Skip to main content

Colorado -- Description and travel.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Album

 Collection
Identifier: C Photo Collection 278
Scope and Contents

Photographic diary of life at the George's summer cabin "Lazycroft" at Ferndale, Colo. Includes excursions along South Platte River and on Colorado and Southern Railway.

Dates: Check date

Alice A. Giddings-King Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: WH439
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a scrapbooks with newspaper clippings about Denver and Colorado current events and history from the perspective of the early 1930s.

Dates: 1943

Businessman's Journal

 Collection
Identifier: M1354
Scope and Contents

Short journal entries and memoranda handwritten in journal "compliments of First National Bank, Austin, Minn."; entries mention Colorado and Pikes Peak Region.

Dates: 1921

CAROLINE BANCROFT FAMILY PAPERS

 Collection
Identifier: WH1089
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Caroline Bancroft Family Papers comprise correspondence, business and personal papers, memorabilia, photographs and family history from five generations of the Bancroft and Jarvis families. Caroline Bancroft was clearly the keeper of these family papers, and she sometimes annotated the records for the benefit of future researchers. While the collection primarily documents the lives of many members of the Jarvis and Bancroft families, it also contains historical research and...
Dates: TBD

Devereux Odyssey 1964, Colorado Edition

 Collection
Identifier: M189
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a 22 page autobiography describing a three-week trip to Colorado, May 25-June 15, 1964.

Dates: 1964

DONALD W. KOCH PAPERS

 Collection
Identifier: WH1500
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Donald Warner Koch’s papers range from his student days at Brandeis University in Massachusetts from 1960-1964 to the technical work he performed up until his death in the year 2000. After leaving the Colorado Land Use Commission in 1981, in self-employment, he sent proposals for technical projects throughout Colorado. The correspondence for each project is included from proposal to finished product. Koch’s first major technical project was creating a shopping survey for the town...
Dates: 1962-2000

From the Atlantic to the Pacific in 11 Days: A Description of a Journey

 Collection
Identifier: M1739
Scope and Contents

Typed excerpt from a diary written in September 1907, describing the writer's visit to Denver, Colorado, including several hospitals. Describes his train journey entering and leaving Colorado. Diary translated by the writer's daughter, "Glad", and sent to "Elsa" in August, 1985.

Dates: 1907, 1985

Harriet Bauer Anderson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: M1223
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a photocopy and transcript of a letter written March 11, 1972, recounting Bauer's trip to Colorado Spings, Pueblo, and Creede, Colo. in 1915.

Dates: March 11, 1972

Isabella L. Bird Letters to Henrietta Bird, October 19-December 4, 1873

 Collection
Identifier: M62
Scope and Contents

Collection contains letters from Isabella L. Bird, Colo. to her sister Henrietta in Scotland concern her Colorado experiences.

Dates: October 19-December 4, 1873

John D. Strong Letters

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M461
Scope and Contents

Letter to Strong from unidentified correspondent in Boulder, Colo. describes vacation trip in Colorado, with visits to Pueblo, Canon City, Royal Gorge, Salida, Sargents, White Pine, Leadville, Buena Vista, Denver. Written on Brainard's Hotel stationery.

Dates: Check date

Lyman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WH2016
Scope and Contents

The collection contains approximately 84 letters dated from 1881 to 1900 between Louise Lyman and her parents. There are also letters from a suitor of Louise Lyman: Robert W. Gilbert, a New York City lawyer. In letters from George C. Lyman to Louise Lyman, references are made to the Moffit Family, and the various mining towns visited by George C. Lyman during the course of his business dealings.

Dates: 1881-1990

Three Months in the Southwest

 Collection
Identifier: M623
Scope and Contents

Diary describes travel from Norristown, Pa. and return Jan. 15-Apr. 16, 1877 through Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Edited by Richard A. Klynn for a history course at the University of Denver, 1967. Includes bibliography.

Dates: 1967

Trip to Pike's Peak

 Collection
Identifier: M9
Scope and Contents

Journal of a vacation trip taken with relatives and friends from Southbridge, Mass. to Colorado summer 1879. Describes ascent of Pikes Peak and other sight-seeing excursions along the Front Range of Colorado. Includes a few newspaper clippings about Pikes Peak. Trip chiefly by rail; Pikes Peak climb by horseback, with final portion on foot. Transcription made of journal by donor, with interpolated dates.

Dates: May 26-July 1879