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Tis the Season...
Submitted by smcdonald on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 12:14pmWith the holidays in full swing I’ve realized that we as a country have developed unique traditions during this time of year. Sure our holidays are still centered around family, friends
Best of the Box: Theodora Mussey Scrapbook
Submitted by kinsey hamilton on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 2:03pmYou can check have a look at the Denver Public Library's catalog record for this item here
Which Denver Public School is this?
Submitted by rdudley on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 12:03pmThis photo in the Denver Public Library Western History Collection bears a stamp on the back which reads Information Services, Denver Public Schools.
Acquisitions Highlight
Submitted by eedwards on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 2:22pmSome of these individuals are on one of our two Acquisitions Committees, while others assist us independently.
Civil War photo identified
Submitted by rdudley on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 1:00pmThis photgraph is in the Pratt/Magee Family collection (WH636). It was taken during the civil war and that the wagons in the foreground are ambulances.
Bill Hosokawa Papers
Submitted by eedwards on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 10:40amHosokawa first donated his personal papers to the library in 1985, but, in the last year and a half since he passed away, Susan has gone through his belongings and discovered many more papers to ad
Surprise!
Submitted by eedwards on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 2:21pmThey were the family of Edward W. Milligan, a prominent Denverite who, among other achivements, proposed and sponsored the creation of the Denver Municipal Flag. Mr.
Adventures in the Wild West
Submitted by smcdonald on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:30pmWhen I think of the American West I often think of the ever so popular westerns of the 1950’s and 1960’s. I have a mental picture of a cowboy wearing an oddly colored fringe shirt
Nineteenth Century in Arizona
Submitted by abrown on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 1:45pmThe W.H. Kelley collection, WH1627, consists of a handwritten looseleaf journal. Conveniently, it also contains a typewritten transcription.
LARASA
Submitted by abrown on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 1:13pmThe Latin American Research and Service Agency (LARASA, WH1842) contains papers documenting the struggle to improve life in Colorado for the Latino community.





















