Saint Mary School collection

This collection is composed of three series: information regarding Saint Mary School and Parish in Aspen, Colorado, local histories of Aspen, and photographs.

Included is school and parish data compiled by archivist Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB, searching community records and conversations with Sisters on their research trip to Aspen in 1989.

A 1950 letter to Sister Sebastian Cronin, OSB, from the pastor Father Robert Bannigan fills in parish history. A copy of the Saint Mary Church Aspen, Colorado Centennial Book 1882-1982 is included.

Included are two copies of Famous Aspen-It's Fabulous Past-It's Lively Present written by Caroline Bancroft, a Colorado historian, first published in 1954. A ninth printing from 1981 is also included. Both copies contain historic photographs contributed by the Western History Department of the Denver Public Library.

Photographs circa 1892-1970 include Saint Mary Church and Saint Stephen Church in Aspen from the 1965 Centennial Exhibit by Sister Ignatia O'Connor, OSB. Included are #136, #136a, #137, and #138. There are four color photographs of the Sisters's visit to the Trappist Monks at nearby Saint Benedict Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. There is a set of twelve prints created from glass negatives in the estate of Alice Bertha Masterson.