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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: Van Vleet Arabian Horse Ranch near Nederland, Colorado

Call Number 511-4-16

Date [1951]

Contents 5 photographs (1 digitized).

Description Five undated photographs of the Van Fleet Arabian Horse Ranch (later Caribou Ranch) near Nederland, Colorado.

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: Theaters

Call Number 511-4-17

Date 1921-1939

Contents 2 photographs.

Description Two photographs of theater interiors in Boulder: the Curran Theater and Macky Auditorium.

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: Boulder (Colo.) historic buildings photographs [1965]

Call Number 511-4-18

Date [1965]

Contents 11 photographs.

Description Folder containing eleven deteriorating Polaroid photographs of buildings in downtown Boulder in the 1000, 1100, 1200, and 1300 blocks of Pearl Street, ca. 1965.

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: Boulder (Colo.) historic houses

Call Number 511-4-19

Date 1965

Contents 10 photographs.

Description Ten photographs of historic houses in Boulder, Colorado, probably taken in 1965.

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: Fire Department: firemen and equipment

Call Number 511-4-20

Date [1940-1969]

Contents 22 photographs (12 digitized)

Description This folder contains photographs of City of Boulder Fire Department firemen putting out fires and engaged in training exercises.

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: Municipal Building

Call Number 511-4-21

Date 1951-1970

Contents 22 photographs (6 digitized).

Description Twenty two photographs of the City of Boulder Municipal Building. Most of the views are very similar to Photo 2.

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: Bridges: Boulder Creek at 6th Street

Call Number 511-5-1

Date 1950-[1969]

Contents 9 photographs (6 digitized).

Description Undated photographs (estimated to have been taken during the 1950s-60s) of the bridge over Boulder Creek at 6th St.

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: Bridges: Boulder Creek at 9th Street

Call Number 511-5-2

Date 1926-[1959]

Contents 7 photographs.

Description Photographs of the bridge over Boulder Creek at 9th Street. Included are views of the old bridge, both before and after it collapsed in 1926, and of the bridge that succeeded it.

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: Bridges: Boulder Creek at Broadway Street

Call Number 511-5-3

Date 1921-[1979]

Contents 7 photographs.

Description This folder contains photographs of the bridge in the 1700 block of Broadway Street over Boulder Creek. Included are both the old bridge and the current one, as well as shots of Central Park.

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: Bridges: Boulder Creek at 17th Street

Call Number 511-5-4

Date 1920-1964

Contents 5 photographs.

Description This folder contains photographs of the bridge over Boulder Creek at 17th Street. Shown are the old bridge under construction in the 1920s, and damage to it in 1964.

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: Bridges: Boulder Creek at Folsom Street

Call Number 511-5-5

Date [1950-1969]

Contents 11 photographs, 10 views (7 digitized).

Description This folder contains photographs of the bridge over Boulder Creek on Folsom Street (formerly 24th St.) Included are both the old bridge and the current one.

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: Bridges: Boulder Creek at 30th Street

Call Number 511-5-6

Date 1960-1969

Contents 5 photographs.

Description This folder contains five undated photographs (probably taken in the 1960s) of the bridge over Boulder Creek at 30th Street. Snow covers the ground.

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