Harpel/ Rugg collection

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Title: Harpel/ Rugg collection
Call Number: 751
Contents: 4 boxes (36 folders, 2 cassette tapes, 1 microfilm roll, and one plat map)
Description: This collection contains the records of the town of Eldora, Colorado.
Summary: This collection includes voting records, legal and fiscal documents, minutes of the board of trustees and ordinances. It also includes papers of W. T. Harpel and his daughter Clara Harpel Rugg, mainly land deeds and tax receipts, and the records of the Harpel Mining and Milling Company.
History: William T. Harpel was mayor of Eldora, Colorado from 1908 to 1936. His wife was Maggie Carney Harpel; their daughter, Clara J. Harpel, married Merle C. Rugg. Rosamond Rugg Northrop is the daughter of Clara and Merle Rugg.
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: Correspondence.
Documents.
Microforms.
Author: Harpel/ Rugg family
Northrop, Rose Rugg
Subjects: Harpel, William T, 1868-1938
Rugg, Clara J. Harpel, 1895-1987
Harpel Mining and Milling Company (Eldora, Colo.)--Records and correspondence
Eldora (Colo.)--Records and correspondence
Acquisition Note: Donor: Rose Northrop on behalf of the Harpel and Rugg families, 1989.
Note: Inventory available in box 1.

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: Elizabeth Penrose, Correspondence 1946-1970

Call Number 751-2-13

Date 1946-1970

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains 1 letter written by Elizabeth Penrose and 1 letter written to Elizabeth Penrose about property in Eldora, Colo.

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: Boulder County (Colo.) challenged voters affidavits 1914 Apr. 7

Call Number 751-3-1

Date 1914

Contents 4 items.

Description This folder contains affivdavits of challenged voters for precinct no. 34, Eldora, Colorado, April 1914.

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: Boulder County (Colo.) voter registration affidavits 1914 Apr. 6

Call Number 751-3-2

Date 1914

Contents 12 items.

Description This folder contains affidavits for voter registration for precinct no. 34, Eldora, Colorado, 6 April 1914.

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: Boulder County (Colo.) assessed valuations of Eldora, Colo. 1914-1917

Call Number 751-3-3

Date 1914-1917

Contents 3 items.

Description This folder contains the Boulder County Assessor's assessed valuations for the town of Eldora, Colorado, for the years 1914, 1916, and 1917.

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: Boundary dispute correspondence 1914 May 9-1914 June 29

Call Number 751-3-4

Date 1914

Contents 3 items.

Description This folder contains correspondence and papers related to a dispute over the boundaries of the town of Eldora, Colorado.

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: Town of Eldora, Checks and bank statements 1905-1923

Call Number 751-3-5

Date 1905-1923

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains cancelled checks for the town of Eldora, Colorado, written by the Eldora treasurer, for the dates Oct. 1912-Nov. 1923. There is a typewritten transcript giving the date and name to whom each check was made out. There are also 3 bank statements from the Boulder National Bank (Boulder, Colo.) for the town of Eldora, dated 30 Apr. 1918, 8 Oct. 1918, and 9 Nov. 1923., This folder also contains the checkbook of the town of Eldora with the filled in stubs, and a typewritten transcript of the information contained on them, including check number, date, person or business to whom the check was made out, and the amount, for the dates 29 Dec. 1905-31 March 1915.

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: Town of Eldora, Correspondence 1913-1914

Call Number 751-3-6

Date 1913-1914

Contents 3 items.

Description This folder contains miscellaneous correspondence of the town of Eldora, Colorado. Included are two letters from M. M. Rinn, Boulder County Attorney and Eldora city attorney, discussing municipal legal matters with the Eldora Board of Trustees; and a photocopy of a letter from the Eldora town clerk informing W. T. Harpel that he has been elected mayor.

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: Vital statistics certificates 1912- 1916

Call Number 751-3-7

Date 1912-1916

Contents 12 items.

Description This folder contains certificates from the Colorado State Registrar of Vital Statistics showing money paid to Eldora doctors for registering births, deaths, and burial permits.

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: Town of Eldora, Miscellaneous papers 1909-1917

Call Number 751-3-8

Date 1909-1917

Contents 6 items.

Description This folder contains a petition in relation to funding the floating indebtedness of the town of Eldora, 1909; a blank certificate authorizing grocery and vending of liquors, n.d.; an indemnity bond, 1913; a list of nominations made at the Democratic caucus for the town of Eldora, 1914; a receipt for nails supplied to the town of Eldora by J. C. Patterson, 1917; and a bill to reimburse W. T. Harpel for expenses incurred in performing duties for the town of Eldora, 1915.

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: Newspaper clippings 1897-1979

Call Number 751-3-9

Date 1897-1979

Contents 10 items.

Description This folder contains newspaper clippings about Eldora, Nederland, and Tolland, Colorado, and about a book written by Earl Morris, archaeologist at the University of Colorado, about Maya ruins, titled "Temple of Warriors." Newspapers include Weekly register-call (Central City, Colo.) and Eldora record (Eldora, Colo.).

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: Town of Eldora, Ordinances 1898-1905

Call Number 751-3-10

Date 1898-1905

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains the legal texts of three ordinances passed by the town of Eldora, and the rough draft of a fourth.

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: Eldora (Colo.) photocopies of photographs undated

Call Number 751-3-11

Date undated

Contents 7 items.

Description This folder contains photocopies of old photographs of Eldora, Colorado.

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