Blanche Telhelm Frantz Papers
Scope and Contents
The Frantz Collection contains personal items of Ms. Frantz’s such as essays, campaign pins, and books; also, newspapers and news clippings from Rocky Ford, Colorado, a land title, personal diaries of Mrs. Frantz’s mother, Mrs. Henry Talhelm, a photograph of a Hygiene, Colorado Sunday School class in 1894, and other historical documents from the area.
Dates
- Creation: 1890
Biographical Note
The Talhelm family relocated from Kansas to Colorado in the spring of 1896, a journey described in the diary of Ms. Frantz’s mother, Mrs. Henry Talhelm. Very little personal information is known or included about Ms. Blanche Talehlm Frantz; the collection contains documents from several sources and people. She was a school teacher; the collection features a historical piece written by Frantz for the Rocky Ford Gazette as well as personal essays.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 Box )
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Blanche Talhelm Frantz Collection contains historical files concerning Rocky Ford, Colorado, and personal items of Ms. Frantz and the Talhelm family. The collection contains original documents such as newspapers, a photograph, land title, and handwritten diary entries of Mrs. Henry Talhelm, Blanche’s mother, dated 1896.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in original order in which we attained it from the donor, with a box level inventory list.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lacy Dunlavy
- Date
- November 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Rare and Distinctive Collections Repository
