Name/Title
Date Book for 1917Entry/Object ID
2025.5.51Scope and Content
Item is a hard-bound journal with a red cover titled "Date Book for 1917." The book was a diary written by Birdie Viola Crooks, who was born on August 12, 1889 in Arvada, Colorado. She moved to Broomfield in 1893 at the age of four and lived there for 90 years until she passed away on August 1, 1985. Inside the book is a series of lined pages, each one with a new date and day of the week at the top, and there is a calendar present on the inside of the front cover. The very first page has a note from Crooks' granddaughter giving information about her grandmother. Each page in the book is filled out in pencil with information about how Crooks' day went, including information about the weather and what chores her family was working on. Her documentation of daily life in Broomfield offers extraordinary insight into how people in the community lived in 1917.
The cover of the book, as well as the words, are faded, and the binding is visible along the side of the journal. While frayed, the item still remains intact but should be handled with care.
Tucked into the middle of the book are a few memos and modern, colored photographs. The first picture features a group of children standing in the forest, while the second features the game group posed beneath some pine trees on an elevated wooden path near a tire swing. The third shows a few kids smiling on the balcony of what looks to be a cabin.Collection
Permanent CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term
DiaryNomenclature Secondary Object Term
JournalNomenclature Primary Object Term
BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsArchive Items Details
Date(s) of Creation
Jan 1, 1917 - Dec 31, 1917