Details
Title

A. A. Paddock collection: Boulder buildings

Date

[1870-1985]

Call Number

BHS 207

Contents

ca. 3,265 photographs, in 27 boxes.

Description

This collection is a photographic record of houses, buildings, and other structures in Boulder, covering a century from the 1870s up through the 1970s.

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/Donor

Paddock, Laurence T.
1927-

Subjects

Paddock, Alva A, 1887-1961--Photograph collections
Boulder (Colo.)--Buildings, structures, etc--187-

Ownership Note

The photographs in this collection came to A. A. Paddock and his son Laurence Paddock from numerous sources, primarily from pioneer Boulder families who had these photos in their possession and knew of Paddock's efforts to collect and preserve Boulder's historic past. A. A. Paddock was a founding member of the Boulder Historical Society in 1945, and began donating his collection to the Society over a period of years.

Note

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

Pages

Haenselman's
Haenselman's
Call Number 207-3-47
Date [1905-1921]
Contents 10 photographs (5 views).
Description Views of the greenhouses that were located in Central Park in the 1700 block of Broadway. Includes views of Boulder Creek, the dam, and the sluice gates for Boulder and White Rock Ditch, earlier the Beasley Ditch.

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Cigarette Park in winter and summer
Cigarette Park in winter and summer
Call Number 207-3-48
Date [1870-1920]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Views of what was known as Cigarette Park and is now Central Park. One photo is of a well dressed woman standing among cottonwood trees; one photo is of a group of four men reclining under the trees with bottles (of beer?).

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"Moon light [sic] on the Boulder"
"Moon light [sic] on the Boulder"
Call Number 207-3-49
Date 1885-1910
Contents 2 photographs (1 view)
Description The old headgate of the Boulder and White Rock Ditch, earlier the Beasley Ditch, in the area that is now Central Park, earlier called Cigarette Park. (S-2080)

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Central Park and the Broadway Bridge
Central Park and the Broadway Bridge
Call Number 207-3-50
Date [1900-1951]
Contents 22 photographs, 14 views (10 digitized).
Description Views taken from inside Central Park looking west along Boulder Creek towards the Broadway bridge. Includes both the earlier bridge and the one which replaced it in 1921.

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Central Park
Central Park
Call Number 207-3-51
Date undated
Contents 9 photographs, 6 views (4 digitized).
Description Views taken from the Broadway Bridge looking east through Central Park and along Boulder Creek towards the bridge at Arapahoe Avenue between Broadway and 13th Street.

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Central Park
Central Park
Call Number 207-3-52
Date 1921
Contents 1 photograph.
Description A 1921 view of railroad tracks running past present day Central Park on Canyon Blvd. east of Broadway.

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Central Park
Central Park
Call Number 207-3-53
Date undated
Contents 11 photographs (8 views).
Description Views of the interior of Central Park, including picnic areas, the band shell, and winter scenes.

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1700 block of Broadway Street
1700 block of Broadway Street: west side
Call Number 207-3-54
Date [1900]
Contents 4 photographs (1 view).
Description View of the buildings on the west side of Broadway between numbers 1763 and 1777. In the foreground is Joseph Sturtevant's photography studio with his wife, Anna Lyckman Sturtevant, standing in the doorway. A streetcar is visible in the distance (S-673).

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coming storm on Green Mountain, Boulder, Colo
A coming storm on Green Mountain, Boulder, Colo
Call Number 207-3-55
Date [1893-1899]
Contents 1 photograph.

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1700 block of Broadway Street
1700 block of Broadway Street: west side
Call Number 207-3-56
Date [1880-1952]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of buildings and businesses on the west side of the 1700 block of Broadway.

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1700 block of Broadway Street
1700 block of Broadway Street: west side
Call Number 207-3-57
Date [1930-1950]
Contents 10 photographs (8 views).
Description Views of the buildings on the west side of Broadway between numbers 1763 and 1781.

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Municipal Building
Municipal Building: Photographs of architectural drawings
Call Number 207-3-58
Date 1945-1951
Contents 5 photographs of architectural drawings (4 views).
Description Photographic views of architectural renderings submitted for the proposed Municipal Building, by architect Harold Jones in 1945, and by James M. Hunter in 1951. The design submitted in 1945 by Harold Jones, partner of James M. Hunter, was accepted but never built.

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