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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: Lions Club bicycle race

Call Number 141-1-61

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of a crowd in front of the Temple Drug Company store on the corner of Pearl and 14th Sts. in 1921, watching a bicycle race organized by the Boulder Lions Club (Tangen photo #5945)

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: Monticello Hotel photograph, 1921

Call Number 141-1-62

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description The Monticello Hotel, 1302 Walnut St., Boulder, in 1921. A man is driving a University Express vehicle, and a loaded open-bed truck is parked on the street in front of the 3-story brick hotel building. (Tangen photo #5946)

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: Wholesale House or Rocky Mountain Grocery Company photograph, 1921

Call Number 141-1-63

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of the Wholesale House in 1921. A truck of the Rocky Mountain Grocery Company is parked at the intersection, with five automobiles, and a group of eight men and two women are standing in front of the entrance to the 2-story brick building, erected in 1903, according to the year above the doorway (Tangen photo #5950)

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: Boulder mill photograph, 1921

Call Number 141-1-64

Date 1921

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of the Boulder Milling and Elevator Company buildings at 1830 11th St., Boulder, in 1921. A number of men are posing on the street. An automobile is parked near the corner, near where snow has been shovelled from the sidewalk, and two horses are waiting in harness in front of a second automobile on the men's left (Tangen photo #5951)

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: Interior Department poster to the miner photograph, 1922

Call Number 141-1-65

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A photo of a poster issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Frank K. Lane, Secretary, bearing a message to the miner signed by Woodrow Wilson, to promote miners' work in the war effort (Tangen photo #5957)

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: Metropolitan Hotel and Wilson Hardware Company in the Boettcher Building in Boulder, Colorado

Call Number 141-1-66

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of the Boettcher Building with the Metropolitan Hotel, 1140 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1922. The door to the Wilson Hardware Company is south of their large advertising sign painted on the side of the building. Various vehicles are parked along the streets, and pedestrians are also in the picture (Tangen photo #5963)

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: Monticello Hotel

Call Number 141-1-67

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of the Monticello Hotel, 1302 Walnut St., Boulder, in 1922. Three automobiles are parked in front and a man, who also posed for Tangen in photograph #5964 (BHS 141-1-61), is standing in front of the 3-story brick hotel building. It is likely that he is Charles D. Scott, manager of the hotel (Tangen photo #5964)

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: Mount Saint Gertrude Academy graduates photograph, 1922

Call Number 141-1-68

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A group portrait of twelve young women graduates of Mount St. Gertrude Academy, in 1922. They wear white dresses (Tangen photo #5981)

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: Mount Saint Gertrude Academy graduates photograph, 1922

Call Number 141-1-69

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A group portrait of nine young women graduates of Mount St. Gertrude Academy, in 1922. They wear white dresses (Tangen photo #5982)

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: Boulder Clay Products tractor at Ford garage photograph, 1922

Call Number 141-1-70

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of a man at the wheel of a small tractor pulling a Boulder Clay Products wagon in front of the Donnelley Motor Company Ford car and Fordson tractor dealership at 1027 Walnut St., Boulder, in 1922 (Tangen photo #5983)

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: Boulder Clay Products tractor at plant photograph, 1922

Call Number 141-1-71

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of a man at the wheel of a tractor pulling a Boulder Clay Products wagon sold by the Donnelley Motor Company Fordson tractor dealership. In this view, the tractor and wagon are at the Clay Products plant, and five men are watching the photographer. Henry H. Donnelley has been identified as the man in the dark suit and hat standing directly behind the tractor driver. (Tangen photo #5984)

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: County road maintainer near Six Mile Corner: front view photograph

Call Number 141-1-72

Date 1922

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of a man at the wheel of a Fordson tractor which is grading a dirt road near Six Mile Corner. Two other men are observing. Henry Donnelley has been identified as the man to the left behind the tractor. (Tangen photo #5985)

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