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Scanned 2006-10-23 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 975 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 20020090003.tif; 20020090003.jpg, t20020090003.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title supplied by Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum A portion of the Ullery Store in Sedalia, Colo., a building with false fronts and a porch supported by square posts. The part of the building visible on the left of the photograph has a higher false front and double louvered doors flanked by large store front windows with 9 panes of glass. To the right, the false front is lower and there is a door in the center flanked by 2 large windows. The left window has what appears to be a grill located under it. Part of of a larger building is visible in the rear, primarily the roof with a center dormer and 2 chimneys.

Scanned 2006-10-23 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1000 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 20020090005.tif; 20020090005.jpg, t20020090005.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title supplied by Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum A young boy wearing a coat and pants is standing next to a man who is wearing a hat, jacket and pants. A woman has her arm linked with the the man's arm and she is touching the shoulder of a second young boy standing in front of her. She is wearing an unbuttoned coat and over the knee-length dress, and the young boy is wearing a coat and pants. The man is holding the hands of both of the young boys. They are standing in front of a car which is parked beside a building partially visible to the left of the photograph. Trees and more buildings are visible in the background to the right.

Scanned 2006-01-09 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1200 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 200304600030010.tif; 200304600030010.jpg, t200304600030010.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title from Summary of the Cherry Valley-Spring Valley Historical Society photo grant of 1995-1996. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Original photo provided to the Cherry Valley and Spring Valley Historical Society by Bette Gilbert Saunders. Photo included in the Historic Photo Documentation grant awarded by the Colorado Historical Society in 1994 (ID# 94-01-083). Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Cherry Valley and Spring Valley Historical Society; Gilbert (Saunders) and her brother Donald Gilbert stand in fron of the wooden, whitewashed Cherry School. The building has a gabled roof, two chimneys and three windows on each side. An outbuilding is visible behind the school. Bette (approx. age 7) stands in a skirt and blouse with a bow in her hair. Donald (approx. age 4) wears coveralls.

Scanned 2006-01-13 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1300 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 200304600120136.tif; 200304600120136.jpg, t200304600120136.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title supplied by cataloger. Title from Summary of the Cherry Valley-Spring Valley Historical Society photo grant of 1995-1996: Bette (Gilbert) Saunders (note clothes), circa 1935. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Original photo provided to the Cherry Valley and Spring Valley Historical Society by the Russell Dahlberg family. Photo included in the Historic Photo Documentation grant awarded by the Colorado Historical Society in 1994 (ID# 94-01-083). Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Cherry Valley and Spring Valley Historical Society; Bette Saunders is standing outside next to the steps leading to the screened door of a building. She is wearing a close-fitting hat and an unbuttoned coat with a fur collor over her knee-length dress and appears to be holding a book. One of the clapboards on the building is missing.

Scanned 2006-04-19 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 550 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 200320100170006.tif; 200320100170006.jpg, t200320100170006.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title supplied by cataloger. Title on original photo album page: Relaxing. Individual image from photo album page containing 6 images. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Four young men look at the camera in their living quarters on the U.S.S. Cassin Young in 1953. The bunks are three high and 2 sailors are in bunks. 2 sailors are standing at the rear. Uniforms are hanging from hooks above the bunks.

Scanned 2006-04-19 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1700 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 200320100140007.tif; 200320100140007.jpg, t200320100140007.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title from original photo album page. Individual image from photo album page containing 7 images. Complete title on photo album page: Various operations at sea with the USS Siboney CVE 112 in July and Aug. 1953; RADM [Rear Admiral] Temple came on board by high hine. Blimp landed and transferred personnel. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Two blimps are in flight from left to right in the photo toward the U.S.S. Siboney on the distant horizon. A small portion of the deck of the USS Cassin Young is visible in the lower right of the photograph. A sailor is leaning against the guard rail.

Scanned 2006-04-19 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 800 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 20032010002.tif; 20032010002.jpg, t20032010002.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title from front of print. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. U.S.S. Cassin Young, DD-793, underway in the foreground with an unidentified ship in the background right. The Cassin Young was launched 12 September 1943 and originally commissioned 31 December 1943. She was placed in reserve 28 May 1946, recommissioned 8 September 1951, and cleared San Diego 4 January 1952 for her new home port, Newport, R.I. On 6 February 1960 she arrived at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and was decommissioned and placed in reserve 29 April 1960.

