Name/Title
The Hillen Family with Friends at a Chautauqua in Boulder, COEntry/Object ID
2015.20.16Description
Scanned photograph of the Hillen family posing with various friends and acquaintances at a Chautauqua in Boulder, Colorado, circa 1928. Chautauquas were popular lectures and forums prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which focused on education and discussion of events, culture, and entertainment. The Hillens attended Chautauquas multiple times. Hillen family members in the photograph include Roger Hadley Hillen (front, sitting), Jeanie Hillen (2nd row, 2nd from left), Robert Hillen (Jeanie's grandson) and sister Rose Hillen (2nd row, 3rd and 4th from left), and Superior station agent Robert Hillen (back row, 5th from right). Roger was the son of Robert and Jeanie Hillen, father of siblings Robert and Rose Hillen. He worked as an accountant with the C&S Railroad.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Silver Gelatin PrintCollection
Permanent CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1928 - 1928Notes
Date: 1928 circa
Copy/Orig/Other: Scan (JPEG, PDF, etc)Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Chautauquas, Trips, Families, Railroad employeesSearch Terms
Colorado and Southern Railway, Denver & Interurban Railroad, Superior, Superior Depot, Boulder CountyRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Hillen, Robert H.Person or Organization
Hillen (grandson), Robert H.Person or Organization
Jeanie HillenProvenance
Notes
Original photograph was part of a pair of photograph albums owned by Katherine Hillen Renfroe, daughter of Robert H. Hillen (named after his grandfather). As a child, Robert lived for a few years at the Superior train depot with his grandparents, C&S Railroad station agent Robert Hillen and wife Jeanne "Jeanie" Malott Hillen. The albums were put together by Jeanne Malott Hillen, who intended to give one album to grandson Robert and his younger sister, Rose Hillen (later Rose Hillen Watson). Jeanne probably assembled the albums sometime in the 1930s. Ultimately, Rose became the sole owner of the albums before passing them on to Katherine Renfroe, Rose's niece. In 2015, select photographs from the albums were scanned by Broomfield Depot Museum staff and volunteers, and then formally accessioned into the Museum's collections. The Broomfield Depot Museum Collections do not contain the original album(s), or photographic prints therein.
Photograph 2015.20.16 was scanned from album 2 (album numbering designated by staff), page 12.