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

Sunshine
Sunshine: people
Call Number 213-4-11
Date [1900-1909]
Contents 4 photographs (3 views)
Description Two views of a social dance; and one view of a group of 21 men, women and children posed on a stage in front of stage lights.

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Sunshine
Sunshine: people
Call Number 213-4-12
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 6 photographs (5 views)
Description People in Sunshine, including a group of three people posed in front of a cabin, half of which is log; three men and a dog posed outside; eight men posed for a boxing match or fist fight; seven men posed on some rocks; and twelve men posed in front of a store.

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Sunshine
Sunshine: high school teacher and his class
Call Number 213-4-13
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 1 photograph.
Description View of a group of five women and one man posed on a rock in the mountains.

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Sunshine
Sunshine: men's groups
Call Number 213-4-14
Date 1885-[1909]
Contents 4 photographs.

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Superior
Superior: People vs. D'Andrea, 1912
Call Number 213-4-15a
Date 1912
Contents 5 photographs.
Description Five views of the Superior Depot on the east side of South 3rd Avenue and north of the railroad tracks. All are stamped on the back: "Filed in the District Court, Boulder County, Colo., Nov. 18, 1912." The name is written "DeAndrea"

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Superior
Superior: views of buildings, [1940]-1957
Call Number 213-4-15b
Date [1940]-1957
Contents 5 photographs.

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Superior
Superior: views of buildings, 1964
Call Number 213-4-15c
Date 1964
Contents 4 photographs.
Description These photographs were used in a Camera Focus magazine article on 27 December 1964.

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Valmont community.
Valmont community.
Call Number 213-4-16
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 9 photographs (3 views)
Description Views of buildings in Valmont, including the drugstore owned by A.J. Nelson, an original church, and a farm.

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Valmont
Valmont: rock quarry
Call Number 213-4-17
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of Valmont Butte or dyke, showing the rock quarry operation.

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Valmont
Valmont: views, [1940]-1970
Call Number 213-4-17a
Date [1940]-1970
Contents 8 photographs (7 views).

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Valmont
Valmont: brick yards, 1936-1957
Call Number 213-4-17b
Date 1936-1957
Contents 9 photographs (6 digitized).

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Valmont
Valmont: Presbyterian Church, 1957-1976
Call Number 213-4-17c
Date [1940]-1970
Contents 9 photographs, 7 views (6 digitized).

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