Scanned 2006-10-24 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1500 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 20032010018004.tif; 20032010018004.jpg, t20032010018004.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title from original photo album page. Individual image from photo album page containing 7 images. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Henry Bohne and Arthur Pohl are in the Sonar Shack of the USS Cassin Young. Bohne is leaning over the shoulder of Pohl who is seated facing sonar equipment. Bohne is pointing at the equipment.

Scanned 2006-04-19 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1700 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 200320100140005.tif; 200320100140005.jpg, t200320100140005.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title supplied by cataloger. Individual image from original photo album page containing 7 images. Complete title on photo album page: Various operations at sea with the U.S.S. Siboney CVE 112 in July and Aug. 1953; RADM [Rear Admiral] Temple came on board by high line; blimp landed and transferred personnel. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. The side of one ship, U.S.S. Siboney, is visible in the photograph and a sailor, Rear Admiral Temple, wearing a life preserver, is sitting in a chair that is suspended on a line connected to the side of the ship. A number of sailors are standing on board the ship watching the operation.

Scanned 2006-04-19 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1500 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 200320100180008.tif; 200320100180008.jpg, t200320100180008.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title from original photo album page. Individual image from photo album page containing 5 images. Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A young man (T. Herman, Seaman) wearing a microphone around his neck smiles for the camera while sitting in the "Sonar Shack", a room housing the ship's sonar equipment, aboard the USS Cassin Young. Sonar equipment is in front of him.

Scanned 2006-11-24 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 725 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 20032010003.tif; 20032010003.jpg, t20032010003.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title from back of photo (handwritten). Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. USS Goss, DE-444, underway with ship's company in formation on the bow. A low bluff with some buildings is visible in the background. Photograph taken near San Diego, Calif. The Goss was originally commissioned 26 August 1944, served in World War II, and was decommissioned at San Diego 15 June 1946. She was recommissioned 27 December 1950 at San Diego and was assigned as a reserve training ship. The ship was decommissioned at Astoria, Ore., 10 October 1958 and placed in reserve.

