Guide to the Lucien L. Nunn papers,
[ca.1890-1971]

Collection Number: 37-4-1770

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Malinda Rae Allen, Amanda Littauer
Date completed:
August 1997
EAD encoding:
Mireille Lee, August 2000

© 2000 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Lucien L. Nunn papers, [ca. 1890-1971]
Collection Number:
37-4-1770
Creator:
Lucien L. Nunn, 1853-1925.
Quantity:
ca.53 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence; photographs and negatives; maps, blueprints, and specifications; clippings; addresses and lectures; printed material; reports; constitution, by-laws, and amendments; financial records; applications; minutes; and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence; photographs and negatives; maps, blueprints, and specifications; clippings; addresses and lectures; printed material; reports; constitution, by-laws, and amendments; financial records; applications; minutes; and other papers documenting the career of Lucien L. Nunn, his founding and direction of the Telluride Association, a student-managed organization which provides housing and other assistance for intellectually gifted high school and college students at Cornell University and at Deep Springs, California. Further, the collection documents the development of the electrical power industry in the United States, including information concerning the Telluride Motor Company, Telluride Power Company, the Ontario Power Company, and Utah Power and Light Company. Also, manuscript history of Telluride by Orville Sweeting.


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Electrical engineer. Lucien L. Nunn founded the Telluride Power Company in Telluride, Colorado, and the Telluride Association, a student-managed organization which provides housing and other assistance for intellectually gifted high school and college students at Cornell University and at Deep Springs, California.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence; photographs and negatives; maps, blueprints, and specifications; clippings; addresses and lectures; printed material; reports; constitution, by-laws, and amendments; financial records; applications; minutes; and other papers documenting the career of Lucien L. Nunn, his founding and direction of the Telluride Association, a student-managed organization which provides housing and other assistance for intellectually gifted high school and college students at Cornell University and at Deep Springs, California. Further, the collection documents the development of the electrical power industry in the United States, including information concerning the Telluride Motor Company, Telluride Power Company, the Ontario Power Company, and Utah Power and Light Company. Also, manuscript history of Telluride by Orville Sweeting.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Nunn, L. L. (Lucien Lucius), 1853-1925.
Sweeting, Orville J., 1913-
Whitman, Carroll.
Cornell University--Graduate students.
Cornell University--Students.
Ontario Power Company.
Utah Power and Light Company.
Deep Springs College.
Telluride Association.
Telluride Motor Company.
Telluride Power Company.

Subjects:
Electric utilities.
Education--Societies, etc.

Form and Genre Terms:
Blueprints.
Maps.
Specifications.
Negatives.
Photographs.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Lucien L. Nunn papers, #37-4-1770. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. L.L. Nunn-Personal
Boxes: 1-3
Series II. Carroll Whitman
Boxes: 3
Series III. Telluride Power Company and the Power Industry
Boxes: 4-10
Series IV. Telluride Association
Boxes: 12-18, 20-21
Series V. Deep Springs
Boxes: 18-19
Series VI. Photographs
Boxes: 26-62
Series VII. Miscellany
Boxes: 10-11
Series VIII. Orville Sweeting
Boxes: 22-25


CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Biographical Information
1933
Hardcover-L.L. Nunn: A Memoir, by Stephen A. Bailey
Box 1 Folder 1
1933
Paperback-L.L. Nunn: A Memoir, by Stephen A. Bailey (with hand written chronology in back)
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence & Documents
Bown, J. Clinton
Box 1 Folder 3
Citizens Savings & Trust Company, Cleveland, Ohio
Box 1 Folder 4
May 6, 1905 - December 2, 1912
Diehl, Harry E.
Box 1 Folder 5
Fairbanks, R.P.
Box 1 Folder 6
First National Bank of Telluride
Box 1 Folder 7
Kean Taylor & Company
Box 1 Folder 8
1916
King Motor Car Company & Chambers Motor Company
Box 1 Folder 9
1895-1901
Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Mass.
Box 1 Folder 10
1893-1894
Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 11
1901-1904
Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 12
1905
Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 13
1913-1916
Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 14
Monarch Tractor Company
Box 1 Folder 15
1905-1907
Nunn, P.N.
Box 1 Folder 16
Parrott Tractor Company
Box 1 Folder 17
Parrott Tractor Company
Box 1 Folder 18
Rogers, Nathan
Box 1 Folder 19
Salt Lake & Mercur Railroads
Box 1 Folder 20
Smoot, H.E.
Box 1 Folder 21
Smoot, H.E.
Box 1 Folder 22
1912
Utah Lake Irrigation Company
Box 1 Folder 23
Walcott, Charles D. I
Box 1 Folder 24
Walcott, Charles D. II
Box 1 Folder 25
Wegg, Donald R.
Box 1 Folder 26
Woodland, H. (Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company)
Box 1 Folder 27
re: Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
Box 1 Folder 28
Financial & Legal Records
1905-1909
Finacial Records
Box 1 Folder 29
1920-1925
Cash Balances I
Box 1 Folder 30
1920-1925
Cash Balances II
Box 1 Folder 31
1910-1911
Check Books
Box 1 Folder 32
1912
Check Books
Box 1 Folder 33
Dec. 1912-1914
Check Books
Box 1 Folder 34
1915, n.d.
Check Books
Box 1 Folder 35
Deeds, Power of Attorney and Certificates of Redemption
Box 1 Folder 36
Deeds, Power of Attorney and Abstract of Title (Ellen Nunn)
Box 1 Folder 37
1848-1871
Ledger of payments to family
Box 1 Folder 38
1907-1908
Ledger-Cash Paid
Box 1 Folder 39
1907-1908
Ledger-Expenses
Box 1 Folder 40
Letterfile A-H
Box 2 Folder 1
Letterfile I-K
Box 2 Folder 2
Letterfile L-S
Box 2 Folder 3
Letterfile T-Z
Box 2 Folder 4
1929
L.L. Nunn Estate Taxes
Box 2 Folder 5
1930-1932
L.L. Nunn Estate Taxes
Box 2 Folder 6
Montezuma Ore Returns
Box 2 Folder 7
[1899]
Stubbs & Jakway
Box 2 Folder 8
1908-1915
Telluride Realty Company
Box 2 Folder 9
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company
Box 2 Folder 10
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company
Box 2 Folder 11
March 29, 1911-January 15, 1913
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company- Joseph Keeler
Box 2 Folder 12
Jan. 15, 1913-Feb. 14, 1915
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company
Box 2 Folder 13
Jan. March 16, 1915-Dec. 31, 1916
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company
Box 2 Folder 14
Dec. 28, 1918-July 7, 1922
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company I
Box 2 Folder 15
Dec. 28, 1918-July 7, 1922
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company II
Box 2 Folder 16
July 31, 1922-Dec. 31, 1927
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company I
Box 2 Folder 17
July 31, 1922-Dec. 31, 1927
Utah Lake and Irrigation Company II
Box 2 Folder 18
Publications belonging to Nunn
"General Ames and His Family" from the Puritan
Box 2 Folder 19
Hearst's International Cosmopolitan article about robbery of Nunn's bank and proceeding chase of robbers
Box 2 Folder 20
August 1907
"Elko County and its Vast Mineral Wealth," by Elko Chamber of Commerce
Box 2 Folder 21
News Clippings found in Nunn's Provo office
Box 2 Folder 22
Religious Texts
Box 2 Folder 23
Photographs
1908
L.L. Nunn's Children
Box 2 Folder 24
Portrait of L.L. (print)
Box 2 Folder 25
After the "Act"
Box 2 Folder 26
Miscellany
Nunn's File on Campbell Suit
Box 2 Folder 27
Folder from Nunn's office desk in Provo, Utah found intact at Deep Springs 1966
Box 2 Folder 28
Funeral Notices/Obituaries
Box 2 Folder 29
List of Books, Pamphlets, etc. taken by H.R. Waldo
Box 2 Folder 30
List of contents of box maked "L.L. Nunn, Personal"
Box 2 Folder 31
1906-1907
Personal File "G"
Box 2 Folder 32
Note Pad
Box 2 Folder 33
Note Pads and Memo Books
Box 2 Folder 34
1900-1910
Railroad Passes I
Box 2 Folder 34
1900-1910
Railroad Passes II
Box 2 Folder 35
1900-1910
Railroad Passes III
