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The register pages are interleaved with a blotting paper carrying the heading "Leading Business Houses of Central City, Col." This blotting paper is covered on both sides with advertisements for 23 businesses in Boulder, Central City, Denver, Chicago, and elsewhere.

This collection comprises the Brainard's Hotel's register for the period March 6 - Dec. 18, 1880 and a menu for the grand banquet given at the hotel on 21 Aug. 1880 in honor of President and Mrs. U. S. Grant. Many travelers stopped at the Brainard for meals, and apparently they registered each time they did so. The register therefore contains the signatures of many prominent citizens of Boulder and elsewhere., Also two cash books for 1878 and 1890. These were found by developer Bob White while attempting to restore the Arnett Building. The cash books suffered water damage during hurricane "Hugo" in the Virgin Islands, where Mr. White currently lives and had taken the books.

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.

Views of German House hotel and restaurant at 805-807 Pearl Street. All have people posed in front. Donor identifies her grandparents Frank and Mary Boecker Niederberger and a friend, Nellie Bohl, as being in the pictures.

Views of the Colorado Chautauqua Dining Hall serving and kitchen staff posed on the steps of the Dining Hall, inside the Dining Hall, by the kitchen door, and cooking outdoors.

View of the west side of the 2000 block of Broadway. Owners and workers are posed in front of some of the businesses which include W.H. Griffin Groceries at 2017 Broadway and Decks Lunch Room at 2025 Broadway (S-74).

This folder contains two programs of Delta Tau Delta, Beta Kap pa Chapter, for its 5th annual banquet at the Bowen Hotel, Boulder, Colo., on 5 June 1901, and its 20th initiation banquet at the Brookfield Restaurant in Boulder on 10 October 1902.

A Dinner menu, March 13, 1909.

View of the Eagle Restaurant at 1932 Broadway (earlier 12th Street) with employees standing in front (Tangen photo #3257)

Christmas and New Year dinner menus

Thanksgiving dinner menus

An interior view Jean's Luncheonette, Jean Van Almen, proprietor, at 1928 14th Street. No persons are visible in the picture, which shows five square tables, a line of swiveling stools, and a large heating stove near the middle of the floor. This envelope contains two prints (processed with slightly different exposures) from the same negative (Tangen photo #10389)