Allenspark photograph collection

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Title: Allenspark photograph collection
Date: 1900-1940
Call Number: 508
Contents: 6 boxes.
Description: This collection, gathered and donated by Mabel Downer Durning, the Allenspark Business Association (A.B.A.), and other donors, consists of six boxes of historical photographs of Allenspark pioneer families, businesses, buildings, and mines; and four posters with photographs and newspaper clippings about the Allenspark Historical Collection.
Summary: Box 1 - McCollister and Tripp photograph collections.
Box 2 - Allenspark people.
Box 3 - Allenspark people, groups, and recreation.
Box 4 - Views of Allenspark area.
Box 5 - Churches, schools, and businesses.
Box 6 - Allenspark Collection contact sheets.
History: Mabel Downer Durning is a descendant of Chicago Colony (Longmont) pioneers. Members of the Downer family have lived in Longmont and spent summers in the Allenspark area since 1872.
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.
Donor: Durning, Mabel Downer
DeWeese, Edie
Estey, Janice
Travis, Clara Belle Tripp
Subjects: Pioneers--Colorado--Allenspark
Business enterprises--Colorado--Allenspark
Gold mines and mining--Colorado--Allenspark
Allenspark (Colo.)
Acquisition Note: Sixty-one digital-only images of the Rock Creek Ski Area and Allenspark locations and families were scanned and donated by Edie DeWeese with the permission of the photo owner, Bruce Baker, in April 2010. These images are part of the Allenspark Photograph Collection and are included in the Virtual Photograph Collection, 999-41. Eleven photographs documenting a trip through South St. Vrain Canyon from Lyons to the Clara Belle Mill, call no. 508-1-8, were donated by Janice Estey on behalf of Clara Bell Tripp Travis on 13 February 2017.
Ownership Note: Mabel Downer Durning began collecting these materials while writing "Historical Reminiscing in the Allenspark Area", published in 1975. Interest generated by her research led to additional material being collected, which was subsequently displayed at a Pioneer Day celebration held in Allenspark in 1976. Photos from "Weaving Mountain Memories," by Lorna Knowlton are also included. Materials continue to be gathered and added to this collection.

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: Allenspark negatives: Contact sheet 6

Call Number 508-6-6

Contents 36 photographs (18 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet contains views of Allenspark, George Mack homestead cabin, Stella Morgan, Grace Day, Oscar Rubendall and family, Gladys Vanatta, Longs Peak shelter house, Clara Belle flume pond. second Allenspark school with Andy Hansen, Alice Jordan, and Vera Rubendall.

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: Allenspark negatives: Contact sheet 7

Call Number 508-6-7

Contents 36 photographs (19 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet has views of Gladys Vanatta, Rubendall garden, Lenny Bird, Trail Ridge road, Allenspark school children, second Allenspark school, Mary Catherine Moore, Rubendall family, sewing group that became Hilltop Guild at Rubendall house, Andy Hansen, Mary Hansen Morse, Margaret and Oscar Rubendall, George Mack cabin, Vera Rubendall, Bishop's yellow tin house, George Robinson.

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: Allenspark negatives, Contact sheet 8

Call Number 508-6-8

Contents 36 photographs (18 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet has views of Haugen Slide ski jump, Rubendall home and garden, McCollister's camp ground, donkey and tent rentals, Jennie Jensen, Lillian McCollister, Cora Bishop, Wild Basin (Copeland Lake) Lodge, Oscar Rubendall and steam saw.

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: Allenspark negatives: Contact sheet 9

Call Number 508-6-9

Contents 36 photographs (18 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet has views of Ed Downing at Copeland Lake (Wild Basin) Lodge, Chick and Jennie Jensen, Margaret and Oscar Rubendall. Logging on the "Pole Patch", haying, Rubendall homestead/Fox Creek ranch, Trail Ridge road. William Rubendall and family, Vera Rubendall, Cora Bishop, Vanatta and Dannels families at Ferncliff. Allenspark snowstorm of April 21, 1921. Stella Morgan and her children, Thelma, Edna, and Don.

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: Allenspark negatives: Contact sheet 10

Call Number 508-6-10

Contents 34 photographs (17 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet has views of Crystal Springs bridge, 1957. Parks' burro rental and Mrs. Ida Parks. Hobe Skinner, Mabel Bennet (Durning), Becky Bennet, Trudy Harden, Mary Hansen (DeWeese, Baker), Mary Kesner, Vera Rubendall. Allenspark school, Allenspark church, Jensen's home/post office. Picnic with Martha and Ruth Shaler. Rubendall home in Lyons.

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: Allenspark negatives: Contact sheet 11

Call Number 508-6-11

Contents 32 photographs (19 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet has views of Martha Logsdon, Edith and Andy Hansen wedding with Peggy Morgan, Mary, Frank, and Lillian Gay, 1920. George Pheifer, Agnes and Alice Graham and their cabin "Jayhawk". Allenspark, Bear Lake, Peaceful Valley, Boulder Canyon, Longs Peak, Post Hill (on road to Allenspark), Meadow Mountain.

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: Allenspark negatives: Contact sheet 12

Call Number 508-6-12

Contents 36 photographs (18 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet has views of South St. Vrain canyon road construction, Elephant rock, Riverside/Raymond cabins, John Roberts cabin, Peaceful Valley. Cora Bishop in front of C.K. Hirschfeld's store. G.B. Stanley homestead cabin. Allenspark.

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: Allenspark negatives: Contact sheet 13

Call Number 508-6-13

Contents 24 photographs (10 views).

Description All of these images should be cataloged in 508 Boxes 1-5. This contact sheet has views of Longs Peak Inn, South St. Vrain Canyon, Smoky Bear (Yogi Bear) rock formation, George Mack cabin, Mary Moore (Wilson) cabin, Spangler cabin. George Pheifer, Alice Douglas, Henry Slaughter, Peggy Morgan and Mary Gay with Edith Gay and Alan Wilson at Arapaho cabin.

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: Allenspark Collection Documentation

Call Number 508-6-14

Contents 10 photographs.

Description Color photographs of the packaged Allenspark Collection as it was received by the Carnegie Library for Local History.

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: "Weaving Mountain Memories" photo collection

Call Number 508-6-15

Contents 41 photographs.

Description Photographs collected for use in the book, "Weaving Mountain Memories," Lorna Knowlton's 1989 edition. Most are duplicates of images found in the ABA display boards.

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: "Weaving Mountain Memories" negatives and contact sheets

Call Number 508-6-16

Contents 60 negatives (4 contact sheets).

Description Contact sheets and negatives of photographs collected for use in the book, "Weaving Mountain Memories," Lorna Knowlton's 1989 edition. Most are duplicates of images found in the ABA display boards.

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: Allenspark negatives

Call Number 508-6-17

Date 1930-1970

Contents 109 unprinted negatives, 1 drawing.

Description Negatives: Images from Augusta Mengedoht of various places around Allenspark and two of the Street family. Drawing: Sketch on the back of negatives envelope mapping locations of Fawn Brook Inn buildings, road, and Crystal Springs.

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