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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Donnelley Garage
Donnelley Garage: Rocky Mountain Garage Building
Call Number 141-1-25
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the Rocky Mountain Garage, 2030 11th St., Boulder, in 1920 (Tangen photo #4560)

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Donnelley Garage
Donnelley Garage: general view of Walnut Street
Call Number 141-1-26
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the 1000 block of Walnut St., Boulder, in 1920, showing the Donnelley Motor Company and other businesses. (Tangen photo #4561)

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Trench digger
Trench digger: University Hill photograph, 1920
Call Number 141-1-27
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of eight men standing by a trench digger machine on a right of way on University Hill, Boulder, in 1920 (Tangen photo #4582)

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Trench digger
Trench digger: University Hill photograph, 1920
Call Number 141-1-28
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of men laying pipe, using a trench digger machine on University Hill, Boulder, in 1920 (Tangen photo #4583)

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Trench digger
Trench digger: University Hill photograph, 1920
Call Number 141-1-29
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of men laying pipe in a trench on University Hill, Boulder, in 1920. (Tangen photo #4584)

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Laying pipe
Laying pipe: University Hill photograph, 1920
Call Number 141-1-30
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of two men standing by a machine used in pipe-laying on University Hill, Boulder, in 1920 (Tangen photo #4585)

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Laying pipe and filling ditch
Laying pipe and filling ditch: University Hill photograph 1920
Call Number 141-1-31
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a group of workingmen standing by a ditch where they have been laying pipe on University Hill, Boulder, in 1920 (Tangen photo #4586)

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Manual School interior photograph, 1920
Manual School interior photograph, 1920
Call Number 141-1-32
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a group of Boulder Manual Training School children at their workbenches in the school in 1920 (Tangen photo #4590)

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Mapleton School
Mapleton School: war gardening by pupils, 1920
Call Number 141-1-33
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group of Mapleton School children in a World War I victory garden along Farmer's Ditch below the school. It is identified as Mapleton School garden no. 1. The students began this garden in 1917 and continued it after the end of the war (Tangen photo #4591)

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Mapleton School
Mapleton School: war gardening by pupils photograph, 1920
Call Number 141-1-34
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group of Mapleton School children in their World War I victory garden. The students began the garden in 1917 and continued it after the end of the war. (Tangen photo #4592)

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Mapleton School
Mapleton School: war gardening by pupils
Call Number 141-1-35
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group of Mapleton School children hoeing in their World War I victory garden in 1920. It is identified as Mapleton School garden no. 2. The students began the garden in 1917 and continued it after the end of the war (Tangen photo #4593)

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Mapleton School
Mapleton School: war gardening by pupils
Call Number 141-1-36
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group of Mapleton School children in their World War I victory garden across from the school. It is identified as Mapleton School garden no. 3. The students began the garden in 1917 and continued it after the end of the war. (Tangen photo #4594)

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