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

: 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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: Boulder bicentennial envelope, 1975

Call Number 998-5-14

Date 1975

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains an envelope printed to commemorate the conjuction of Boulder's centennial with the U.S. bicentennial celebration. The envelope has a depiction of miners at the entrance to a mine adit pushing an ore car on which a logo of mountains with the year '76 has been superimposed. A U.S. Bicentennial 10 cent stamp is affixed. Inside with envelope is a card with a brief history of the founding of Boulder.

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: Boulder's first zoning ordinance report, 1997

Call Number 998-5-15

Date 1997

Contents 29 p.

Description A class report about Boulder's first zoning ordinance, enacted in January, 1928.

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: Denver South Park and Pacific maps/ 1976

Call Number 998-5-16

Date 1976

Contents 5 items.

Description This folder contains five maps pertaining to Denver South Park and Pacific Railway system.

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: Boulder County, Colorado: coroner's inquest book, 1877- 1954, index, 1997

Call Number 998-5-17

Date 1997

Contents 29 p.

Description Index to the Coroner's Inquest Book for 1877-1954, compiled by the Coroner's Office. Index includes an alphabetical list of names giving date of death, cause of death, and type of death. Handwritten additions provided by Mary McRoberts of the Boulder Genealogical Society.

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: Boulder County, Colorado: coroner's reports, 1909-1912, of John G. Trezise

Call Number 998-5-18

Date undated

Contents 33 p.

Description Coroner's Reports for 1909-1912 of John G. Trezise, photocopied by the Coroner's Office from the originals at the Colorado State Archives, and indexed. Indexes include an alphabetical list of names and death dates, and a chronologic list of deaths with name, cause and place of death. Handwritten and typed notes and reports of the coroner.

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: Shaw Mortuary Records abstracts, 1882-1940s

Call Number 998-5-19

Date undated

Contents 14 p.

Description Alphabetical list of burials performed by Shaw Mortuary (later Howe Mortuary) between 1882 and the 1940s. Index is by surname. Includes relationship to head of household, cemetery where buried, location of plot, death date and age at death.

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