What is the Colorado Springs Century Chest?
Keynote address at Century Chest opening by Mary Jane Rust
2001 Chest Resealing Ceremony, April 20, 2001
For more information, contact Colorado College Special Collections, (719)
389-6668 or tuttspec@ColoradoCollege.edu
Colorado Springs Century Chest Collection, Ms 0349
Contents List
Text on chest: To the citizens of Colorado Springs of the Twenty First Century.
To be opened after midnight December 31st A.D. 2000
(1) Letter by Theodore Roosevelt, Vice President of the United States image
transcription
(2) Letter and photographs - William J. Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs
image transcription
(3) Letter and photographs - J.R. Robinson, Mayor of Colorado Springs
image
transcription
(4) History of the Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs, Mary Hamilton Stockwell
image
transcription
(5) Office of Associated Charities reports and photographs - Edward Evans-Carrington
image
transcription
(6) Letters and photographs - James Pierce and Maria Eliza Pierce Barnes
image transcription
(7) Letter on "Musical Matters" - A.C. Pearson image
transcription
(8) Letter - "City's Present Water Supply," E.A. Sawyer
image
transcription
(9) Letter to Male Students of Colorado College in 2001 A.D. - Ben Griffith,
Class of 1901 image transcription
(10) Histories and documents of I.O.F. Lodge No. 38 and Monte Rosa Rebekah
Lodge No. 4 I.O.O.F. image transcription
(11) Photographs, letters, documents and journal of Manitou, Colorado by
John W. Kriger and Aileen Nutter Frowine image
transcription
(12) Letter and documents of the Young Women's Christian Association of
Colorado Springs - Mary Tenney Hatch image transcription
(13) Letter on the "Social Life of Colorado Springs" - Elizabeth Cass Goddard
image transcription
(14) Letter from the President of Colorado College - William F. Slocum image
transcription
(15) Letter and photographs from the wife of a Colorado College Professor
- Mary Gilman Ahlers image transcription
(16) Letter, documents of banking in Colorado Springs - William S. Jackson
image transcription
(17) Letter, prints, photographs and documents - Architecture of the city
- Thomas MacLaren image transcription
(18) Letter, photographs and documents - Colorado Springs Public Library
- Susan T. Dunbar image transcription
(19) Letter about the Church of Christ Scientist - Patty Stuart Jewett image
transcription
(20) Letters from attorneys Franklin E. Brooks and Henry C. Hall image
transcription
(21) Letter, photographs and documents about the Public School System -
John Dietrich image transcription
(22) Letter, photographs and documents from attorney and judge Horace G.
Lunt image transcription
(23) Letter and documents about Lighting and Heating in Colorado Springs
- George Rex Buckman image transcription
(24) Genealogical documents and newspaper about the William T. Gauss family
image transcription
(25) "A Message on National Politics" - William Alexander Platt image
transcription
(26) Letter and photographs to the descendants of William A. Platt image
transcription
(27) "The real estate situation in Colorado Springs" - H. LeB. Wills image
transcription
(28) Letter "The Press of Colorado Springs" - Isaac N. Stevens, Editor of
the Colorado Springs Gazette image transcription
(29) Letter and photograph - Charles G. Collais, Builder and Member of Local
Union #515 Carpenters and Joiners of America image
transcription
(30) Memorabilia of the W.H.R. Stote family image
transcription
(31) "To the young lady who stood highest in the Class graduated from Colorado
College in the year 2000" - by George Gallaway image
transcription
(32) Letter and documents - Colorado Christian Endeavor Union - H.R. Chapman
image
transcription
(33) Letter - Boys Club Association of Colorado Springs - Ida Wheaton Riddle,
President image transcription
(34) Letters, photographs and documents - Pocahontas Council No. 27 - Barbara
E. Beacham image transcription
(35) "Slang of the Day" - D. Russ Wood image
transcription
(36) Letter, photographs and documents of the Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce - D.B. Fairley, President Fairley Bros. documents image
transcription
(37) Letters, photographs and documents - (Metaphysics & Christian Science
writings) - Franklin and Dora Noxon image transcription
(38) Letter - Dr. Friedmann (in German) image
