Park Names Research Collection

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Title: Park Names Research Collection
Call Number: HIST 4416
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: Photographs.
Maps.
Documents.
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Oral histories.

Pages

: Children fishing

Call Number 205-1-10

Date 1950-1980

Contents 14 photos (3 digitized).

Description Photographs of people and children fishing at the Kids' Fishing Pond.

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: 800 Arapahoe Avenue

Call Number 207-1-17

Date [1885-1900]

Contents 5 photographs (3 views).

Description Views of 800 Arapahoe Avenue in ca. 1885-ca. 1900. It was the home of Ezra K. Barker and Hannah Barker. Hannah Barker lived in the house for more than 30 years until her death in 1918.

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: 1500 block of Spruce Street

Call Number 207-15-47

Date 1928

Contents 2 photographs (1 view).

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: 1287 9th Street: Columbia Cemetery

Call Number 207-18-45

Date [1880-1900]

Contents 12 photographs (9 views)

Description Views of Columbia Cemetery, also known as Pioneer Cemetery and Park Cemetery. Some show the Flatirons in the background and some show the few scattered houses west of the cemetery.

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: Columbia Cemetery: people at gravesides photographs, [1880-1899]

Call Number 207-18-47

Date [1880-1899]

Contents 7 photographs.

Description Views of people at Columbia Cemetery, also known as Pioneer Cemetery and Park Cemetery. They include Samantha Upton at the grave of her husband, Louis, and mourners at the funeral of miner, Ingels Louis Ericson, who was killed in the Ingram Mine in Salina.

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: 1107 12th Street

Call Number 207-19-54

Date 1899-1952

Contents 7 photographs (4 views)

Description Views of the house at 1107 12th Street. One view shows Kate and John Harbeck and their pet dog posed on the porch. Three views show the building as the Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity.

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: Parks on Euclid

Call Number 207-20-7

Date 1937-1963

Contents 2 photographs.

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: Scott Carpenter and the Aurora 7 space flight newspaper clippings 1962

Call Number 256-1-7

Date 1962

Contents 1 folder.

Description Newspaper clippings about Scott Carpenter's space flight in the Aurora 7.

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: Boulder (Colo.) and vicinity parks and resorts clippings, 1943-1962

Call Number 301-2-39

Date 1943-1962

Contents 1 folder (9 p.)

Description This folder contains archival photocopies of newspaper clippings concerning parks and resorts in the vicinity of Boulder, Colo. Martin Parsons collected the clippings.

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: Arapaho Glacier, printed materials, [1930]-1985

Call Number 328-8-1

Date [1930]-1985

Contents 17 items (1 digitized).

Description Various articles about the Arapaho Glacier in Boulder County, Colo. Some were written by Eben G. Fine, who claimed to have been the discoverer of the glacier. Claims of discovery were also made by Junius Henderson, H.N. Wheeler and Darwin Andrews. Some of the articles in this folder consider the size of the glacier over the years. Clippings exist in digital format only.

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: Hannah Barker, printed materials 1905-1921

Call Number 328-18-23

Date 1905-1921

Contents 1 folder.

Description Boulder Daily Camera clippings, Boulder City Council resolutions, a printing plate of a portrait photo, and a Daily Camera index of materials about Hannah C. Barker and her donations of land for Barker Park in the city of Boulder in 1911, etc. Her husband was Ezra Barker.

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: Gifts to the City of Boulder

Call Number 328-34-36

Date 1881-1948

Contents 1 folder.

Description This folder contains a list compiled by A. A. Paddock of gifts made to the City of Boulder. It includes the year of the gift and the donor's name (Boulder County, U.S. Government, and others).

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