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

: Red Rock: First white camp in Boulder County / 1929

Call Number 998-5-1

Date 1929

Contents 12 p.

Description History of the first white settlers to arrive in Boulder in October 1858. This was written by Jennie E. Stewart and read at the dedication of the marker on Red Cliff at the mounth of Boulder Canyon on 14 June 1929.

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: Two papers read to the Arapahoe Chapter, D.A.R

Call Number 998-5-2

Date 1940-1941

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder includes two papers read to the Arapahoe Chapter of the D.A.R.

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: Pioneers settled, founded town, on land owned by a Revolutionary widow / 1959

Call Number 998-5-3

Date 1959

Contents 10 p.

Description History of the Weston family who owned the original patent on the land that is now Boulder, and how that patent was transferred to the first settlers.

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: A rather interesting community / 1981

Call Number 998-5-4

Date 1981

Contents 18 p.

Description History of the development of Boulder.

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: Uniquely Boulder: Boulder's history and character / 1987

Call Number 998-5-5

Date 1987

Contents 40 p.

Description History of the settlement and development of Boulder.

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: Boulder County rural school teachers' registers, 1915-1929

Call Number 998-5-6

Date 1915-1929

Contents 9 items.

Description Registers for Boulder County rural school teachers.

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: Quotations: selected by the pupils of the eighth grade booklet, 1914

Call Number 998-5-7

Date 1914

Contents 2 items.

Description Printed booklets of appropriate quotations after names of students in Boulder's eighth grade.

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: Boulder High School: 50th anniversary, September 1937- September 1987

Call Number 998-5-8

Date 1987

Contents 2 booklets.

Description Two copies of a history of Boulder High School giving class officers and honor winners, as well as highlights of the year for the years 1937 through 1987.

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: Mary Lyons Cairns poetry, [undated]

Call Number 998-5-9

Date undated

Contents 1 item.

Description An undated pamphlet containing four poems, four portraits, and a brief biography of Mary Lyons Cairns.

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: A glimpse at Eldorado's colorful past: high-wire aerialist, ranchers, and ballrooms / 1997

Call Number 998-5-11

Date 1997

Contents 26 ill. p. :

Description Brief history of the Eldorado Canyon area.

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: The first fifty years 1946-1996: Johnson Publishing Company of Boulder, Colorado

Call Number 998-5-12

Date 1996

Contents 5 items.

Description Booklet containing the history of the Johnson Publishing Company of Boulder, Colorado which includes photographs of the Raymond Johnson family and business. Also a facilities map of Johnson Publishing Company at 1880 South 57th Court; a list of Johnson Publishing Company's capabilities; a list of Johnson Publishing Company equipment; and a Johnson Printing brochure.

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: From hot type to desk top / 1991

Call Number 998-5-13

Date 1991

Contents 7 p.

Description A talk to the Book Arts League on the history of printing and publishing in Boulder from 1940-1991.

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