Denver-Boulder Turnpike Ticket Book

Archive

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Broomfield History Collections

Name/Title

Denver-Boulder Turnpike Ticket Book

Entry/Object ID

2015.26.2

Scope and Content

Small ticket book for one way passage at the Denver-Boulder Turnpike, through US Highway 36. The tickets were used in 1966. The book includes 10 unused tickets, though some had been pulled off and used. The cost for the passage granted by the tickets was 15 cents. All tickets are numbered by red stamp, "B 8651." Tickets were printed for use by the Department of Highways, State of Colorado. Tickets binded together by one staple.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Book, Ticket

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Ticket

Nomenclature Class

Exchange Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Tickets, Highways, Tolls, Toll roads, Automobile travel

Search Terms

Denver-Boulder Turnpike (U.S. Highway 36)

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1966 - 1966

Archive Size/Extent

2 1/4" x 5". Housed in 1 legal sized file folder, with one other small ticket book.

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1966 Date(s): 1966 Copy/Orig/Other: Original

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Shupe, John Robert

Related Entries

Notes

2015.26.1, 2015.26.3 Related Units of Description: Also see toll collector badge (2015.26.1), Denver-Boulder Turnpike Ticket Book (2015.26.3), and Denver-Boulder Turnpike Ticket (2015.26.4).

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: John Robert "Bob" Shupe saved this ticket book. He was a toll collector from 1966 to 1967. His widow Dorothy Meyers donated the ticket book to the museum.