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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: 1900 King Avenue architectural drawings.

Call Number 998-Sc6-15-(3-6)

Date [1958- 1996]

Contents 4 folders.

Description Architectural drawings of the residence at 1900 King Avenue in Boulder, Colorado.

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: Jim and Faye Johnson House architectural drawings.

Call Number 998-Sc6-15-2

Date 1970-1979

Contents 1 folder.

Description Nine architectural drawings by Boulder architect Charles Haertling for the Jim and Faye Johnson house at 630 Northstar Court in Boulder.

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: 1818 Baseline Road architectural drawings.

Call Number 998-Sc5-8-3

Date 1950-1970

Contents 1 folder

Description Original architectural drawings by James Hunter for the home at 1818 Baseline Road. Folder includes proposed drawings, 1950 drawings and 1970 addition (signed Carey Cook, contractor).

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: Alpha Phi house architectural drawings

Call Number 998-sc5-8-2

Date 1941

Contents 13 drawings.

Description Copies of blueprints by the Boulder architectural firm, Huntington, Jones and Hunter, for a remodel of the Alpha Phi house at 888 13th Street in 1941. According to the plaque mounted on the building: "Jim Hunter designed the large addition on the east side of the house which was built in 1942."

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: Fourth of July at Chautauqua poster, 1902

Call Number 998-sc2-1

Date 1902

Contents 1 oversize folder.

Description Poster (mounted on linen) for the "Fourth Season" July 4th celebration at Chautauqua. Reverand T. H. Malone, "Colorado's gifted orator will deliver his masterly address, '20th Century Republic', on the national holiday."

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: Heating Plans for Residence for Professor C.L. Eckel.

Call Number 998-O-15

Date 1935

Contents 4 blueprints.

Description A stapled packet of four blueprints of drawings by architect G.H. Huntington. Drawings are titled, "Heating Plans for Residence for Prof. C.L. Eckel., 12th St. between Cascade & Baseline, Boulder, Colo." The drawings are dated January 1935.

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: "Gazelle" train pencil drawing.

Call Number 998-O-14

Date [1874-1922]

Contents 1 drawing.

Description Undated pencil drawing of a train engine car pulling what appears to be a freight car labeled with the word "Gazelle." The train is also marked, "1855 Manchester Works," "[illegible] Rochester," and "No.22." Written on the back of the drawing is the name "Hattie Wilder."

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: Sidney A. Arbuthnot diplomas, 1895-1902

Call Number 998-O-13

Date 1895-1902

Contents 2 diplomas.

Description This folder contains diplomas from the Colorado Public Schools (1895) and the Boulder Business College (1902).

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: Olmsted plans and drawings, 1906-1924

Call Number 998-O-12

Date 1906-1924

Contents 1 folder.

Description Photocopies of fourteen landscape design plans and drawings by Olmsted, as well as three City or County of Boulder maps used by the firm. The library acquired these photocopies from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.

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: Whittier School student drawings, 1982

Call Number 998-O-11

Date 1982

Contents 1 oversize folder.

Description This folder includes three oversize drawings and one watercolor by Whittier School students in 1982 and drawings by Rita Derjue as well as biographical material on the Artist-in-Residence.

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: 731 Spruce Street architectural drawings [1910]

Call Number 998-O-10

Date [1905-1915]

Contents 9 drawings.

Description Original blueprints by local architect A. E. Saunders for the Scott house at 731 Spruce Street, and a portion of the blueprint wrapper on which the following was written: "#200. Ira D. Scott, 750 Spruce St., Boulder, Colo." (This address was listed as that of Ira and Callie Scott in the 1908 City Directory.)

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: Kneale family oversize documents, 1911-[1939]

Call Number 998-O-9

Date 1911-[1939]

Contents 1 oversize folder.

Description This folder contains six oversize documents that were donated by Pat Murphy to the Niwot Historical Society on behalf of Idell Kneale Leinweber.

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