Box 2 Folder 36
1900-1910
Railroad Passes IV
Box 2 Folder 37
1915
Reports re: Delta County Property
Box 3 Folder 1
1915
Reports re: Delta County Property (copy)
Box 3 Folder 2
Union Pacific County Map
Box 3 Folder 3
1911
University of Illinois Physicians and Surgeons Faculty and Students
Box 3 Folder 4
1908
University of Michigan Engineering Department Commencement Invitation
Box 3 Folder 5
Correspondence
1910-1911
Armington, Agnes Fuller I
Box 3 Folder 6
1910-1911
Armington, Agnes Fuller II
Box 3 Folder 7
1912-1913
Armington, Agnes Fuller
Box 3 Folder 8
1914-1915
Armington, Agnes Fuller
Box 3 Folder 9
Bailey, Clyde S.
Box 3 Folder 10
1914-1915
Engel, Anne
Box 3 Folder 11
1913
Hughes, Lacy
Box 3 Folder 12
Jackson, Anne I
Box 3 Folder 13
Jackson, Anne II
Box 3 Folder 14
Kaufman, Lulubel I
Box 3 Folder 15
Kaufman, Lulubel II
Box 3 Folder 16
Kaufman, Lulubel III
Box 3 Folder 17
Kaufman, Lulubel IV
Box 3 Folder 18
1911-1912
[Kimball] Bernadine
Box 3 Folder 19
Meany, Sarah
Box 3 Folder 20
Miscellaneous I
Box 3 Folder 21
Miscellaneous II
Box 3 Folder 22
Miscellaneous III
Box 3 Folder 23
Newcombe, D. I
Box 3 Folder 24
Newcombe, D. II
Box 3 Folder 25
Newcombe, D. III
Box 3 Folder 26
Noon, F.C.
Box 3 Folder 27
Beween L.L. Nunn and Whitman Brothers
Box 3 Folder 28
1912
Ruby
Box 3 Folder 29
Stafford, Olive
Box 3 Folder 30
Wegg, Donald
Box 3 Folder 31
Between Whitman Brothers I
Box 3 Folder 32
Between Whitman Brothers II
Box 3 Folder 33
Between Whitman Brothers III
Box 3 Folder 34
Between Whitman Brothers IV
Box 3 Folder 35
Between Whitman Family
Box 3 Folder 36
Financial Records
1920-1922
Cancelled Checks and Bank Book
Box 3 Folder 37
Receipts
Box 3 Folder 38
Miscellany
Glass Slide "Minute Men, Washington, D.C."
Box 3 Folder 39
Hotel Stickers
Box 3 Folder 40
TPC: Correspondence and Related Documents
[ca. 1915-1956]
Ashworth, Paul P.
Box 4 Folder 1
Campbell, J.
Box 4 Folder 2
Madison Canyon Records
Box 4 Folder 3
1902-1911, 1925-1939
Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 4
Noon, F.C. and J.C. Othurs
Box 4 Folder 5
1911-1915
Noon, F.C.
Box 4 Folder 6
1913-1925
Noon, F.C. and H.E. Smith
Box 4 Folder 7
Nunn, L.L.
Box 4 Folder 8
1894
Nunn, L.L. - 12 Telegrams
Box 4 Folder 9
Nunn, L.L. and Cooper Anderson
Box 4 Folder 10
1899
Nunn, P.N.
Box 4 Folder 11
Nunn, P.N.
Box 4 Folder 12
1908, 1927, n.d.
Story, William
Box 4 Folder 13
1894-1904
Westinghouse
Box 4 Folder 14
Wolfrom, C.A. re: Feather River
Box 4 Folder 15
Woodhouse, A.L.
Box 4 Folder 16
Wrench, A.M.
Box 4 Folder 17
TPC: Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
1904
Financial Records
Box 4 Folder 18
1906
Financial Records
Box 4 Folder 19
1907
Financial Records: Employee Compensation Information
Box 4 Folder 20
Financial Records: F.D. Olmsted's Tools
Box 4 Folder 21
1904-1910
Financial Records & Meeting Minutes: Provo, Utah
Box 4 Folder 22
1905-1906
Financial Records & Related Correspondence: Provo, Utah
Box 4 Folder 23
1939-1940
Financial Records: Audits
Box 4 Folder 24
1932-1940
Financial Records & Related Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 25
1941-1945
Financial Records & Related Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 26
1942-1943
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 27
1943-1944
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 28
1944
Financial Records & Related Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 29
1945
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 30
1946
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 31
1947
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes I
Box 4 Folder 32
1947
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes II
Box 4 Folder 33
1948
Financial Records & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 34
1948-1949
Financial Records
Box 4 Folder 35
1952
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 36
1953
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 37
1954
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 38
1955
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 39
1956
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 40
1957
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 41
1958-1959
Financial Records, Related Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 4 Folder 42
TPC: Legal Documents
August 1, 1906
Agreement between Ouray Electric Power & Light Co. and L.L. Nunn
Box 4 Folder 43
Agreement between TPC & The Electric Company, Provo Utah
Box 4 Folder 44
Agreement between TPC & Union Pacific Railroad for Wire Crossing
