Details
Title

Albert Thomas Coleman family papers 1904-1944

Date

1904-1944

Call Number

BHS 276

Contents

1 box (9 folders).

Description

This collection contains a farm ledger, incoming business correspondence, business receipts, business cards and promissory notes relating primarily to Albert Thomas Coleman's activities as a farmer north of Boulder, Colorado. Also here are several World War II ration coupon books.

History

A. Dean Coleman served on the Boulder City Council during the 1930s.
Albert Thomas and Bessie D. Coleman came to Boulder in 1904 from Iowa. A farmer, Coleman raised berries on Airport Road just east of 26th Street; he also farmed the Stillwell place just west of the Diagonal on Jay Road and the McKenzie place directly north of Pleasant View School. He grew all sorts of berries, raised poultry and sold eggs in town, milked 60 cows and sold milk and cream to a dairy, raised hogs, beef, wheat, corn and feed hay.

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

Ledgers.
Correspondence.
Documents.

Author

Coleman, Albert Thomas 1870-1944

Donor

Coleman, Anna E.

Subjects

Coleman, Albert Dean, 1901-1973
Coleman, Albert Thomas, 1870-1944
Pleasant View School (Boulder County, Colo.)
School District No. 16 (Boulder County, Colo.)
Farm produce--Prices--Colorado--Boulder County
Agricultural prices--Colorado--Boulder County
Business records--Colorado--Boulder
Farmers--Colorado--Boulder County
Dairy farming--Colorado--Boulder County

Acquisition Note

Donor: Anna E. (Mrs. A. Dean) Coleman 2841 20th Street, Boulder, CO. Gift 1977

Note

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

Farm ledger 1904-1922
Farm ledger 1904-1922
Call Number 276-1-1
Date 1904-1922
Contents 1 folder.
Description Accounts for various customers, and types of produce sold with prices.

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Incoming business correspondence 1920-1922
Incoming business correspondence 1920-1922
Call Number 276-1-2
Date 1920-1922
Contents 1 folder.

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Coleman business receipts 1908-1922
Coleman business receipts 1908-1922
Call Number 276-1-3
Date 1908-1922
Contents 1 folder.
Description Contents: receipts from J. A. Nelson (for coal), the Racket grocery and Central Meat Market, McAllister Lumber & Supply Company, Gates Oil Company and the Texas Company, the Daily News- Herald, and Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph (Mountain Bell). This folder also contains a registered seed certificate.

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Promissory notes 1916-1921
Promissory notes 1916-1921
Call Number 276-1-4
Date 1916-1921
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains notes for loans made to M. C. and Alice G. Morrison, John Wallace, N. R. Lloyd, and Mack Andrew and Alvin Andrew. Manley Morrison was a policeman in 1918.

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Property tax notice 1917
Property tax notice 1917
Call Number 276-1-5
Date 1917
Contents 1 folder.

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Business cards
Business cards
Call Number 276-1-6
Date undated
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains business cards of Buchanan & Henry Auctioneers of Denver, Colo., Mount Hope Nurseries of Lawrence, Kan., Latimer the Implement Man of Shenandoah, Iowa, Manchester Assurance Company of Boulder, Colo. (a blotter), and "Dean" Coleman of the Colorado Game and Fish Department.

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Rheumatism linament formula
Rheumatism linament formula
Call Number 276-1-7
Date undated
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains a recipe for a rheumatism linament.

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War ration books 1942-1944
War ration books 1942-1944
Call Number 276-1-8
Date 1942-1944
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains war ration stamp books that belonged to Doris Dean Coleman, Anna E. Coleman and Albert D. Coleman.

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Land purchase receipt
Land purchase receipt
Call Number 276-1-9
Date 1908
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains a 1908 receipt for a first payment of $100 on 120 acres of land near Niwot, Colo., at S.E. 1/4 of N.E. 1/4 section 34, signed by E. D. Webb, agent for Louise P. Housel.

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