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      1. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF COLORADO
      2. ALICE MACKIE DIARIES
      3. ANN ROY COLLECTION
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      15. CU CHICANX/LATINX HISTORY COLLECTION
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      22. D. K. BAILEY COLLECTION: EXPEDITION JOURNAL
      23. DIE PW WOCHE: STIMMEN AUS LAGER U. HEIMAT
      24. DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC COLLECTION
      25. DON CAMPBELL PAPERS
      26. DWIGHT GARRIGUES LAVENDER COLLECTION
      27. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY IN ASIA
      28. GRAUMAN'S THEATRES SCORES, 1882-1937
      29. HAL SAYRE PAPERS COLLECTION
      30. HISTORIC HATS AND HEADDRESSES
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      35. J. RAYMOND BRACKETT PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
      36. JAMES F. WILLARD COLLECTION
      37. JOSEPH STURTEVANT COLLECTION
      38. KEN AND FLO JACOBS COLLECTION
      39. LACHLAN MCLEAN PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
      40. LEAH NOVICK COLLECTION
      41. LEONARD TINNÉ BERTHON COLLECTION
      42. LEROY H. MILLER COLLECTION
      43. MACLAREN ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS COLLECTION
      44. MATTHEW FOX COLLECTION
      45. MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND INCUNABULA CO…
      46. MINING MAPS OF COLORADO
      47. NATIONAL FARMERS UNION COLLECTION
      48. NOVELA MUNDIAL SERIES
      49. PETER G. OSSORIO COLLECTION
      50. PUBLISHERS BINDINGS
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      53. RICARDO VIÑES PIANO MUSIC COLLECTION
      54. ROCKY FLATS COLLECTION
      55. ROGER G. BARRY GLACIER PHOTOGRAPHS COL…
      56. ROGER G. BARRY GLACIOLOGY COLLECTION E…
      57. SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS OF COLORADO
      58. SOUNDSCAPES OF THE PEOPLE: A MUSICAL E…
      59. STAN BRAKHAGE COLLECTION
      60. T.D.A. COCKERELL COLLECTION
      61. THE 3D NATURAL HISTORY DIGITAL COLLECTION
      62. U.S. MILITARY IN WAR AND PEACE
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      64. VINCENT COMPARETTO COLLECTION
      65. WALTER ORR ROBERTS PAPERS
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      68. WOMEN POETS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
      69. WORLD WAR I COLLECTION
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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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