Bob and Ella Travis collection.

[1930-1980]

496

5 boxes.

Photographs and documents collected by Carl Travis and his son, Charles R. Travis.

BOX 1 contains miscellaneous documents and photographs:
One folder contains items that were preserved by Bob (Charles R.) and Ella Travis, and which were originally used by his father, Carl R. Travis. These items are described below.
Photocopied pages from Jan.-Apr. 1940, Jan.-Apr. 1943, and Jan.-June 1945 Roster of Licensed Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Salesmen for the State of Colorado. Only the portion that pertains to Boulder County.
Abstract of the Assessment of Boulder County, Colorado and Tax Levies for 1942. A handout created by Aylwin A. Smith, Assessor of Boulder County.
Six editions (1 Dec. 1944, 1 Nov. 1945, 1 Dec. 1945, 15 Dec. 1945, 1 Jan. 1946 of the Boulder County Record, printed by the Boulder Credit Rating Association, Chas. W. V. Feigel, Secretary. They include: cases being heard in District Court and County Court (divorces), documents filed with the County Clerk (deeds, death certificates, army discharges, chattel mortgages, automobile titles, etc.).
1935 Boulder County Yearbook-Directory, published by the Business, Professional and Official People of Boulder County. Includes towns other than Boulder.
1940 Boulder Camera Business Directory. Lists businesses by types, city and county officials, and has a synopsis of what the county has to offer to visitors and citizens.
1940 Boulder County Rural Yearbook-Directory.
1947 Boulder County Directory published by the Rocky Mountain Directory Co.
Denver Post article, 28 November 1954, on Beautiful Boulder: "Boulder is having the greatest boom in its history. Its metropolitan population has jumped to an estimated 28,000 - almost double the 1940 level...."
Town & Country Shopper article, 5 October 1967: "Boulder County's 108 Year Old Cabin" - the Affolter log cabin south of Haystack Mountain.
Photographs of buildings on Arapahoe Avenue, east of 9th, before the West Boulder Senior Center was built.
BOXES 2 & 3 These boxes contain many glass plate negatives that are thought to have been purchased by Carl Travis from the Out West Photo Shop, and possibly taken by Ed Tangen. (They have been separated from #496 and added to the Glass Plate Negative Collection, #600-2 and #600-3.)
BOXES 4 & 5 contain photographs that were purchased by Carl Travis from the Out West Photo Shop, and others acquired by the Travis family.
A folder, 496-P10-3, contains four panorama photographs (3 views) by Tangen of Goose Lake and Silver Lake, and one photograph of the State Farm Security Administration supervisors and their wives in 1936. S. Earl Lumry was the second husband of Ellen R. Travis (mother of Carl Travis). Earl was the district supervisor for the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s.

Carl Travis arrived in Boulder in 1910, and was a real estate broker and appraiser in the Denver-Boulder area for 36 years, retiring in 1972. The Travis Real Estate Agency was located at 1771 Broadway Street.

RIGHTS: Materials in this collection may be used freely for any purpose, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder. 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.

Documents.
Photographs.
Clippings.

Tangen, Ed, 1873-1951
Travis, Charles R. 1940-

Travis, Ella M.

Affolter family
Fisher, Aileen, 1906-2002
Holman, Charles Henry, 1890-1958
Lumry, S. Earl, 1887-1959
Skipp, James Arthur, 1895-1966
United States., Farm Security Administration.
Real estate agents--Colorado--Boulder
900 block of Arapahoe Avenue (Boulder, Colo.)
Boulder County (Colo.)--Directories
Boulder (Colo.)--Population--Statistics
Ideal mill site--Grand Island Mining District
Goose Lake (Boulder County, Colo.)
Silver Lake (Boulder County, Colo.)
Tangen photo #F-2
Tangen photo #F-3
Tangen photo #54361

Bob and Ella Travis Collection

Donor: Ella Travis Gift 2012.