A. A. Paddock collection

Details

Title: A. A. Paddock collection: Boulder views
Date: 1865-[1969]
Call Number: BHS 208
Contents: 490 photographs, in six boxes.
Description: This collection is a photographic record of the way Boulder looked, covering a century from the earliest known photo taken in 1865 through the 1960s, as recorded in panoramic views.
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.)--History
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

: 500 and 600 blocks of Baseline Road

Call Number 208-2-27

Date [1945]

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Views of Baseline Road with the mountains in the background.

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: Boulder streets with snow

Call Number 208-2-28

Date [1910-1930]

Contents 6 photographs (3 views).

Description Views of the snow covered streets, trees and fields.

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: University Hill views

Call Number 208-2-29

Date [1895-1910]

Contents 9 photographs (5 views).

Description Views of University Hill. Areas include 13th Street and Broadway Street as well as looking Southwest with Mount Saint Gertrude Academy and Chautauqua in background.

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: Yount Mill photographs

Call Number 208-2-30

Date [1894-1900]

Contents 4 photographs (2 views).

Description Views of the mill in Boulder before 1900.

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: View across Boulder to Mapleton Hill and Flagstaff Mountain photographs, [between 1905 and 1910]

Call Number 208-2-31

Date [1905-1910]

Contents 3 photographs (2 views).

Description Views of houses near Mapleton Hill and Flagstaff Mountain.

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: Mapleton Hill and 6th Street photographs, [between 1910 and 1920]

Call Number 208-2-32

Date [1910-1920]

Contents 1 photograph.

Description View of houses on 6th Street near Mapleton Hill.

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: Walnut Street views to the southwest

Call Number 208-2-33

Date [1900-1940]

Contents 8 photographs (3 views).

Description Views of Boulder towards Green Mountain and Flagstaff Mountain, about the turn of the century and in the early 1940s.

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: Boulder from north of town photographs, [after 1911]

Call Number 208-2-34

Date [1911]

Contents 4 photographs (1 view).

Description View of Boulder loooking south with town in the distance taken after 1911.

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: 1200 and 1300 blocks of Baseline Road photographs, [after 1940]

Call Number 208-2-35

Date [1940]

Contents 4 photographs.

Description Views along Baseline Road looking east and west taken after 1940.

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: Boulder from 17th Street photographs, ca. 1890-1905

Call Number 208-2-36

Date 1890-1905

Contents 4 photographs, 3 views (2 digitized).

Description Views to the west looking over Boulder Creek and buildings at the 17th Street Bridge.

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: Boulder views from Chautauqua or University Hill photographs, [after 1898]

Call Number 208-2-37

Date [1898-1920]

Contents 15 photographs (10 views).

Description Views of Boulder from University Hill or Chautauqua looking east.

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: View from Valmont Butte looking west

Call Number 208-2-38

Date [1910]

Contents 4 photographs (1 view).

Description View from Valmont Butte slightly west of the town of Valmont. Valmont Road, the track of the Denver, Boulder, and Western Railroad Company and South Boulder Creek in the foreground. Boulder Creek in the center of photo. Valmont Road runs toward Mount Sanitas. Taken after 1910.

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