FRANK BINGENHEIMER PAPERS

This collection contains Frank Bingenheimer’s papers and photographs, both professional and personal, including a few personal items belonging to his sister Margaret. Some of the papers pertain to his work at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado; the majority reference his travels throughout North America and research on various local and world topics. The bulk of the collection is comprised of photographs and color slides taken by Bingenheimer.

This series consists of items Frank Bingenheimer collected while working for the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado. It is arranged chronologically by subject. Subjects include: hotel administrative correspondence, staff, famous guests at the Brown Palace Hotel, and general hotel building information and history. Materials include: news clippings, magazine articles, personnel forms, incident reports, advertisements, special events, guest programs and rosters.

This series includes Frank Bingenheimer's personal papers, research, and travel documentation with a few items from his sister Margaret. Topics he researched include: religion, archaeology, travel destinations, as well as current events of the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the items, including road maps, books, and Touraides, contain extensive annotations. The series is organized alphabetically.

This series is comprised solely of four Talking Books for the Blind 8-1/3 RPM records from the Choice Magazine Listening Company. These records were created as an early form of audio books for the visually and physically handicapped. Each is an unabridged magazine article. Topics include: self-help, politics of Cambodia, surgical procedures, and editorials.

This series is comprised of images taken by Frank Bingenheimer during his travels and research. The bulk of this series consists of slides with some photographic prints. The photographs are mostly of the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, various Denver and Colorado locations, as well as Bingenheimer's travels.

Slides cover a wide array of topics, including Denver and Colorado’s historic buildings, ghost towns, abandoned mills, landscapes, wildlife, mountain ranges, and vacations in North America. Each slide is marked with the place, subject, date, time, and in some cases the direction or geographic coordinates of where the image was taken. The slides are arranged by date and then geographic location. Some locations were photographed multiple times on different dates. There has been an attempt to replicate these patterns in the arrangement of the slides. Almost all are devoid of people.

All items in this series relate to Bingenheimer's geological research, specifically, Colorado Mountains and ranges. Hand-sketched panoramas of various Colorado locations provide elevations of specific mountains and the date. In most instances, this detailed information was replicated on corresponding photographic slides found in Series 4.