Scanned 2006-04-19 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Epson Twain Pro 2.10A scanning software, Adobe Photoshop CS editing software; 1100 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 72 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: 20032010001.tif; 20032010001.jpg, t20032010001.jpg. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Digital reproduction. Title from back of print (handwritten). Associated research materials, including oral history, are available to complement this image. Image Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Henry Bohne in U.S. Navy uniform, jumper and white cap.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2002.090.sideA.wav, DCL2002.090.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (745,378,200 bytes; 481,572,000 bytes) and MP3 (19,723,697 bytes; 12,742,760 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 77 min. Associated research materials are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Mary Douglas Young. Sound Interview on October 26, 2002, Sedalia, Colo. Interview with Billy Ellis, 26 October, 2002, Douglas County History Research Center, Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum Oral History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Billy Ellis was born in Dallas, Tex., and grew to love the outdoors during many trips to visit his grandparents who lived in the country. He served in the Korean War in the Army Infantry and originally moved to Colorado after a daughter, one of his nine children, was diagnosed with severe asthma. Working for the U.S. Forest Service, he became a full-time lookout in 1984 on Devils Head, the only active fire lookout post in Colorado, located in the Pike National Forest in Douglas County. At the time of the interview he had served eighteen years in that capacity, along with his wife Margaret. Billy Ellis recounts his early days as lookout at the fire lookout station on Devils Head summit in Douglas County, Colo., the last manned fire lookout station in Colorado. He describes the lookout tower and facilities, and how the summit changed over time since the first tower was built in 1919. He also describes the surrounding area and the trails leading up to the tower, and how supplies arrive at the lookout tower and waste is disposed of. He also recalls various memorable events at the station like weddings and lightening strikes at the summit, as well as remembering when he and his wife hiked up the trail with snow drifts over their heads. Part of the interview consists of Ellis and Young reviewing many early photographs provided by Ellis of the lookout tower.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2001.037.001.sideA.wav, DCL2001.037.001.sideB.wav, DCL2001.037.002.sideA.wav, DCL2001.037.002.sideB.wav. 4 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (744,319,800 bytes; 745,642,800 bytes; 745,642,800 bytes; 745,907,400 bytes) and MP3 (19,693,193 bytes; 19,726,839 bytes; 19,727,753 bytes; 19,739,273 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 188 min. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewers: Barbara Machann, Mary Douglas Young. Sound Interviews on May 7, 2001, and September 19, 2001, in Sedalia, Colo. Interview with Florence Beeman Campbell and Louise Beeman Hier, Part 1, 7 May 2001, Douglas County History Research Center, Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum Oral History Project. Interview with Florence Beeman Campbell and Louise Beeman Hier, Part 2, 19 September 2001, Douglas County History Research Center, Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum Oral History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Florence and Louise Beeman were two of seven children born to Lou Beeman and Harriet Davis Beeman on a farm in southwestern Douglas County, Colo.. As small children they moved with their family to Sedalia. Their father died shortly thereafter and they were raised by their mother who was active in various community organizations, including the fire department and the grange. Both sisters married into families who were prominent in the Sedalia area, and they continued to live in the community and raised their families there. In this 2 part interview, Florence and Louise reminisce about growing up in Sedalia, living with their grandparents, deaths of Beeman family members, and their hard-working mother who continued to care for the family after her husband died at an early age. They recall community events popular in Sedalia, e.g. Thanksgiving Ball, and the 4th of July celebration, as well as many of the families and residences in Sedalia. They describe meeting their husbands, various work experiences (Remington Arms Company during World War II), and remembrances of the flood of 1965.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file name: DCL2000.064.wav 1 sound file in 2 formats : digital, WAV (719,712,000 bytes) and MP3 (19,041,458 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 45 min. Associated research materials are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewers: Kathryn McCracken, Beverly Wiedeman. Sound Interview on December 7, 2000, Foxton, Colo. Interview with Tom Butterfield, 7 December 2000, Douglas County History Research Center, Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum Oral History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. The son of a doctor, Tom Butterfield was born in Greeley, Colo., and moved with his family to Denver where his father practiced medicine. His family purchased property in the Indian Park area southwest of Sedalia as a second home, and, deciding he liked the rural school near the home better than his Denver school, Tom was allowed to attend grade school there, and went on to attend high school in Castle Rock. Shortly after graduating, he enlisted in the Navy and fought in World War II on the European front. He returned to Colorado following the war, attended college, and in 1955 he and his wife, Barbara (ne?e Iler) whom he married in 1948, returned to Douglas County where they pursued cattle and horse ranching. Tom Butterfield describes life in the rural Indian Park area southwest of Sedalia, Colo. during the mid-20th century. He recalls residing there originally with his aunt, and his recollections of attending the Indian Park School as a child (originally called the Brown School), and later high school in neighboring Castle Rock. He reminisces about the family's neighbors, and various area activities he remembers during that time, e.g. moonshining and sawmills. The interview then shifts focus as Butterfield describes his experiences while in the Navy in World War II, specifically his participation in the Normandy invasion and transporting troops and supplies aboard the LST (landing ship tank) he was assigned to.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2002.009.sideA.wav, DCL2002.009.