Local History Archives - The Boulder Reporting Lab

He roamed Boulder with a camera for decades. Now his photos define the city’s past.

Known as ‘Rocky Mountain Joe,’ Joseph Bevier Sturtevant roamed Boulder with a camera from the 1880s to 1910, capturing the people and places that now define the city’s early history.

Mary Rippon, CU Boulder’s first female professor, hid her husband and child to keep her job

Inside Boulder’s forgotten sanitarium, where guests sought health and got strange cures

Five decades of change at North Boulder’s Broadway shopping center — now Pekoe café is leaving

When Boulder was ‘The Place to Live’: How the city marketed itself for decades to newcomers

CU Boulder was almost built somewhere else — one reporter captured how it all began

When electric trains connected Boulder and Denver in under an hour

Boulder’s Columbia Cemetery becomes a living history lesson during Wreaths Across America

The rise and fall of Boulder’s Broken Drum Tavern — the city’s last 3.2 bar, on Pearl Street

Meet Boulder’s first female taxi drivers — and the fearless rides that made them local legends