Details
Title

Boulder Municipal Government collection

Date

[1875-1995]

Call Number

787

Contents

8 boxes
3 ledgers

Description

This collection consists of documents, publications, and ledgers kept by the City of Boulder government.

Summary

See separate cataloging records for the contents of the boxes.
Ledgers in the collection:
1. Cash Book, Town of Boulder. 1 April 1875 - 30 November 1893. Names of individuals along with the amount of money collected from them for: Taxes, Fines, Shows & Concert Licenses, Liquor & Saloon Licenses, and Dog Licenses. (Located in the Documents Room.)
2. City Property, Record 1. 24 September 1874 - 26 April 1916. A register of deeds for property sold to the City of Boulder. There is an alphabetical index of Grantors at the front of the register, followed by hand transcribed copies of the deeds. (Located in the Real Estate Section. M7.)
3. Building Permits. April 1911 - May 1927. (Located in the Real Estate Section. M36.)

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.

Pages

Boulder city planning documents
Boulder city planning documents
Call Number 787-1
Date 1893-1987
Contents 1 box.
Description This collection consists of documents, and publications kept by the City of Boulder's Planning Department.

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Municipal Codes, Ordinances, budgets, reports, 1918-1971
Municipal Codes, Ordinances, budgets, reports, 1918-1971
Call Number 787-2
Date 1918-1971
Contents 1 box.
Description BOX 2 contains: City Budgets, 1918-1950; Municipal Code publicity 1965-1971; Muncipal Code offenses publicity 1969-1971; Zoning Sign Code publicity 1970; City sign code, 1970-1971 (local opinions on billboards); City building code, 1965-1971 (local opinions on the building code); Municipal ordinances and penalties, 1969-1971 (many of the newspaper articles and letters to the editor are about the Hippies in Central Park); and two Denver-Boulder Toll Road studies 1948 and 1950 which include six photographs of Boulder areas to be inpacted by the road construction.

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Boulder Municipal Government audits, 1935-1947
Boulder Municipal Government audits, 1935-1947
Call Number 787-3
Date 1935-1947
Contents 1 box.

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Lakewood Pipeline and Barker Dam, 1939-1947
Lakewood Pipeline and Barker Dam, 1939-1947
Call Number 787-4
Date 1939-1947
Contents 1 oversize box.
Description This box contains a green binder containing 90 photographs, and a red scrapbook containing 367 photographs which document the 1946-1947 construction work on the dam. The handwritten letters and numbers on the 367 photographs refer to the negative which were donated to the University of Colorado., There are also five loose photographs of the Lakewood Pipeline replacement, 1939-1942.

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Barker Dam, 1946-1947
Barker Dam, 1946-1947
Call Number 787-5
Date 1946-1947
Contents 1 oversize box.
Description This box contains a red scrapbook containing 367 photographs which document the 1946-1947 construction work on the dam. The handwritten letters and numbers on the photographs refer to the negatives which were donated to the University of Colorado. There is also an 8x10 photograph taken by Forest Crossen taken on 3 June 1947 of men involved with the project.

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Boulder Sanitary Sewer Improvement collection 1921-1937
Boulder Sanitary Sewer Improvement collection 1921-1937
Call Number 787-6
Date 1921-1937
Contents 1 box.
Description This collection contains documents dated 1921 thru 1937 pertaining to Boulder Sanitary Sewer Improvement Districts.

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Columbia Cemetery ledger, 1913-1954
Columbia Cemetery ledger, 1913-1954
Call Number 787-7
Date 1913-1954
Contents 1 box.
Description This collection consists of documents, publications, and ledgers kept by the City of Boulder government.

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City reports, 1909-1919
City reports, 1909-1919
Call Number 787-8
Date 1909-1919
Contents 1 box.
Description This collection contains reports filed by various city department heads, such as: the City Marshal and Pound Master, the Librarian, the Fire Chief, the Park Board, the City Health Officer and Dairy Inspector, the City Clerk, and the City Engineer (these reports may help establish the date a home was built).

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NTMP photographs and slides, 1992-2000
NTMP photographs and slides, 1992-2000
Call Number 787-9
Date 1992-2000
Contents 240 photographs and slides.
Description Two 3-ring notebooks contain 108 slides (96 identified) and 144 photographs (most identified or are indentifiable). They include views of the High and Bluff pedestrian path, 20th and Pine speed sensitive signal, roundabout at 4th and Pearl, speed bumps, raised crosswalks, medians (aka pedestrian refuges), brick crosswalks, bike lanes and signage, and views of fire trucks navigating the emergency vehicle only lanes., There is a spread sheet with locations for the first 69 slides which is titled "NTMP Slide Directory". This may stand for Neighborhood Traffic Mitigation Program. (The notebook was to be discarded when the Public Works/Transportation Departments of the City moved to new offices. Ellen Orleans with GO Boulder, donated them, but complete provenance information was not available.), The photographs are stored in the Documents Room and the slides are stored in the Negatives Room.

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City ledger
City ledger: City of Boulder building permits
Call Number 787-Ledger
Date 1873-1967
Contents 1 ledger., 35 folders (photocopied newspaper articles)

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Building Review 1962
Building Review 1962
Call Number 787-O-1
Date 1962
Contents 1 oversize folder.

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Building Review 1965
Building Review 1965
Call Number 787-O-2
Date 1965
Contents 1 oversize folder.

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