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (744,849,000 bytes; 574,182,000 bytes) and MP3 (19,711,826 bytes; 15,195,986 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 83 min. Associated research materials, including photographs, are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewers: Barbara Machann and Mary Douglas Young. Sound Interview on January 22, 2002, Sedalia, Colo. Interview with Ronald and Donald Ullery, 22 January, 2002, Douglas County History Research Center, Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum Oral History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. The Ullery brothers (Ronald and Donald) grew up in Sedalia, Colo., a small town in Douglas County south of Denver. They attended grade school in Sedalia and junior high and high school in neighboring Castle Rock. After graduating, Ron worked for the highway department and then worked at various jobs in Douglas County, including the Douglas County School District. Don worked for Hier & Price, a drilling company in Douglas County, joined the Navy, then returned to work for the area phone company for several years before retiring from a manufacturing company. Ronald and Donald Ullery reminisce about growing up in Sedalia, Colo. They talk about their parents and other Ullery family members that lived in Douglas County, as well as other people who were in the community. They describe early businesses and ranches in the Sedalia area, and recall the flood of 1965 and the damage that it caused, including destroying their family home. They detail growing up in a close-knit family in Sedalia, as well as the supportive and nurturing environment the small town provided.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2002.093.sideA.wav, DCL2002.093.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (745,378,200 bytes; 549,309,600 bytes) and MP3 (19,719,858 bytes; 14,538,601 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 82 min. Associated research materials, including photographs, are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Machann. Sound Interview on November 27, 2002, Sedalia, Colo. Interview with Thomas Fallbach, 26 November, 2002, Douglas County History Research Center, Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum Oral History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A World War II-era veteran, Thomas Fallbach was born in Chicago, Ill., and joined the U.S. Coast Guard in 1944. Upon his discharge in 1946, he moved back to the Chicago area where he pursued several different jobs, including starting his own company. He also became involved in teaching scuba diving for the YMCA, advancing to a scuba commissioner for the YMCAs of Northern Illinois. He moved to the Denver area around 1970, and served 20 years as a volunteer fireman for the West Douglas County Fire Department near his home in Sedalia, Colo. Fallbach describes his experiences while living in Sedalia, Colo., including losing his home in a fire, and various experiences of being a member of the West Douglas Fire Dept. for 20 years. He also reminisces about growing up in suburban Chicago, and his early exposure to dog training while in high school. He recalls his training and experiences in diving while in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, including his firefighting training while assigned to the USS Klickitat refueling aircraft carriers. He recounts his various jobs in Chicago after being discharged, including working at a small airport that became O'Hare Field, owning his own company, and his subsequent move to the Denver area.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2003.211.sideA.wav, DCL2003.211.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (744,055,200 bytes; 743,790,600 bytes) and MP3 (19,685,662 bytes; 19,684,199 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 94 min. Associated research materials, including photographs, are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Belt. Sound Interview on May 14, 2003, Veterans Service Office, Douglas County Building, Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Gerald Cronan, 14 May, 2003, Douglas County History Research Center, Veterans History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A World War II veteran, Cronan was born in Redding, Penn. and enlisted in the Coast Guard at the age of 17 in 1942 and served until 1945. Cronan describes his boot camp experiences and his initial assignment to shore duty patrolling the beach at Nags Head, N.C. during World War II. He details his training in preparation for serving on an LST (Landing Ship Tank), his assignment to LST-762, a newly-commissioned ship built in Pittsburg, and its journey down the Mississippi River, through the Panama Canal, to San Diego picking up troops, on to Pearl Harbor and finally unloading in the Philippines at Leyte. He recalls other assignments transporting supplies and troops to various places in the Pacific and the participation of his ship in the invasion of Okinawa.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2003.204.sideA.wav, DCL2003.204.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (745,378,200 bytes; 744,849,000 bytes) and MP3 (19,725,890 bytes; 19,706,142 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 94 min. Associated research materials, including photographs, are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Belt. Sound Interview on March 13, 2003, Veterans Service Office, Douglas County Building, Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Otis Chartier, 13 March, 2003, Douglas County History Research Center, Veterans History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A World War II veteran, Otis Chartier was born in Morgan County in northeast Colorado. He enlisted in the Air Corps shortly after graduating from high school and completed his recruit training at Lowry Field in Denver. He was a member of Company I, 275th Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, serving on the Maginot Line, and was awarded a Bronze Star in 2001 in recognition of his courage in neutralizing a German machine gun haven in Spichlen, France, in February 1945. At the end of the war he returned to the Denver, Colo. area, and following temporary jobs, was employed at a Denver-based company for 31 years. Chartier describes his initial enlistment in the Army Air Corps, his efforts to pursue an army career related to airplanes, and his eventual enrollment in the Infantry shortly before being deployed to duty in France. From there he provides a detailed account of being an infantry soldier on the war's front on the Maginot Line. He recalls his initial contact with German soldiers, being the only survivor of a 12-member scouting squad ambushed by the Germans, and recovery in a French hospital as a result of a subsequent enemy encounter. He continues his story of front line experiences with the enemy, and concludes by describing his observations at the end of the war and his travel across Europe to England as part of his journey home.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2003.206.sideA.wav, DCL2003.206.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (710,980,200 bytes; 183,367,800 bytes) and MP3 (18,810,874 bytes; 4,851,560 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 56 min. Associated photograph is available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Belt. Sound Interview on April 17, 2003, Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Shirley Curtis, 17 April, 2003, Douglas County History Research Center, Veterans History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A Korean War-era and Vietnam War-era veteran, Shirley Curtis was born in Fort Morgan, Colo. She enlisted and was accepted into the Army in August 1949. After boot camp in Fort Lee, Va., she served in various capacities initially in the San Francisco area, and then carried out various administrative assignments both overseas and in the U.S. After retirement from the service as a Sergeant following her last assignment at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Denver, she spent 22 years as a Federal police officer. She became active in the Denver chapter of the Women's Army Corps Veterans Association and in 1994 was appointed to the Colorado Board of Veterans Affairs. Curtis recalls enlisting in the Army and her early days in boot camp. She describes her various tours of duty including preparing ships to transport troops overseas from bases in the San Francisco area, and various other administrative assignments in Italy, Germany, and locations in the U.S., including Valley Forge Army Hospital, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. Along with describing her Army duties, she provides a perspective of the personal life and experiences that her assignments in different parts of the world afforded her.