorado by local photographer Edwin Tangen, 1906-1936. Tangen also photographed events and scenes in Denver, Jefferson County, Weld County and Wyoming. Each photograph is dated and identified.

History

Born in Norway in 1873, Edwin Tangen came to the United States as a child and moved to Boulder from Chicago in 1900. He established a commercial photography studio at 1407 Pearl Street in Boulder, above Kahn's women's clothing store. He maintained his studio at that address during the next five decades. He produced portraits, stereographs, and commercial and press photography. From about 1920 until his death in 1951, he assisted the Boulder County Sheriff with identifications.
A bachelor who kept to himself, Tangen enjoyed the mountains and was an avid hiker. He was active with the Rocky Mountain Climbers Club, as was his photographer acquaintance Eben G. Fine. Tangen died on 16 Feb. 1951, having been a Boulder resident for 51 years.

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

Tangen, Ed 1873-1951
Johnson, Rudolph 1883-1971
Richart, George
Kadish, Maurice
Hubman, Charles
Tipps, Frank A.

Donor

Carlson, Don
Paddock, Laurence T. 1927-

Subjects

Tangen, Ed, 1873-1951

Acquisition Note

Donor: Don Carlson Boulder, CO. Gift [ca. 1950s] panoramic views (box 17)
Donor: Laurence T. Paddock Boulder, CO. Gift 1981 Alva A. Paddock estate negatives from which photoprints in boxes 1-16 were produced
Edwin Tangen Boulder, CO. Gift [ca. 1928-1934] stereonegatives of Nederland miners and stagecoaches, Sacred Heart Church interior, Barker Dam, Rocky Mountain Climbers Club, all taken in 1912; Lafayette power plant interior views, Boulder farmers tug of war in 1914, Billy Sunday parade, and other negatives described in Carnegie donor records
Donor: Rudolph Johnson Boulder, CO. Gift [1930s?] Mary A. Billings estate stereographic views of Boulder depot and excursion train after 1907 explosion
Donor: Frank Tipps Boulder, CO. Gift 1953 panoramic view of Boulder from top of Valmont Power Plant smokestack, ca. 1924
Donor: George Richart Boulder, CO. Gift 1953 views of Niwot and Boulder, including stereographs
Donor: Maurice Kadish Boulder, CO. Gift 1952 stereographic views described in Daily Camera
Donor: Mrs. Charles Hubman Boulder, CO. Gift Date unknown school children group photo, ca. 1919

Note

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.
Contents: 8x10" photoprints in boxes 1-4 (385 envelopes); 5x7" stereographs in boxes 5-10 (507 envelopes); 5x7" photoprints in boxes 11-16 (512 envelopes); large panoramic views in box 17.
Item list of photographs is available at reference desk.

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Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-80
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of three small circular three-legged vats inside the Radium Company of Colorado plant, 335 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8022)

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Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-81
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description An artistic photograph of a row of nine small circular three-legged vats below five windows inside the Radium Company of Colorado plant, 335 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924. (Tangen photo #8023)

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Ohling Sign Works interior photograph, 1924
Ohling Sign Works interior photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-82
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A photograph of two men kneeling by a conglomeration of signs inside the plant of the Ohling Sign Works, 1533 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8027)

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McAllister Company window display with bungalow photograph 1924
McAllister Company window display with bungalow photograph 1924
Call Number 141-1-83
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A close-up view of a model bungalow displayed in the front store window of McAllister Lumber & Supply Company, 1500 Pearl St., Boulder (Tangen photo #8028)

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Drake Hardware Store interior photograph, 1924
Drake Hardware Store interior photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-84
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of two women and a man examining china inside the store of the Drake-Petsch Hardware Company, 1413 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8029)

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Harris-Douglas Company rug on sidewalk photograph, 1924
Harris-Douglas Company rug on sidewalk photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-85
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a Whittall Anglo-Persian rug on the sidewalk in front of the Harris-Douglas Furniture Company store at 1415 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924, advertising the rug's wearability (Tangen photo #8030)

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Fiske-Lumsden Company window display photograph, 1924
Fiske-Lumsden Company window display photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-86
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a window display of knives, etc., at the Fiske-Lumsden Hardware Company, purveyor of hardware and mining supplies, 1222 Pearl Street, Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8031)

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H.J. Blackmarr store window display photograph, 1924
H.J. Blackmarr store window display photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-87
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a display of linoleum samples in the front window of the H.J. Blackmarr New & Secondhand Furniture store at 1626 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924, advertising that "this is Armstrong's linoleum week." (Tangen photo #8032)

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Bleecker and Company mill photograph, 1924
Bleecker and Company mill photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-88
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of two long mill buildings of the Bleecker and Company paint manufacturing plant at 301 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8033)

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Isis Theatre
Isis Theatre: rug on sidewalk photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-89
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the Isis Theatre at 2016/2020 14th St., Boulder, in 1924. A rug is on the sidewalk in front of the marquee. Advertisements in the front of the building announce the return of William S. Hart/Wild Bill Hickok (Tangen photo #8036)

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Home Building and Loan Association window display photograph, 1924
Home Building and Loan Association window display photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-90
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a window display of model homes forming the word "SAVE" in the front window of the Home Building and Loan Association at 1909 12th St., Boulder, in 1924. The bank was advertising for customers to save (at 6% compounded semi-annually) to buy a home (Tangen photo #8037)

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Valentine or Wilson Hardware Store "National Baseball Week" window display photograph, 1924
Valentine or Wilson Hardware Store "National Baseball Week" window display photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-91
Date 1924
Contents 2 photographs (1 view)
Description A view of a window display of baseball bats, etc., at the Wilson Hardware Company store managed by J. W. Valentine at 1144 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8038)

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