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

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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