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2003.207.sideA.wav, DCL2003.207.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (744,849,000 bytes; 533,169,000 bytes) and MP3 (19,706,508 bytes; 14,110,531 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 80 min. Associated research materials, including photographs, are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Belt. Sound Interview on April 3, 2003, Veterans Service Office, Douglas County Building, Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Douglas Barker, 3 April, 2003, Douglas County History Research Center, Veterans History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A Cold War-era veteran, Douglas Barker was born in Williston, N.D. to a father who was a World War II Army veteran. He attended the Annapolis Naval Academy, and spent his military career from 1953 to 1980 in various submarine-related capacities around the world. In his last assignment he served as Associate Professor in Naval Science at Iowa State University. After retiring, he later moved to Douglas County, Colo. Barker highlights his appointment to and his experiences at the Annapolis Naval Academy. He recalls his first official Navy appointment as staff in the Naval Submarine School, and subsequent duties such as his involvement in submarine operations in the Mediterranean following the Cuban Missile Crisis and as officer-in-charge of the Holy Loch [Scotland] submarine base. Barker presents a survey of life on a submarine and what it was like to be a submariner.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2003.209.sideA.wav, DCL2003.209.sideB.wav (note: interview begins on sideB). 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (229,408,200 bytes; 735,058,800 bytes) and MP3 (6,069,755 bytes; 19,453,435 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 61 min. Associated research materials, including photographs, are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Belt. Sound Interview on April 10, 2003, Veterans Service Office, Douglas County Building, Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Thomas Fallbach, 10 April, 2003, Douglas County History Research Center, Veterans History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A World War II-era veteran, Thomas Fallbach was born in Chicago, Ill., and joined the U.S. Coast Guard in 1944. Upon his discharge in 1946, he moved back to the Chicago area where he pursued several different jobs, including starting his own company. He also became involved in teaching scuba diving for the YMCA, advancing to a scuba commissioner for the YMCAs of Northern Illinois, . He moved to the Denver area around 1970, and served 20 years as a volunteer fireman for the West Douglas County FIre Department near his home in Sedalia, south of Denver. Fallbach recalls his early years in the Coast Guard and learning how to deep sea dive, specifically his experiences attending the Navy's deep sea diving school in Washington, D.C. He highlights his assignments after school, including diving in the search of torpedoes in Chesapeake Bay, working on a ship that refueled aircraft carriers at sea, and his assignment as a member of the crew on the Nantucket Lightship, anchored off the coast of Nantucket Island.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2003.203.sideA.wav, DCL2003.203.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (744,055,200 bytes; 664,939,800 bytes) and MP3 (19,691,146 bytes; 17,596,335) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 85 min. Associated research materials, including photographs, are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Belt. Sound Interview on February 27, 2003, Veterans Service Office, Douglas County Building, Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Daryl Tennal, 27 February, 2003, Douglas County History Research Center, Veterans History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Daryl Lester was born in the Denver, Colo. area. He enrolled in the US Marine Corps in August 1942, and was involved in several battles on islands in the South Pacific before he was discharged in October 1945 with the rank of Corporal. He returned to the Denver area to raise a family and retired to a cabin in southwestern Douglas County. Tennal recalls his experiences as a Marine assigned to duty in the Pacific region during World War II. He describes his early days in the Marine Corps and becoming a member of the Marine Corps Band. He also details many of the battles and offenses he participated in while fighting the Japanese on islands in the South Pacific, including Guadalcanal, the Solomon Islands and Guam, and the effects of the malaria he contracted while stationed there.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL1993.003.001.sideA.wav, DCL1993.003.001.sideB.wav, DCL1993.003.002.sideA.wav, DCL1993.003.002.sideB.wav, DCL1993.003.003.sideA.wav, DCL1993.003.003.sideB.wav. 6 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (735,058,800 bytes; 103,194,000 bytes; 701,454,600 bytes; 674,730,000 bytes; 615,724,200 bytes; 612,549,000 bytes) and MP3 (19,451,792 bytes; 2,736,638 bytes; 18,558,718 bytes; 17,856,181 bytes; 16,296,227 bytes; 16,209,370 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 217 min. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewers: Stan Oliner, Starr Oberlin. Sound Interviews on March 7, 1992, April 13, 1992, and May 6, 1993, in Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Bette Saunders, Part 1, 7 March 1992, Douglas County History Research Center, Castle Rock Historical Society Oral History Project. Interview with Bette Saunders, Part 2, 13 April 1992, Douglas County History Research Center, Castle Rock Historical Society Oral History Project. Interview with Bette Saunders, Part 3, 6 May 1992, Douglas County History Research Center, Castle Rock Historical Society Oral History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. Elizabeth "Bette" Saunders was born Sylvia Elizabeth Gilbert to David Newton and Altha Theodora Irene (Noyes) Gilbert. She was raised on her parents' ranch in the Cherry Valley area of southeastern Douglas County, and later moved with her family to Castle Rock. She married Ben Saunders in 1945, and was a lifetime member of the Castle Rock Museum Historical Society. Prior to her death in 2004, she was regarded as a local historian in the Castle Rock area. In this 3 part interview, Bette Saunders describes her memories of growing up and living in Douglas County, Colorado. Highlights of the different interview segments are: Part 1: Bette talks about her parents' families, the Gilberts and the Noyes, and early memories of growing up as a child,attending school (Cherry School and later high school in Castle Rock), and her experiences up until the end of World War II. Part 2: Bette continues her family's history, and also provides a view of what the town of Castle Rock looked like in the 1930s-40s, as well as her memories of the 1965 flood. Part 3: She continues to describe early memories of growing up in Dougas County, e.g. attending cultural events and the Castle Rock star lighting event, and witnessing the Douglas County Courthouse fire of 1978, the blizzard of 1946, and the cyclone of 1937.

