Emily Crawford Retirement Photo Card

Photograph

Broomfield History Collections

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2013.1.22

Description

A card with photograph display announcing the retirement of Emily Crawford from the Broomfield Post Office, 1965. The photograph is a black and white print, 3.75" x 5.25." The card as a whole is 4.25" x 11.25" when open, printed on a textured card stock. The interior has a portion of a letter from the post office glued to the left side announcing Emily's retirement and naming each individual in the photograph, with the photograph itself inserted in a viewing window to the right. Emily Crawford is seen near the center of the image in a group of employees, holding a wrapped present. Her husband, postmaster Miles Crawford, is seen to her right. Emily served as the post office's clerk since 1950. Gold lettering in the lower left corner of the interior designates that the card was made by Leif Photography.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Silver Gelatin Print

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Artist

H. Marie Billington

Date made

1965 - 1965

Place

Location

Broomfield, CO

Notes

Date: 1965/08/14 Copy/Orig/Other: Original

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Card, Commemorative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Commemorative

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Memorabilia

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Cards, Clerks, Groups of people, Post offices, Postmasters, Retirements

Search Terms

United States Postal Service

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Emily Crawford

Person or Organization

Miles Crawford

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, 2013.1.23, 2013.1.24, 2013.1.25, 2013.1.26, 2013.1.27, 2013.1.28, 2013.1.29, 2013.1.3, 2013.1.4, 2013.1.5, 2013.1.6, 2013.1.7, 2013.1.8, 2013.1.9 Related photographs and 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 photographic and archival collection.

Provenance

Notes

This photograph was originally owned by Robert Crawford, and later donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2013 with several other 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.