Central Files collection

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Title: Central Files collection
Date: 1915-1970
Call Number: 511
Description: This collection contains photographs dealing with various aspects of Boulder city government. Included are aerial photographs of parts of town, and functions of various departments, such as water, parks and recreation, fire, police, and streets, and bond issue election information. Also the flood and wind storm of 1968.
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.
Acquisition Note: Donor: Boulder (Colo.) Finance Department Gift 1989
Ownership Note: These photographs have been collected and compiled in the Central Files of the Finance Department of the city of Boulder, covering the years 1915-1970.

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: Water supply: pipeline construction photographs, [194?-196-]

Call Number 511-2-2

Date [1940-1969]

Contents 101 photographs (10 digitized).

Description Photographs of water pipelines being laid in the mountains and in town. Views show construction, equipment and crews. Pipelines bring water to Boulder from Arapaho Glacier, mountain reservoirs, and water treatment plants. Ten of the views were selected for scanning.

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: Water supply: Service Area Concept diagrams [195-]- [196-]

Call Number 511-2-3

Date [1950-1969]

Contents 13 photographs (5 digitized).

Description Photographs of illustrations of the service area concept of water use.

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: Water supply: Albion Lake photographs 1910-[196-] (Bulk 1950-196-)

Call Number 511-2-4

Date 1910-[1969]

Contents 32 photographs (8 digitized).

Description Photographs of Albion Lake, Albion Creek, and the surrounding area.

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: Water supply: Boulder Reservoir photographs [1950-1959]

Call Number 511-2-5

Date [1950-1959]

Contents 16 photographs, 15 views (10 digitized).

Description Photographs of Boulder Reservoir and the area aroung the reservoir, showing construction equipment at work, excavations for North Dam and South Dam, outlet canals, and vacant land of H. Fullen and (?) Lynch to become part of the reservoir.

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: Water supply: Barker Reservoir photographs 1910-1949

Call Number 511-2-6

Date 1910-1949

Contents 4 photographs.

Description Photographs of Barker Reservoir: three show high winds on the water in 1949, one shows a bucket of concrete on overhead wires during construction in 1910.

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: Water supply: Chautauqua and Kohler Reservoirs photographs 1950-1959

Call Number 511-2-7

Date 1950-1959

Contents 31 photographs (5 digitized).

Description Photographs of Chautauqua and Kohler Reservoirs, including cleaning and repair work being done on them.

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: Water supply: Goose Lake photographs 1955-1958

Call Number 511-2-8

Date 1955-1958

Contents 55 photographs (10 digitized).

Description Photographs of Goose Lake and dam, primarily before and after shots of repair work. Arapaho Glacier can be seen in three of the shots.

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: Water supply: Green Lake photographs 1955-1958

Call Number 511-2-9

Date 1955-1958

Contents 19 photographs, 18 views (5 digitized).

Description Photographs of Green Lake and dam, and the road into it.

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: Water supply: Lakewood Reservoir photographs 1957-1959

Call Number 511-2-10

Date 1957-1959

Contents 22 photographs (8 digitized).

Description Photographs of Lakewood Reservoir, near Nederland, Colorado, including shots of the chlorine house and the caretaker's cabin, in winter and summer, 1957-1959; and eight photographs of the reservoir drained for cleaning, no date.

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: Water supply: Silver Lake photographs 1938-1959

Call Number 511-2-11

Date 1838-1959

Contents 44 photographs (10 digitized).

Description Photographs of Silver Lake (some showing the mountain backdrop and Arapaho Glacier), the caretaker's cabin and bunk house, work crews, and equipment.

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: Water supply: Silver Lake Creek weir photographs 1950-1958

Call Number 511-2-12

Date 1950-1958

Contents 24 photographs (11 scanned).

Description Photographs of Silver Lake weirs under construction in Silver Lake Creek, below Silver Lake Dam.

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: Water supply: Watershed photographs [195-]

Call Number 511-2-13

Date [1950-1959]

Contents 8 photographs (4 digitized).

Description Photographs of the City of Boulder watershed, including city crews using snow shoes and Weisel snow caterpillars to get in during the winter, and a structure on Betasso Ranch.

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