User system requirements: Computer with graphical browser and audio player software. Streamed 11.025 kHz sample rate, 16Kbits/sec. data rate. Both derived from an audio master digitized at 44.1 kHz, 24 bits per sample, mono. from an analog audio cassette. Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia; 2006. Equipment: Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Deck (playback machine); Prism Sound Dream ADA-8XR multi-channel 24bit/192kHz analog/digital converter; Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz/224 MB RAM PCs (manufactured by PowerSpec) with FireWire hard drives (manufactured by MicroNet and LaCie) and M-Audio Delta Audiophile internal sound card; external FireWire hard drive. Software: Steinberg WaveLab 4.01b Audio Editing and Mastering Software. Sound file names: DCL2003.201.sideA.wav, DCL2003.201.sideB.wav. 2 sound files in 2 formats : digital, WAV (626,308,200 bytes; 626,837,400 bytes) and MP3 (16,570,688 bytes; 16,584,037 bytes) files. Digital reproduction. Title from transcript. Duration: 79 min. Associated photographs are available to complement this oral history. Audio and transcript available via the World Wide Web. Interviewer: Barbara Belt. Sound Interview on January 23, 2003, Veterans Service Office, Douglas County Building, Castle Rock, Colo. Interview with Henry Bohne, 23 January, 2003, Douglas County History Research Center, Veterans History Project. Electronic reproduction funded by the Collaborative Digitization Program, Denver, Colo. A Korean War-era veteran, Henry Bohne was born in Sheboygan, Wisc., and joined the U.S. Navy in 1950, serving on a destroyer in the Atlantic region. After his discharge in 1954, he attended the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1958 with a degree in agricultural education. From there he worked for the federal government for 23 years, primarily as a trainer responsible for the design, creation, and production of the training program for the Federal prison system. He made Colorado his home in 1978, and retired in 1983. He then became a consultant, producing video training programs in a business that he had began on a part-time basis before his retirement. In 2001, he became an officer of the Douglas County Veterans Service Office (volunteer position), providing information on services, events and activities affecting veterans in Douglas County, Colo. Bohne recalls his memories of enlisting in the Navy in 1950 and his years of service, originally aboard the U.S.S. Goss, based in San Diego, and later aboard the U.S.S. Cassin Young. The Cassin Young was transferred to the Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet in 1952, and made its home port in Newport, R.I. Bohne describes some of the anti-submarine surveillance duties he was involved in as a member of the destroyer's crew, including a trip to Cuba when Castro was a revolutionary and had not yet come to power, and many training exercises in the Caribbean. He reflects on taking a 30-day leave to go home to Wisconsin, realizing how the Navy had changed him in a short time, a change that continued to affect him in later years as well. He also talks about his life after being discharged from service in 1954, his enrollment at the University of Wisconsin, and his activities after retiring from the Federal government, including his recent involvement in veterans' organizations.