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Denver-Boulder Turnpike printed materials
Denver-Boulder Turnpike printed materials
Call Number
328-102-(20-23)
Date
1910-1957
Contents
4 folders.
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St. George scrapbook 1948-1970
St. George scrapbook 1948-1970
Call Number
300-10-1
Date
1948-1970
Contents
1 v.
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Aerial views of the Denver Boulder Turnpike under construction
Aerial views of the Denver Boulder Turnpike under construction
Call Number
208-6-11
Date
1950-1951
Contents
3 oversize photographs.
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Boulder (Colo.) aerial photographs
Boulder (Colo.) aerial photographs
Call Number
511-1-4
Date
1970
Contents
2 photographs.
Description
This folder contains two aerial photographs of Boulder along South Broadway St. and the Denver-Boulder Turnpike (US 36), showing the Front Range and Continental Divide, Bear Mt., Green Mt., Flagstaff Mt., and the Flatirons; Williams Towers, Frasier Meadows, Martin Acres and Table Mesa developments, and NCAR.
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Focus Magazine 1965 January 17
Focus Magazine 1965 January 17
Call Number
767 n65/01/17
Date
1965
Contents
1 issue.
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Roads
Roads: Boulder County clippings
Call Number
VF Roads
Date
after 1956
Contents
1 vertical file.
Description
One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on Boulder County roads. Topics include: the history of county roads, county roads given back to private land owners, pre-turnpike history, wagon roads, the first road to Estes Park, Mountain View Road, Flagstaff Road, the Diagonal Highway, Peak to Peak Highway, and the pillars at the intersection of U.S. 287 and Arapahoe Road.
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Boulder (Colo.) streets photographs [1950-1979]
Boulder (Colo.) streets photographs [1950-1979]
Call Number
511-5-28
Date
[1950-1979]
Contents
37 photographs.
Description
This folder contains photographs of streets in Boulder, Colorado.
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Earl R. Mosburg Collection
Earl R. Mosburg Collection
Call Number
750-9-10
Date
1961-1972
Contents
7 photographs.
Description
Seven digital color prints created by Earl Mosburg from slides he took between 1961 and 1972.
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Denver Boulder Turnpike
Denver Boulder Turnpike: last cars paying toll, ceremony, 14 Sept. 1967
Call Number
504-5-2g
Date
1967
Contents
16 photographs (6 digitized).
Description
Photographs of the celebration of the last day of paying tolls at the Denver Boulder Turnpike tollgate. There are also photographs taken at the Harvest House luncheon celebrating the event which include a rear-side view of Roderick L. Downing, "Father of the Turnpike", getting a plaque from Chamber of Commerce President Guy A. Hollenbeck.
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Denver Boulder Turnpike
Denver Boulder Turnpike: Ribbon cutting ceremony, 19 Jan. 1952
Call Number
504-5-2d
Date
1952
Contents
18 photographs (13 views).
Description
Photographs of the Denver Boulder Turnpike ribbon cutting ceremony on 19 Jan. 1952.
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North Boulder east of Broadway aerial photographs, 1958
North Boulder east of Broadway aerial photographs, 1958
Call Number
511-1-1b
Date
1958
Contents
3 photographs.
Description
This folder contains seven overlapping aerial photographs of Boulder between the foothills and Broadway, and between Mapleton and Violet avenues, showing the entrance to Sunshine Canyon, North Boulder Park and Wonderland Lake, as well as housing developments. Two aerial photographs are of the Denver-Boulder Turnpike southeast of Boulder.
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Boulder County (Colo.) roads writings
Boulder County (Colo.) roads writings
Call Number
301-2-8
Contents
1 folder.
Description
Five handwritten historical anecdotes about early roads in Boulder, Colo., and vicinity. The account of a trip up Boulder Canyon in 1871 is Parsons' extract from a letter written by J.H. Tice; Parsons dated his transcript Feb. 1934; the folder contains two 7-page transcripts of this account. There also are two copies of his 6-8 page article dated Jan. 1934 which begins "When the great rush to the gold fields was on..." The first page of his Gregory Canyon story is missing.
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Denver Boulder Turnpike
Denver Boulder Turnpike: Tollhouse cornerstone ceremony photographs 1951 Sept. 20
Call Number
504-5-2c
Date
1951
Contents
18 photographs (15 views)
Description
Photographs of the Denver Boulder Turnpike tollhouse cornerstone laying ceremony on 20 Sept. 1951.
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Denver Boulder Turnpike
Denver Boulder Turnpike: Ground breaking ceremony photographs 1950 Oct.16
Call Number
504-5-2a
Date
1950
Contents
8 photographs (7 views).
