Details
Title

VF Collection

Call Number

VF

Description

A collection of newspaper clippings and some documents about various topics related to Boulder history including current events. This collection was assembled by the staff of Carnegie Library for Local History and continues to grow with new additions from contemporary sources.

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

Clippings.

Collection

Vertical File collection.

Pages

Pollution clippings
Pollution clippings
Call Number VF Pollution
Date after 1972
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on environmental issues and pollution. Topics include the Environmental Quality Act, pollution, environmental issues with Boulder Creek, and a water treatment facility near Nederland.

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Air pollution clippings
Air pollution clippings
Call Number VF Pollution - Air
Date after 1968
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: environmental issues and studies surrounding air quality. Topics include Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment (FRAPPE), Clean Air Week, sstham, emissions, and carbon increase.

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Pollution: Valmont Butte clippings
Pollution: Valmont Butte clippings
Call Number VF Pollution - Valmont Butte
Date after 2001
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the Valmont Butte contamination and clean up project.

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Pornography clippings
Pornography clippings
Call Number VF Pornography
Date after 1977
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on morality issues in Boulder County, including pornography and adult bookstores.

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Postal services clippings
Postal services clippings
Call Number VF Postal services
Date after 1957
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of Boulder and Boulder County post offices, postmasters and postal services.

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Pow Wow rodeo clippings.
Pow Wow rodeo clippings.
Call Number VF Pow Wow Rodeo
Date after 2017
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on the Pow Wow rodeo in Boulder.

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Printing and publishing clippings
Printing and publishing clippings
Call Number VF Printing and publishing
Date after 1986
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of printing and publishing companies in Boulder.

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Prohibition clippings
Prohibition clippings
Call Number VF Prohibition
Date after 1975
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of prohibition and bootlegging in Boulder, the Better Boulder Party, the Beer Act and Beer Day . Boulder went "dry" in 1907, though by mandate of a Colorado statute which argued that 3.2 % beer was not intoxicating, a number of establishments sold 3.2% beer in the "dry" years. Boulder went "wet", meaning that all forms of alcohol could be sold, in 1967.

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Prostitution clippings
Prostitution clippings
Call Number VF Prostitution
Date after 1976
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of prostitution in Boulder.

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Protests clippings
Protests clippings
Call Number VF Protests
Date after 2004
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: various protest movements, demonstrations, marches, and sit-ins that have taken place in Boulder. Protests include demonstrations by anti-fracking activists, marches against racial injustices, anti-presidential protests, Seniors protest for Thunderbird Lake, the civil rights march in Montgomery, Alabama, the student protest for child care in 1974, and University of Colorado student protests against Joseph McCarthy and the Vietnam War.

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Protests
Protests: Occupy Boulder clippings
Call Number VF Protests - Occupy Boulder
Date after 2011
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the Occupy movement in Boulder.

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Quarries clippings
Quarries clippings
Call Number VF Quarries
Date after 1981
Contents 1 vertical file.
Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: quarries in Boulder County, including the sandstone quarries in Lyons.

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