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

Sunnyside
Sunnyside
Call Number 213-4-4
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 2 photographs (1 view).

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Sunset, Colo
Sunset, Colo
Call Number 213-4-5
Date [1880-1910]
Contents 17 photographs (11 views).

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Church and school groups at Sunset, Colo
Church and school groups at Sunset, Colo
Call Number 213-4-5a
Date [1880-1900]
Contents 4 photographs (3 views).

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Sunset, Colo., [1945]-1980
Sunset, Colo., [1945]-1980
Call Number 213-4-5b
Date 1945-1980
Contents 5 photographs.

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Sunshine, Colo., [1880-1899]
Sunshine, Colo., [1880-1899]
Call Number 213-4-6
Date [1880-1899]
Contents 28 photographs (11 views).
Description Overviews of the mining town of Sunshine. Many mines and mills are visible, as well as the buildings of the town.

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Sunshine, Colo., [1885-1910]
Sunshine, Colo., [1885-1910]
Call Number 213-4-6a
Date [1885-1910]
Contents 10 photographs (8 views).

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Sunshine
Sunshine: boarding houses
Call Number 213-4-7
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 5 photographs (3 views).
Description Views of two boarding houses in Sunshine: the American House, Mrs. Marten proprietor; and the Sunshine House, Mrs. Charles F. Herrick proprietor. Both views show a large group of boarders, men, women and children, posed in front. Many of those in front of the Sunshine House are identified.

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Sunshine
Sunshine: houses
Call Number 213-4-8
Date [1890-1910]
Contents 6 photographs (5 views).
Description Views of houses in Sunshine.

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Sunshine : [1950]-1954
Sunshine : [1950]-1954
Call Number 213-4-8a
Date [1950]-1954
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Later views (circa 1950s) of houses and sites in Sunshine.

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Sunshine : 1975
Sunshine : 1975
Call Number 213-4-8b
Date 1975
Contents 9 photographs (5 digitized).
Description These photographs were used in Jane Barker's article on Sunshine in the Camera's Focus magazine on 30 March 1975.

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Sunshine
Sunshine: Meile family
Call Number 213-4-9
Date [1910-1919]
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Views of the Meile family at the Meile property with cabins and tents above Sunshine.

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Sunshine
Sunshine: environs
Call Number 213-4-10
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description View titled "A Coming Storm, Sunshine Hill," showing a few cabins on a hillside; and view titled "Road to Sunshine," showing a carriage on a mountain road. Undated.

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