Description
Photographs of the Denver Boulder Turnpike ground breaking ceremony on 16 October 1950. Also a photograph of a group of men in an office, standing on a seal of the State of Colorado, and a sign promoting the building of the Denver-Boulder Turnpike.
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Denver Boulder Turnpike
Denver Boulder Turnpike: 1 millionth car ceremony photographs 1952 August 20
Call Number
504-5-2e
Date
1952
Contents
5 photographs.
Description
Photographs of the celebration of the 1 millionth car to pass through the Denver Boulder Turnpike tollgate on 20 August 1952.
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Clinton. M. Tyler papers 1865-1878
Clinton. M. Tyler papers 1865-1878
Call Number
328-219-22
Date
1865-1878
Contents
3 items.
Description
This folder contains a receipt for stock shares purchased in a wagon road company in 1865, and two local cancelled checks signed by Tyler.
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Boulder (Colo.) aerial photographs [1950-1959]
Boulder (Colo.) aerial photographs [1950-1959]
Call Number
511-1-2
Date
1950-1959
Contents
6 photographs.
Description
This folder contains six aerial photographs of Boulder at South Broadway (Marshall Road) and Baseline Road, showing the National Bureau of Standards, Martin Acres, Basemar Shopping Center and the Denver-Boulder Turnpike (US 36).
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Newspaper articles by Watts 1902-1943
Newspaper articles by Watts 1902-1943
Call Number
322-1-7
Date
1902-1943
Contents
3 pages.
Description
This folder contains newspaper clippings of articles written by Watts about early milling in Boulder County, and on analysis of tungsten ores; there is also an article about Watts' discovery of a new smelting process which purified the extracted ore, and several articles about a scientific expedition to Arapaho Glacier in 1902, of which Watts was a participant.
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Municipal Codes, Ordinances, budgets, reports, 1918-1971
Municipal Codes, Ordinances, budgets, reports, 1918-1971
Call Number
787-2
Date
1918-1971
Contents
1 box.
Description
BOX 2 contains: City Budgets, 1918-1950; Municipal Code publicity 1965-1971; Muncipal Code offenses publicity 1969-1971; Zoning Sign Code publicity 1970; City sign code, 1970-1971 (local opinions on billboards); City building code, 1965-1971 (local opinions on the building code); Municipal ordinances and penalties, 1969-1971 (many of the newspaper articles and letters to the editor are about the Hippies in Central Park); and two Denver-Boulder Toll Road studies 1948 and 1950 which include six photographs of Boulder areas to be inpacted by the road construction.
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Anecdotal writings [1939-1945]
Anecdotal writings [1939-1945]
Call Number
301-2-9
Date
1939-1945
Contents
1 folder.
Description
This folder contains 4 handwritten anecdotes. One page (Last Lines of Story of Toll Roads) begins "I knew most of the men whose names I have mentioned" [in BHS 301-2-8] and ends "I am glad I was born early enough to hear the stories of the Pioneer trail blazers and to bask in the light of their fires..." There are 2 copies of his article on meeting Czechoslovakia President Eduard Benes on Flagstaff Mountain in 1939, and notes on Benes' speech at C.U. on 12 June 1939. Sixteen page story entitled "Toll Roads."
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James P. Maxwell biographical sketch
James P. Maxwell biographical sketch
Call Number
832-2-26
Date
1898
Contents
3 p.
Description
A two-page biographical sketch and a portrait.
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Clinton Monroe Tyler biographical sketch, 1898
Clinton Monroe Tyler biographical sketch, 1898
Call Number
832-2-93
Date
1898
Contents
2 p.
Description
A two-page biographical sketch.
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Boulder (Colo.) aerial photographs
Boulder (Colo.) aerial photographs
Call Number
511-1-6
Date
[1970]
Contents
5 contact sheets (46 images).
Description
Undated contact sheets with small aerial photographs of Boulder taken from the east looking west at the Continental Divide, from behind the Flatirons looking north along the Foothills, and directly over Table Mesa. Circa 1970.
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KBOL and KBVL Radio reel to reels
KBOL and KBVL Radio reel to reels: Denver Boulder Turnpike dedication ceremony
Call Number
690-2-2(A-C)
Date
1952
Contents
3 reel to reel tapes.
Description
KBOL on-the-spot description of the Denver Boulder Turnpike ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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Buckingham Brothers collection.
Buckingham Brothers collection.
Call Number
805
Date
[1873-1939]
Contents
5 boxes and 9 ledgers.
Description
This collection consists of business papers of Charles G. Buckingham and Walter A. Buckingham including records related to Boulder and Caribou Wagon Road Company (1873-1884), The Left Hand and Jamestown Wagon Road Company (1877-1890), ledgers and business journals pertaining to the toll roads and the first ledgers of the Boulder Bank in 1874 and National State Bank in 1877.
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