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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: Boulder (Colo.) buildings

Call Number 511-4-4

Date [1965-1979]

Contents 10 photographs, 9 views (9 digitized).

Description This folder contains photographs of buildings in and around the area of Boulder, Colorado.

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: Boulder, Colorado historic buildings

Call Number 511-4-5

Date [1965]

Contents 10 photographs.

Description This folder contains Polaroid photographs of historic houses, schools and churches, and public buildings in Boulder, Colo. Undated, estimated to have been taken circa 1965.

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: Fire Department: Stations and engines. photographs, [1940-1970]

Call Number 511-4-6

Date [1940-1970]

Contents 23 photographs, 21 views (8 digitized).

Description Photographs of City of Boulder Fire Department stations and fire engines.

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: Health Department photographs [1950-1969]

Call Number 511-4-7

Date [1950-1969]

Contents 14 photographs, 12 views (9 digitized).

Description Photographs of City of Boulder Health Department activities, including the Crippled Children's Clinic, Visiting Nurses Program, health inspections of business, and a Family Survival Kit distributed through the Boulder County-City Civil Defense Agency.

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: Police Department

Call Number 511-4-8

Date [1929-1969]

Contents 22 photographs, 19 views (19 digitized).

Description Photographs of City of Boulder Police Department, including police officers in the performance of their duties, police headquarters showing personnel and equipment, and early police cars.

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: General municipal election, 1963 Nov. 5

Call Number 511-4-9

Date 1963

Contents 60 photographs (15 digitized).

Description Photographs of City of Boulder municipal buildings, properties, roads, and projects in need of improvement. Photos were taken before the general municipal election of 5 Nov. 1963, in which voters were asked to increase the city sales tax.

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: General municipal election, 1967 Nov. 7

Call Number 511-4-10

Date 1967

Contents 28 photographs (11 digitized).

Description Photographs of City of Boulder scenic areas, traffic congestion, and information designed to encourage voters to vote for a sales tax to purchase greenbelt land and improve major throughfares in the general municipal election of 7 Nov. 1967.

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: Sewer bond issue election, 1965 July 20 photographs 1965

Call Number 511-4-11

Date 1965

Contents 2 photographs.

Description This folder contains photographs of City of Boulder information designed to encourage voters to vote for a sewer bond issue to improve service on 20 July 1965.

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: Water bond and refuse issues, 1966 Apr. 4 photographs 1966

Call Number 511-4-12

Date 1966

Contents 20 photographs (4 digitized).

Description Photographs of City of Boulder signs designed to encourage voters to vote for a water bond issue to improve service on 4 April 1966, plus photographs of signs promoting a change from backyard incinerators to city wide refuse collection.

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: Floods photographs 1962-1966

Call Number 511-4-13

Date 1962-1966

Contents 16 photographs.

Description Sixteen Polaroid photographic images of flooded areas in North Boulder, 1 September 1966.

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: Flood in May 1969

Call Number 511-4-14

Date 1969

Contents 105 photographs (10 digitized).

Description This folder contains photographs, including fifteen aerial views, of a flood in Boulder in May of 1969. Many aerial images were taken by the Boulder Police Department.

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: Miscellaneous photographs 1909-1944

Call Number 511-4-15

Date 1909-1944

Contents 7 photographs (5 digitized)

Description Seven photographs of miscellaneous activities in and around Boulder, plus one photo of the U.S.S. Boulder Victory ship in drydock, apparently just prior to launching, during World War II.

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