VF Collection

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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.

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: Agriculture: history clippings

Call Number VF Agriculture - History

Date after 1894

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: early history on the agriculture of the city and county of Boulder, first farmers (Wellman brothers), first threshing machine, and the effect of the 1894 flood on crops.

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: Agriculture: migrant labor clippings

Call Number VF Agriculture - Migrant labor

Date after 1984

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains newspaper clippings about migrant labor in Boulder County and Colorado.

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: Alpine Balsam Area Plan

Call Number VF Alpine Balsam Area Plan

Date 2019

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on the planning and redevelopment of the former Boulder Community Hospital site located on Broadway between Alpine and Balsam Avenues. The city purchased the property in 2015.

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: Angel Tree clippings

Call Number VF Angel Tree

Date after 1995

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the Angel tree on trail by Eben G. Fine park which gets decorated with angel ornaments by unknown persons. Topics include the removal of the ornaments and heist of the ornaments by a group named the "Party of God".

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: Animals clippings

Call Number VF Animals

Date after 1965

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on wildlife, endangered species, and domesticated animals in Boulder County. Animals include birds, owls, osprey, peregrine falcons, mountain lions, deer, capshell snails, tiny boreal toads, cougars, bears, dogs, moose, coyotes, elk, prairie dogs, butterflies, bovines, northern river otter, Preble's meadow jumping mice, and bald eagles. Additional topics include but are not limited to a horse named Levi, a Canadian nesting goose located in a pond off of Boulder Creek, Toby (a 100-year-old tortoise), and Lucky (a rescue cow).

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: Arapaho Glacier clippings

Call Number VF Arapaho Glacier

Date after 1964

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: Arapaho Glacier. Topics include glacier hikes, tourism, wildlife and the history of the glacier.

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: Archaeology clippings

Call Number VF Archaeology

Date after 1975

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on Boulder County archaeological sites and discoveries.

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: Architecture and architects clippings

Call Number VF Architecture and Architects

Date after 1963

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on architectural styles, preservation, modern architecture, porches, Margaret Read and Hobart Wagener.

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: Armed Forces: Colorado National Guard clippings.

Call Number VF Armed Forces - Colorado National Guard

Date after

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the Colorado National Guard.

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: Armed Forces: United States Army, 10th Mountain Division clippings

Call Number VF Armed Forces - United States Army (10th-Mountain-Division)

Date after 1990

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the 10th Mountain Division, the "ski troups" that trained at Camp Hale during World War II.

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: Art clippings

Call Number VF Art

Date after 1983

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: public art; sculpture; the "phantom sculptor"; the mysterious appearance of SMiLE Boulder artworks around the city; a family totem pole at 802 16th Street; the Coca-Cola mural now stored at Lafayette's fire station; "Rescued Memories" installation in Central Park dedicated to the losses of the 2013 flood; public art damaged by the 2013 flood; the controversial sculptures over the entrance to Boulder High School known as "Minnie and Jake"; the removal of the "Where's Waldo" images as well as the removal of the "Untitled" sculpture, which was commissioned and completed by Kim Fields in 1973; "Los Seis de Boulder," a sculpture on the University of Colorado campus created by Jasmine Baetz; and the Slick the Pig sculpture.

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: Artists clippings

Call Number VF Artists

Date after 1956

Contents 1 vertical file.

Description One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on various Boulder and Boulder County associated artists including painters and photographers.

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