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Informationen zum Autor Silvia Pettem is the author of numerous books, booklets, and articles on various aspects of Colorado history. A longtime resident of Boulder, she now resides with her husband and two daughters in Longmont Klappentext 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! Colorado. In this updated edition! 322 photographs! more than ninety 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: The Working Man's Neighbourhood; North Boulder: Vanishing Farmlands; University of Colorado: Alone on the Hill; University Hill and Chautauqua: Becoming Established; South Boulder: Post-war Growth; End of an Era: The City Matures; Index.
