Edwin Tangen collection

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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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: Green Mountain Cemetery: panorama looking south

Call Number 141-17-7

Date 1924

Contents 2 photographs (1 view)

Description Panoramic view of Green Mountain Cemetery looking south with Bear Peak in the background (Tangen photo #9009)

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: University of Colorado graduating class

Call Number 141-17-8

Date 1924

Contents 2 photographs (1 digitized).

Description Similar panoramic views of the graduating class at the University of Colorado, 8 June 1924, posed on the steps of Guggenheim Law building (Tangen photo #s9011A, 9011B)

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: Public Service building

Call Number 141-17-9

Date 1924

Contents 1 photograph.

Description Panoramic view of the Public Service building at Broadway (12th) and Arapahoe, with streetcars in the yard and track and overhead wire for the streetcars visible. Telephone poles are piled in one area (Tangen photo #9016)

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: Valmont Power Plant drawings

Call Number 141-17-10

Date 1924

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Photo of drawing 153A of the mechanical plan for the Public Service Company Valmont Power Plant in 1923 (Tangen photo #9013) Second photograph shows the longitudinal section of the mechanial plan. (Tangen photo #9014)

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: University Hill School graduates

Call Number 141-17-11

Date 1929-1930

Contents 4 photographs (2 digitized).

Description Panoramic views of the graduating classes of University Hill School for 1929 and 1930, posed on the steps on the north side of the school.

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: University Hill School letter winners

Call Number 141-17-12

Date 1924-1930

Contents 6 photographs (3 digitized).

Description Panoramic views of the letter winning athletes at University Hill School for 1924, 1929 and 1930, posed on the steps on the north side of the school.

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: Engineering College Magazines Associated convention

Call Number 141-17-13

Date 1930

Contents 2 photographs (1 digitized).

Description Two similar panoramic views of attendees at the 10th Annual Convention of Engineering College Magazines Associated on the University of Colorado campus. None identified (Tangen photo #s 9049A, 9049B)

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: Valmont Power Plant

Call Number 141-17-14

Date 1931

Contents 1 photograph.

Description Panoramic view of the Public Service Company Valmont Power Plant, dated 15 Jan, 1931 (Tangen photo #9050)

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: Copy of a 1876 panoramic view of Boulder from Sunset Hill

Call Number 141-17-15

Date 1935

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Panoramic copy in two parts of an original 1876 view of Boulder (Tangen photo #s 9059A, 9059B) See 208-1-4 for smaller prints.

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: Delta Tau Delta drawing

Call Number 141-17-16

Date 1934

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A photograph of an architectural drawing by Glen Huntington of the Delta Tau Delta house.

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: Andrew Macky-John Bradford possibly forged contract

Call Number 141-17-17

Date 1932

Contents 5 photographs.

Description Poor quality photographs of five hand-written pages of a questionable legal document between Andrew J. Macky and John Bradford in which John Bradford's daughter is adopted by Andrew Macky.

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: University of Colorado engineer groups, all unidentified

Call Number 141-17-18

Date [1921-1925]

Contents 8 photographs (5 digitized).

Description Panoramic views of different groups of men standing outside the Engineering Building on the University of Colorado campus.

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