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Research
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Research Center, located at the
Greeley History Museum provides assistance with your research. We provide assisted research, genealogy resources and more. Our 2008 hours are 9 am-4:30 pm Tuesday through Friday. The Center is closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Our experienced staff and volunteers are
ready to serve you. To request assistance
you may:
Resources and reference materials available in the Hazel E. Johnson Research Center are summarized as follows:
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Expert assistance for
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Museum Collections and Administrative
Records |
These include records of gifts, donations,
and artifacts; a subject catalogue of
artifacts owned by the City of Greeley
Museums; inventory and appraisal records;
museum scrapbooks, bound volumes of monthly
reports, annual reports, minutes of the
Museum Advisory board from 1959 to present;
and working files with information
pertaining to administration and budget,
collections and facilities, and research and
education (programs, exhibits, etc.).
Click here to learn more about donating
items to the City of Greeley Museums.
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Historical Reference Collection |
- Surname reference/Obituary files, and Indexed Obituary Scrapbooks
- Greeley and Weld County Directories; City of Greeley scrapbooks, ordinances, directories.
- Record books and minutes of the Union Colony; historical books, theses, autobiographies, etc., pertaining to the Greeley and northeastern Colorado region.
- The Colorado Collection: 2,200 books, pamphlets, etc. pertaining to the history of the state and its people.
- Weld County Tombstone Inscriptions; copies of Linn Grove Cemetery records.
- Extensive Weld County Genealogical Society records and resources; various census and patent records; land records; livestock brands.
- Documentary Files by broad topical subjects that contain information on Greeley, 1870-present, Weld County, and Colorado.
- High School and College Annuals; maps; oral history interviews/audio tapes; newspapers on microfilm
- Information on Germans from Russia.
- Guide to historic homes in Greeley, record books and ledgers of early Greeley/Weld County businesses.
- Colorado Magazine and Colorado Heritage, Old House Journal, Spinning Wheel and collectibles magazines, Through the Leaves, (Great Western Sugar Co. publication), cookbooks, household guides, medical guides, and etiquette books from the 19th and 20th centuries, and women’s magazines, needlework books, and patterns from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- School textbooks, Bibles, hymnals,
sheet music, stereo view cards,
postcards, personal scrapbooks and
ephemera.
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Historical photo collection Greeley, Weld
County, Colorado |
Our existing
collections of photographic resources
originate primarily from private donations,
and photocopies are available for a nominal
copying fee. Reprints of photographs are
available through City of Greeley Museums,
with a signed Historic
Photograph-Reproduction Policy. Fees for
photographic reprints vary, so please do
contact us to find out the charges for your
research request if you cannot visit us in
person.
Family files and family photograph files,
aerial views, photos of businesses,
buildings, individuals, schools, factories,
street scenes, agriculture, lakes,
transportation.
Special Photograph Collections: Hazel E.
Johnson Collection (people, places, and
events; Lew Dakan wedding portraits,
1960-1990; Lew Dakan aerial photographs of
front range towns and counties, indexed,
1960-1990; J. A. Weaver, Sr. glass plate
negatives; Millard (Skeets) Calvin
Photograph Collection; Walt Clark Photograph
Collection; AT&T Cablevision channel 8 video
footage, 1989-2001 |
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Early
recreation in Greeley |
One of about
50,000 images in collection |
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