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digColl_coloradoHistoricalMaps
This collection of maps covers the time period from the origins of the Territory of Colorado through the early twentieth century. These maps reveal the growth of communities around Colorado, with a focus on the city of Boulder and other towns in Boulder county. Thematic maps showing early resource extraction, agriculture, irrigation systems, transportation, homesteading patterns, and tourism add to the story of the state’s development. A highlight of this collection is a series of most of Louis Nell’s maps of the state of Colorado, from 1880-1907, which offer a changing portrait of the state in exceptional detail. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/yh7m-z633
digColl_rogerGBarryGlacierPhotos
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado has a collection of Glacier Photographs that consists of roughly 30,000 photographs of glaciers, mostly taken in the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Greenland. Photographs were taken from both the air and the ground with a date range from the 1890s to the 1980s. The collection also includes a smaller number of photographs of glaciers in Europe, South America, the Himalayas, and Antarctica. These images constitute an important historical record, as well as a data collection of interest to those studying the response of glaciers to climate change. This digital collection consists of a selection of images from the collection. For more information about the NSIDC data, please see Glacier Photograph Collection, Version 1. Please include the permanent address https://doi.org/10.26040/k237-e673 when sharing or citing the collection.
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digColl_aerialPhotographsCO
Aerial Photographs of Colorado collection metadata from the University of Colorado Boulder. Aerial photographs dramatically portray the changing landscape of Colorado: a mountain valley can be seen where there is now a reservoir; changes in the vegetation and ground cover can be traced over the years, and the growth of towns and cities documented. This collection provides access to more than 2,800 aerial photographs of Colorado taken by the U.S. Forest Service, Soil Conservation Service, and Agricultural Adjustment Administration from 1936 to 1947. Each photograph is identified by a project or county code followed by the roll and frame numbers assigned by the photographing agency.
digColl_coloradoDirectories
City and county directories were commercially published, individual and business directories prior to telephone books and the yellow pages. They were produced starting in the nineteenth century and continued late into the twentieth century. In Colorado, such directories began in the 1870s. Since they were often produced annually, especially in the case of larger towns and cities, they helpfully augment the federal manuscript census, which only appeared every decade. City and county directories entries typically show a name (sometimes spouse), occupation, business address, and residence. After 1910, there was sometimes a reverse directory by street address. There were often classified sections by business type, usually in the back; municipal information was usually in the front. By the mid-nineteenth century, telephone numbers had started to appear, along with indications of property ownership. A cross index of telephone numbers appeared later. Directories have been useful to social and ethnic historians, and to genealogists, for use in social mobility studies, locating and describing individuals, family and community reconstitution, creating occupational charts, and historic preservation. Currently this collection consists primarily of directories from Leadville, Colorado Springs, and Denver. The collection will continue to grow as new materials are added. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/dm4s-kf30
digColl_cuMuseumVertebrate
The collection contains field notebooks, specimen ledgers, correspondences, and other documents relating to the Vertebrate Collections at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. The serial field notes of pioneering Colorado naturalists Denis Gale and Edward Royale Warren richly document the fauna and ecology of early Colorado, describing specimens collected while on expeditions throughout the state through photos and detailed journal entries ranging from 1860-1940. The Vertebrate ledger series represents the original accounting system for the museum, capturing every specimen accessioned into the collection along with associated locality, morphometric and biological data. Letters and other documentation pertain to vertebrate specimen holdings and the long lineage of curators since the museum’s inception in 1902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/y3h1-1593
digColl_dwightGarriguesLavender
This collection contains three photograph albums from the summers of 1928, 1930, and 1931, and includes images of Colorado mountains, first ascents, and new routes. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/94wb-hw34
digColl_iraCurrent
The Ira Current Collection contains material from amateur photographer and motion picture filmmaker Ira Current. CU Boulder alumnus Ira Current (1910-2009) was a chemist for the Agfa Ansco Company, where he was head of the Industrial Photo Division and tested many products produced by the company. Upon retirement he began teaching photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He is the author of three photography books and co-author of another, he holds five patents in photographic technology, and he was the long-time president of the Binghamton Camera Club, an amateur film and photography society in Binghamton, New York.
digColl_JapaneseCommunityHistory
The CU Japanese & Japanese American Community History Project documents the history of Japanese and Japanese American students, faculty, and staff at the University of Colorado. The project began in 2019 to celebrate the long and vibrant history of this university community and to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of Japanese American incarceration in the United States. This collection contains documents, photos, audio and video recordings, and other materials from the University Libraries’ Archives, as well as oral history interviews conducted by CU Boulder students working on the project. This project is generously supported by the CU Boulder Outreach Committee.
digColl_medievalManuscript
This collection consists of European manuscript leaves spanning the 12th - 17th centuries. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/06t9-nh03
digColl_miningMapsCO
This collection provides access to scanned maps of various mines, lodes, and claims in Colorado from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. These maps come from a variety of creators, including private publishers and US government agencies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/e40r-nd84
digColl_tdaCockerell
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948), professor of zoology at the University of Colorado from 1904 to 1934, was an internationally known naturalist who researched and published prolifically in zoology, botany, ecology, and paleontology. He is best known for his work on bees. This digital collection focuses on his field work at the Florissant Fossil Beds in Teller County, Colorado (now a National Monument), one of the world’s richest fossil deposits. Cockerell excavated at the site between 1906 and 1908 and collected thousands of specimens, nearly 2,000 of which are now held by the University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Natural History. Included in this digital collection are Cockerell’s research notes on species found at Florissant (including new species), letters from his colleagues pertaining to Florissant, lantern slide images of Florissant specimens, and a film showing ground bees nesting. Where possible, references to records in the Museum of Natural History’s Specify database are present. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/cdcv-sb82
digColl_walterOrrRoberts
Internationally celebrated solar astronomer and professor of Astro-Geophysics, Walter Orr Roberts (1915-1990), was a principal figure in many scientific developments in Colorado. Superintendent of the High Altitude Observatory in Climax, Colorado from 1940 to 1957, Roberts served as director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder from its founding in 1960 until 1968. This curated collection of material from the Walter Orr Roberts Papers reflects the major research and everyday operation of the High Altitude Observatory, the founding of NCAR, and the design and construction of the first solar coronograph telescope in the Western Hemisphere, among other topics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/gp7q-zk13
digColl_westermeierRodeo
Clifford P. Westermeier (1910-1968) and Therese S. Westermeier (1902-1986), both former professors at the University of Colorado Boulder, were prolific collectors on the topics of cowboys, rodeo history, and the American West. This collection contains photographs and photo-postcards related to rodeo history, with particular emphasis on women in rodeo and the Rocky Mountain region. Some material comes from the personal collections of trick riders and rodeo performers Jim Eskew, Florence Randolph, Leonard Stroud, and Mayme Saunders Stroud, which had been obtained by the Westermeiers in the course of their research.
digColl_WWI
The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries' World War I Collection Online offers a rich array of primary-source material related to the First World War. The digital collection consists of over 1,100 titles (55,000+ pages), mainly published during the war years, and represents a wide range of formats, genres, geopolitical units, and subject matter. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25810/4m7s-s286
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