William Ray Collins photograph collection

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Title: William Ray Collins photograph collection
Date: 1880-1975
Call Number: BHS 155
Contents: 625 photographs.
Description: This collection contains photographs and cyanotypes of the Collins family of Boulder, Colo., and friends and relatives, ca. 1910-1940. It includes studio portraits, snapshots, and an album that holds 410 views of people and places in Denver, Boulder, and elsewhere.
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: Collins family.
Donor: Stokes, Pamela P.
Subjects: Collins, William Ray, 1888-1981
Barry family
Reed family
Schwartz family
Sutherland family
Vanadium (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Placerville (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Eldora (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Ward (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Acquisition Note: Donor: Pamela P. Stokes National State Bank, Boulder, CO. Gift 1981 Oct. 9 William Ray Collins estate
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

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: William Ray Collins photograph album

Call Number 155-1

Date [1910-1940]

Contents 410 photographs.

Description This album contains 410 snapshot photographs of the Collins family of Boulder, Colo., and friends and relatives, ca. 1910-1940. Most of the people and places pictured are unidentified. Views include some scenes in the Boulder and Denver areas.

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: William Ray Collins photograph album

Call Number 155-2-1

Date [1910-1940]

Contents 99 photographs.

Description This album contains 99 snapshot photographs, most of the Collins family of Boulder, Colo., and friends and relatives, ca. the early 1900s. Most of the people and places pictured are incompletely identified. Most of the views are in the Boulder, Vanadium, and Placerville areas of Colorado.

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: Collins family photograph album

Call Number 155-2-2

Date 1910-1940

Contents 40 photographs.

Description This leather-covered snapshot album contains 40 photographs of the Collins family of Boulder, Colo., and friends and relatives, ca. the early 1900s. Most of the people and places pictured are incompletely identified. Most of the views are in Boulder County. Four of the photos are cyanotypes. Five of the photos were taken on the Collins ranch on North Boulder Creek near Lakewood, in Boulder County.

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: James and Dorothy Collins photographs

Call Number 155-2-3

Date [1926-1928]

Contents 9 photographs.

Description This envelope contains seven snapshot photographs of Baptist pastor James Collins and his wife Dorothy in New Orleans, Louisiana, ca. 1926-1928; a studio portrait of Dorothy Collins in 1926; and a studio portrait of James and Dorothy Collins which is undated but is probably of the same era.

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: William Ray Collins snapshots

Call Number 155-2-4

Date [1960-1970]

Contents 12 photographs.

Description This envelope contains twelve snapshot photographs, all but two in color, of the Wm. R. Collins family of Boulder, Colo., with friends and relatives, ca. 1960-1970. Most of the people shown are incompletely identified. Most of the views are interior scenes in Boulder, probably in the Collins home at 1504 Pine Street.

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: William Ray Collins studio portraits

Call Number 155-2-5

Date 1900-1940

Contents 8 photographs (6 views).

Description This envelope contains eight identified but undated studio portrait photos of members of the William R. Collins family of Boulder, Colo., and two friends of Wm. Ray Collins. Three of the portraits are of Wm. Ray Collins.

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: Collins family friends studio portraits

Call Number 155-2-6

Date 1900-1940

Contents 4 photographs.

Description This envelope contains four identified but undated studio portrait photographs of friends or relatives of the William R. Collins family of Boulder, Colo. The Palace Studio of Boulder took three of the photos.

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: Collins family friends studio portraits

Call Number 155-2-7

Date [1880-1940]

Contents 7 photographs.

Description This envelope contains seven identified but undated studio portrait photographs of friends or relatives of the William R. Collins family of Boulder, Colo. ca. 1880-1940.

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: Sutherland family studio portraits

Call Number 155-2-8

Date 1880-1950

Contents 7 photographs.

Description This envelope contains seven identified but undated studio portrait photographs of members of the Sutherland family of Boulder, Colo. There are two views of Edward Sutherland, as an infant and wearing a World War II U.S. Navy uniform, and three views of Fred, one with his wife Bertha, and two of Evelyn, one showing her in her nurse's uniform. Most of the portraits were by the Palace Studio of Boulder. Note: this family also used the name Soderlund.

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: Eva Christine and Ruth Sutherland photograph [ca. 1910]

Call Number 155-3-1

Date [1910]

Contents 1 photograph.

Description This envelope contains a photo of E. Catherine Sutherland and her daughter Ruth Sutherland posed in front of their home at 2425 Pine Street, Boulder, Colo. A push lawnmower with grass catcher attachment is visible in the front yard. The photo was taken in about 1910. Note: this family also used the name Soderlund.

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: George Sutherland studio portraits [ca. 1910-1930]

Call Number 155-3-2

Date [1910-1930]

Contents 5 photographs.

Description This envelope contains five undated studio portrait photographs of George Sutherland as a young man ca. 1910-1930. In one view he is wearing a World War I U.S. Army Tank Corps uniform, and in another he is with his wife Mary Sutherland. Note: this family also used the name Soderlund.

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: Leona Wood Ardourel studio portrait [1910-1930]

Call Number 155-3-3

Date [1910-1930]

Contents 1 photograph.

Description This envelope contains an studio portrait photograph, ca. 1910-1930, of Leona Wood Ardourel as a young woman.

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