transcription
and translation
(39) Letters, photographs and documents "To the Housekeepers of the Year
2000" - Elizabeth Mellon Evans Solly image transcription
(40) Manufacturing - W.W. Hassell, President of the Hassell Iron Works image
transcription
(41) Letters, photographs and documents - to Ministers in Colorado Springs
and members of the Second Congregational Church - Manly D. Ormes image
transcription
(42) Editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette on the Century Chest by Walter
Lawson Wilder, Associate Editor image transcription
(43) Sonnets, Poems and articles by Virginia Donaghe McClurg image
transcription
(44) Article "Public Parks and Parkways in Colorado Springs, Colo." by Edgar
T. Ensign image transcription
(45) "To Our Friends One-Hundred Yrs Hence, Ten Reasons Why Christian Science
Will Be the Religion of Your Day" - Edson M. Cole image
transcription
(46) Letter, photographs and documents - History of Medicine in El Paso
County for the Past 30 years - Boswell Preston Anderson, M.D. image
transcription
(47) Letters, photographs and documents - Women's Relief Corps - Stella
Kyle, Ella S.L. Dwinell, and Irene de Toliver image
transcription
(48) Letter - "Early Settlers and their Hopes" John Potter; Photographs
- John Potter image
transcription
(49) Letters, photographs, documents and memorabilia - "National Issues"
and family information - Louis R. Ehrich and Leah Lucile Ehrich, daughter
image
transcription
(50) Letters, photograph and article - "Art in Colorado Springs" - Mary
A. Bartow image
transcription
(51) Calling Cards, article and flyer - on sickness and healing image
(52) Letter, articles, postage stamps and photograph - Dr. Samuel Le Nord
Caldwell, "Colorado Springs as it is Today" image
transcription
(53) "Fashions of the Day" - letter, photographs, prints & fabric samples
- Phebe Ketcham McAllister (Mrs. Henry McAllister, Jr.) image
transcription
(54) Letter to the Head of the Colorado College astronomy department - Professor
Frank H. Loud image transcription
(55) Letter, "History and Present Condition of Humane Efforts in the City,"
photograph and documents - Francis B. Hill, Secretary image
transcription
(56) Letter, poems, and sonnets about "Home and Love" and photographs -
Arthur J. Kew and Ida Rosalie Fursman image transcription
(57) Letters and documents - Colorado Springs Needle-Work Guild - Josephine
Harrison Halliday and Ida Wheaton Riddle image
transcription
(58) Letters, documents, catalogs - "Gardens and the Horticulture Art Society
of Colorado Springs" - Patti Stuart Jewett and William K. Jewett (photographs)
image
transcription
(59) Letter- The Ernest Whitney Boy's Club - Sara Coolidge Brooks image
transcription
(60) Letters - "To the Rector of Grace Church Colorado Springs, Colo." by
A.R. Kieffer and to the great grand children by Lissa Hall Kieffer, Kieffer
family photographs image
transcription
(61) Photographs and family letters - William Lennox and Anna Belle Lennox
image transcription
(62) Letter, articles, documents on "Treatment of Consumption" - Charles
Fox Gardiner, M.D., photograph of Gardiner image
transcription
(63) Letters on regional railroads by B.H. Bryant (General Superintendent
of the Colorado Midland Railroad) image
transcription
(64) Letter and photograph - Joseph Fulton Humphrey image
transcription
(65) Letter - "To the Head of the Department of Chemistry at Colorado College"
- Professor William Strieby image
transcription
(66) Letter - "Colorado Springs from a Woman's Standpoint" - Miriam Storrs
Washburn image transcription
(67) Newspaper article about Ute Indians - Mrs. Charles Adams image
(68) Letter, articles, photographs - Day and Night Nursery Association of
Colorado Springs - Jessie Adella Aiken, Treasurer image
transcription
(69) Letter - "Ministers' Life in Colorado Springs" - Benjamin Brewster,
Rector of Grace Church image transcription
(70) Letter - "To the Physicians of Colorado Springs in the Year 2000 A.D."
- Samuel Edwin Solly, M.D. image transcription
(71) Copies of the "Grace Church Record" image
(72) Letter - "To the Chief Ranger of Court Mt. Cameron, #1654, I.O.F. Colorado
Springs, Colo." - William L. Dawson image transcription
(73) Letter and photographs - William Edwin Riddle and Ida Wheaton Riddle
image transcription
(74) Letter, documents, photographs - Music in Colorado Springs - Leah L.
