Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library

The Black Panther

BCAARL Adds to Black Panther Party Newspaper Collection with Recent Acquisition

Scott Brady, star of "Canon City," and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post from 1946-1971, with a Denver Post newspaper, look at the headlines in an office in Denver, Colorado. A sheet with "The Denver Post Deadline Schedule" sits on the desk. The headline, about the 1947 prison break on which "Canon City" was based, reads: "2 Slain, 9 Captured, In State Pen Break, Stir Crazy Cons Lead Pen Break."

Special Collections and Digital Archives Blogs: Staff Favorites From 2021

This painting depicts an aerial view of the Colorado River as it winds its way through the banded hills of the Grand Canyon. The painting was created in an original and distinctive technique that the artist calls “Neogeometric.”

Artist Burnis Calvin Day

The more the merrier on a slide

The George Washington Carver Day Nursery, Denver’s First Racially Integrated Day Care

"'Fox' - Frontier or Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, Wyo." (fox relief sculpture), 1930. PhotoBox: 1, Page: 21, Julius Peter Ambrusch Papers (WH2473)

Why Everything In The Archives Isn't Digitized (Yet)

The First Colorado Saint

The First African American Coloradoan To Be Nominated for Sainthood

From back of photograph: Demonstrators march against traffic during trek Saturday to Police Bldg. Lt. Jerry R. Caroccia drives police car.

Behind the Photo: Demonstrators March to the Denver Police Building, July 22, 1967

View of a trash can in Denver, Colorado; letters read: "Rubbish." Advertisements read: "Balsam for Colds," and "Cordove Cigar Co."

How Early Denver Dealt With Its Garbage

Juneteenth - June 19, 1865

Juneteenth: The Other Independence Day

An epson scanner connected to a mac desktop, archival papers are laid out on the desk, a pair of white gloves are used to handle the archival papers.

Staff Spotlight: Stevie Gunter, Archivist Librarian

An exterior view of the Park Hill Branch Library located on Dexter and Montview Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. The Park Hill branch library building was built by architects M.R. & Burnham Hoyt and features spanish tiled roof, stucco exterior walls. Two vases are on either side of the brick steps.

Library Built On Heels Of Flu Pandemic Turns 100 During COVID-19 Pandemic

George Elbert Burr woodblock print of the Chicago World's Fair

Colorado, Racism, and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair