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This folder contains special Boulder Daily Camera newspaper supplements that pertain to the history of Boulder County.

This research was compiled in 1939 by Clarence L. Spears. "This study is an experiment in that it takes a year, selected more or less arbitrarily, and attempts to determine the general situation, from an examination of the documents dealing with that year and from interviews with persons familiar with Boulder in that year; it attempts also to compare, after the passage of more than fifty years, the values of records with the memories of people who knew the town in that year, and have remained through the changing scenes.

One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: historic and contemporary Boulder hotels, including: the Albany, Alpine, American House, Arnett, Belvidere House, Boulder House (Boulder's first hotel), Bowen, Colorado House, Curran, Dewey, Gateway, German House, Harvest House, James, Lund, Metropolitan, Miles, Mountain View, Monitcello, and Park Allen (which was never completed) and St. Julien Hotels. This file excludes the Boulderado Hotel which has its own separate file.

Views of Boulder Hose Company No. 1 harnessed to their hose cart in preparation for a tournament, ca. 1895. They are seen on Pearl Street in the 1100 block in front of the Boulder House, at the same location with Trezise Undertaking behind them. An unidentified hose team is seen racing in the 1200 block of Pearl Street.

Views of Dan L. Lynch and Tim Lynch freight wagon teams.

Folder 22 contains two guides to Colorado (esp. Denver) hotels, 1935 and 1939. Folder 23 has printed materials pertaining to Boulder (Colo.) hotels. The remaining folders contain archivally photocopied clippings and other printed materials about the Albany Hotel (f.24), the Antlers Hotel (f.25), the Arlington Hotel (f.26), the Hotel Boulderado (f.27), the St. Julian Hotel (f.28), and the Windsor Hotel (f.29)

Photocopies of two papers referred to in "A Look At Boulder" by Phyllis Smith, as being written for the Boulder Historical Society by Professor W. H. Burger in 1945. The papers were printed in the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper on 31 July 1945.

Views of the Boulder House, Boulder's earliest hotel, on the northeast corner of 11th and Pearl Streets.