Sam Gembrini photograph collection

[1895-1915]

BHS 168

160 photographs.

This collection contains ninety-two photographs (50 views) of scenes in and around Ward, Colorado, a former mining community. The photographs date from about the mid-1890s to 1915. They include mountain views and photos of streets, buildings, miners, Fourth of July celebrations and people. Additionally, sixty-eight glass plate negatives (no photographic prints) were digitized.

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.

Photographs.

Gembrini, Sam 1862-1945

MacMillan, Robert

Gembrini, Sam, 1862-1945--Photograph collections
Mountain people--Colorado--Ward
Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Ward
Miners--Colorado--Ward
Dwellings--Colorado--Ward
Church buildings--Colorado--Ward
Mountain life--Colorado--Boulder County
Mountains--Colorado--Boulder County
Families--Colorado--Ward

Donor: Robert MacMillan Gift 1981

In 1981, seventy-six prints from glass plate negatives were made and inventoried by Robert MacMillan, a Fine Arts/Photography student from the University of Colorado, Boulder. These prints were then donated to the Boulder Historical Society by MacMillan. The glass plate negatives from which the prints were made belonged to Sam Gembrini. More prints were added to the collection as the remaining negatives were processed.

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.
Inventory available in box.