Maude Blackburn collection

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Title: Maude Blackburn collection
Date: [1873-1944]
Call Number: BHS 144
Contents: 28 photographs, in seven envelopes.
Description: This collection consists of 28 photographs of people, buildings and scenes in Boulder, Colo., and elsewhere. They include views of two schools, of the Boulder freight depot after the fire and explosion on 10 August 1907, of Jay Sternberg's two flour mills in Boulder, of Maude Blackburn, of the Boulder Hose Company, and scenic views and portraits. There is also a single folder with papers apparently written by Maude using her feet. (1932-1940).
History: Maude Belle Blackburn came to Boulder County with her parents when she was a young girl. According to articles in the Boulder Daily Camera on 21 Feb. 1921 and Oct. 1937, Maude was unable to use her hands, due to paralysis, but learned to use her feet and toes to write, sew, sweep the floor and do other tasks. After her father died in 1924, she apparently moved from Hygiene to the Boulder County Hospital.
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: Postcards.
Documents.
Photographs.
Donor: Blackburn, Maude B.
Subjects: Blackburn, Maude B, 1872-1952
Children--Colorado
School buildings--Colorado
Fire fighters--Colorado--Boulder
Railroad stations--Colorado--Boulder
Flour mills--Colorado--Boulder
Acquisition Note: Donor: Maude B. Blackburn Gift Date unknown
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

: Jefferson School (Boulder, Colo.) class photograph

Call Number 144-1-1

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

Description A photograph of the 1906 third grade class posed in front of Jefferson School entrance in Boulder, Colo.

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: Boulder freight depot disaster photographs

Call Number 144-1-2

Date 1907

Contents 4 photographs.

Description A photograph and three stereographic views of the ruins of the Boulder, Colo., freight depot after a fire and a dynamite explosion destroyed the depot and thirty railroad cars on 10 August 1907.

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: Boulder (Colo.) flour mills photographs

Call Number 144-1-3

Date [1873-1889]

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Photographs of Boulder City Flouring Mill and Sternberg Milling and Elevator Company.

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: Maude B. Blackburn portraits

Call Number 144-1-4

Date 1930-1944

Contents 4 photographs.

Description Photographs of Maude Blackburn outdoors, circa 1930-1944.

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: Early Boulder views

Call Number 144-1-5

Date [1884-1897]

Contents 3 photographs.

Description Early views of Boulder include a fire department hose company in formation in front of the Boulder House, a parade at the 1200 block of Pearl St., and Boulder Canyon road.

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: Colorado views postcards

Call Number 144-1-6

Date [1911-1940]

Contents 6 photographs.

Description Black and white picture postcards of Colorado scenes including Bear Lake; Meeker Park and Longs Peak from Longmont; and Camp St. Malo in Allenspark [Allens Park].

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: Unidentified people and places

Call Number 144-1-7

Date [1900-1915]

Contents 8 photographs.

Description Photographs of unidentified people and places., Photos include a school building with its staff and students posed outside, Mollie's back yard, individual portraits of two infants, a boy, and a woman on a horse and the same woman standing holding a cat, and a postcard photo of eight women (wearing bonnets) and a man, all sitting on a fence.

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