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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County road maintainer near Six Mile Corner
County road maintainer near Six Mile Corner: rear view photograph, 1922
Call Number 141-1-73
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 in the suit at the far left of the photograph (Tangen photo #5986).

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Bottlers Convention banquet at Boulderado photograph, 1923
Bottlers Convention banquet at Boulderado photograph, 1923
Call Number 141-1-74
Date 1923
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A group portrait of persons attending a Bottlers Convention banquet at the Boulderado Hotel in 1923. (Tangen photo #6957)

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Hygienic Ice Company
Hygienic Ice Company: pool construction photograph, 1923
Call Number 141-1-75
Date 1923
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the large swimming pool under construction by the Hygienic Ice and Coal Company, Boulder, in 1923. It was an indoor pool. (Tangen photo #6982)

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Guiney residence photograph, 1923
Guiney residence photograph, 1923
Call Number 141-1-76
Date 1923
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a house at 1205 17th St., Boulder, built about 1920 and photographed in 1923. The address of the larger dwelling partially visible to the right is 1610 Hillside Road (Tangen photo #6986)

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Chautauqua Reservoir under construction
Chautauqua Reservoir under construction
Call Number 141-1-77
Date 1923
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the dry Chautauqua Reservoir looking southwesterly toward the Flatirons and Bear Mountain from one side of the Chautauqua Reservoir under construction, in 1923. Construction equipment and workers can be seen on the far side of the reservoir (Tangen photo #6990)

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Chautauqua Reservoir under construction
Chautauqua Reservoir under construction
Call Number 141-1-78
Date 1923
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of the dry Chautauqua Reservoir showing construction work in 1923. A steamshovel is at work in the foreground; a temporary wooden ramp leads down into the reservoir under construction. Other construction equipment and workers can be seen; two horses are pulling a wagon in the bottom of the reservoir.

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McAllister Company window display with bungalow photograph 1924
McAllister Company window display with bungalow photograph 1924
Call Number 141-1-79
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a model bungalow displayed in the front store window of McAllister Lumber & Supply Company, 1500 Pearl St., Boulder (Tangen photo #8019)

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Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-80
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of three small circular three-legged vats inside the Radium Company of Colorado plant, 335 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8022)

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Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Radium Company interior view photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-81
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description An artistic photograph of a row of nine small circular three-legged vats below five windows inside the Radium Company of Colorado plant, 335 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924. (Tangen photo #8023)

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Ohling Sign Works interior photograph, 1924
Ohling Sign Works interior photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-82
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A photograph of two men kneeling by a conglomeration of signs inside the plant of the Ohling Sign Works, 1533 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8027)

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McAllister Company window display with bungalow photograph 1924
McAllister Company window display with bungalow photograph 1924
Call Number 141-1-83
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A close-up view of a model bungalow displayed in the front store window of McAllister Lumber & Supply Company, 1500 Pearl St., Boulder (Tangen photo #8028)

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Drake Hardware Store interior photograph, 1924
Drake Hardware Store interior photograph, 1924
Call Number 141-1-84
Date 1924
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of two women and a man examining china inside the store of the Drake-Petsch Hardware Company, 1413 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1924 (Tangen photo #8029)

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