Robert Hillen and Sister Rose Hillen by the Superior Train Depot at Easter

Photograph

Broomfield History Collections

Cropped, leveled, and converted to 300dpi jpeg access copy from master tiff file by Kevin Smith, 8/30/2016.

Name/Title

Robert Hillen and Sister Rose Hillen by the Superior Train Depot at Easter

Entry/Object ID

2015.20.7

Description

Scanned photograph of siblings Rose Hillen and Robert Hillen, grandchildren of station agent Robert Hillen, standing next to a plant, bench, and screen door in front of the Superior train depot, Easter 1927. Rose was 4 years old, Robert 6. Rose is wearing an Easter dress and bonnet, while Robert has shorts and a white shirt with a bow tie and newsboy cap. A telegraph or phone line is seen extending out to a pole in the background. Part of the depot's luggage wagon can be seen on the right edge of the photograph.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Silver Gelatin Print

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1927 - 1927

Place

Location

Superior Train Depot, Superior, CO

Notes

Date: 1927/04/29 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

Depots, Railroad depots, Children, Benches, Carts & wagons, Holidays, Telegraph & telephone poles

Search Terms

Colorado and Southern Railway, Denver & Interurban Railroad, Superior, Superior Depot

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Hillen (grandson), Robert H.

Provenance

Notes

Original photograph was part of a pair of photograph albums owned by Katherine Hillen Renfroe, daughter of Robert H. Hillen (named after his grandfather). As a child, Robert lived for a few years at the Superior train depot with his grandparents, C&S Railroad station agent Robert Hillen and wife Jeanne "Jeanie" Malott Hillen. The albums were put together by Jeanne Malott Hillen, who intended to give one album to grandson Robert and his younger sister, Rose Hillen (later Rose Hillen Watson). Jeanne probably assembled the albums sometime in the 1930s. Ultimately, Rose became the sole owner of the albums before passing them on to Katherine Renfroe, Rose's niece. In 2015, select photographs from the albums were scanned by Broomfield Depot Museum staff and volunteers, and then formally accessioned into the Museum's collections. The Broomfield Depot Museum Collections do not contain the original album(s), or photographic prints therein. Photograph 2015.20.7 was scanned from album 2 (album numbering designated by staff), page 5.