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.

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: Naturalization certificate, 1871.

Call Number 998-2-16

Date 1871

Contents 1 item.

Description The naturalization certificate of John DeBaker.

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: Colorado mining directory, 1879 and 1883

Call Number 998-2-17

Date 1879-1883

Contents 2 items.

Description Photocopies of two editions of the Colorado Mining Directory, consisting of the Boulder County section only. Includes owners, size and location, year located, and value. Alphabetical by name of mine. Includes separate lists of mills and coal mines.

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: The curious Cornish of Colorado / 1977

Call Number 998-2-18

Date 1977

Contents 22 P.

Description A history of Cornish immigrants to the Colorado gold fields.

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: Anna Wood collection

Call Number 998-2-19

Date 1911

Contents 1 folder.

Description The Anna Wood collection consists of "Gossip!" a student publication (hand drawn and typed) filled with jokes and school news, created by Dorothy Dickson, Charline Young, Georgia Bair, Wilda Clayton, and Everett Bair. Mr. Bretnall, Miss Gowans, Miss Hardy, and Miss Perie are mentioned in the news items; "Alphabet Book, designed by 8-grade Central." This book was created in 1911 by the class of F. A. Boggess, and has a full-page water-colored design for each letter signed by a student.

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: Snowbound Mine: from its discovery in 1877 to its demise by fire in 2010

Call Number 998-2-20

Date 2011

Description This full-color book compiles the history of the Snowbound mine and the nearby cabins. Many photographs of the shafthouse interior include views of mining equipment and supplies. At the end of the book, there are before, during, and after photos that show the destruction of the fire.

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: Letter from the Mayor to Boulder citizens, 8 December 1941

Call Number 998-2-21

Date 1941

Contents 1 folder.

Description A letter written on December 8, 1941 "To the people of our city" asking them to "swear anew our allegiance to our government and our President" following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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: Original Leyner-Cottonwood Ditch shareholders

Call Number 998-2-22

Date 1900-1906

Contents 1 folder.

Description A list of the original shareholders in the Leyner Ditch, beginning in the year 1900. The list includes the date acquired, number of shares, shareholder, date shares transferred and name of recepient. The original shareholders are listed.

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: The Nugget yearbook

Call Number 998-2-23

Date 1949

Contents 1 issue.

Description The Nugget yearbook for the 1948-1949 school year, published by Nederland High School. It includes the first through twelfth grades at Nederland, Colorado.

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: Kneale family documents

Call Number 998-2-24

Date 1911-1939

Contents 1 folder.

Description This folder contains Kneale family documents that were to the Niwot Historical Society.

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: Archibald L. Camp biography

Call Number 998-2-25

Date 2011

Contents 1 folder.

Description This folder contains a very brief two-page biography with three images of A.L. Camp, created by Jeanne Gooden Burkhardt and Linda Goody Michel, descendants. The images are of Camp seated with his mandolin, Camp with three other men (mandolins, banjos, and a guitar are displayed on the floor), and a full-length portrait of Camp and his wife probably taken on their wedding day.

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: Uncle Charley and his rifle: tales of Georgia and the war between the States

Call Number 998-2-26

Date 1960

Description This folder contains a copy of A. L. Camp's book which was "based upon the stories he heard as a youngster about his grand-uncle, Charley Camp. A Colorado author, Archibald L. Camp and his wife, lived at 731 Pearl Street, Boulder for many years. This book was given by A. L. Camp's son to the donor's mother, E. Jane Winters Goody.

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: Interview transcript, 1988

Call Number 998-3-1

Date 1988

Contents 29 p.

Description A typewritten transcript of an oral history interview with Maude Wagner of Sugarloaf, Colorado. Includes information about Lakewood raw water pipeline relocation on Sugarloaf Mountain.

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