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.

Pages

Police Department
Police Department
Call Number 141-1-49
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group portrait of five police department members standing in front of an automobile in front of Community House at Chautauqua Park. L-r.: Chief George D. Savage, W.A. Gentry, Elmer Cobb, H.D. Waxham and Paul Raddatz (Tangen photo #5913)

Browse

Police Department group photograph, 1921
Police Department group photograph, 1921
Call Number 141-1-50
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.

Browse

Pleasant View School graduates photograph, 1921
Pleasant View School graduates photograph, 1921
Call Number 141-1-51
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group portrait of Pleasant View School children (8 girls and 3 boys) standing on the school steps in graduation suits and dresses in 1921. The girls wear white dresses; the boys are in suits (Tangen photo #5931)

Browse

Whittier School graduates photograph, 1921
Whittier School graduates photograph, 1921
Call Number 141-1-52
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group portrait of a group of Whittier School children, standing outside the school door in graduation suits and dresses in 1921. There are twice as many girls as boys. The teacher stands at the back of the students (Tangen photo #5932)

Browse

Central School graduates photograph.
Central School graduates photograph.
Call Number 141-1-53
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group portrait of Central School children, standing on the school steps in graduation suits and dresses in 1921. The class teachers are standing behind the children. The seven girls in the front row (4th from left is Charlotte Johnson) have flowers attached to their dresses, and the two boys in front are wearing knickers. (Tangen photo #5933)

Browse

University Hill School graduates photograph, 1921
University Hill School graduates photograph, 1921
Call Number 141-1-54
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group portrait of University Hill School children, standing outside the school door in graduation suits and dresses in 1921. The girls in the front row are holding their diplomas, and some of them have flowers pinned to their dresses (Tangen photo #5934)

Browse

Mapleton School graduates
Mapleton School graduates
Call Number 141-1-55
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group portrait of Mapleton School children, standing outside the school door in graduation suits and dresses in 1921. The graduates are holding their diplomas; the girls carry flowers. There are twice as many girls as boys in the class (Tangen photo #5936)

Browse

Mount Saint Gertrude Academy building photograph, 1921
Mount Saint Gertrude Academy building photograph, 1921
Call Number 141-1-56
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view looking southwesterly toward the front of Mount St. Gertrude Academy, in 1921. Two automobiles are parked on Aurora Ave. in front of the building (Tangen photo #5938)

Browse

Mountain view from roof of Mount Saint Gertrude Academy
Mountain view from roof of Mount Saint Gertrude Academy
Call Number 141-1-57
Date 1921
Contents 2 photographs (1 view)
Description A view looking southwesterly towards the Flatirons and Bear Peak from the roof of Mount St. Gertrude Academy, in 1921. There are just a few buildings in the foreground.

Browse

First National Bank interior
First National Bank interior
Call Number 141-1-58
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the marble interior of the First National Bank at 12th and Pearl Sts., Boulder, in 1921. The door to the bank's vault is visible, as are the tellers' windows (Tangen photo #5941)

Browse

First National Bank interior photograph, 1921
First National Bank interior photograph, 1921
Call Number 141-1-59
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the marble lobby of the First National Bank at 12th and Pearl Sts., Boulder, in 1921 (Tangen photo #5942)

Browse

First National Bank exterior photograph, 1921
First National Bank exterior photograph, 1921
Call Number 141-1-60
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the exterior of the First National Bank building at 12th and Pearl Streets, Boulder, in 1921, around the time construction was completed. The streetcar tracks are visible on the street in the foreground. Note entrances at both Pearl and Broadway. (Tangen photo #5943)

Browse

Pages