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Creating Communities

StoryCorps MobileBooth Opening Day at the Library!

Submitted by jseemill on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:47
StoryCorps MobileBooth

Today is the opening day for the StoryCorps MobileBooth on the plaza. StoryCorps staff will be in Denver until November 5th to record your stories. More spaces will open on Friday October 7th so sign up now!

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Creating Your Community Survey

Submitted by kinsey hamilton on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 11:23

 The Creating Communities team here in WHG are working diligently to build an exciting new website, and would love your input! We've compiled a short survey below. If you have a couple minutes to help us out, we'd greatly appreciate it!

You can jump to our survey here: Creating Your Community Survey

(We promise it's short and won't take long.)

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Remember When...?

Submitted by smcdonald on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 08:38
Photograph of East High Cheerleaders, circa 1920

You still have the popular, the pretty, the athletic, the shy, the weird, the smart, and, let’s face it, the just plain awkward. 

As many of you may know, the Creating Communities project has now began its second phase, called Creating Your Community. 

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Share and Preserve Your History!

Submitted by jseemill on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 10:14
Creating Communities logo
In celebration of Preservation Week, Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy and the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists are providing short preservation consultations for your family treasures with conservation experts on Monday April 25th at the Denver Public Library.
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Teepees and Geodesic Domes

Submitted by kinsey hamilton on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 15:12
Ute teepee Los Pinos Agency

I've been absolutely taken with triangles and symmetry in art and architecture recently. We have so many inspirational photographs in our Digital Collections. Here are some of my favorites. You can click on the image to see the original record.

Drop City Dome

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Civil Rights in the American West

Submitted by j_wendel_cox on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 13:02

Last week Denver Public Library’s David Johnson offered an eloquent reading of the “I Have a Dream” speech, which inspired me to write about the sometimes neglected role of the West in the history of American civil liberties, and, on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, to offer some suggestions from the many recent books on civil rights in the American West.

The struggle for civil liberties was neither confined to the South, nor exclusively to the period of t

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Creating Communities gets new grant funding

Submitted by smcdonald on Mon, 09/27/2010 - 11:20
An Established Community with a Proud Future: Park Hill c 1966
University of Denver scenic illustration overlooking University Park neighborhood, circa 1890
Auraria Historic Tours Brochure, 1977
Restaurant license for David Mallard in Five Points, 1932
Baist's real estate atlas of surveys of Denver, West Colfax Neighborhood: Plate 23, 1905
Lake Junior High School Grades 7 and 8, 1938

It has always been said that all good things must come to an end.

So it is that I report that phase one of the Creating Communities project is ending on the 30th of September.  For all of t

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Creating Communities Website: Let Us Know What You Think!

Submitted by jseemill on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 07:53

Have you visited the Creating Communities website from the Western History Genealogy Department yet?

We've gathered information about seven of Denver's historic neighborhoods in the Neighborhood Histories section of the site.

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Snow Baths and Elephant Hunts...

Submitted by smcdonald on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 14:53
From Denver Municipal Facts: Voume 10 Numbers 5 and 6, 1927 May-June
From Denver Municipal Facts: Voume 13 Numbers 7 and 8, 1930 July-August
From Denver Municipal Facts: Voume 13 Numbers 7 and 8, 1930 July-August

Did you ever try to take a snow bath on a hot summer day?

It’s 9:00 in the morning and as I sit in the air-conditioned photo lab of the Western History Department, I’m thinking that it’s about time to put my sweater on.  Yes, you he

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Creating Communities Website Launches August 1st!

Submitted by jseemill on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 12:25

The Creating Communities Website launches August 1st! We encourage you all to explore the website and learn more about the history of Denver.

The Western History Genealogy Department, in partnership with the City of Denver, History Colorado, Auraria Library, and University of Denver Penrose Library has brought together a number of histor

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