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      1. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF COLORADO
      2. ALICE MACKIE DIARIES
      3. ANN ROY COLLECTION
      4. ARCHIVISION BASE TO MODULE 9
      5. BEN GRAY LUMPKIN DIGITAL FOLK MUSIC CO…
      6. BENT-HYDE PAPERS
      7. CHARLES F. SNOW PHOTOGRAPHS
      8. CLIFFORD P. AND THERESE S. WESTERMEIER…
      9. COLORADO COAL PROJECT
      10. COLORADO DAILY COLLECTION
      11. COLORADO DIRECTORIES
      12. COLORADO HISTORICAL MAPS
      13. COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL COLLECTION
      14. CONFERENCE ON WORLD AFFAIRS AUDIO ARCHIVE
      15. CU CHICANX/LATINX HISTORY COLLECTION
      16. CU JAPANESE AND JAPANESE AMERICAN COMM…
      17. CU MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: EARL MOR…
      18. CU MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: VERTEBRA…
      19. D. K. BAILEY COLLECTION: EXPEDITION JOURNAL
      20. DIE PW WOCHE: STIMMEN AUS LAGER U. HEIMAT
      21. DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC COLLECTION
      22. DON CAMPBELL PAPERS
      23. DWIGHT GARRIGUES LAVENDER COLLECTION
      24. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY IN ASIA
      25. GRAUMAN'S THEATRES SCORES, 1882-1937
      26. HAL SAYRE PAPERS COLLECTION
      27. HISTORIC HATS AND HEADDRESSES
      28. HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATED FAIRY TALES
      29. HOLLAND COLLECTION OF LITERARY LETTERS…
      30. IRA CURRENT COLLECTION
      31. IRA WOLFF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY COLLECTION
      32. J. RAYMOND BRACKETT PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
      33. JAMES F. WILLARD COLLECTION
      34. JOSEPH STURTEVANT COLLECTION
      35. KEN AND FLO JACOBS COLLECTION
      36. LACHLAN MCLEAN PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
      37. LEAH NOVICK COLLECTION
      38. LEONARD TINNÉ BERTHON COLLECTION
      39. LEROY H. MILLER COLLECTION
      40. MACLAREN ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS COLLECTION
      41. MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND INCUNABULA CO…
      42. MINING MAPS OF COLORADO
      43. NOVELA MUNDIAL SERIES
      44. PUBLISHERS BINDINGS
      45. RARE AND DISTINCTIVE COLLECTIONS MOVIN…
      46. RARE AND DISTINCTIVE COLLECTIONS TEACH…
      47. RICARDO VIÑES PIANO MUSIC COLLECTION
      48. ROCKY FLATS COLLECTION
      49. ROGER G. BARRY GLACIER PHOTOGRAPHS COL…
      50. ROGER G. BARRY GLACIOLOGY COLLECTION E…
      51. SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS OF COLORADO
      52. SOUNDSCAPES OF THE PEOPLE: A MUSICAL E…
      53. STAN BRAKHAGE COLLECTION
      54. T.D.A. COCKERELL COLLECTION
      55. THE 3D NATURAL HISTORY DIGITAL COLLECTION
      56. U.S. MILITARY IN WAR AND PEACE
      57. VINCENT COMPARETTO COLLECTION
      58. WALTER ORR ROBERTS PAPERS
      59. WESTERN AMERICANA COLLECTION
      60. WINNIPEG JEWISH RENEWAL ORAL HISTORY C…
      61. WOMEN POETS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
      62. WORLD WAR I COLLECTION
      63. ZALMAN M. SCHACHTER-SHALOMI COLLECTION
UC Boulder Collections

City and county directories were commercially published, individual and business directories prior to telephone books and the yellow pages. They were produced starting in the nineteenth century and continued late into the twentieth century. In Colorado, such directories began in the 1870s. Since they were often produced annually, especially in the case of larger towns and cities, they helpfully augment the federal manuscript census, which only appeared every decade. City and county directories entries typically show a name (sometimes spouse), occupation, business address, and residence. After 1910, there was sometimes a reverse directory by street address. There were often classified sections by business type, usually in the back; municipal information was usually in the front. By the mid-nineteenth century, telephone numbers had started to appear, along with indications of property ownership. A cross index of telephone numbers appeared later. Directories have been useful to social and ethnic historians, and to genealogists, for use in social mobility studies, locating and describing individuals, family and community reconstitution, creating occupational charts, and historic preservation. Currently this collection consists primarily of directories from Leadville, Colorado Springs, and Denver. The collection will continue to grow as new materials are added.

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