Details
Title

A. T. Wheeler photograph collection

Date

1885-[1939]

Call Number

513

Contents

2 boxes (304 photographs in 30 folders).

Description

This collection contains photographs of the Wheeler family. It includes the Samuel R. Wheeler family, the Alfred T. Wheeler family, and in-laws. They encompass portraits and group photographs, and were taken on family occasions, on outings in the mountains, and while living as caretaker of Boulder's watershed. Historical photographs include the flood of 1894, and Alfred T. Wheeler's service in the Colorado National Guard during miners' strikes in Cripple Creek and Telluride.
Samuel R. Wheeler was the organizer and first pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Boulder. He served in that position from 1893 to 1903.
Alfred T. Wheeler was the son of Samuel R. Wheeler. He was caretaker of the Boulder watershed.

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.

Author/Donor

Wheeler, Alfred T., 1868-1938
Lederer, Rena Beth Wheeler, 1906-, Donor

Subjects

Wheeler family
Van Horn family
Lederer family
Colorado. National Guard. 1st Squadron Cavalry. Troop D.
Seventh Day Baptist Church (Boulder, Colo.)
Strikes and lockouts--Miners--Colorado
Mountains--Colorado
Floods--Colorado--Boulder
Rocky Mountains--Pictorial works
Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Telluride (Colo.)
Boulder (Colo.)--Pictorial works

Acquisition Note

Donor: Rena Beth Wheeler Lederer Gift 1988

Local Note

There are many glass plate negatives stored in the "Negatives Room" on the mezzanine.

Pages

A.T. Wheeler family in the mountains photographs 1905-1921
A.T. Wheeler family in the mountains photographs 1905-1921
Call Number 513-1-13
Date 1905-1921
Contents 7 photographs.
Description Photographs of members of the Alfred T. Wheeler family outdoors on Flagstaff Mountain and elsewhere in the mountains.

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A.T. Wheeler family and relatives in the mountains
A.T. Wheeler family and relatives in the mountains
Call Number 513-1-14
Date 1890-1904
Contents 12 photographs, 10 views (9 digitized).
Description Photographs of members of the Alfred T. Wheeler family and relatives outdoors on Flagstaff Mountain and elsewhere in the mountains.

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Berrying in the mountains photographs 1905
Berrying in the mountains photographs 1905
Call Number 513-1-15
Date 1905
Contents 2 photographs, 1 view (1 digitized).
Description Members of the Van Horn family on a berrying trip in the mountains. (l-r): Myrtle, Anna, and Lillian Irene.

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Tent camping in the mountains photographs 1890-1905
Tent camping in the mountains photographs 1890-1905
Call Number 513-1-16
Date 1890-1905
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of Irene and A.T. Wheeler and another unidentified man with a burro in front of a tent on a hunting trip.

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Van Horn family outings
Van Horn family outings
Call Number 513-1-17
Date 1900-1905
Contents 2 photographs.
Description View of members of the Van Horn family in a Tally ho in Boulder Canyon; and view of the Van Horn family dressed as pioneers in covered wagons.

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Seventh Day Baptist Church
Seventh Day Baptist Church: Sabbath Day picnics photographs 1892-1900
Call Number 513-1-18
Date 1892-1900
Contents 5 photographs.
Description Views of members of the Seventh Day Baptist church on picnic outings in the mountains. 3 views show hired stagecoaches; 2 views show picnickers.

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Seventh Day Baptist Church photograph 1897
Seventh Day Baptist Church photograph 1897
Call Number 513-1-19
Date 1897
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Members of the Seventh Day Baptist church in front of the church building in the 1600 block of Broadway St.

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Seventh Day Baptist Church
Seventh Day Baptist Church: at Chautauqua Auditorium photographs [1900-1909]
Call Number 513-1-20
Date [1900-1909]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Members of the Seventh Day Baptist church on the steps in front of Chautauqua Auditorium.

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Unidentified people photographs [undated]
Unidentified people photographs [undated]
Call Number 513-1-21
Date undated
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Four undated photographs of unidentified children.

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A.T. Wheeler family
A.T. Wheeler family: miscellaneous photographs 1900-1909
Call Number 513-1-22
Date 1900-1909
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Members of the extended A.T. Wheeler family.

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S.R. Wheeler family in Kansas photograph 1885
S.R. Wheeler family in Kansas photograph 1885
Call Number 513-1-23
Date 1885
Contents 1 photograph.
Description View of the Samuel Wheeler family on the Kansas farm they owned near Nortonville, circa 1885. Alfred Wheeler lived here for seventeen years.

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Boulder views
Boulder views
Call Number 513-2-1
Date 1895-1920
Contents 6 photographs (5 digitized).
Description Views of various houses and scenes in and around Boulder.

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