Ehrich image transcription
(75) Letter, documents, booklets - Reminiscences of early life in Colorado
Springs - Irving Howbert image transcription
(76) Letter and photograph - "To the Girls of Colorado College in the Year
2001" - Ella Lorna Graber; Letter with description of how to play basketball
- Lillian May Johnson (CC student) image transcription
(77) Journal of Department of Colorado and Wyoming Woman's Relief Corps
image
(78) Letter and photograph - "Colorado Springs Real Estate" - Charles P.
Bennett image
transcription
(79) Manuscript "The Mystery of the Mountains" - Hamlin Garland image
transcription
(80) Letter - "To the Boy that receives the Highest Average in Colorado
College - Chas. A. Schlotter and Milton W. Truss image
(81) Note, photographs and mother-of-pearl fan - Blanche Seaman Brown Sprague
image transcription
(82) Colorado College Catalog (1901) and pamphlet "The Religious Life of
Colorado College" image
(83) Note "To whom who it may read it" - Albert Boesel image
transcription
(84) Note, documents - Marjorie Marden Soule, 10 years old image
transcription
(85) Photographic prints of non-Colorado Indians given by Mrs. Margaret
T. Adams image
(86) Photographs - Louis Jeanneret Soutter, First Director of the Department
of Art and Design at Colorado College image transcription
(87) Letter, memo - Horace Lunt and John K. Vanatta image
transcription
(88) Note, documents and memorabilia - Cynthia Jones Davenport image
transcription
(89) "Mountain Sunshine" magazine - Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce
image
(90) Colorado Quarto-Centennial Celebration memorabilia image
(91) Letter - Descendants of Henry H. Cooper and Elizabeth Latshaw Cooper
image transcription
(92) Note about Ute Indian Chief Ouray - Margaret T. Adams image
transcription
(93) Note "My dear descendants" - Fanny Aiken Tucker image
transcription
(94) Letter by Hassell children - "A Day in the Life of Children" image
transcription
(95) Letter and documents - "Assaying" - E.C. Woodward image
transcription
(96) Letter, documents, memorabilia - "Business men of Colorado Springs,"
family photographs - John G. Shields image
transcription
(97) Photograph of the Elizabeth Cass Goddard home image
transcription
(98) Note and photograph - Benjamin M. Rastall, President of Class of 1901
image
(99) "Battle Hymn of the Republic" given by Irene Barnes Seldomridge image
transcription
(100) Letter and reports "To the Treasurer of Colorado College" - George
N. Marden image transcription
(101) "To the City Editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette (if there is one),"
photograph - Edward F. McKay image transcription
(102) Photograph addressed "To the City Editor of the Gazette and to the
reporters from a reporter" - Louise Agnes Weick image
transcription
(103) Copies of the Colorado Springs Gazette, Monday, August 5, 1901,
headlining the Century Chest image
(104) 270 printed and handwritten calling cards of people attending the
Century Chest Ceremony, August 1901 image
(105) Menus - Antlers Hotel, Alta Vista Hotel and Quarto-Centennial Banquet
image
(106) Timetables for regional railroads image
(107) Note - A.F. Woodward family information image
transcription
(108) Letter - "Observations of Life in Colorado Springs" - Rev. Arthur
N. Taft image
transcription
(109) Notes, articles, booklets on ornithology in Colorado, photographs
- Charles Edward Howard Aiken image
transcription
(110) Photographs - Dr. W. W. Arnold and Bertha Louise Arnold image
transcription
(111) Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind brochures and pamphlets image
(112) Letter - "Colorado Springs Young Men's Christian Association" - B.F.
