A. A. Paddock collection

Details

Title: A. A. Paddock collection: schools
Date: [1870-1979]
Call Number: BHS 210
Contents: 943 photographs (in twelve boxes).
Description: This collection is a photographic record of schools in Boulder County, including structures and students, covering a century from the 1870s 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.
1927-2016
Subjects: Paddock, Alva A, 1887-1961--Photograph collections
Schools--Colorado--Boulder
Schools--Colorado--Boulder County
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

: Pioneer schoolhouse

Call Number 210-2-2

Date [1865]

Contents 4 printed cards., 3 photographs (1 view)

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: Pioneer schoolhouse: marker and model

Call Number 210-2-3

Date 1919-1965

Contents 6 photographs (5 views).

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: Boulder Business College: graduates

Call Number 210-2-4

Date 1901-1917

Contents 4 photographs (3 views).

Description Group portraits of graduates for 1901 (the first year of the school), 1903 and 1917.

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: Boulder Business College: interiors

Call Number 210-2-5

Date [1920-1929]

Contents 4 photographs.

Description Interior views of the school classrooms showing students and business machinery. The college was at 1322 Pearl Street.

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: Boulder High School: ground breaking ceremony

Call Number 210-2-6

Date 1935

Contents 8 photographs.

Description Views of the ground breaking ceremony for the new high school. Among those present were school principal William Casey, banker Charles Buckingham, and architect Glen Huntington.

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: Boulder High School: cornerstone laying ceremony. 1936 Sept. 26

Call Number 210-2-7

Date 1936

Contents 19 photographs (11 views)

Description Views of the corner stone laying ceremony for the new high school. The Masons were in attendence are wearing their ceremonial aprons.

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: Boulder High School: under construction

Call Number 210-2-8

Date 1936-1937

Contents 17 photographs, 16 views (15 digitized).

Description Views of the new high school under construction.

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: Boulder High School: newly completed

Call Number 210-2-9

Date 1937

Contents 11 photographs(9 views).

Description Views of the newly completed high school, including a close-up of bas reliefs of Strength and Wisdom, otherwise known as "Minnie" and "Jake". Wisdom (Minerva) on the left and Strength (Jupiter) on the right.

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: Boulder High School: interiors

Call Number 210-2-10

Date 1937

Contents 28 photographs (25 views).

Description Interior views of newly completed Boulder High School showing classrooms, gym, auditorium, corridors, shop, and library.

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: Boulder High School: Band and Orchestra

Call Number 210-2-11

Date 1936

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Two group portraits of the Boulder High School Band and the Boulder High School Orchestra, taken during Denver Music Week, 1936. Director H.E. McMillen is in both views.

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: Central School

Call Number 210-2-12

Date [1873-1876]

Contents 3 photographs (1 view).

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: Central School

Call Number 210-2-13

Date [1885-1891]

Contents 3 photographs (1 view)

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