William Ray Collins collection 1900-1971 (bulk 1924-1969)

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Title: William Ray Collins collection 1900-1971 (bulk 1924-1969)
Date: 1900-1971
Call Number: BHS 355
Contents: 1 box (12 folders).
Description: This collection contains family correspondence, newspaper clippings concerning the Collins family and the history of Boulder, Colorado, and other printed materials collected by the Collins family.
Summary: Included is a 25 page printout of the Collins family genealogy taken from the Collins family bible donated by James R. Ward.
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: Correspondence.
Clippings.
Documents.
Author: Collins family.
Stokes, Pamela P.
Donor: Ward, James R.
Subjects: Collins, William Ray, 1888-1981
Collins, James, 1879-1948
Collins, Mary A. Willis, 1857-1934
Collins family
Pioneers--Colorado--Boulder--History
Obituaries--Colorado--Boulder
Acquisition Note: Donor: Pamela P. Stokes National State Bank, Boulder, CO. Gift 1981 Oct. 9 William Ray Collins estate
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

: A laurel leaf 1908

Call Number 355-1-1

Date 1908

Contents 6 p.

Description This folder contains a paper written by Mary Collins in 1908, in which she reminisced about Riley Haskins and his efforts to bring prohibition to Boulder in 1888.

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: James Collins correspondence 1923-1934 (bulk 1923-1924)

Call Number 355-1-2

Date 1923-1934

Contents 15 p.

Description This folder contains letters (most with poetry) that James Collins of New Orleans, Louisiana typed to his mother Mary Collins at Spruce St., Boulder, Colorado, between 1923 and 1934.

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: James Collins poems 1923-1927 (bulk 1924)

Call Number 355-1-3

Date 1923-1927

Contents 14 p.

Description This folder contains poetry that James Collins of New Orleans, Louisiana typed to his mother Mary Collins at 1814 Spruce St., Boulder, Colorado, between 1923 and 1927, and one to his brother Ray.

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: Mary Willis Collins correspondence 1930-1934

Call Number 355-1-4

Date 1930-1934

Contents 15 items.

Description This folder contains personal correspondence sent to Mary Collins.

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: Church programs 1916, 1927

Call Number 355-1-5

Date 1916-1927

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains two weekly church programs.

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: Radio Bible Class Monthly 1930 Feb. - 1931 May

Call Number 355-1-6

Date 1930-1931

Contents 15 issues (60 p.)

Description This folder contains 15 issues of the monthly newsletter of the Reverend William O. Rogers, teacher of the KOA Radio Bible Class. In the newsletters he answered listeners' questions regarding the Christian faith, and published weekly lessons based on Scripture passages. The four-page newsletter was discontinued soon after the death of the pastor's wife, who had managed the subscription service.

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: Clippings 1930-1971

Call Number 355-1-7

Date 1930-1971

Contents 2 p.

Description This folder contains photocopies of clippings from the Boulder Daily Camera including the obituary of Mary A. Collins (1934) and a notice about the W. Ray Collins' 48th wedding anniversary celebration.

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: Boulder (Colo.) history clippings 1934-1935

Call Number 355-1-8

Date 1934-1935

Contents 1 folder.

Description This folder contains archival photocopies of newspaper clippings from the Boulder Daily Camera, 1934-1935, regarding the history and development of public schools in Boulder, Colorado. Also, a clipping about the collision of a fire truck and a police car in Boulder during a windstorm on 18 March 1920.

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: Obituaries 1968-1969

Call Number 355-1-9

Date 1968-1969

Contents 1 p.

Description This folder contains a photocopy of several Boulder Daily Camera obituaries, 1968-1969.

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: Boulder Elks Membership list 1968 Feb. 8

Call Number 355-1-10

Date 1968

Contents 1 p.

Description The paper in this folder lists Boulder Elks members by their years of membership, and lists the names and birth dates of Elks members who were at least 80 years of age on 8 February 1968. The list was prepared for an Old Timers Night.

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: Boulder (Colo.) history scrapbook

Call Number 355-1-11

Date 1959-1973

Contents 1 v.

Description This folder contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, most of them from the Boulder Daily Camera and most undated, concerning the history and development of Boulder, Colorado. Other clippings in this volume, from the Denver Post et al., concern the history and development of Denver.

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: Poetry scrapbook [1900-1930]

Call Number 355-1-12

Date 1900-1930

Contents 1 v.

Description This folder contains a volume of poems, clipped from newspapers and other published sources, regarding a wide range of subjects.

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