BOWMAN-WHITE FAMILY PAPERS

Correspondence, diaries, school papers, obituaries, and financial papers comprise the personal records of the family members in this collection.

Business papers form a portion of the collection, especially those of John J. White, Sr. The papers contain his legal diaries and correspondence sent and received. White represented the Miller Brothers of Miller Live Stock Company in their dealings with R.N. Heizer who founded Cascade Town Company near Ute Pass in Colorado. The correspondence of these parties are included. Some of the records of the Two American Sisters Mine form part of the collection.

Also included is a detailed household ledger belonging to Mellie White that offers insight into managing a household during the first part of the twentieth century.

Arranged by family member in birth order, the papers of this series include diaries, correspondence, bank records, business papers, deeds, scrapbooks, and obituaries and memorials.

This series contains diplomas and Colorado Bar certificates for John J. White, Sr., as well as a marriage license for John Bowman and Lavinia Potts. Plat and claim maps for the Two Sisters Mine and Mellie White Claims comprise a portion of the series.

This series consists of family photographs, mostly unidentified, as well as photographs of Georgetown sites such as the railroad tracks, buildings and scenery. Included are photographs and negatives of service men from World War II and of the construction of the Loveland Tunnel, a test tunnel for what eventually became the Eisenhower Tunnel. Also, the series contains railroad images abd Clear Lake fishing scenes. The photographs are in the form of glass slides, nitrate negatives and black-and-white color photographic prints.

Many of the negatives in this collection have been identified as cellulose nitrate and are stored in the STXV freezer (photo envelopes 1-15). Access to the negatives is restricted and requires permission.