Poetry | Estes Park Museum - Town of Estes Park

1970.014.038 - Handbill

"The Girl You Leave Behind" tri-fold paper booklet. When folded, front and back covers have a black and white drawing of a young woman and the title "The Girl You Leave Behind." Final outside fold has lyrics to an old song "The Girl I Left Behind Me" Interior has message meant to deter soldiers from visiting prostitutes etc. One line is "You must keep your bodies clean and your hearts pure."

Record Type: Object

1971.049.002 - Print, Photographic

Framed print, top part has photo of Longs Peak and Meeker - tinted - beneath is the poem "Out Where the West Begins" by Arthur Chapman. Framed in narrow wood frame painted brown with an outer rim of tiger eye veneer. Marks: Lower LH Corner "FRANCIS" under poem "Arthur Chapman"

Record Type: Photo

1981.004.006 - Booklet

"Verses from Colorado" by Evelyn Moore. The title is done by hand in black ink on gray paper cover and is flanked by hand painted Columbines. Frontispiece is a black and white mountain scene with a photo of Ouzel Falls on front endpiece "Lyons, Colorado/ 1952." Back side has black and white photo of "In the Beautiful South St Vrain." Contains 8 verses by Evelyn Moore and has been autographed by the poet on the title page. Marks: Stamped on fro...

Record Type: Object

1984.056.006 - Book

Songs of the Rockies, by Charles Edwin Hewes. Signed by the author. Navy cloth cover, lettering in gilt. Yellow paper dust cover. Drawings by Dean Babcock. A book of poems. 375 pages.

Record Type: Object

1984.091.001 - Book

Songs of the Rockies by Charles Edwin Hewes. Paper binding. Tan cardboard cover, black ink drawing of mountain scene. 128 pages of poems. Marks: written in ink inside front cover "MaBelle Maurin Eigler/ Denver, Colorado"

Record Type: Object

1985.047.083 - Book

Paperback - "Night Songs and Sketches" selected and arranged by, E. Nesbit and Robert Ellis Mack. A number of different poets and illustrations. Gilt edged pages. Put together with gilt cord to center fold.

Record Type: Object

1987.069.058 - Book

Songs of the Rockies by Charles Edwin Hewes - royal blue cloth binding with title & author in gilt on cover & spine - list of contents 1907 - 14 & 1915-22 - drawings by Dean Babcock - bottom & side leaves deckled - personal comments added. Marks: autograph CHARLES EDWIN HEWES / H K OCT. 2,1924 on free end paper - also price inked out - autograph in pencil

Record Type: Object

1987.069.059 - Book

Songs of the Rockies, by Charles Edwin Hewes - dark blue leather or plastic impregnated binding w/ title & author in gilt on boards & spine. Contents listed 1907-14, 1915-22, 1922-38. Drawings by Dean Babcock. Personal comments added before several poems. Yellow dust cover with comments by John Dickerson Sherman & Edwin Markham - both men often mentioned in the C. E. Hewes journal. Marks: Signed by the author in ink on front free end paper. Pr...

Record Type: Object

1988.007.001 - Book

Songs of the Rockies by Charles Edwin Hewes, published in Estes Park by Egerton-Palmer Press Signed by Charles Edwin Hewes, dedicated to Mr. John Jones, Sept. 25, 1914.

Record Type: Object

1994.018.001 - Booklet

Green, imitation leather textured, bound booklet entitled "Poems of Estes Park" by Minnie B. Schafer. 34 printed pages of poetry bound with staples "Poems of Estes Park" printed in calligraphy on cover, double line and "Shafer" printed under title, handwritten inscription written in black ink on first inside page which reads "To my mountain scaler, bronco rider pal. In memory of One Yippee Vacation. From a cowboy friend, steer wrestlin tort...

Record Type: Object

1996.023.003 - Postcard

FRONT; snow covered massif, forest covered slopes on either side & poem in three yello oblongs, idealizing the scenery by Clement Yore, Copyright 1916. COLORADO POEM copyright By Clem Yore, REVERSE; Clem Yore, authore ho wrote for leading magazines lived in EP, CO. describes beauty of mountain scenery. Spaces for message and address divided by maker's mark. on right is address and space for stamp.

Record Type: Photo

2004.020.001 - Book

Paperback: Songs of the Underworld by Clem Yore. Illustrated by O. Irwin Myers and H. Alyn Weston. Published by Charles C. Thompson Co., Chicago Cover features the figure of a downtrodden woman, her clothes falling off in front of a city backdrop. Colors: red and black. Inscription inside front cover: Inscription: To Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bartosch This little book was written to show that there are qualities in the worst of us that are wor...

Record Type: Object

2007.041.001 - Book

"Songs of the Rockies" by Chales Edwin Hewes Blue cover with gold inscription and picture Autographed inside: "Presented to Mr. and Ms. Karl E. Wagner for auld long syne vinton days, sincerely Chales Edwin Hewews; H-K 1926" There is also a letter taped to the inside cover: "Joe; This autographed book of poems was presented to me by the author-"Charley" Hewes who owned (?) and operated the Hughes Kirkwood Inn near Longs Peak-Estes Park, Colo. ...

Record Type: Object

2016.005.0177 - Postcard

Colorized postcard featuring a view of Mount Chapin, with poem printed on front, "Mount Chapin, Hoary Mount Chapin looks down from the skies, to where the "Horse Shoe Park" in its beauty lies. Quaking asp, spruce, and cone-laden pine, winding road and trail. Shadow and line." View of the Fall River road taken from Horseshoe Park. Caption printed on reverse reads, "Scenes of Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Playground of the Wo...

Record Type: Photo

2016.005.0773 - Postcard

Postcard with white border featuring image of mountains with Colorado poem by Clem Yore printed on front. Caption printed on reverse reads, "Clem Yore, the author of this poem, whose home is in Estes Park, is a well known writer whose name is often seen in the leading magazines. Colorado is a land of perpetual enchantment for the lover of nature and the great out-of-doors. There is a greater variety of mountainous scenery within its borders th...

Record Type: Photo