Details
Title

Prissy Bowron photograph collection

Date

[1880-1929]

Call Number

BHS 187

Contents

164 photographs, in nine folders.

Description

This collection contains 164 photographs pertaining to the Eugene J. Gleason family of Boulder, Colo. Folders 1-5 contain studio portraits; folders 6-9 hold family snapshot photographs.

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.
Restrictions applying to the use or reproduction of images are available from the Carnegie Library for Local History/ Boulder Public Library.

Format

Photographs.

Author

Gleason family.

Donor

Bowron, Priscilla F.
Bowron, Robert G.

Subjects

Gleason, Mattie, ca. 1870
Gleason family
Gleason, Eugene J, ca. 1866-1932
Whiteley, Ella Tyler, 1861-1907
Children--Portraits
Photographers--Colorado--Boulder
Women--Colorado--Boulder--Portraits
Men--Colorado--Boulder--Photographs
Boulder (Colo.)--Pictorial works
Boulder County (Colo.)--Pictorial works

Acquisition Note

Donor: Priscilla F. Bowron 120 E. Monument #6, Colorado Springs, CO. Gift 1990 Apr. 28

Ownership Note

Prissy Bowron was one of the first historic building preservationists in Boulder, Colo., in the 1960s. She and her husband Robert G. Bowron bought and restored old houses, and were instrumental in the establishment of Historic Boulder, Inc. The Bowrons found the items donated in this collection in houses they renovated at 1405 Arapahoe Avenue, 1305 Pine Street, and 1709 Pine Street in Boulder.
Karl Anuta of the Boulder Historical Society delivered the donated items to the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History on 28 April 1990.

Note

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

Gleason family Studio portraits undated
Gleason family Studio portraits undated
Call Number 187-1-(1-5)-Photo
Date 1880-1919
Contents 33 photographs, in 5 folders.
Description Photographs taken by studios in Colorado and in the Midwest and Pennsylvania (from whence the family came), pertaining to the Eugene J. Gleason family of Boulder, Colo. They are undated, but probably date from around the 1880s to the 1910s.

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Family members snapshots undated
Family members snapshots undated
Call Number 187-1-6
Date 1900-1929
Contents 102 photographs, in 11 envelopes.
Description Most of these 102 snapshots are unidentified, but seem to have been taken by and of the Eugene J. Gleason family of Boulder, Colo. They are undated, but probably date from around the 1900s to the 1920s. The snapshots in this folder have been organized into 11 envelopes:, Photographs of the Gleason family.

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Gleason family Snapshots undated
Gleason family Snapshots undated
Call Number 187-1-(7-9)-Photo
Date 1900-1929
Contents 29 photographs, in 3 folders.
Description These are photographs, probably by or of the Eugene J. Gleason family of Boulder, Colo., and dating from about the 1900s to the 1920s.

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Richard H. Whiteley charcoal portrait
Richard H. Whiteley charcoal portrait
Call Number 187-O-1
Date 1885-1900
Contents 1 portrait.
Description A large charcoal portrait of Mr. Richard H. Whiteley. It was found in the Whiteley-Hellems house at 1709 Pine Street by Robert and Prissy Bowron.

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Ella Tyler Whiteley charcoal portrait
Ella Tyler Whiteley charcoal portrait
Call Number 187-sc7-9-1
Date 1885-1900
Contents 1 portrait.
Description A large charcoal portrait of Mrs. Richard H. (Ella Tyler) Whiteley. It was found in the Whiteley-Hellems house at 1709 Pine Street by Robert and Prissy Bowron. Ella was the first woman to graduate from the University of Colorado in 1886.

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