Boulder The Evolution of a City / Silvia Pettem ; with a foreword by Liston E. Leyendecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettem, Silvia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boulder (Colo.)--History--Pictorial works.

Boulder (Colo.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 212 p. ) ill., map ;

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Boulder: Evolution of a City has captivated newcomers, tourists, and longtime residents for years with its dramatic visual and narrative presentation of the birth and development of Boulder. In this updated edition, 322 photographs - more than 90 of them current - capture landmarks, buildings, major events, and quiet moments from the 1860s to 2006. Photographs showing the same locations at several intervals in history reveal Boulder's continuum from past to present. Pettem devotes the first chapter to an introduction of the early photographers whose work appears throughout the book. Moving outward from the central business district as development did, each subsequent chapter focuses on a particular area in Boulder, with an introductory essay followed by historic and contemporary photographs with detailed captions.

Contents:

Early Boulder photographers

Downtown business district : the Pearl Street Mall

South-central Boulder : floods, minorities, and the railroads

North-central Boulder : culture and religion

West-central Boulder : at the foot of the mountains

East central Boulder : working man's neighborhood

North Boulder : vanishing farmlands

University of Colorado : alone on the hill

University Hill and Chautauqua : becoming established

South Boulder : postwar growth

End of an era : the city matures.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-204) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780870818806

0870818805

OCLC:

77571427