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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: Dr. Overfelt and family at 10 mile sign

Call Number 141-16-37

Contents 1 photograph.

Description View of Louis B. Overfelt and family posed beside a sign located at Arapahoe Road and Highway 287 directing tourists to the "Fine Auto Camp, Boulder 10 miles." (Tangen photo #7060)

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: Chautauqua playground photograph, 1929

Call Number 141-3-99

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A view of a large playground at the Boulder Chautauqua, on 6 June 1929. It shows swing sets in the playground. This view is looking north toward Mt. St. Gertrude (Tangen photo #11300)

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: Shriners' convention: copy of two Sturtevant 1896 prints

Call Number 141-3-78

Date 1896

Contents 2 photographs on one 8'x11" sheet.

Description Views of Shriners' convention in Boulder.

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: Boulder, Colorado: Chautauqua Glen and the Flatirons photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-13

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view taken on Bluebell Canyon road above Chautauqua, looking toward the Boulder Flatirons (Tangen photo #38)

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: Crisman, Colorado: a boy and a cat on footbridge photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-15

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of a boy and a cat on a log footbridge in Crisman in the winter (Tangen photo #55)

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: Fourmile Creek, Colorado: near Sand Creek photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-8

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of a man seated beside Fourmile (aka Four Mile) Creek in winter (Tangen photo #21)

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: Niwot, Colorado: a girl with puppies photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-17

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of a girl in the Buchert family sitting in front of a wooden-frame house with a dog and two puppies (Tangen photo #60)

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: Salina Colorado children: "Hold on tight now" photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-1

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of six young children seated on a donkey (Tangen photo #4)

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: Boulder Canyon Colorado: Perfect Tree and carriage photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-3

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of a horse-drawn carriage on the Boulder Canyon road by the Perfect Tree, an Engelmann spruce. A man is standing in the right foreground (Tangen photo #6)

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: Boulder, Colorado: top of 4th Flatiron photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-11

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of rocks and trees at the top of the fourth Flatiron above Boulder (Tangen photo #27)

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: Crisman, Colorado: Bartetto children sawing wood photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-12

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of a boy and a girl using a long-bladed two-person saw in Crisman. (Tangen photo #36)

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: Salina, Colorado: bird's-eye view photograph, 1906

Call Number 141-5-10

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A stereographic view of the town of Salina. (Tangen photo #23)

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