Details
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 Church
Allenspark Church
Call Number 508-5-4
Date 1974-1992
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Three views of the Allenspark Church between 1974 and 1992.

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Allenspark Community Church stained glass windows
Allenspark Community Church stained glass windows
Call Number 508-5-5
Date 1977-1989
Contents 6 photographs (3 digitized).
Description Jay Grooter's stained glass windows at the Allenspark Community Church.

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Camp St. Malo
Camp St. Malo
Call Number 508-5-6
Date 1930-1960
Contents 8 photographs, 7 views (3 digitized).
Description Exterior views of the church property.

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Allenspark school students
Allenspark school students
Call Number 508-5-7a
Date 1910-1939
Contents 13 photographs, 10 views (6 digitized).
Description Photographs of the second of three Allenspark schoolhouses, located on the southeast corner of Ski Road and Second Avenue. It was moved a half block north in the 1940s to make way for the log schoolhouse that served until the school closed in 1964.

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Allenspark students in costume
Allenspark students in costume
Call Number 508-5-7b
Date 1910-1940
Contents 13 photographs, 5 digitized.
Description Thirteen snapshots of Allenspark school children wearing costumes, some of the children are identified. Juanita Sprowl, the teacher, is also in costume at back in Photo 2.

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Allenspark students inside the third schoolhouse
Allenspark students inside the third schoolhouse
Call Number 508-5-8
Date 1961
Contents 6 photographs, 2 views (1 digitized).
Description Two views of the same class of seventeen students and two teachers taken in the south classroom.

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Allenspark school exteriors
Allenspark school exteriors
Call Number 508-5-9
Date 1900-1960
Contents 14 photographs (5 views).
Description Views of the three Allenspark schoolhouse buildings.

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Bunce school
Bunce school
Call Number 508-5-10
Date 1895-1980
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Three views of the schoolhouse taken over many years.

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Allenspark school teachers
Allenspark school teachers
Call Number 508-5-11
Date 1904-1932
Contents 6 photographs (5 views).
Description Photographs of teachers Alice Douglas, Mary Catherine Moore, Eva and Newbern Miller, and Juanita Sprowl.

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Allenspark antique shops & general stores
Allenspark antique shops & general stores
Call Number 508-5-12
Date 1975
Contents 10 photographs.
Description Photographs of local business people taken for the 1976 Historical Open House organized by Mabel Downer Durning.

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Allenspark cafes and restaurants
Allenspark cafes and restaurants
Call Number 508-5-13
Date 1947-1975
Contents 7 photographs.
Description Views of places to eat in Allenspark.

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Allenspark Post Office
Allenspark Post Office
Call Number 508-5-14
Date 1930-1955
Contents 9 photographs (8 views).
Description Views of the Allenspark post office. It was located at the Crystal Springs Lodge in the late 1920s when Stella Morgan was postmaster. It moved across the street to the Morgan cabin briefly, then it was in the Jensen home after they built their new house in the 1940s (across the street north of the Allenspark Lodge).

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