TOPICS INCLUDE:
Bartlett, Albert writings: Blue Line amendment, growth, housing, and population.
Boulder Daily Doings, May 1977.
Boulder Promotional Materials: one 1950s pamphlet about Boulder.
Boyd Smelter.
Buildings and Properties: Wise farmhouse, Donnelly farmstead, David Skaggs Federal Building (NOAA), McKenzie No.1 oil well, 1887 Orchard Ave (solar harvest, zero energy home), Colorado Building, mills (6th and Canyon area), and Ewing Farm.
City planning: "Boulder-Colorado: City Planning and Beautification Boulder Planning and Parks Commission" by S.R.. DeBoer (1944?); "The Olmsted Legacy and the Example of Boulder, Colorado" by Martha Ripley (1998); "the Service Area Concept: A Program for Boulder's Planned Development" (1965), and a list of planning board members from 1950-2001.
Downtown Boulder, including Pearl Street. A VHS video of a Channel 8 segment "Give My Regards to Pearl Street - Celebrating 25 Years of the Pearl Street Mall" is housed in the Audio visual collection at Carnegie Library.
Erie: schools history and "Erie: Yesterday and Today" by Sociology Classes of Erie High School (1967).
Floods: "Good Baptist Weather: Boulder County and the Flood of 1894" by Mona Lambrecht Cornwell and "History of Flooding in Boulder County" incomplete version by Elizabeth Black (2000).
Interview notes: notes by Dan Corson related to interviews conducted in 1999 with Gary Klaphake, Delores S. "Dee" Bailey, Robert McKelvey, Camilla Laughlin, Joseph Stepanek, and Edith Eilender.
Limerick poetry about people, many of whom have been involved in Boulder politics, including: Jane Greenfield, Bob Greenlee, B.J. Miller, Dick Hansen, Steve Pomerance, Tad Kline, Dick Harris, Jim Piper, Linda Jourgensen and others identified only by first name. the author/s are unclear.
Louisville: "Short History of Louisville," "A Preservation Master Plan" (1998), "How Louisville Grew Up: 1880-1900" By Peter Lindquist (Louisville Historian, 2012).
Lyons: short histories and Lyons Historic District.
Nomad co-housing.
Parks and Open Space: general info as well as specific information on Rabbit Mountain, Walden Ponds, "History of Boulder Mountain Parks" by Mary Reilley-McNellan, and 1992 Boulder County Open Space Survey.
People: Elmer Cobb, Janet Smock Roberts, Charles Haertling, Hannah Connell Barker, William Tull and Saco R. DeBoer.
Shopping malls: Centennial mall project and history of Crossroads Mall.
Sports history: "A Short History of the Rocky Mountain Climbers Club" and Bolder Boulder running race history by year.
Students' Steam Choo Choo (1963).
University of Colorado: "George Norlin and the Development of the Campus" by Albert Bartlett and campus buildings history.
Miscellaneous articles and papers including: "Nederland Through the Years" pamphlet; "Places and Names of the Left Hand Valley" article by Anne Dyni; "Growth Management in Boulder, Colorado: A Case Study" by de Raismes, Hoyt, Pollock, Gordon and Gehr; City of Boulder Charter history; "Glacier, Rock & Rail: Remembering the Switzerland Trail" by Scott Stetson Allen; "Northern Lights: Boulder's Swedish Heritage" by Cynthia Shaw McLaughlin; "Whatever happened to Noland?" by C. Ike Ikelman; Colorado Music Festival history; Rocky Flats Envision newsletter, March 26, 2001, and "Boulder's Gay History: Out of the Shadows" 2009 colloquium program.
Oversize: Illustration of Marcelee Grallapp and a proclamation about naming of Marcelee Gralapp Children's Library (2003).These items can be found in the oversize area by call number.
