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View of the man-of-war Oregon, which was a member of the squadron which engaged the Spanish in Cuba during the Spanish American War.

Official record of the proceedings of the Russell A. Alger Camp of the Spanish War Veterans, from its organizational meeting in Boulder on 2 April 1926 to the final entries in 1960 which note the sickness and death of some of the last surviving members.

This collection is a photographic record of the Colorado National Guard, Company H, of their participation in the Spanish American War; and of events related to World War I in Boulder, including men being drafted and marching off the Depot to depart to the war, their return at the depot, and Armistice Day parade.

There are two pages summarizing the Spanish-American War, a brochure explaining how a Spanish War Veteran comrade was inspired as a school boy to write the Pledge of Allegiance, and the official program for the 79th national encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans and affiliated organizations in Rochester, N.Y., 10-15 September 1977., Contains a six-page history of the Russell A. Alger Auxiliary No. 17 of the Russell A. Alger Camp No. 24, United Spanish War Veterans, written in 1940 by Clarabel E. Palmer, historian. Also, a letter from the Colorado State Soldiers and Sailors Home in 1940 thanking the auxiliary for a donation to their library, and a list of auxiliary presidents 1932-1959.

Reprints of early newspaper articles about Fort Logan, a military fort established in Colorado in 1887.

View of four members of Company H, Colorado National Guard in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.

This article, which appeared in the Denver Post's Empire Magazine, gives a brief account of the war experience of the First Colorado Infantry, U.S. Volunteers.

Views of the transport ship Warren, which brought Company H back from the Philippines after the Spanish American War.

Portraits of Co. H, 1st Infantry Regiment, Colorado National Guard soldiers taken in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.

This folder contains the particularly detailed and informative diary of a Boulder businessman, covering the period of 22 May 1891 to 1 June 1901. J. B. Hiskey writes of his family life, the weather, local deaths, local, regional and national news, and his work in the grocery trade, in railroad construction, coal shipment, and other daily events that came to his notice. The ledger-size diary contains numerous newspaper clippings, some loosely filed in the volume., Notable occurrences that Hiskey mentions are his first shipments of coal in Feb. 1893, Denver bank failures and the fall in silver prices in July 1893, the Boulder Creek flood in May 1894 (with many clippings), the Daily Camera office fire on 18 Jan. 1895, laying of the Masonic Temple cornerstone in Boulder on 19 March 1895, first operation of Boulder's electric streetcar railroad on 24 June 1899, and his purchase of a horse on 29 June 1899 which had a disguised blemish., The pages of the diary are numbered. Three commemorative U. S. postage stamps issued for the World's Columbian Exposition are attached to page 61 (February 1893).

Views of a parade by Grand Army of the Republic members on Pearl Street in the 1600 block. State Preparatory School is in the background in several views with "12" on the chimney, indicating the year. Another view shows the horse-drawn fire truck from Station no. 3, horses are Doc and Pat, drivers are Ed Miller and Art Pettengill. Other views show school girls (some of them African Americans) and Spanish American War veterans.