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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: City manager's 1000 block of Canyon Boulevard photograph.

Call Number 141-1-37

Date 1920

Contents 1 photograph.

Description View of a group of people posing near a section of wooden-frame dwellings on the south side of the 1000 block of Canyon Boulevard in Boulder, 1920. Another copy of the same photograph also appears at call# 207-5-4. According to the book "A Look at Boulder" by Phyllis Smith, (p. 109) the woman in the dark dress on the group's right was Em "Bugtown" Birge. (Tangen photo #4598)

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: City manager's 1000 block of Canyon Boulevard photograph.

Call Number 141-1-38

Date 1920

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A 1920 view of a small group of people in a wooded area west of 11th and Water (Canyon) streets in Boulder. Another copy of the same photograph appears at call# 207-5-4, and was labeled "after cleanup." (Tangen photo #4599)

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: Alpheus Wright portrait photograph, 1920

Call Number 141-1-39

Date 1920

Contents 1 photograph.

Description An 8 x 10" enlargement of a photograph of an earlier portrait sketched of Boulder pioneer Alpheus Wright (Tangen photo #4619)

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: Charles G. Van Fleet portrait photograph, 1921

Call Number 141-1-40

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description An 8 x 10" enlargement of a photograph of an earlier portrait sketched of Boulder pioneer Charles G. Van Fleet (Tangen photo #4620)

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: Broadway and Pearl Streets in Boulder, Colorado photograph, 1921

Call Number 141-1-41

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description An 8 x 10" reduction photo taken in 1921 of a panoramic view of the center of Boulder, at 12th (Broadway) and Pearl streets, looking east. The original panorama (#H-33) was taken in about 1915. (Tangen photo #5333)

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: Broadway and Spruce Streets in Boulder, Colorado photograph, 1922

Call Number 141-1-42

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description An 8 x 10" reduction photo taken in 1921 of his panorama view (#H-34) of downtown Boulder, at 12th (Broadway) and Spruce streets, looking southeast from 12th St. (Broadway) Tangen took the original panorama in about 1915 (Tangen photo #5334)

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: 14th and Pearl Streets in Boulder, Colorado photograph, 1922

Call Number 141-1-43

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description An 8 x 10" reduction photo taken in 1921 of his panorama view (#H-37) of downtown Boulder, at 14th and Pearl streets in the center of Boulder. He took the original panorama in about 1915. (Tangen photo #5337)

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: Mount Saint Gertrude Academy: entrance

Call Number 141-1-44

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of the front entrance of Mount St. Gertrude Academy, in 1921 (Tangen photo #5939)

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: Haenselman Greenhouse from Broadway Street bridge

Call Number 141-1-45

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of the Haenselman Flower Shop's greenhouses, seen across the Boulder and White Rock weir in Central Park (Tangen photo #5906)

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: View northeast from Broadway bridge photograph, 1921

Call Number 141-1-46

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of part of the Haenselman Flower Shop' s greenhouses and other structures across Boulder Creek from the Broadway bridge, looking northeast, in 1921 (Tangen photo #5907)

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: 9th Street bridge

Call Number 141-1-47

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of the bridge over Boulder Creek at 9th Street (Tangen photo #5908)

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: City manager: Central Park photograph, 1921

Call Number 141-1-48

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A 1921 view of railroad tracks running past present day Central Park east of Broadway at Canyon Blvd. in Boulder (Tangen photo #5912)

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