Colorado Chautauqua Association records 1898-1980 (bulk 1900-1959)

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Title: Colorado Chautauqua Association records 1898-1980 (bulk 1900-1959)
Date: 1898-1980
Call Number: BHS 282
Contents: 8 boxes.
Description: This collection contains minutes, ledger books, business correspondence, programs, bulletins, clippings and related materials of the Colorado Chautauqua Association, 1898-1980.
Summary: Box 1 contains brochures, journals, collectibles and other printed materials of the Association.
Box 2 contains bulletins and newsletters.
Box 3 contains programs and clippings.
Box 4 contains guest registers.
Box 6 contains minutes, primarily.
Box 7 contains correspondence and minutes.
Box 8 contains minutes.
Box O contains posters, certificates and other oversize items. (NOTE: This oversize box with four items, is in the Oversize area.)
Box 5 is not yet organized. It contains miscellaneous documents and clippings. State of Colorado Dept. of Game and Fish requirement to acquire a park license in order to keep two deer on the premises, dated 1903.
History: In 1898, a group of Texas school teachers established the Texas-Colorado Chautauqua Association in Boulder. The Colorado Chautauqua followed the pattern of the original Chautauqua founded in 1874 by Dr. John H. Vincent and Lewis Miller on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, New York. The Boulder assembly combined programs of popular education, entertainment and religious instruction with a system of home study courses in a relaxed summer school setting.
In 1900, the assembly was reorganized as the Colorado Chautauqua Association. Each summer a wide variety of lecturers, speakers and entertainers appeared at the Chautauqua. The Chautauqua summer school, which was organized into an academy, an institute and a lyceum, sought to meet the public's demand for popular education in a resort atmosphere.
Various groups made regular use of the Chautauqua for their assemblies. The headquarters of the Rocky Mountain Climbers Club was at the Chautauqua, and the club worked closely with the association.
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.
Correspondence.
Scrapbooks.
Clippings.
Author: Paddock, Laurence T. 1927-
Subjects: Rocky Mountain Climbers Club (Boulder, Colo.)
Colorado Chautauqua Association., Summer School.
Colorado Chautauqua Association.
Performing arts festivals--Colorado--Boulder
Summer schools--Colorado--Boulder
Hiking--Colorado--Boulder--Societies, etc
Mountaineering--Colorado--Boulder--Societies, etc
Trails--Colorado--Rocky Mountains
Orators--Colorado--Boulder--Biography
Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder
Lectures and lecturing--Colorado--Boulder
Acquisition Note: Donor: Laurence T. Paddock Boulder, CO. Gift 1981
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.
For related material see the Archives Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder Colordo Chautauqua Association collection.

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: Early history of the Colorado Chautauqua 1926

Call Number 282-1-1

Date 1926

Contents 18 p.

Description This folder contains the typescript for a series of articles on the beginnings of Boulder's Chautauqua, which appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera in July 1926. Editorial comments that appeared in the Camera during that period are also included.

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: Committee meetings notes 1900 June 14 and 26

Call Number 282-1-2

Date 1900

Contents 4 p.

Description This folder contains handwritten notes of two meetings of the directors and executive committee of the Texas-Colorado Chautauqua Association. The three pages of notes for 14 June 1900 are on the letterhead of the Boulder Public Schools, William V. Casey, superintendent. The page of notes of the meeting held on 26 June 1900 is on the letterhead of the Texas-Colorado Chautauqua Association. The notes contain practical comments regarding improvements to the grounds, etc.

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: Colorado Chautauqua Association, Financial statements 1922 July

Call Number 282-1-3

Date 1922

Contents 4 p.

Description This folder contains various financial statements of the Colorado Chautauqua Association. One is a comparison of annual cash receipts and expenditures from 1919 through 1922. Two others list the 1921-1922 season's receipts and expenditures. The fourth statement lists the dining hall's income and expenses for July 1922.

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: Colorado Chautauqua Association Minutes, etc. 1939-1957

Call Number 282-1-4

Date 1939-1957

Contents 17 p.

Description This folder contains a list of officers of the Colorado Chautauqua Association, carbon copies of minutes of meetings held between 1941 and 1943 and of a meeting on 11 April 1950, and several pieces of outgoing correspondence to A. A. "Gov." Paddock during 1946-1957.

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: Colorado Chautauqua Association Financial reports 1939-1959

Call Number 282-1-(5-6)

Date 1939-1959

Contents 2 folders.

Description These two folders contain annual financial reports of the Colorado Chautauqua Association. Those in the first folder are for 1939-1949; those in the second folder cover 1950-1959.

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: Colorado Chautauqua Association business correspondence 1901-1935

Call Number 282-1-(7-20)

Date 1901-1935

Contents 14 folders.

Description These fourteen folders contain bills, invoices, receipts and correspondence on letterhead, (most of it incoming) connected with the operation of the Colorado Chautauqua Association. F. A. Boggess was its secretary.

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: The Colorado Chautauqua and summer school brochure 1907

Call Number 282-1-21

Date 1907

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains two copies of the 12-page brochure describing the tenth annual Colorado Chautauqua and summer school, for six weeks starting 4 July 1907. The small brochure contains sketches and photos of the Chautauqua scene in Boulder.

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: Colorado Chautauqua Association letterheads 1907

Call Number 282-1-22

Date 1907

Contents 4 p.

Description This folder contains four copies of the top of the letterhead of the Colorado Chautauqua Association. Notes have been written or glued to the backs of the four items.

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: Colorado Chautauqua Climbers Club brochure

Call Number 282-1-23

Date 1911

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains two copies of the 8-page brochure describing the 1911 season of the Colorado Chautauqua Climbers Club, Boulder. The brochure contains a program for the summer's activities and describes mountain climbing and hikes near the Chautauqua. It is illustrated with photographs.

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: Colorado Chautauqua Climbers Club bulletin

Call Number 282-1-24

Date 1912

Contents 1 item.

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: Three attractive post-Chautauqua trips brochure, 1912

Call Number 282-1-25

Date 1912

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains two copies of the single-sheet brochure which lists the officers of the club and describes three trips scheduled for August 1912: an Arapaho trip, a four day tramp, and a twelve day tramp. The leaflet is illustrated with photographs.

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: Marie Gross certificate of credit for Colorado Chautauqua Summer School 1909

Call Number 282-1-26

Date 1909

Contents 1 item.

Description This folder contains a certificate that Marie Gross regularly attended the six-week session of the Colorado Chautauqua's summer school in 1909 and received six credits in public school drawing. The certificate is signed by her instructor and by the principal.

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