Broomfield Post Office Money Orders

Archive

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Broomfield History Collections

Name/Title

Broomfield Post Office Money Orders

Entry/Object ID

2013.1.4

Scope and Content

A small collection of money order forms submitted through the Broomfield post office, 1898-1967. Some of the forms were originally loose, while others were glued to loose scrapbook pages created by Miles Crawford. Crawford was the postmaster for Broomfield's post office from 1944 to 1966, and kept several of the money orders and other postal documents after retirement. The orders were paid by many different Broomfielders, such as Harry Crawford, Miles Crawford, Emily Crawford, Daniel Mitze, and Ernest Nies. One noteworthy order was sent by Harry Crawford to future US President Warren G. Harding in 1898, in the amount of $1.78. Harry went to the same school as a child where Harding taught in Ohio, and once gave comb honey from his family business to President Harding.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Order, Money

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Scrapbook

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Page

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Order, Pay

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Album

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Leaf

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Memorabilia

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Exchange Media

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Money, Payments, Postal service

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1898 - 1967

Archive Size/Extent

One legal size file folder

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1898-1967 Date(s): 1898-1967 Copy/Orig/Other: Original

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Emily Crawford

Person or Organization

Harry R. Crawford

Person or Organization

Miles Crawford

Person or Organization

Daniel Mitze

Related Entries

Notes

2013.1.1, 2013.1.10, 2013.1.11, 2013.1.12, 2013.1.13, 2013.1.14, 2013.1.15, 2013.1.16, 2013.1.17, 2013.1.18, 2013.1.19, 2013.1.2, 2013.1.20, 2013.1.21, 2013.1.22, 2013.1.23, 2013.1.24, 2013.1.25, 2013.1.26, 2013.1.27, 2013.1.28, 2013.1.29, 2013.1.3, 2013.1.5, 2013.1.6, 2013.1.7, 2013.1.8, 2013.1.9 Related papers and photographs were originally owned by the Crawford family and later donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2013. All material is part of the same archival and photographic collection. Also see accession 2013.4 for material related to the Crawford family.

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: These money orders were originally owned by Robert Crawford, and later donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2013 with several photographs and documents. Much of the material pertains to Robert's father, Miles Crawford, who was Broomfield's postmaster from 1944 to 1966, as well as to the general history of Broomfield from the late nineteenth century onward.