A. T. Wheeler photograph collection. 1885-[1939]

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A. T. Wheeler photograph collection. 1885-[1939]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427283615

This collection contains photographs of the Wheeler family. It includes the Samuel R. Wheeler family, the Alfred T. Wheeler family, and in-laws. They encompass portraits and group photographs, and were taken on family occasions, on outings in the mountains, and while living as caretaker of Boulder's watershed. Historical photographs include the flood of 1894, and Alfred T. Wheeler's service in the Colorado National Guard during miners' strikes in Cripple Creek and Telluride. Samuel R. Wheeler was the organizer and first pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Boulder. He served in that position from 1893 to 1903. Alfred T. Wheeler was the son of Samuel R. Wheeler. He was caretaker of the Boulder watershed.

2 boxes (304 photographs in 30 folders).

Boulder Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7456332

Boulder Public Library

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Wheeler family.

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Lederer, Rena Beth Wheeler, 1906-,

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Lederer family.

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Van Horn family.

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Seventh Day Baptist Church (Boulder, Colo.)

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Colorado. National Guard. 1st Squadron Cavalry. Troop D.

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Wheeler, Alfred T., 1868-1938,

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NOTE: Herbert Wheeler claims that he and Darwin Andrews hiked to and first recognized Arapaho Glacier as a glacier in 1897. Eben Fine claims to have first made the discovery in 1900. From the description of Herbert Wheeler and Darwin Andrews in Barker Meadows photographs, 1898. 1898. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427282948 The Colorado National Guard was sent to keep order during miners' strikes in Cripple Creek and Telluride in 1903-1904. In Cripple Creek th...