Scribner image
transcription
(113) Calling cards and photographs - Lulu, Hattie and Ella Duvall image
(114) Note to descendants, and photographs - George Allen Warth image
transcription
(115) Letter - "To the Posterity of J.T. Estill" - J.T. Estill, Physician
and Surgeon image
transcription
(116) Letters - "To Colorado Springs School Children," "To Club Women" Fonetta
Flansburg, teacher and club woman image transcription
(117) Note and calling cards - Dexter A. and Emma D. Russell image
transcription
(118) Letter and X-Rays - El Paso County Medical Society - Clarence Robert
Arnold, Ph.B. M.D. image
transcription
(119) Letter (Civil War reference) and photographs - Harriet Peck Farnsworth
image transcription
(120) Articles, documents - Woman's Christian Temperance Union image
(121) Letter and documents - First Presbyterian Church - W.H.W. Boyle image
transcription
(122) Clippings, pamphlet, photograph - First Baptist Church image
(123) Photograph & booklet - St. John's Baptist Church - W.E. Gladden image
(124) Letter, documents and memorabilia - Epworth League of the Methodist
Episcopal Church image
transcription
(125) Articles and photograph - W.H.W. Boyle (see #121 above) image
(126) Letter - "Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Kit Carson Circle
No. 9 - Addie L. Huff image
transcription
(127) "Leading English trained Nurse" Lucy A. Codd image
transcription
(128) Photograph and calling cards of the George & Cheley families image
(129) Note, calling cards, photographs and articles of the Robert Weems
Tansill family image
transcription
(130) Letter - President of the YMCA - Warren Woods image
transcription
(131) Genealogy and note - DeWitt C. Jencks and Mrs. Sarah Maria Smith Jencks
image
transcription
(132) Ashby McCreery family letter image
transcription
(133) Note, photograph, documents - Society of the Children of the American
Revolution (James Noble Society) - Katherine Howard Aiken Griswold image
transcription
(134) Letter - Bertha Francis Emery; Note - Charles E. Emery; Photographs
of Emery family, Emery studio and residence image
transcription
(135) Letters and documents - Tejon Lodge No. 104 A.F. & A.M. of Colorado
Springs, Colo. (Masonic Fraternity) - Horace H. Mitchell & Eugene S. Cohen;
Cohen family photograph image
transcription
(136) Letter and documents - "Order of the Eastern Star" - Eliza Sarah Cohen
image
transcription
(137) Notes and photographs - Clarence and Louise Calhoun Arnold family
image transcription
(138) Note - Helen Gray Grise image
transcription
(139) Sample life insurance policy - Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Co. image
(140) Note - Edwin Joseph Eaton, President of the El Paso County Abstract
Co. image
transcription
(141) Memorabilia - Myra Alline Levi, 10 years old image
transcription
(142) Note - Adam Hill, Charlotte Hill & Ruth B. Coplen of Colorado City
image transcription
(143) Notes & memorabilia - Mildred Barlow, Henry Tamm, Erwin E. Hoebel
image
transcription
(144) Photographs - Mrs. Rosa S. Baker-Graff-Mitchell and Mitchell residence
image
(145) Memorabilia - Colorado Springs Post Office - Lo.C. Dana, Postmaster
image
(146) Letter, note & photographs - Emma Ingraham Cunningham and Louis Wyborn
Cunningham image
transcription
(147) Letter - James Wesley Scott, Principal of Garfield School image
transcription
(148) John Ludlow Pendery, Attorney - Biography image
transcription
(149) Photographs - F.P. Stevens, photographer and two studies image
(150) Photographs of Colorado Springs citizens image
(151) 13 unidentified portrait photographs of Citizens of Colorado Springs.
Photo 7 is Charles Emery, very similar to photo 5 in folder 134. image
(152) 7 photographs of homes, views, Curtis Coal Mine, Indians, etc. in
Colorado Springs image
(153) Letter - Prof. Jay Shatz, oculist image
transcription
(154) 1901 Colorado Springs Telephone Directory and City Directory image
(155) Miscellaneous Colorado Springs publications - Colorado Springs image
transcription
(156) Colorado Springs Newspapers August 1901; Sidford F. Hamp's Treasure of Mushroom Rock (Putnam, 1899) inscribed by the author "To any Colorado Springs friends of 2001: I beg leave to make a brief statement regarding the writing of this book..." image
(157) Oversize photographs and periodicals image
(158) Panoramas of Pikes Peak Range and Glen Eyrie image
(159) Wax cylinder recordings "Colorado College Yells & Cheers" and "Loch
Lomond" image, sound files and transcription
(160) Photographs of downtown Colorado Springs buildings, schools, churches,
transportation, and business establishments by photographer F. P. Stevens
images
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