Call Number 538
Date 1894-[1939]
Contents 4 boxes (1031 photographs in 55 envelopes)
Description Photographs of snapshot quality taken by Darwin Andrews of wildflowers, plants and trees native to the Rocky Mountain region. Some of these photos were used to illustrate his Rockmont Nursery seed catalogs. Collection also includes views of Rockmont Nursery, Boulder, Boulder County and surrounding regions as well as family photographs of the Darwin Andrews family, Samuel R. Wheeler family, relatives and friends., There is also an oversize portrait of Herbert N. Wheeler located in 538-O-1. Wheeler was the son of Rev. Samuel Wheeler, the first pastor of Boulder's Seventh Day Baptist Church, and the co-discoverer (with Darwin Andrews, a brother-in-law) that the ice mass on Arapaho Peak was indeed a glacier. (NOTE: Eben G. Fine also claimed to be the discoverer. See BHS 328-8-18 for clippings on the subject.)