Boulder Chamber of Commerce photograph collection

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Title: Boulder Chamber of Commerce photograph collection
Date: [1930-1979]
Call Number: 504
Contents: 8 boxes (2,120 photographs).
Description: Photographs of activities and events sponsored by the Boulder Chamber of Commerce, including the annual Arapaho Glacier hike, Christmas festivities, 4th of July fireworks, Pow Wow, Boulder's centennial, new industries, and the building of the Denver-Boulder turnpike. Box 8 contains photographs that were found loose in the 1938-1972 scrapbooks and a collection of 1952-1970 membership cards with images of Boulder. There are also two 1954 oversize photographs.
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: Photographs.
Subjects: Boulder Chamber of Commerce--Photograph collections

Pages

: Denver Boulder Turnpike: last cars paying toll, ceremony, 14 Sept. 1967

Call Number 504-5-2g

Date 1967

Contents 16 photographs (6 digitized).

Description Photographs of the celebration of the last day of paying tolls at the Denver Boulder Turnpike tollgate. There are also photographs taken at the Harvest House luncheon celebrating the event which include a rear-side view of Roderick L. Downing, "Father of the Turnpike", getting a plaque from Chamber of Commerce President Guy A. Hollenbeck.

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: Boulder Valley Grange meeting photographs [1950-1959]

Call Number 504-5-3

Date [1950-1959]

Contents 10 photographs (9 views).

Description Photographs of a meeting of the Boulder Valley Grange, held out of doors. Includes groups of people sitting on benches or standing in front of the grange building.

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: Boulder Pow Wow rodeo photographs [194-]-[195-]

Call Number 504-5-4

Date 1940-1959

Contents 20 photographs (4 digitized).

Description Photographs of the Boulder Pow Wow rodeo events, including calf roping, steer restling, bronco riding and brahma bull riding; buffalo riding by a rodeo clown; and a view of the Pow Wow grounds and bleachers.

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: Boulder County aerial photographs

Call Number 504-5-5

Date [1950-1960]

Contents 13 photographs (10 views)

Description Undated aerial views of Eldorado Springs, Longmont, Ward, and over Arapahoe and 28th streets in Boulder.

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: Made in Boulder

Call Number 504-5-6

Date 1948-[1970]

Contents 15 photographs (14 views).

Description Photographs of manufacturing businesses and products made in Boulder.

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: Joint Commission on High Altitude Research: picnic photographs 1953 Aug. 24

Call Number 504-5-7

Date 1953

Contents 6 photographs (2 digitized).

Description Photographs taken at the Half Way House on Flagstaff Mountain of a picnic given for the members of the Joint Commission on High Altutude Research, 24 Aug. 1953. The people serving the food are wearing jackets that have "Arapaho Glacier Crew" embroidered on the back.

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: Henry Padilla: Korean prisoner of war photographs 1953 Oct. 10

Call Number 504-5-8

Date 1953

Contents 5 photographs.

Description Photographs of Pfc. Henry Padilla returning to Boulder after two years in a North Korean prison camp, 10 Oct. 1953. He is shown getting off a United Air Lines flight, with family and friends, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and being interviewed on KBOL.

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: Chamber of Commerce bus tours

Call Number 504-5-9

Date 1954-[1960]

Contents 5 photographs (4 digitized).

Description Photographs of tour buses and participants in the 1950s.

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: University of Colorado, Boulder: aerial views

Call Number 504-5-10a

Date [1935-1970]

Contents 8 photographs (6 views).

Description Aerial views of campus.

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: University of Colorado, Boulder: Folsom Stadium

Call Number 504-5-10b

Date undated

Contents 15 photographs.

Description Undated photographs of Folsom Stadium at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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: University of Colorado, Boulder: campus buildings E-H

Call Number 504-5-10c

Date undated

Contents 4 photographs.

Description Undated views of University of Colorado buildings.

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: University of Colorado, Boulder: campus buildings K-M

Call Number 504-5-10d

Date undated

Contents 7 photographs.

Description Photographs of the University of Colorado Boulder campus, including individual buildings.

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