Jessie K. Fitzpatrick collection.

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Title: Jessie K. Fitzpatrick collection.
Date: 1896-1947
Call Number: 720
Contents: 1 box.
History: Jessie K. Fitzpatrick was a Boulder educator and longtime Boulder resident. She was born 6 February 1886 in Kansas to Thomas H. and Ivie E. Fitzpatrick. The family moved to Boulder in 1897, and Thomas Fitzpatrick served several terms on the city council.
Miss Fitzpatrick was educated in Boulder and graduated from University of Colorado in 1908 where she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority, Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi. She began teaching at Whittier School in the fall of 1908 and later served as principal of the school from 1924 until her retirement in 1947.
Miss Fitzpatrick was a very active member of the Congregation Church throughout her lifetime and also a member of several other women and education-related organizations. she died 11 September 1975.
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: Documents.
Photographs.
Donor: Benson, Maxine.
Subjects: Fitzpatrick, Jessie K, 1886-1975
Whittier School (Boulder, Colo.)
Collection: Jessie K. Fitzpatrick collection.
Acquisition Note: Materials were donated by Maxine Benson 26 January 2016. She inherited them from her mother, Frances Ladwig Benson (wife of Mac W. Benson), who received them as part of a bequest from Fitzpatrick. According to Jessie Fitzpatrick's 13 September 1975 obituary in the Boulder Daily Camera, she was survived by a "family of unrelated relatives" including the Mac W. Benson family.

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: Jessie K. Fitzpatrick photographs.

Call Number 720-1-1

Date [1920-1969]

Contents 4 photographs (3 digitized).

Description Four photographs of Jessie K. Fitzpatrick as an older woman.

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: Whittier School photographs.

Call Number 720-1-2

Date [1926-1971]

Contents 4 photographs (1 digitized).

Description Four undated photographs of the exterior of Whittier School at 2008 Pine Street, stamped on back "D.L. Yocom Studio, Boulder, Colo." Photo 2 is believed to date to circa 1940s or 1950s based on car, but the photo is somewhat blurry. Photos 3 and 4 show a closer view of an entrance to the school.

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: Whittier School: teacher photographs.

Call Number 720-1-3

Date 1923-1947

Contents 7 photographs, 6 views (3 digitized).

Description Photographs of Whittier School teachers, 1923-1947.

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: Whittier School: Christmas tree decorating photographs.

Call Number 720-1-4

Date [1926-1971]

Contents 3 photographs (2 digitized).

Description Undated photographs of unidentified children and adults decorating Christmas trees inside Whittier School. Photos are all stamped on back "D.L. Yocom Studio, Boulder, Colo." Photo 1 shows a hallway with stairs, Photo 2 shows what appears to be a library and photo 3 shows the corner of an unidentified room.

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: Whittier School: 1928 class portraits.

Call Number 720-1-5

Date 1928

Contents 7 photographs (2 digitized).

Description 1928 class portraits of first through fifth grades at Whittier School, by photographer Charles Snow. Photo 3 shows an African American girl in the middle of the second row and principal Jessie K. Fitzpatrick appears in the back row, right of center. Students and teachers are unidentified.

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: Whittier School: shows and events photographs.

Call Number 720-1-6

Date [1926-1971]

Contents 11 photographs (1 digitized).

Description Undated views of Whittier School shows and events including plays, art shows and two photographs of an event with a naval officer. Many photos are set in an auditorium with children on a stage. Photos stamped on back, "D.L. Yocom Studio, Boulder, Colo."

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: Whittier School: miscellaneous student photographs.

Call Number 720-1-7

Date [1930-1950]

Contents 8 photographs (2 digitized).

Description Views of children at Whittier School. Several photographs stamped on back "D.L. Yocom Studio, Boulder, Colo."

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: McCollum family photographs.

Call Number 720-1-8

Date 1942

Contents 3 photographs (1 digitized).

Description Photographs of what is believed to be the Bruce A. McCollum (or McCallum) family with Jessie K. Fitzpatrick.

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: Denver Department of Health photograph.

Call Number 720-1-9

Date [1925]

Contents 1 photograph.

Description View of women waiting in line to weigh their babies with one baby in a scale. Photo stamped on back, "Photograph by Denver Department of Health and Hospitals." Dated circa 1925 on back.

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: Billy Sunday's Farewell stereograph, 1909.

Call Number 720-1-10

Date 1909

Contents 1 photograph.

Description Stereograph by Ed Tangen with the caption, "No. 1305 - 'When We All Get to Heaven,' Sung by 4000 people - Billy Sunday's Farewell, Boulder, Colorado, October 5, 1909." Billy Sunday is standing above the crowd (without hat).

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: Dew Drop Mine photographs.

Call Number 720-1-11

Date 1896-1897

Contents 3 photographs.

Description Views of Adit Mining Company's Dew Drop Mine in California Gulch at Camp Frances, 1896-1897. All photos have a list of Adit Mining Co. photographs printed on the back.

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: Phi Sigma Phi group portrait.

Call Number 720-1-12

Date [1905]

Contents 1 photograph.

Description Group portrait of members of Phi Sigma Phi, a Boulder State Preparatory School sorority. Photo is dated ca. 1905. Jessie K. Fitzpatrick is in the back row, 4th from the left, age 19. Other young women are identified on back, although names do not appear to be in order. Photo by Charles Gosha.

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