Harpel/Rugg postcard collection

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Title: Harpel/Rugg postcard collection
Date: 1920-1961
Call Number: 502
Contents: 1 box (56 postcards in 7 envelopes)
Description: This collection contains a postcard collection of rodeo cowboys and cowgirls collected by Rosamond Rugg Northrop from numerous people.
History: Rosamond Rugg Northrop rode in rodeos at Nederland and knew many cowboys and cowgirls. The history of many of these people can be found in the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and in the Rodeo Hall of Champions in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Terms of Use: 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.
Format: Postcards.
Photographs.
Author/Donor: Harpel/Rugg family.
Northrop, Rose Rugg
Harpel/Rugg family
Acquisition Note: Donor: Rose Northrop for the Harpel and Rugg families, 1989

: Rodeo cowboys: Bronco riding postcards

Call Number 502-1-1

Date 1920-1929

Contents 9 items.

Description Postcards of rodeo cowboys riding bucking broncos. Many of the cowboys and their mounts are identified. The rodeos were in Texas, New Mexico and Wyoming.

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: Rodeo cowboys: Bronco riding photographs 1953-1959

Call Number 502-1-2

Date 1953-1959

Contents 15 items.

Description Postcards of rodeo cowboys riding a famous bucking bronco named War Paint. The cowboys are identified. The rodeos were in Colorado, Oregon and California.

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: Rodeo cowboys: Bulldogging postcards

Call Number 502-1-3

Date 1920-1929

Contents 4 items.

Description Postcards of rodeo cowboys bulldogging. Some of the cowboys are identified. The identified rodeo is in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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: Rodeo cowboys: Wild steer riding postcards

Call Number 502-1-4

Date 1920-1929

Contents 2 items.

Description Postcards of rodeo cowboys riding wild steers. The cowboys, rodeo clowns, are identified.

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: Rodeo cowgirls postcards

Call Number 502-1-5

Date 1920-1929

Contents 12 items.

Description Postcards of rodeo cowgirls riding bucking broncos and wild steers, roping cattle, and doing trick riding. The cowgirls are identified.

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: Rodeo cowboys: Leonard Stroud postcards

Call Number 502-1-6

Date 1920-1929

Contents 11 items (2 digitized).

Description Postcards of Leonard Stroud, a rodeo cowboy. He is shown doing trick riding and trick roping, riding a bucking bronco, and posed with members of his group.

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: Rodeo cowboy saddles postcards [196-]

Call Number 502-1-7

Date [1960-1969]

Contents 3 items (1 digitized).

Description Postcards of hand-tooled western saddles, one of them made as a prize for "All Around Cowboy 1961 C.U. Buffalo Stampede."

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