Rural Free Delivery Route Map of Broomfield

Archive

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Broomfield History Collections

Name/Title

Rural Free Delivery Route Map of Broomfield

Entry/Object ID

2013.4.5

Scope and Content

A Broomfield map showing rural delivery routes numbers one and two for postal service, last dated January 15, 1923. The first date recorded on the map before potential revisions is February 13, 1903. The map is 17" x 18" when unfolded, blueprint. The map shows the new mail route, rail lines, county lines, rivers, town blocks, general house locations, and school and church locations for the Broomfield area that the Broomfield Post Office would have utilized. A compass and map key is included.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Map

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Blueprint

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Cartograph

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Copy, Reprographic

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Blueprints, Maps, Postal delivery, Postal service

Archive Details

Creator

Broomfield Post Office

Date(s) of Creation

1903 - 1903

Archive Size/Extent

One legal size file folder

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1923 January 15 Date(s): 1923/01/15 Copy/Orig/Other: Original

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2013.4.1, 2013.4.2, 2013.4.3, 2013.4.4, 2013.4.6, 2013.4.7, 2013.4.8 Related papers 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 collection. Also see accession 2013.1 for material related to the Crawford family and general Broomfield history.

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: Donated by Robert Crawford to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2013. Most documents in the accession were created and/or used by the Crawford family, including Harry and Miles Crawford.