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 at Beaver Lake
A. T. Wheeler family at Beaver Lake
Call Number 513-2-14
Date 1900-1920
Contents 13 photographs (11 digitized).
Description Views of the Wheeler family at Beaver Lake.

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Beaver Lake and caretaker's cabin. photographs 1900-1920
Beaver Lake and caretaker's cabin. photographs 1900-1920
Call Number 513-2-15
Date 1900-1920
Contents 11 photographs (4 digitized).
Description Views of Beaver Lake and the surrounding area, as well as the caretaker's cabin.

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A.T. Wheeler at Silver Lake. photographs 1910-1917
A.T. Wheeler at Silver Lake. photographs 1910-1917
Call Number 513-2-16
Date 1910-1917
Contents 16 photographs (5 digitized).
Description Views of Silver Lake, including the caretaker's cabin used by Alfred T. Wheeler when he was caretaker. Included are interior views with fur pelts and stuffed birds and animals, the cabin buried under snow, Silver Lake Dam, Mount Albion, Silver Lake Road, skis and snowshoes.

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Silver Lake photographs. 1910-1917
Silver Lake photographs. 1910-1917
Call Number 513-2-17
Date 1910-1917
Contents 26 photographs (5 digitized).
Description Five of the twenty-six views of Silver Lake and the caretaker's cabin are digitized.

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Arapaho Peak photographs, [1900-1909]
Arapaho Peak photographs, [1900-1909]
Call Number 513-2-18
Date [1900-1909]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Two views of South Arapaho Peak and Arapaho Pass Trail.

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Longs Peak photographs. 1900-1910
Longs Peak photographs. 1900-1910
Call Number 513-2-19
Date 1900-1910
Contents 9 photographs (8 digitized).
Description Nine views of Longs Peak and environs.

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Tucker Ranch near Nederland, Colorado
Tucker Ranch near Nederland, Colorado
Call Number 513-2-20
Date 1915-1921
Contents 5 photographs (3 digitized).
Description Three views of a live beaver being held for the photographer and of a beaver dam being blown up -- all on the Tucker Ranch, north of Nederland, Colorado.

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Wheeler Basin, Colorado
Wheeler Basin, Colorado
Call Number 513-2-21
Date 1905-1921
Contents 14 photographs, 13 views (10 digitized).
Description Views of Wheeler Basin, in Grand County, Colorado.

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Trapped wildlife
Trapped wildlife
Call Number 513-2-22
Date 1900-1916
Contents 8 photographs (1 digitized).
Description Views of animals in traps. Includes wolf, coyote, marten and lynx (bobcat).

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A.T. Wheeler with fur pelts
A.T. Wheeler with fur pelts
Call Number 513-2-23
Date 1916
Contents 1 photograph.
Description Alfred T. Wheeler posing with another man and pelts of trapped animals.

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Wildlife photographs 1900-1916
Wildlife photographs 1900-1916
Call Number 513-2-24
Date 1900-1916
Contents 13 photographs.
Description Views of animals, including elk, ground squirrel, raccoons, porcupines, and the carcass of a big horn sheep.

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Beaver photographs 1900-1921
Beaver photographs 1900-1921
Call Number 513-2-25
Date 1900-1921
Contents 27 photographs (5 digitized).
Description This envelope contains photographs of beavers, their dams and lodges at Beaver Lake, the Laramie River, and at Marysville and Hessie near Eldora. Includes beavers in traps and trapped beavers being relocated.

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