Audiovisual material and papers, bulk: circa 1915; 1992-2013, undated

File — Box: 3

Identifier: Series 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Colorado State University Mountain Campus Collection consists of material dated 1888 to 2018. Topics concern the history of activities at the Mountain Campus, including course materials, student staff and participants, the 1994 Hourglass Fire, and the history of the region. Histories of early settlers, staff, and nearby residents and are both written and recorded. Material types include documents, newspapers, books, photographs, slides, glass plate negatives, artifacts, audiocassettes, compact disks, videotapes, and a flash drive. Of special note are three reel to reel films of the Mountain Campus in 1966. Items that have been digitized are available in Mountain Scholar.

Please be aware that materials about the site's history do not include information about Arapahoe, Cheyenne, or other Native American predecessors to white settlement.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found in circa 1915; 1992-2013, undated

Creator

From the Collection: Colorado State University. Mountain Campus Museum (Organization)

Restrictions on Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Extent

From the Collection: 15.5+ linear feet (9 record cartons, 1 oversize box, artifacts)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Box 3 contains two slide carousel trays with slides of scenes at the Mountain Campus for a history presentation. A description of the slides is located in one of the carousel boxes. Twenty videotapes (some duplicates) and seven audiocassettes were contained in this box but were digitized and the physical copies deaccessioned. Titles include: Pingree Park web video; Elderhostel; Pingree rededication; Dorothy Koenig Fender interview including homestead details; Pingree fire; Scenes including “Dining hall, exercises, plant identification, south dorm women, exercises”; “Hike to Stormy Peaks”; “Koenig historic restoration - root cellar, chicken coop, assay shed”; and interviews with various subjects, including Julie and Marion Ford, Ralph and Dorothy Koenig, Russell Conner, and Burl and Ginger Young (as told by their daughter). There was also one 8mm video cassette of an interview with Dorothy Koenig Fender that includes homestead details that was digitized and disposed of. These items are forthcoming CSU’s digital repository, Mountain Scholar.

Of import are glass plate negatives of tintypes. Subjects of the negatives include historical images of the park, Burton O. Longyear, and the original negative of the founders of the Mountain Campus, Charles Lory, the governor of Colorado, the head of the Forest Service and others when they traveled to the park to claim the land for the forestry camp.

This container also includes compact disks of photographs of the interior of the Koenig house, Homestead cabin, and tornado damage on the campus. Loose photographs and photocopies of photographs are included, along with a flash drive of the circa 1920 tintypes. Postcards, articles, and newspapers about the Mountain Campus and historical towns in Northern Colorado are also included as is a book, Apple of the Mummy's Eye: Dickerson Sisters, by Elyse Defke Bliss.