Details
Title

George W. Teal collection

Date

1825-1973

Call Number

BHS 145

Contents

8 boxes.

Description

This collection consists of photographs and documents pertaining to George W. Teal Sr. and his family. The Boulder Historical Society donated an additional box of 47 photographs to be added to this collection as Box 8. They include family portraits (many taken in Grand Junction, Colo.) and views of an unidentifed mill. This box is not yet cataloged.

History

The Teal family consisted of several of the most notable mining and civil engineers of Boulder County's history. The patriarch, George W. Teal Sr., born and reared in Manchester, England, arrived in Colorado in 1871, settling in the English "colony" of Georgetown with his family where he was superintendent of the Terrible mine. In 1881 he supervised the Caribou mine and in 1884 he was elected a Boulder County Commissioner. His sons, of which George W. Teal Jr. is the most noted, continued in his legacy.
Born in Manchester, England and educated at Cornwall and the School of Mining in Freiberg, Germany, George W. Teal Jr. played a major role in progressive mining by serving as partner, manager, surveyor, and consulting engineer for several mining companies within and without Colorado. In 1887 he was elected U.S. deputy mineral and land surveyor. From 1891-1898 he served as Boulder County surveyor and during his term, in 1894, married Francisca C. Price. In 1898 he was appointed "city engineer of the town of Boulder". And in 1928 he assumed the office of Boulder City Manager, an appointment he held until the time of his death. As one of Boulder's leading civil servants, George W. Teal Jr. is recognized for the eventual purchase of the City Hall site at 14th and Walnut, and the construction accessing Silver Lake's water supply.

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.

Subjects

Teal family

Note

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

Pages

George W. Teal family documents
George W. Teal family documents
Call Number 145-1
Date 1825-1973
Contents 21 folders.
Description Various documents of George W. Teal Sr. and his extended family.

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George W. Teal family photographs
George W. Teal family photographs
Call Number 145-2-(1-15)-Photo
Date 1825-1973
Contents 60 photographs.
Description Photographs of George W. Teal Sr. and his extended family.

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George W. Teal family photographs
George W. Teal family photographs
Call Number 145-2-(16-32)-Photo
Date 1825-1973
Contents 106 photographs.
Description Photographs of George W. Teal Sr. and his extended family.

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Teal property photographs
Teal property photographs
Call Number 145-3-(1-19)-Photo
Date [1890-1960]
Contents 94 photographs.
Description Photographs of mines, homes, and land owned or visited by the Teal family.

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Teal Property Photographs
Teal Property Photographs
Call Number 145-3-(20-45)-Photo
Date [1890-1960]
Contents 148 photographs.
Description Photographs of mines, homes, and land owned or visited by the Teal family.

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Red Signe Mine camp
Red Signe Mine camp
Call Number 145-3-22
Date undated
Contents 11 photographs (7 views).
Description Photographs of Red Signe camp.

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George W. Teal Jr.'s diaries and pocket notebooks
George W. Teal Jr.'s diaries and pocket notebooks
Call Number 145-4
Date 1870-1940
Contents 19 items.
Description There are twelve diaries or pocket notebooks containing notes written by George W. Teal, two bank deposit books covering the years 1904-1912, and four books.

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George Hilton Teal's 1920s photograph album
George Hilton Teal's 1920s photograph album
Call Number 145-5-1
Date 1921
Contents 77 photographs.
Description A "Kodak Book" photo album with fourteen 6 1/2 by 9-inch heavy cardboard pages. It contains snapshots, taken primarily during the summer of 1921, of George Hilton Teal, his friends (some of whom are identified), mountain outings, and views (interior and exterior) of the cabin at the Red Signe mine.

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George Hilton Teal
George Hilton Teal: 1930s photograph album
Call Number 145-5-2
Date [1930-1939]
Contents 121 photographs.
Description A photograph album with forty-one 7 1/2 by 10 1/2-inch black pages. It contains snapshots, taken during the 1930s, of George Hilton Teal, his wife, Dorothy J. Bailey Teal (including her 1932 graduation and their August 10, 1933 wedding), family members (some of whom are identified), and trips to Caribou, Nederland, New Mexico and elsewhere., A photograph album with forty-one 7 1/2 by 10 1/2-inch black pages. It contains snapshots, taken during the 1930s, of George Hilton Teal, his wife, Dorothy J. Bailey Teal (including her 1932 graduation and their August 10, 1933 wedding), family members (some of whom are identified), and trips to Caribou, Nederland, New Mexico and elsewhere.

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Unknown family photograph album
Unknown family photograph album
Call Number 145-5-3
Date 1900-1930
Contents 46 photographs.
Description This folder contains a brown photo album with eleven 7 by 10-inch black pages. Twenty-three snapshots of children, outside a home in the mountains, are arranged in the beginning of the album; the people, locations, and dates of these photographs are unknown. The remaining pages also contain snapshots of children and young adults, but in a city (possibly Boulder) Some of the people in these photos are identified and the photos are dated "1928."

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Rio Blanco, Colo
Rio Blanco, Colo: Album page 1
Call Number 145-5-4a
Date 1908
Contents 8 photographs.
Description There are eight snapshots that all appear to have been taken at Irons Ranch in Rio Blanco, Colorado in October 1908. The men on this hunting trip included "Fonda, Cowdry, Teal, Irons, and Cowie" (only the last names were given).

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Rio Blanco, Colo
Rio Blanco, Colo: Album page 2
Call Number 145-5-4b
Date 1908
Contents 6 photographs.
Description Photographs taken at Rio Blanco, Colorado in October 1908. They include views of deer hunting, two views of the McCoy Ranch, one of the Irons family (three generations), and "Mr. and Mrs. Powell, Denver, on Honey Moon."

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