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

Altona
Altona
Call Number 213-1-1
Date [1889-1949]
Contents 12 photographs (7 views)
Description Two views of Peter Haldi's blacksmith shop at Altona; and a view of the Altona Bakers and Restaurant with a group of people posed out front. Four views of ruins of various old Altona buildings ca. 1940s.

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Stewart and Bader farms in or near Altona
Stewart and Bader farms in or near Altona
Call Number 213-1-1a
Date [1885-1899]
Contents 5 photographs (3 views).

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Balarat
Balarat
Call Number 213-1-2
Date [1880-1890]
Contents 2 photographs.

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Camp Albion
Camp Albion
Call Number 213-1-3
Date [1885-1940]
Contents 7 photographs (6 views).

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Camp Frances
Camp Frances
Call Number 213-1-4
Date [1899]
Contents 15 photographs (5 views)
Description Views of Camp Frances, including the Dew Drop boarding house, the meat market in a snow drift, an overview of some buildings, and a large group of people posed near the railroad line of the Colorado and Northwestern Railway (initaled as C & N Ry.). Note the barren hillsides and tree stumps.

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Camp Talcott
Camp Talcott
Call Number 213-1-5
Date [1885-1910]
Contents 3 photographs (1 view).

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Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado
Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado: 1870s
Call Number 213-1-6
Date 1878-[1879]
Contents 13 photographs (4 views).
Description Views of Caribou taken in the late 1870s.

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Caribou
Caribou: early panoramic views
Call Number 213-1-7
Date [1880-1889]
Contents 17 photographs (8 views).
Description Views of Caribou probably taken in the 1880s. "Old Baldy" mountain in back of Caribou to the west. The large white building in the foreground of several of these photos is the Sherman house.

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Caribou
Caribou: 1890s
Call Number 213-1-8
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 18 photographs (3 views).
Description Views of Caribou taken in the 1890s.

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Caribou
Caribou: buildings
Call Number 213-1-9
Date [1880-1899]
Contents 14 photographs (4 views).
Description Views of buildings in Caribou including the Colorado House, and another street showing store fronts.

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Caribou
Caribou: people
Call Number 213-1-10
Date [1870]-1897
Contents 24 photographs (6 views)
Description Views of people in Caribou including: two from the 1870s with the same woman in both, and a small boy identified as Mat Ray; one of the Caribou brass band, formed in 1871; and one of two couples posed on a rock with Caribou in the background.

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Caribou
Caribou: in decay 1937-1951
Call Number 213-1-11
Date 1937-1951
Contents 7 photographs.

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