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

Golden, Colorado
Golden, Colorado: Castle Rock from Guggenheim Hall photograph, 1909
Call Number 141-7-22
Date 1909
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of Castle Rock from Guggenheim Hall. (Tangen photo 1178)

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Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado: cocker spaniel nursing her pups photograph, 1909
Call Number 141-7-5
Date 1909
Contents 1 photograph (not scanned)
Description A black cocker spaniel nursing her puppies on the front steps of a house in Boulder in 1909 (Tangen photo #975)

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Boulder Canyon, Colorado
Boulder Canyon, Colorado: Boulder Falls photograph 1910
Call Number 141-7-97
Date 1910
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Stereographic view of Boulder Falls, with three women in the foreground. (Tangen photo #1603)

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Greeley, Colorado
Greeley, Colorado: saddle horse, Chief Squirrel photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-48
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph (not scanned)
Description A stereographic view of a man in a riding ring on a saddle horse in Greeley. The horse, named Chief Squirrel, is kneeling, as a crowd of spectators watches (Tangen photo #266)

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Residence
Residence: Mrs. Mill's home at 401 Pine Street
Call Number 141-15-6
Date 1920
Contents 1 photograph.
Description View along the 400 block of Pine Street with the house at 401 Pine partially visible. Two children, one in a toy car, are out front. Mrs. Mills was the widow of William H. Mills (Tangen photo #5553)

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Green Mountain Cemetery, looking west
Green Mountain Cemetery, looking west
Call Number 141-11-29
Date 1916
Contents 1 photograph.
Description View of Green Mountain Cemetery showing grave stones (Tangen photo #2898)

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Central City and Black Hawk in Gilpin County, Colorado photograph, 1911
Central City and Black Hawk in Gilpin County, Colorado photograph, 1911
Call Number 141-8-52
Date 1911
Contents 1 photograph (not scanned)
Description Stereographic view from Black Hawk looking up toward Central City (Tangen photo #1888)

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Sacred Heart Church in Boulder, Colorado interior photograph, 1912
Sacred Heart Church in Boulder, Colorado interior photograph, 1912
Call Number 141-9-14
Date 1912
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Stereographic view of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church at 2301 14th Street showing an interpretation of the third station of the cross in which Jesus falls the first time while carrying his cross (Tangen photo #2303)

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Uni-Hill School
Uni-Hill School: track team photograph, 1923
Call Number 141-12-63
Date 1923
Contents 1 photograph.
Description View of five boys in track uniform (Tangen photo #7099)

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American Legion donation float photograph, 1925
American Legion donation float photograph, 1925
Call Number 141-2-19
Date 1925
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of 13 adults standing by, or sitting on, a wagon covered with posters promoting the American Legion Endowment Fund for America's disabled veterans in 1925. A banner above two nurses says "Boulder Post No. 10 of the American Legion will accept donations here for this great cause." The scene is in downtown Boulder (Tangen photo #9417)

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Niwot, Colorado
Niwot, Colorado: the gypsy fortune teller, 1908
Call Number 141-6-80
Date 1908
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A gypsy woman reading another woman's palm as other people watch, in Niwot (Tangen photo #854)

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Harris-Douglas Company window display of Conkey's poultry products photograph, 1925
Harris-Douglas Company window display of Conkey's poultry products photograph, 1925
Call Number 141-2-16
Date 1925
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A view of a window display at the Harris-Douglas Furniture Company store at 1415 Pearl St., Boulder, in 1925, advertising the Golden Ash Coal Company, W.B. Piper, manager, distributor of Conkey's products which included buttermilk feeds and poultry remedies. Live chicks (not seen in this photo) were part of the display (Tangen photo #9365)

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