Small manuscripts collections

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Title: Small manuscripts collections
Call Number: 998
Description: Small collections of documents from various donors.
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.
Note: Some of the collections have not been cataloged. They are in banker boxes in the Document Storage room The folders have a title, Donor name, and date of donation. They are arranged by date of donation.

Pages

: Front Range Women in the Visual Arts traveling exhibition 1981

Call Number 998-6-20

Date [1980-1982]

Description A history of the organization written by Katharine Smith-Chafee. Included are twenty-three one-page biographies of the artists, and a photograph of one of their works. The fourteen artists who resided in Boulder at the time of the printing are listed below.

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: Founding of the Boulder Medical Center history

Call Number 998-6-21

Date 1982

Contents 1 folder.

Description A four-page history of the Boulder Medical Center, "paraphrased from Dr. Howard Heuston's writings after his retirement from the Center." It is followed by biographical sketches of the founding physicians.

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: Boulder Business College and Normal School catalog 1906

Call Number 998-6-22

Date 1906

Contents 46 p.

Description This folder contains a very fragile and water-stained catalog for the Business College and Normal School located over Valentine's Hardware on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pearl. The catalog was left in a garage across the street from Boulder Community Hospital, and donated in 2014.

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: Hubert Waldo's University of Colorado report cards 1912-1914

Call Number 998-7-1

Date 1912-1914

Contents 2 items.

Description Report cards belonging to Hubert Waldo from the University of Colorado covering the years 1912-1914.

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: Niwot School souvenir class of 1899-1900

Call Number 998-7-2

Date 1900

Contents 1 item.

Description A school souvenir from Niwot School, class of 1899-1900. It includes a list of the students and a photograph of the teacher, Maud V. Size.

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: Van Vleet Arabian Stud brochure

Call Number 998-7-3

Contents 1 item.

Description A brochure from the Van Vleet Arabian Horse Ranch, also known as the Lazy VV Ranch, outside Nederland at Caribou, probably from the 1940s.

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: Ryssby: the country church/ undated

Call Number 998-7-4

Date undated

Contents 1 item.

Description A photocopy of a pamphlet written by David P. Nelson about the history of Ryssby Church.

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: Journal of Jacob Oliver Hays 1871-1885

Call Number 998-7-5

Date 1871-1885

Contents 1 item.

Description The journal of Jacob Hays, a blacksmith, mill man, and miner who lived in Boulder County from 1871 to 1899. The journal covers the years 1871 to 1885, and includes pages from a ledger in which Hays recorded prices of food and supplies.

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: Christmas greetings

Call Number 998-7-6

Contents 3 items.

Description Christmas greetings sent to Ruth Yearns by Florence Crannell and Carl Means ( undated), John B. Schooland (1986), and Lelia M. Hinkley (1967).

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: The pioneer life story of H. Bert Cave since 1875

Call Number 998-7-7

Date 1945-1949

Contents 1 Document.

Description The autobiography of H. Bert Cave, a Colorado pioneer who came to the state in 1875 as a ten year old boy.

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: People, Places and Things column 1978-1984

Call Number 998-7-8

Date 1978-1984

Contents 1 folder.

Description This folder includes "People, Places and Things" which was a column written by Laurence T. Paddock, editor of the Boulder Daily Camera. Subjects cover the early history of Boulder. Also included are other historical articles written under his by-line.

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: Britons in Colorado History: draft submitted to Governor's United Kingdom Task Force 1987

Call Number 998-7-9

Date 1987

Contents 12 p.

Description The draft article; also a copy of "Colorado : a special report for the United Kingdom," a publication of "Colorado Business Magazine", in which the article appeared on 11 April 1987. Article covers the history of British settlement and investment in Colorado.

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