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Title

A. A. Paddock collection: railroads

Date

[1870-1979]

Call Number

BHS 218

Contents

626 photographs, in five boxes.

Description

This collection is a photographic record of the Switzerland Trail of America, later called the Colorado and Northern Railroad. Photographs show the stages on the route, depots at mountain stations, locomotives and rolling stock. There are also photographs of other railroads in Colorado, including the Moffat Road and Moffat Tunnel.

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.
1927-2016

Subjects

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

Colorado & Southern depot
Colorado & Southern depot
Call Number 218-1-25
Date [1910-1959]
Contents 4 photographs (3 views).
Description A view of the interior of the freight depot, 1910s; and a view of the exterior of the freight depot, 1950s.

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Colorado & Southern depot
Colorado & Southern depot: freight cars
Call Number 218-1-26
Date [1930-1939]
Contents 1 photograph.

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Colorado & Southern depot
Colorado & Southern depot: demolition
Call Number 218-1-27
Date 1963
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Views of the demolition of the Colorado & Southern freight depot.

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Schaefer-Humpal building
Schaefer-Humpal building: demolition
Call Number 218-1-28
Date 1958
Contents 2 photographs (1 view).

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Colorado and Northwestern Railroad Co. office
Colorado and Northwestern Railroad Co. office
Call Number 218-1-29
Date [1904-1908]
Contents 1 photograph.

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Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks: Yount Mill
Call Number 218-2-1
Date [1898-1904]
Contents 5 photographs (2 views).
Description View looking north towards the Red Rocks, with the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium in the distance, and close up is Yount Mill, the Brierley farm, Red Rock Home and Marshall Gold Extraction Works, with freight cars sitting on the tracks of the Colorado and Northwestern Railroad; and a view looking east from the mouth of Boulder Canyon with the railroad spur running to Yount Mill, Red Rock Home at 101 Pearl in the foreground, with another farmhouse behind it.

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Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks: looking east from the mouth of Boulder Canyon
Call Number 218-2-2
Date [1898-1904]
Contents 4 photographs (2 views).
Description View looking east from the mouth of Boulder Canyon with a railroad bridge in the foreground and Yount Mill in the middle distance left, with Weist Mill in front of it and Farmers' Ditch flowing on one side of the tracks, Boulder Creek on the other; and a view looking east with a locomotive steaming up toward Boulder Canyon in the middle distance and Yount Mill, with Atlas and Delano Mill behind it, and Red Rock home at 101 Pearl Street at left.

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Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks: toll gate on Boulder Canyon wagon road
Call Number 218-2-3
Date [1898-1904]
Contents 5 photographs (4 views)
Description Views of track in the mouth of Boulder Canyon, with the wagon road toll house and Silver Lake Ditch visible.

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Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks: Mouth of Boulder Canyon
Call Number 218-2-4
Date 1892
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Boulder and the plains looking east from up Boulder Canyon; Silver Lake Ditch on left.

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Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks: Canon Park in Boulder Canyon
Call Number 218-2-5
Date [1890-1909]
Contents 10 photographs (6 views).
Description Views showing the dirt wagon road on the south side of Boulder Canyon and the railroad tracks on the north side. One view shows a freight wagon going up the canyon; another view shows a train going up the canyon.

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Railroad cars and tracks
Railroad cars and tracks: in Boulder Canyon
Call Number 218-2-6
Date [1883-1909]
Contents 5 photographs.
Description Views showing the dirt wagon road on the south side of Boulder Canyon and the railroad tracks on the north side. Two views show trains going up the canyon.

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Railroad tracks
Railroad tracks: Goat Rock in Boulder Canyon
Call Number 218-2-7
Date [1890-1899]
Contents 6 photographs (4 views).
Description Views of track running beside Boulder Creek in Boulder Canyon at the spot called Goat Rock. Maxwell and Oliver flume is visible along the cliff face and going through a tunnel in Goat Rock.

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