A. A. Paddock collection

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Title: A. A. Paddock collection: City and County Government
Date: [1872]-1963
Call Number: BHS 226
Contents: 14 boxes.
Description: This collection is a photographic record of Boulder's City and County Government contained in 14 boxes. Only Box 1 (early fire department) is fully arranged and cataloged. The remaining boxes contain images of the City Council, elections, municipal court, bootlegging, crime, later fires and fire department, Parks and Recreation Department, Police and crime, utilities, reservoirs, Boulder County Fair (1929-1979), Assessor, Clerk Commissioners, Roads, Social Services, and Treasurer.
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
Municipal government--Colorado--Boulder
Boulder County (Colo.)--Officials and employees
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.

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: A.J. Macky Hose Company No. 2

Call Number 226-1-10

Date [1898]

Contents 2 photographs (1 view)

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: First fire engine horse team Rock and Joe

Call Number 226-1-11

Date [1898-1899]

Contents 1 photograph.

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: Boulder Fire Department: Fire Station No. 1

Call Number 226-1-12

Date [1899]

Contents 6 photographs (1 view)

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: Boulder Fire Department: horse-drawn fire wagon

Call Number 226-1-13

Date 1899

Contents 6 photographs (1 view).

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: Boulder Fire Department: Fire Station No. 1

Call Number 226-1-14

Date [1899-1901]

Contents 1 photograph.

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: Boulder Fire Department: fire wagon

Call Number 226-1-15

Date [1902-1904]

Contents 2 photographs (1 view)

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: Boulder Fire Department: Fire Station No. 1

Call Number 226-1-16

Date 1904

Contents 3 photographs (1 view)

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: Horse team Nip and Tuck

Call Number 226-1-17

Date [1906-1907]

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Views of the Boulder Fire Department Fire Station No. 1 horse team of Nip and Tuck. One view shows the horses having their heads held at the entrance to the fire house by Dan Schaeffer, Ed Miller and Tom Danford; the other shows the horses with men on their backs.

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: Boulder Fire Department: firemen

Call Number 226-1-18

Date [1900-1913]

Contents 3 photographs.

Description Formal and informal photos of firemen between 1900 and 1913. The dog may be "Duke."

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: Boulder Fire Department: Fire Station No. 1

Call Number 226-1-19

Date 1906

Contents 1 photograph.

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: Boulder Fire Department: Fire Station No. 1

Call Number 226-1-20

Date 1908

Contents 2 photographs (1 view)

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: Boulder Fire Department: Fire Station No. 1

Call Number 226-1-21

Date [1911-1913]

Contents 4 photographs (2 views).

Description View of the interior of Boulder Fire Department Fire Station No. 1 at 1038 Pearl Street, showing horses in their stalls and fire wagon ready to be hitched. Also the horse-drawn fire wagon in front of the fire house, in the snow, ca. 1911-1913.

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