Details
Title

A. A. Paddock collection: farming, drilling and views in east Boulder County

Date

[1870-1979]

Call Number

BHS 214

Contents

2 boxes.

Description

This collection is a photographic record of farms, crops, oil fields, locations and life on the plains in Boulder County, covering 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-

Subjects

Paddock, Alva A, 1887-1961--Photograph collections

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

Plowing in the early days of Boulder County
Plowing in the early days of Boulder County
Call Number 214-1-1
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 1 photograph.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: threshing
Call Number 214-1-2
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 7 photographs (5 views).
Description Views of steam powered threshing machines, threshing operations and threshing crews.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: threshers
Call Number 214-1-3
Date [1907]
Contents 4 photographs (2 views).
Description Views of steam powered threshing machines, threshing operations and threshing crews.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: threshers
Call Number 214-1-4
Date [1940-1949]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Views of a model steam engine used to power a threshing machine.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: threshers, 1900 Oct. 18
Call Number 214-1-5
Date 1900
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Views of the threshing crew and equipment of Richard Wilson of Hygiene, Colorado.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: threshers
Call Number 214-1-6
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 3 photographs (2 views).

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Agriculture
Agriculture: threshers
Call Number 214-1-7
Date [1938]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of threshing crew using modern and old fashioned equipment.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: tractors
Call Number 214-1-8
Date [1900-1909]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Photographs of early tractors at the turn of the century.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: tractors
Call Number 214-1-9
Date [1950-1959]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of tractors in fields.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: sugar beets as crops
Call Number 214-1-10
Date 1958
Contents 8 photographs.
Description Views of the sugar beet crop from planting to harvest.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: sugar beets as crops
Call Number 214-1-11
Date 1958
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Interior views of sugar beet processing inside the sugar beet factory.

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Agriculture
Agriculture: sugar beets as crops
Call Number 214-1-12
Date 1958
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of sugar beet farmers and their families.

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