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456 document(s) found, displaying results 1 to 20 Previous Page Next Page Records of the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region, a nonpartisan organization established, as part of the National League of Women Voters, to 'promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government.' Materials in this collection document the activities of the Colorado Springs area League from its inception in 1938 through the 1990s and include correspondence, annual reports, meeting minutes, subject (research) files, newsletters, publications, scrap Repository: Special Collections in the 1905 Carnegie Library, Pikes Peak Library District, For over 50 years, Ival V. Goslin (1911-1991) worked in water resources. This collection contains records from throughout his career. The bulk of the collection contains records from the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority where Goslin served as the first Executive Director and later as a consultant. The Authority (est. 1981) has conducted water project feasibility studies and created and implemented financing programs for water and wastewater infrastructures. Th Repository: Colorado State University Water Resources Archive Personal papers of Ruth Banning Lewis and her husband, Raymond Lewis, and business records from their livestock ranching operation, the Banning-Lewis Ranches. Correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and subject files, largely concerning the Lewis' raising of registered Hereford cattle, comprise the bulk of this collection. Also included are a small number of materials concerning Raymond's second wife, Carla Dines Lewis, and plans, staring in the 1980s, for the development of t Repository: Special Collections in the 1905 Carnegie Library, Pikes Peak Library District, The Larimer County District Court Map Collection (1884-1953) contains maps of water-related structures used to establish water rights and settle water disputes in district courts. The maps provide information regarding water adjudication and water litigation in the first half of the twentieth century. The information on some of the more comprehensive maps offer details about the physical description, capacity and water source of large canals, ditches, reservoirs and wells. Collec Repository: Colorado State University Water Resources Archive The "Father of Interstate River Compacts," Delph E. Carpenter (1877-1951) served the state of Colorado as a lawyer, state senator and river commissioner. He wrote, negotiated and promoted the Colorado River Compact, among others, following his service as lead counsel in the Repository: Colorado State University Water Resources Archive After retiring as an engineer, Charles Fisk researched and wrote a book about Denver's water. The materials in the collection mostly relate to the book Fisk was completing at the end of his life, Repository: Colorado State University Water Resources Archive James L. Ogilvie (1911-1995) had a long and fruitful career with the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the field of irrigation and water management. He worked successfully on the Colorado-Big Thompson Project and was the Project Manager for the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project in southeast Colorado. The collection contains professional files related to Ogilvie's career as well as desk diaries, which serve as a guide to his daily activities, and photographs. Repository: Colorado State University Water Resources Archive Colorado State University's strength in groundwater research evolved naturally from the state's early residents needing information on irrigated agriculture. The data, maps, charts, drafts, correspondence, photographs, final reports and reference materials that were produced by or collected for these groundwater studies over the years are what comprise the Groundwater Data Collection. Materials relate to the groundwater studies that CSU researchers conducted primarily in eastern Repository: Colorado State University Water Resources Archive The Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1904 as a non-sectarian sanatorium to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients in all stages of the disease. The society was founded by a group of immigrant Eastern European Jewish men, many of whom were themselves victims of TB. For decades patients flocked to Denver from all over the country and were admitted free of charge. In the early years, the sanatorium was headed by Dr. Charles Spivak as Secretary (1904-1927) and by Philip H Repository: Ira M. Beck Memorial Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Penrose Library, University of Denver, 2150 E. Evans Ave., Denver, CO 80208-2007 This collection includes card-mounted albumen prints of Manitou Springs, Colorado and Garden of the Gods. Repository: University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research John A. Love Papers(10 hits) The John A. Love collection at the University of Denver emphasizes his activities as a Republican governor and politician. The collection includes personal correspondence and correspondence related to his activities prior to running for governor of Colorado in 1962. The majority of the collection consists of material and correspondence relating to his involvement with the Republican Governors Association, as well as his campaigns for governor in 1962, 1966, and 1970. Repository: Special Collections and Archives, Penrose Library, University of Denver, 2150 E. Evans Ave., Denver, CO 80208 "The fame of Colorado's capitol city, nestling in a valley flooded with sunshine, protected from the extreme heat and cold, attracted not only the ambitious searcher for wealth, but also the enfeebled seeker of health." (Rabbi William Friedman, 1923). For many years Denver faced a serious social problem when hundreds of people severely ill with tuberculosis, also known as the "White Plague" converged on the city, attracted by the reputation Denver had already acquired as the "world's sanatorium." Because of Repository: Ira M. Beck Memorial Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Penrose Library, University of Denver, 2150 E. Evans Ave., Denver, CO 80208-2007 The collection contains materials including those relating to governmental economic policies, papers from Dr. Johnson's term of service as a Regent, and campaign and congressional materials from his tenure as a U.S. Representative. Repository: Archives and Special Collections, Auraria Library. Inventory of the CF&I Archives(10 hits) The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was a firm of enormous importance to the industrialization of the West and played a pivotal role in the history of American labor relations. The records cover all aspects of the company's creation, operation and decline. Repository: Bessemer Historical Society, This collection contains material from the Pikes Peak Family Counseling and Mental Health Center and, more specifically, from its two parent organizations, Associated Charities and the Colorado Springs Child Guidance Clinic. Early records include casebooks, correspondence, meeting minutes and annual reports. Later material consists largely of news clippings and board records. Repository: Pikes Peak Library District, Special Collections in the 1905 Carnegie Library The Colorado Science and Engineering Fair had its beginnings in 1955, when a committee was formed to investigate the possibility of holding an annual state-wide science fair. The first fair was held April 28, 1956, and known both as the Annual Regional Science Fair and the Colorado-Wyoming Science Fair. In 1970 the name was changed to the Colorado State Science Fair when Wyoming ended its participation in the fair. In 1993 the name was changed again to the Colorado Science and En Repository: Colorado State University Archives and Special Collections Records documenting the activities of the Boulder Valley League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization promoting citizen awareness and voter participation. Organized by Carrie Chapman Catt at the victory convention celebrating the attainment of women’s suffrage in 1920, the National League worked to promote a greater understanding of election and governmental processes and to Repository: University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Archives Dept. The Poudre River Trust was established in 1984 to guide development and activity along the Poudre River corridor. The organization has been active in promoting the river's recreational amenities, historical significance, fish and wildlife habitat, and mixed-use development along the Fort Collins riverfront. The trust has also collaborated with a wide range of local and national agencies, government and private, to bring attention to the river's historic heritage and to establish Repository: Colorado State University Water Resources Archive Hubert Howe Bancroft was the author of a multi-volume history of the West. In gathering material for this history he sent researchers to interview pioneers and prominent people. Contains copies of approximately 200 interviews conducted in Colorado from the 1850s through the 1880s. The original interviews are located at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Please visit the Bancroft Library website http: Repository: University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Archives Dept. Collection of clippings, brochures, photographs, papers and ephemera documenting some of the history of the Brady family and the Emory John Brady Hospital of Colorado Springs. The hospital was founded as the Colorado Springs Psychopathic Hospital by Dr. E. John Brady in 1923 and was renamed in honor of Dr. Brady following his death in 1943. The bulk of the material in this collection dates from the 1960s to 1981 and includes information about E. John Brady, his son E. James Brady, the psychiatric hospital a Repository: Pikes Peak Library District, Special Collections in the 1905 Carnegie Library 456 document(s) found, displaying results 1 to 20 Previous Page Next Page |
