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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Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado: W.O.W. unveiling Falkenburg monument photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-50
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of the flag-draped Falkenburg monument before being unveiled (Tangen photo #290)

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Niwot, Colorado
Niwot, Colorado: dumping sugar beets photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-77
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of a sugar beets being unloaded onto a railroad car in Niwot (Tangen photo #459)

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Boulder freight depot explosion photograph, 1907
Boulder freight depot explosion photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-42
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of the scene after the explosion at the Boulder freight depot at 10th and Water Streets on 10 Aug. 1907, showing the remains of a freight car that was blown up in the disaster and a crane behind it (Tangen photo #251)

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Louisville, Colorado
Louisville, Colorado: burro and girls photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-74
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.

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Eldorado Springs, Colorado
Eldorado Springs, Colorado: Ivy Baldwin on the high wire photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-29
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of famed aerialist, Ivy Baldwin, on the high wire above the South Boulder Creek. One of the stereoview is digitized. (Tangen photo #191)

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Niwot, Colorado
Niwot, Colorado: litter of pigs nursing photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-47
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph (not scanned)
Description A stereographic view of a litter of pigs nursing in a farm yard in Niwot (Tangen photo #263)

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Duck hunters
Duck hunters: Wolf and an unidentified man photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-67
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of duck hunters Wolf and another man inspecting some of their game in 1907. Spent cartridges litter the foreground (Tangen photo #394)

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Duck hunters
Duck hunters: Wolf and Brooks photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-65
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of duck hunters Wolf and Brooks, sitting in a duck blind and holding their rifles toward the sky. Spent cartridges and fowl are in the foreground (Tangen photo #392)

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Eldorado Springs, Colorado
Eldorado Springs, Colorado: the swimming pool photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-32
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of a crowd of spectators and swimmers at the Eldorado Springs resort's pool (Tangen photo #195)

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Duck hunters
Duck hunters: Wolf and Brooks photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-69
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of duck hunters Wolf and Brooks on the edge of a reservoir in 1907 (Tangen photo #398)

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Marshall Lake, Colorado
Marshall Lake, Colorado: steam plow loading wagon photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-24
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of a farm crew at work in a field (Tangen photo #141)

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Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado: freight depot explosion photograph, 1907
Call Number 141-5-38
Date 1907
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A stereographic view of the scene after the explosion at the Boulder freight depot at 9th Street and the tracks on 10 Aug. 1907 (Tangen photo #246)

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