Detail View: J. Raymond Brackett Photograph Collection: President's Office -- Main

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J. Raymond Brackett, Photographs and Negatives, 1890-1915

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President's Office -- Main

Brackett, J. Raymond

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1893

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Photography -- Boulder (Colo.)

Old Main

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This is one of the most interesting pictures in the entire set. It shows James H. Baker's office, Room 108, on the NW corner of the main floor of Old Main in February 1893 showing very clearly what was needed to administer a university. This is one of the pictures JRB took for the University's display in the Columbian Exposition. The calendar is turned to February 1893 and is from the "Mutual Life Insurance Company" which is observing its "Semicentennial 1843-1893" and which is represented by "Richard A. McCurdy." Above the roll top desk across the room is a frame of 12 interior pictures of campus buildings. The top left looks like the chapel. The other top ones are the DeLong Math room (209) but the pictures are not from this set, i.e., 14-3 does not appear here. The frame at the right has 12 exterior pictures which are held in with thumb tacks but the pictures are warped and bowed. The views are easily identified from left to right, top to bottom, (Main in the distance, the President's house at right), (Old Main), (Univ. Lake), (Lake and President's house), (Main - identical with second one above), (construction of Woodbury - this is an earlier picture than on pg. 63 of Glory Colorado), (Woodbury), (the President's house and Main), (Cottage No. 1), (Cottage No. 2), (the Anatomy building), (the Medical building without its west wing). The frame over the desk is similar to the top center one in 14-6 and the frame at right is probably the one at lower left in 14-6. It is quite possible that these frames were taken from the President's office and had new pictures mounted in them for the Columbian Exposition of 14-6. The floor has carpet, the walls have wainscotting, like that in 14-5, and the ceiling has a spiral pattern wall paper. The door has a porcelain doorknob with a key¬lock below It and an eye for fastening it open below and to the right of the knob. The door has three large hinges and opens inward. There is a transom window but no hardware for adjusting it is visible. The top seems to be tipped outward toward the corridor. It seems odd that the occupant of the room could not adjust the transom from within the room. The four bulb light fixture is on a pipe from the ceiling. It may be adjustable in height by rotating the lower part causing the helical center pipe to screw into or out of the pipe above it. The globes are snapped on independently by a flat rotary knob like today's fixtures. The bulb at right is lighted. The heavy ornate center table has twin wheel casters on each foot. The feet are badly scarred and scratched. The top might be leather—pulled over the edges and anchored under the strips of wood. The typewriter says "Remington Standard Typewriter No. 2" across the base and it looks as though the carriage return arm is on the right! On the center of the table are a small book, two or three bottles of ink and two pens, while on the far corner is a big steel press probably for imprinting the seal of the University. The table has two locked drawers at the left. The far roll top desk is full of all sorts of papers and on the desk are a horizontal rack for holding pens, two glass inkwells, and a bowl with a sponge which is kept wet for sealing envelopes. Through the door at the left is the outer office (Room 109). A book and box are on the table, a coat and derby hat are on hooks on the long coat rack on the wall. The outer office may not be carpeted. On the wall to the left of the door is "Nell's Topographical (?) Map of the State of Colorado" which Is indicative of a period in which the President (Baker) and the University had a very great concern for the people and the State which he and the University served. On the wall at the left is a phone - with two bells near the top, a hanging earpiece on the near side and the mouthpiece was apparently the hole In the lower box which is partly hidden by the hanging earpiece. Shutters can be seen In the window at left. Below and wider than the window and Immediately above the roll top desk is a massive frame with a corrugated front that probably rolls up like the roll top desk. It has two lifting hooks at the bottom -the far one is reflected in the shiny metal. I have no idea what this is for. On the desk at left are papers and an inkwell.

Columbia Exhibit

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DeLong Room

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President's Office -- Main

Bartlett, Albert A. and Kupfner, George, The glass plate negatives of Prof. J. Raymond Brackett (1854-1922) showing scenes of the University of Colorado from 1890 to 1915

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