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Bluebird Cottage
Bluebird Cottage: membership
Call Number
211-1-7
Date
[1910-1929]
Contents
9 photographs.
Description
Photographs of women members of the Holiday House Association at Bluebird Cottage, 1215 Baseline Road in Boulder, Colorado, ca. 1910s and 1920s.
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Jean B. Sherwood's writings
Jean B. Sherwood's writings, Value of an art museum
Call Number
264-1-28
Contents
3 items.
Description
Contains Jean Sherwood's printed Christmas card, undated, with a poem "On Colorado," and her manuscript article on "The value of an art museum," also undated.
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A. A. Paddock collection
A. A. Paddock collection: Bluebird Cottage and Bluebird Lodge
Call Number
211
Date
[1911-1949]
Contents
75 photographs, in eight folders.
Description
Photographs of the Bluebird Cottage in Boulder, and the Bluebird Lodge in Gold Hill, Colorado.
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Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.) and Bluebird Lodge (Gold Hill, Colo.) brochures
Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.) and Bluebird Lodge (Gold Hill, Colo.) brochures
Call Number
264-1-14
Date
[1930-1939]
Contents
2 items.
Description
These two 8-page brochures describe the vacation possibilities of the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. Each is amply illustrated with photographs and contains helpful information for the traveller.
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Bluebird Club scrapbook
Bluebird Club scrapbook
Call Number
264-1-9
Contents
1 v.
Description
Contains photographs from the first summer of the Blue Bird Cottage showing the interior and exterior of the house in 1911, and various clippings, incoming correspondence and other papers regarding the Blue Bird Club that Mrs. Sherwood collected. The latter part of the scrapbook contains papers concerning fund-raising activities of the Altrua Lend a Hand Circle of which Mrs. Sherwood was the president, ca. 1908. Clippings, songs, letters, telegrams, poems, and other printed materials are included.
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Bluebird Cottage and Bluebird Lodge brochures
Bluebird Cottage and Bluebird Lodge brochures
Call Number
264-1-11
Date
1911-[1939]
Contents
2 items.
Description
The Burlington Railroad produced these 16-page brochures to publicize the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. Both are amply illustrated with photographs, and contain train fares and schedules.
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Bluebird Cottage
Bluebird Cottage
Call Number
211-O-1
Date
[1910-1919]
Contents
4 photographs.
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Bluebird Cottage, Boulder, Colorado
Bluebird Cottage, Boulder, Colorado: where dreams come true
Call Number
264-1-12
Date
[1929]
Contents
1 item.
Description
The Rock Island railroad produced this fold-out brochure to advertise its train service to the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. It contains three photos, and such information as train fares and schedules. Probably late 20s or early 30s.
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Oral History with Marie Vanderpoel, OH0439
Oral History with Marie Vanderpoel, OH0439
Call Number
OH0439
Date
1970
Contents
1 sound cassette.
Description
Marie Vanderpoel, a summer resident of Gold Hill, talks about her time there starting in 1923. She shares specific memories and some of her knowledge of Gold Hill history.
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Bluebird Cottage and Bluebird Lodge circulars
Bluebird Cottage and Bluebird Lodge circulars
Call Number
264-1-15
Date
1911-[1939]
Contents
12 leaves.
Description
These are various printings of a one-page circular titled, Vacation in the Rocky Mountains, which briefly describing the Blue Bird Cottage and the Blue Bird Lodge, which were the Holiday House Association's two retreats for self- supporting women of Chicago who would desire to vacation in Colorado.
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Bluebird Club monthly bulletins
Bluebird Club monthly bulletins
Call Number
264-1-(16-24)
Date
1930-1954
Contents
9 folders (34 items)
Description
These are various issues of the Blue Bird Club's monthly newsletter. Except for the 12-page twentieth anniversary bulletin of October 1930 (2 copies), the bulletin was four pages in length.
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News releases
News releases
Call Number
264-1-27
Date
1922-1938
Contents
1 folder.
Description
Contains typescripts of biographical articles about Jean Sherwood. Also, an article on "How Blue Bird Cottage was organized and succeeded."
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Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.)
Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.)
Call Number
264-1-13
Date
1931
Contents
1 item.
Description
The railroad issued this fold-out brochure to publicize its service to the Bluebird Club's two retreats for Chicago women in Boulder and Gold Hill, Colorado. It contains five photos, train schedules and fares, and other information for the tourist.
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Bluebird Club collection.
Bluebird Club collection.
Call Number
264
Date
[1922-1964]
Contents
1 box. (30 folders).
Description
This collection contains newspaper clippings, as well as two scrapbooks of clippings and photographs, a rough draft of a speech acknowledging the unveiling of a portrait of Mrs. Jean B. Sherwood, promotional pamphlets and railroad schedules pertaining to Blue Bird Cottage, correspondence to and from Mrs. Sherwood, Blue Bird Club Bulletins 1931-1954, rough drafts of news releases in the 1930s, and the club's 1964 membership cards.
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Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.)
Bluebird Cottage (Boulder, Colo.)
Call Number
211-1-6
Date
1911-1918
Contents
26 photographs (24 views).
Description
Photographs of Bluebird Cottage at 1215 Baseline Road in Boulder, Colorado, 1911-1918.
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Clippings (bulk 1911-1949)
Clippings (bulk 1911-1949)
Call Number
264-1-(1-7)
Contents
7 folders.
Description
Contains clippings, mostly from the Boulder Daily Camera, and three index cards from that newspaper's morgue file, documenting the history of the Blue Bird Club. Many of the earlier clippings (1908-1931) are archival photocopies from the two Jean Sherwood scrapbooks (264-1-8 and 264-1-9)
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Jean Sherwood's correspondence
Jean Sherwood's correspondence
Call Number
264-1-25
Contents
15 items.
Description
Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Jean Sherwood, some typewritten and some manuscript. One describes a portrait of her by Ralph Clarkson. Most of Mrs. Sherwood's outgoing letters in this folder are to A. A. "Gov." Paddock.
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At the Bluebird Cottage.
At the Bluebird Cottage.
Call Number
621-1-7
Date
1921
Contents
2 photographs.
Description
One photograph of the Bluebird Cottage at 1215 Baseline Road and one photograph of Mrs. Jean B. Sherwood believed to be working in the cottage garden, 1921.
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Bluebird Cottage scrapbook
Bluebird Cottage scrapbook
Call Number
264-1-8
Date
1908-1934
Description
Contains correspondence, clippings and other papers regarding the establishment and continued operation of the Blue Bird Cottage in Boulder. The pages of the scrapbook are brittle.
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