Box 4 Folder 45
Proposition for Rock Creek Power and Irrigation
Box 4 Folder 46
Testimonial by Adney - "Hidden Tales of Bear River & Related Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 47
Testimony by L.L. Nunn re: Bear Lake
Box 4 Folder 48
Trust Deed to Mercantile Trust Company and George N. Chandler
Box 4 Folder 49
TPC: Papers, Address & Reports
1915
"Precedent in Electrical Rates," by P.N. Nunn
Box 4 Folder 50
October 22, 1915
"Electrical Rates - A Study," by P.N. Nunn and Arthury Jobson
Box 4 Folder 51
May 8, 1934
Early Experiences in the Power Industry, an Address by P.N. Nunn before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Box 4 Folder 52
Oval drawing, mounted of Original Power Station Ames Colorado, 1890.
Box 5 Folder 1
See also Box 46 Item 72
Donnor Pass Undeveloped Water Power Tributary Report
Box 5 Folder 2
Feather River Report
Box 5 Folder 3
March 12, 1909
Feather River , Great Western Power Co. Report
Box 5 Folder 4
Jan. 31, 1911
General Physical Report
Box 5 Folder 5
Sept. 29, 1939
Historical Report - "Early Telluride History," by A.D. Smith
Box 5 Folder 6
Salmon River Power Development Report
Box 5 Folder 7
1908
Skokomish River Water Power Development Report, by Frank Mackean
Box 5 Folder 8
1896
Stockholders Report
Box 5 Folder 9
Sept. 1903
Various Branches- Reports
Box 5 Folder 10
1905-1906
Various Branches- Reports and correspondence
Box 5 Folder 11
TPC: News Clippings, Articles & Other Publications
1912-1959
News Clippings & Articles re: TPC and Power Industry I
Box 5 Folder 12
1912-1959
News Clippings & Articles re: TPC and Power Industry II
Box 5 Folder 13
1947-1948
Pamphlets & Articles
Box 5 Folder 14
1951-1952
Newsletters & Articles
Box 5 Folder 15
1953
Newsletters
Box 5 Folder 16
1954
Newsletters & News Clippings
Box 5 Folder 17
1958-1960
Newsletters & News Clippings
Box 5 Folder 18
1927
General Electric Review 9/1956 - "We Did Not Know What Watts Were..., by P.N. Nunn
Box 5 Folder 19
1946
The Line - "Telluride"
Box 5 Folder 20
Nov. 1970
Circuit - "Nunn's Plant Olmstead Receive Historic Recognition"
Box 5 Folder 21
January 1905
Cassier's Magazine - "Pioneer Work of the Telluride Power Company," by P.N. Nunn
Box 5 Folder 22
June 2001
Telluride Power
Box 5 Folder 23
TPC: Maps, Drawings, Blueprints, Graphs, Charts, Etc.
Beaver River Power Co. - Working Drawings for Air Blast Lightning Arrestor
Box 5 Folder 24
Blueprints - Electric Heat Exchanger
Box 5 Folder 25
Early Drawings of Apparatus
Box 5 Folder 26
Load Factor Effect on Cost
Box 5 Folder 27
Lake Hope, Blueprint - Proposed Pipelines
Box 5 Folder 28
August 1908
Load Curves
Box 5 Folder 29
1905-1909
Madison River Canon - Preliminary Survey
Box 5 Folder 30
Olmstead - Blueprint of Olmstead
Box 5 Folder 31
1909
Olmstead - Graph of Span-Sag Curves of Copper Cable
Box 5 Folder 32
1909
Olmstead - Map of Grounds
Box 5 Folder 33
Oneida Narrows - Map
Box 5 Folder 34
Oneida Reservoir - County Map
Box 5 Folder 35
1902
Provo, Utah - Chart of Rating Curve
Box 5 Folder 36
Territory Served by TPC - Map
Box 5 Folder 37
Topographic Maps
Box 5 Folder 38
1905-1909
Utah Dept. - Recapitulation of Market
Box 5 Folder 39
TPC: Photographs, Illustrations, & Negatives
Miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 40
Miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 41
Feather River
Box 5 Folder 42
[Oneida Narrows] Blueprint Photographs
Box 5 Folder 43
Summer 1969
Salmon & Beaver Rivers - Negatives
Box 5 Folder 44
TPC: Miscellany
1932-1941
Annual Picnic Announcements, Golden Anniversary
Box 5 Folder 45
1947-1948, 1951-1952, & 1954
Annual Picnic Announcements
Box 5 Folder 46
Biography - Paul P. Ashworth
Box 5 Folder 47
Corporate History
Box 5 Folder 48
1891
Electric Light War
Box 5 Folder 49
TPC Envelopes
Box 5 Folder 50
Illium Plant Postcard
Box 5 Folder 51
1903-1904
Record Book - [Water Levels]
Box 5 Folder 52
1903, 1906, 1909
Specifications
Box 5 Folder 53
TPC: Beaver River Power Company
1909
Correspondence
Box 6 Folder 1
1917-1937
Incorporation, Consolidation, Name Change & Amendments
Box 6 Folder 2
Map
Box 6 Folder 3
Map: Plot of River in Beaver County
Box 6 Folder 4
May 1908
Engineering Report by Telluride Institute
Box 6 Folder 5
February 1, 1909
Engineering Report by Telluride Institute
Box 6 Folder 6
Legal Brief
Box 6 Folder 7
1915
Legal Brief and Related Correspondence
Box 6 Folder 8
Dec. 1912-April 1913
Settlement Documents
Box 10 Folder 1
TPC: Big Springs Power Company
1936-1945
Financial Records, Correspondence & Meeting Minutes
Box 6 Folder 9
1946