Bluebird Club collection.

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Title: Bluebird Club collection.
Date: [1922-1964]
Call Number: BHS 264
Contents: 1 box. (30 folders).
Description: This collection contains newspaper clippings, as well as two scrapbooks of clippings and photographs, a rough draft of a speech acknowledging the unveiling of a portrait of Mrs. Jean B. Sherwood, promotional pamphlets and railroad schedules pertaining to Blue Bird Cottage, correspondence to and from Mrs. Sherwood, Blue Bird Club Bulletins 1931-1954, rough drafts of news releases in the 1930s, and the club's 1964 membership cards.
History: The Bluebird Cottage was established in Boulder in 1911 by Mrs. Jean B. Sherwood of Chicago. The Cottage was established as a vacation resort/retreat for single professional women from the Chicago area. Mrs. Sherwood was quite active with the Colorado Chautauqua Association and was viewed by many as a cultural leader in Boulder.
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: Documents.
Photographs.
Donor: Bluebird Club (Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects: Bluebird Club (Chicago, Ill.)
Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.)
Bluebird Lodge (Gold Hill, Colo.)
Holiday House Association of Chicago.
Railroad passenger cars.
Sherwood, Jean B, 1846-1938.
1215 Baseline Road (Boulder, Colo.)
1200 block of Baseline Road (Boulder, Colo.)
Women--Societies and clubs.
Collection: Bluebird Club collection.

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: Clippings (bulk 1911-1949)

Call Number 264-1-(1-7)

Contents 7 folders.

Description Contains clippings, mostly from the Boulder Daily Camera, and three index cards from that newspaper's morgue file, documenting the history of the Blue Bird Club. Many of the earlier clippings (1908-1931) are archival photocopies from the two Jean Sherwood scrapbooks (264-1-8 and 264-1-9)

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: Bluebird Cottage scrapbook

Call Number 264-1-8

Date 1908-1934

Description Contains correspondence, clippings and other papers regarding the establishment and continued operation of the Blue Bird Cottage in Boulder. The pages of the scrapbook are brittle.

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: Bluebird Club scrapbook

Call Number 264-1-9

Contents 1 v.

Description Contains photographs from the first summer of the Blue Bird Cottage showing the interior and exterior of the house in 1911, and various clippings, incoming correspondence and other papers regarding the Blue Bird Club that Mrs. Sherwood collected. The latter part of the scrapbook contains papers concerning fund-raising activities of the Altrua Lend a Hand Circle of which Mrs. Sherwood was the president, ca. 1908. Clippings, songs, letters, telegrams, poems, and other printed materials are included.

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: Response at the unveiling of the portrait of Jean B. Sherwood

Call Number 264-1-10

Date 1929

Contents 15 p.

Description Typed text, with hand written corrections, of Professor Boggess' speech accepting the portrait of Jean Sherwood that was unveiled in the art gallery of the University of Colorado, Boulder. He paid tribute to Mrs. Sherwood for her love of beauty and her wholesome influence on the Boulder community.

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: Bluebird Cottage and Bluebird Lodge brochures

Call Number 264-1-11

Date 1911-[1939]

Contents 2 items.

Description The Burlington Railroad produced these 16-page brochures to publicize the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. Both are amply illustrated with photographs, and contain train fares and schedules.

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: Bluebird Cottage, Boulder, Colorado: where dreams come true

Call Number 264-1-12

Date [1929]

Contents 1 item.

Description The Rock Island railroad produced this fold-out brochure to advertise its train service to the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. It contains three photos, and such information as train fares and schedules. Probably late 20s or early 30s.

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: Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.)

Call Number 264-1-13

Date 1931

Contents 1 item.

Description The railroad issued this fold-out brochure to publicize its service to the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. It contains five photos, train schedules and fares, and other information for the tourist.

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: Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.) and Bluebird Lodge (Gold Hill, Colo.) brochures

Call Number 264-1-14

Date [1930-1939]

Contents 2 items.

Description These two 8-page brochures describe the vacation possibilities of the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. Each is amply illustrated with photographs and contains helpful information for the traveller.

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: Bluebird Cottage and Bluebird Lodge circulars

Call Number 264-1-15

Date 1911-[1939]

Contents 12 leaves.

Description These are various printings of a one-page circular titled, Vacation in the Rocky Mountains, which briefly describing the Blue Bird Cottage and the Blue Bird Lodge, which were the Holiday House Association's two retreats for self- supporting women of Chicago who would desire to vacation in Colorado.

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: Bluebird Club monthly bulletins

Call Number 264-1-(16-24)

Date 1930-1954

Contents 9 folders (34 items)

Description These are various issues of the Blue Bird Club's monthly newsletter. Except for the 12-page twentieth anniversary bulletin of October 1930 (2 copies), the bulletin was four pages in length.

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: Jean Sherwood's correspondence

Call Number 264-1-25

Contents 15 items.

Description Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Jean Sherwood, some typewritten and some manuscript. One describes a portrait of her by Ralph Clarkson. Most of Mrs. Sherwood's outgoing letters in this folder are to A. A. "Gov." Paddock.

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: Eulogy for Jane Addams

Call Number 264-1-26

Contents 4 p.

Description Hand written eulogy in memory of Jane Addams, by Jean Sherwood.

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