AHS Collections - Aspen Historical Society
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AHS Collections - Aspen Historical Society
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Aspen Historical Society
Aspen Historical Society Collections
Collecting Area History
Where can you find a phone book from the 1920s, Aspen Mountain’s first “boat tow” ski lift, and perhaps a photo of yourself living it up in Aspen in the 1970s—all in one place? Aspen Historical Society (AHS) Collection, of course!
AHS Collection, containing nearly 90,000 items, is one of the largest repositories in the region, and growing daily with images, documents, moving footage, and three-dimensional artifacts. It is AHS’s mission to provide convenient access and research support as a public resource.
Want To Donate To Our Collection?
AHS maintains collections for preservation, exhibition, education, and research. For more information about donating to the collection, please Contact our Curator to determine if your items meet our collection criteria at 970.925.3721 x110 or email
curator@aspenhistory.org.
Donors will be required fill out and sign a Deed of Gift transferring legal ownership of the collection to AHS.
AHS reserves the right to decline or remove submissions of duplicative, inappropriate, or irrelevant nature and is not obligated to preserve all donated content in perpetuity.
Donation Information Sheet
What Do We Collect?
Photography
Slide transparencies, photographic prints, born digital image, digital only images, lantern slides, and film, glass plate negatives, photo albums, and more.
Objects
all types of three dimensional items pertaining to local historical periods including mining, ranching, and skiing equipment, textiles, household accessories, and furniture, etc.
Library
Published books, yearbooks, city directories, telephone books, etc.
Archival Materials
All types of written material including published items such as programs, brochures, schedules, posters, maps, newspapers, periodicals, etc. as well as manuscripts, theses, scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence, annual reports, transcripts, etc.
Audio and Video
Moving footage including 16mm film, 8 mm film, DVDs, digital formats, and video tape in all formats.
Audio collections contains cassette tapes, CDs, and digital formats.
Photo |
Aspen Historical Society
Aspen Historical Society Collections
Collecting Area History
Where can you find a phone book from the 1920s, Aspen Mountain’s first “boat tow” ski lift, and perhaps a photo of yourself living it up in Aspen in the 1970s—all in one place? Aspen Historical Society (AHS) Collection, of course!
AHS Collection, containing nearly 90,000 items, is one of the largest repositories in the region, and growing daily with images, documents, moving footage, and three-dimensional artifacts. It is AHS’s mission to provide convenient access and research support as a public resource.
Want To Donate To Our Collection?
AHS maintains collections for preservation, exhibition, education, and research. For more information about donating to the collection, please Contact our Curator to determine if your items meet our collection criteria at 970.925.3721 x110 or email
curator@aspenhistory.org.
Donors will be required fill out and sign a Deed of Gift transferring legal ownership of the collection to AHS.
AHS reserves the right to decline or remove submissions of duplicative, inappropriate, or irrelevant nature and is not obligated to preserve all donated content in perpetuity.
Donation Information Sheet
What Do We Collect?
Photography
Slide transparencies, photographic prints, born digital image, digital only images, lantern slides, and film, glass plate negatives, photo albums, and more.
Objects
all types of three dimensional items pertaining to local historical periods including mining, ranching, and skiing equipment, textiles, household accessories, and furniture, etc.
Library
Published books, yearbooks, city directories, telephone books, etc.
Archival Materials
All types of written material including published items such as programs, brochures, schedules, posters, maps, newspapers, periodicals, etc. as well as manuscripts, theses, scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence, annual reports, transcripts, etc.
Audio and Video
Moving footage including 16mm film, 8 mm film, DVDs, digital formats, and video tape in all formats.
Audio collections contains cassette tapes, CDs, and digital formats.