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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.

A group portrait of 7 men, two (McPhillips and Waxham) in uniform for riding horses or motorcycles, on the steps of the Boulder County Courthouse on Pearl Street, in 1927. Robert V. Blum, the sheriff is in the center, Harrison Waxham on the left and Miles McPhillips at the right. Second from right is Ed Tangen. The other men are not identified (Tangen photo #10636)