Details
Title

A. A. Paddock collection: churches and congregations

Date

1870-1979

Call Number

BHS 209

Contents

4 boxes.

Description

This collection is a photographic record of churches and their congregations in Boulder county, covering nearly a century from the 1870s through 1979.

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
Church buildings--Colorado--Boulder
Boulder (Colo.)--Churches

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 posssession 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

Reformed Episcopal Church
Reformed Episcopal Church
Call Number 209-1-37
Date [1876]
Contents 1 photograph.

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First Friend's Church
First Friend's Church: congregation
Call Number 209-1-38
Date 1917
Contents 1 photograph
Description View of the congregation of the Friends Church at 1416 Broadway posed outside for the dedication.

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Swedish Lutheran Church
Swedish Lutheran Church
Call Number 209-2-1
Date [1895]-1899
Contents 6 photographs (2 views).

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Trinity English Evangelical Lutheran Church
Trinity English Evangelical Lutheran Church
Call Number 209-2-2
Date [1900-1930]
Contents 2 photographs.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church: original building with steeples removed
Call Number 209-2-3
Date [1890-1892]
Contents 3 photographs (2 views).
Description Interior and exterior views of the original church at 1401 Spruce Street.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church: second building
Call Number 209-2-4
Date [1892-1900]
Contents 17 photographs (8 views).
Description Views of the second church building at 1401 Spruce Street. The addition on the north side is a single story.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church: second building
Call Number 209-2-5
Date [1892-1900]
Contents 4 photographs
Description Views of snapshot quality of the second church building at 1401 Spruce Street; two are cyanotypes, dated 1895. All views were taken when the addition on the northwest was a single story.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church: second building
Call Number 209-2-6
Date [1900-1909]
Contents 1 postcard., 11 photographs (7 views).
Description Views of the second church building at 1401 Spruce Street after it acquired an announcement board on the corner entrance. One is a colorized postcard.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church: groups
Call Number 209-2-7
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 4 photographs
Description Views of groups posed on the steps of the church; two views are of a musical group.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church: Sunday school
Call Number 209-2-8
Date 1896-1898
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Group portrait of a Sunday school class of girls dressed in white and holding fans, 1896-1898; and group portrait of a Sunday school class of young women with their teacher, all are named, 1898.

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First Methodist Episcopal Church: Sunday school
First Methodist Episcopal Church: Sunday school
Call Number 209-2-9
Date 1893
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Portrait of Ira M. DeLong and the Sunday School class he taught at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, taken on 5 May 1893 at the DeLong home. The occasion was a farewell reception given for Julia M. Cotant.

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First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church: original building
Call Number 209-2-10
Date 1877-1882
Contents 4 photographs (3 views-including 2 prints of stereograph photos)., 4 stereographs (2 views).
Description Views of the original building, described as being in the "alley on 16th Street between Water (Canyon Blvd.) and Walnut." The two stereographic views were taken the same day in 1877 and show church members out front; Central School is in the background with the original cupola.

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