Patrol car and police officer at a car accident site, Highway 287

Photograph

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Broomfield History Collections

Cropped lightly and/or leveled, then converted to jpeg from master tiff file by Kevin Smith, 04/19/2017

Cropped lightly and/or leveled, then converted to jpeg from master tiff file by Kevin Smith, 04/19/2017

Name/Title

Patrol car and police officer at a car accident site, Highway 287

Entry/Object ID

2003.8.16k

Description

Black and white photograph print of a police car at the scene of a car accident, circa 1975. The car is seen from the front, with an officer looking into the side window on the right. A Flight for Life helicopter is visible on the road just behind the car, with several people loading something into the cockpit. The car accident occurred on Highway 287, just north of Miramonte Boulevard. Inscription in ink on the reverse side states, "Accident on 287 North of Mirmonte [sic] Blvd."

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Silver Gelatin Print

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1972 - 1979

Notes

Date: 1975 circa Copy/Orig/Other: Original

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

Accidents, Helicopters, Police, Wrecks

Search Terms

Broomfield Emergency Ambulance Service

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2003.8.16a, 2003.8.16b, 2003.8.16c, 2003.8.16d, 2003.8.16e, 2003.8.16f, 2003.8.16g, 2003.8.16h, 2003.8.16i, 2003.8.16j, 2003.8.16l, 2003.8.16m, 2003.8.16n, 2003.8.16o Related material was donated together as part of the same collection, created and/or collected by the Broomfield Emergency Ambulance Service (BEAS).

Provenance

Notes

Photograph was donated to the Broomfield Depot Museum by Jeannine Shafer in 2003 as part of a larger collection of papers and photographs pertaining to the Broomfield Emergency Ambulance Service (BEAS). Jeannine was active with this volunteer service, as was her husband, James R. "Jim" Shafer, who was part of the BEAS.in the 1970s and 1980s.