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Colorado Chautauqua
Colorado Chautauqua: Rocky Mountain Climbers Club
Call Number
212-2-53
Date
[1912]
Contents
1 photograph.
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A Bar to Heaven, A Door to Hell, undated
A Bar to Heaven, A Door to Hell, undated
Call Number
998-16-12
Date
undated
Contents
10 pages.
Description
This folder contains a photocopy of a ten-page magazine article entitled "A Bar to Heaven, A Door to Hell." Written by Ron D. Ashbach-Sladek, it was published in "The Journal of the American West" but the date of the publication is unknown.
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"Notes on Boulder in 1883
"Notes on Boulder in 1883: an Experiment, and a Beginning, in Local History."
Call Number
328-259-(1-2)
Date
1883
Description
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.
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Saloons clippings
Saloons clippings
Call Number
VF Saloons
Date
after 1906
Contents
1 vertical file.
Description
One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: Saloons in Boulder and Boulder County. Topics include statistics, saloon histories, liquor licensing, and prohibition.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union printed materials 1898-1963
Woman's Christian Temperance Union printed materials 1898-1963
Call Number
328-242-(41-46)
Date
1898-1963
Contents
5 folders.
Description
These folders contain clippings (archivally photocopied), a 1909 newsletter, 7 yearbooks, a history, a copy of W.C.T.U. messenger. 1909 Dec, and other printed materials about the WCTU, and in particular the branch in Boulder, Colo.
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Colorado Chautauqua Programs 1920-1940
Colorado Chautauqua Programs 1920-1940
Call Number
282-3-2
Date
1920-1940
Contents
12 items.
Description
This folder contains programs from performances and events held at the Boulder Chautauqua. The performers included the Russian Cossack Chorus (in 1931), harpist Alberto Salvi (in 1927, 1930 and 1932), the Quarles trio, and Metropolitan Opera Company tenor Riccardo Martin (in 1924) and soprano Phradie Wells., This folder also contains the program for W.C.T.U. Day on 26 July 1940, and two detailed programs for Chautauqua events in 1926.
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Adams family scrapbook 1881-1933 (bulk 1904-1921)
Adams family scrapbook 1881-1933 (bulk 1904-1921)
Call Number
251-1-3
Date
1881-1933
Contents
1 26 x 24 cm. v. (175 p.)
Description
This book contains clippings and other papers regarding the members and ancestors of the Guy A. and Annie (Anna) S. Adams family. It includes braided hair of Mrs. Adams's ancestors. Letters, telegrams, advertisements, clippings and other printed materials are included.
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Prohibition clippings
Prohibition clippings
Call Number
VF Prohibition
Date
after 1975
Contents
1 vertical file.
Description
One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: the history of prohibition and bootlegging in Boulder, the Better Boulder Party, the Beer Act and Beer Day . Boulder went "dry" in 1907, though by mandate of a Colorado statute which argued that 3.2 % beer was not intoxicating, a number of establishments sold 3.2% beer in the "dry" years. Boulder went "wet", meaning that all forms of alcohol could be sold, in 1967.
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Some aspects of Europe's drink problem speech 1925-1926
Some aspects of Europe's drink problem speech 1925-1926
Call Number
297-2-2
Date
1925-1926
Contents
86 p.
Description
This folder contains two typed texts of a speech that Milo Derham delivered, in the Congregational Church in Boulder on 16 January 1925 at a Woman's Christian Temperance Union banquet celebrating the fifth anniversary of the passage of the eighteenth amendment, and to Boulder teachers at the State Preparatory School in Boulder on 2 March 1926.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union Members Portraits
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Members Portraits
Call Number
221-1-39
Date
1904
Contents
1 photograph.
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Groups at Chautauqua, [1928]
Groups at Chautauqua, [1928]
Call Number
496-4-7
Date
[1928]
Contents
3 photographs (2 views).
Description
These photographs were in an envelope with "Commercial prints, 1928" written on the front. (This does not confirm date.) The photographs are thought to have been purchased by Carl Travis from the Out West Photo Shop.
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