Station Agent Robert Hillen with Pet Canary by Superior Depot Telegraph Office

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

Station Agent Robert Hillen with Pet Canary by Superior Depot Telegraph Office

Entry/Object ID

2015.20.6

Description

Scanned photograph of station agent Robert Hillen standing outside in front of the telegraph office door of the Superior train depot, with a pet canary on his right shoulder, circa 1930. He is wearing a newsboy cap, a white shirt, suspenders, and slacks. A low-hanging telegraph line and shed can be seen in the background. The photographer's shadow is visible in front of Robert.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Silver Gelatin Print

Collection

Permanent Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1930 - 1930

Place

Location

Superior Train Depot, Superior, CO

Notes

Date: 1930 circa 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, Birds, Pets, Telegraph lines, Railroad employees

Search Terms

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

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Hillen, 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 album 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 2015.20.6 was scanned from album 1 (album numbering designated by staff), page 13.