Details
Title

A. A. Paddock collection: Boulder County towns photographs

Date

1870-1970

Call Number

BHS 213

Contents

ca. 685 photographs, in 5 boxes.

Description

This collection is a photographic record of Boulder County communities on the plains and in the mountains, covering a century from the 1870s through the 1970s.

Summary

Box 1. Altona-Gold Hill -- Box 2. Jamestown-Marshall -- Box 3. Nederland-Springdale -- Box 4. Sugar Loaf-Ward -- Box 5. Oversize.

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
Mountain life--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

Caribou
Caribou: further decay in the 1950s
Call Number 213-1-11a
Date 1951-1957
Contents 16 photographs (11 views).

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Caribou Cemetery
Caribou Cemetery
Call Number 213-1-11b
Date [1940]-1957
Contents 12 photographs (9 views).

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Caribou
Caribou: peat mining
Call Number 213-1-12
Date [1930-1949]
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Views of peat mining near Caribou.

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Copper Rock
Copper Rock
Call Number 213-1-13
Date 1892-[1899]
Contents 13 photographs (5 views).
Description Views of Copper Rock taken in the 1890s. One shows a group of townspeople gathered outside.

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Crisman
Crisman
Call Number 213-1-14
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 20 photographs (6 views).
Description Views of Crisman: includes businesses such as the Crisman grocery store, Crisman Mercantile Company, and Hult's Store.

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Crisman
Crisman: residences
Call Number 213-1-15
Date [1885-1910]
Contents 14 photographs (7 views).
Description Views of Crisman and nearby Boulder Springs residences, including the homes of W. A. Farnsworth, Mrs. Cook, Peter Berger. Boulder (aka Soda) Springs was considered to be part of the Crisman mining camp community.

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Crisman : 1945
Crisman : 1945
Call Number 213-1-15a
Date 1945
Contents 3 photographs.
Description These three images were all taken on January 7, 1945.

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Eldora
Eldora: overviews
Call Number 213-1-16
Date 1896-1897
Contents 16 photographs (7 views).
Description Views of Eldora taken looking across the valley at the town.

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Eldora
Eldora: center of town
Call Number 213-1-16a
Date 1901-1919
Contents 3 photographs (2 views).
Description Views of Eldora looking across the valley at the town.

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Eldora
Eldora: bird's-eye views
Call Number 213-1-16b
Date [1890-1939]
Contents 5 photographs.
Description Views of Eldora taken looking across the valley at the town.

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Eldora
Eldora: panoramas
Call Number 213-1-16c
Date 1899-1938
Contents 4 photographs.

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Eldora
Eldora: street scenes
Call Number 213-1-17
Date [1897]
Contents 18 photographs (9 views).
Description Views of Eldora looking down streets and showing buidings, people and conveyances.

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