How Jasper was platted and sold, in the seller's own paper.
55 items in this collection
Luke Anthony platted the modern Jasper subdivision in the early 1980s and sold the lots that became the community here now. Material from Luke and Luella Anthony was obtained before their passing, and it documents the subdivision's creation and sale in complete detail.
It runs to the master sales catalog, property easement documents, lot photography, maps, and promotional video. Taken together it is an unusually complete record of how a mountain subdivision was actually sold in the early 1980s, from the plat through to the paperwork that put people on the ground.
Master sales catalog used to present and sell lots to prospective buyers in the early 1980s. Shows property details, lot photography, pricing and promotional information.
Original property easement documents and legal records from the subdivision development. Includes deed references, easement rights and property descriptions.
Original moving picture footage from the early 1980s promoting the Jasper subdivision. A rare record of how the property was presented to prospective buyers.
Film · 11 minutes 14 seconds · 654x484. Deinterlaced and re-encoded for the web from an 829 MB analog transfer. The transfer is held in the raw archive and is not published here.
Most places lose this. Sales material is printed to be thrown away, contracts get filed and forgotten, and promotional film from a small development almost never survives at all. That an entire set came through intact, from the family who did the work, is the unusual part.
It also sits at a hinge point. The 1897 townsite plat and the geology thesis in this museum record the first Jasper, the mining camp that came and went. The Anthony material records the second one being made, eighty years later, on the same ground.
If you bought a lot in those years, or have paperwork, photographs or film of your own from that period, the curator would like to hear from you. Get in touch.
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