Man sitting on Big Bull Ditch in Broomfield

Name/Title

Man sitting on Big Bull Ditch in Broomfield

Entry/Object ID

2015.18.11

Description

Scanned photograph of a man sitting on the locks of the Big Bull Ditch in Broomfield, Colorado, near what is today Mount View School, circa 1920. The ditch may have been part of the water system established through Adolph Zang's reservoir projects. A handwritten inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "locks on the big bull ditch Broomfield Colo by H.E. Wheeler."

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1915 - 1925

Place

Location

Broomfield, CO

Notes

Date: 1920 circa Copy/Orig/Other: Scan (JPEG, PDF, etc)

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Locks (Canals), Water, Reservoirs

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Image, Digital

Provenance

Notes

The photograph is part of a larger collection of photographs taken and kept by the Brown family. The collection, along with a pair of diaries and a collection of poems, were scanned by Broomfield Depot Museum staff in 2015. The scans were donated to the museum by Janet Justice-Waddington, the daughter of Frances Ridsdale, that same year. Janet owns the original photographs as of 2015; the originals are not in the Broomfield Depot Museum's collections.