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2021 Juanita Gray Community Service Award - Congratulations to the Nominees

Fall R.A.D.A. Discussions & Workshop: Radical Self-love, Confronting Discrimination and the Opiate Epidemic

Pauline Short Robinson - African American Library Pioneer

Paul Stewart- Chronicler of the Western Black Cowboy

You May Plow Here: Exhibit & Gallery Talk

Exhibit and DIY Workshop with Christine Fontenot

Research Guides

African American Political Figures

African American Music Collections

Galleries

The Way We Worked @ Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Janurary 2 - February 6, 2015

This exhibition created by the National Archives, is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, Colorado Humanities and the Denver Public Library.

Submarine builder at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut

Photograph by Fenno Jacobs, Courtesy of the National Archives, General Records of the U.S. Navy

August 1943

Young women delivering ice

Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs

1918

Workman on the framework of the Empire State Building, New York City

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Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the Works Progress Administration

ca. 1930-31

Lifting turbine blades with a crane, Golden, Colorado

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Photograph by Warren Gretz, Courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Laboratories

April 2001

Interior view of Lever Brothers office building, New York City

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Lever House Photograph, Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency

ca. 1959

Switchboard operators direct overseas calls

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Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the Women’s Bureau

December 1943

Pesticides inspector draws a sample of a toxic liquid, Greenville, Mississippi

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Photograph by John Messina, Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency

March 1974

Young loom workers at Bibb Mill No.1 in Macon, Georgia

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Photograph by Lewis W. Hine, Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the Children’s Bureau

January 1909

Mexican farm worker in lettuce field, Blythe, California

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Photograph by Charles O’Rear, Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency

May 1972

Navy Lieutenant Commander Dorothy Ryan checks a patient’s medical chart aboard the hospital ship USS Repose, off South Vietnam

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Courtesy of the National Archives, Records of the U.S. Marine Corps

April 1966

Gusty Chocknok, skipper of the salmon gillnetter F/V Helen Marg, operating in Bristol Bay, Alaska

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Photograph by Karen Ducey, Courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

ca. 1990

Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) deck crew guides a fighter jet,

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Photograph by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Snyder, Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Photo

2008

Firefighters amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center, New York City

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Photograph by Andrea Booher, Courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency

September 2001

Museum on Main Street: The Way We Worked Exhibit

Unknown Soldier - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Robert Mitchell - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Payne - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Herbert "Sleepy" Reaves - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Ernest Woods - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldier - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldier - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Charlie Warren and Clifford Wilkins - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldier - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldier - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldier - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldier - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldiers - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Rosevelt Foley - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Willis D. McKinie and Willie Harris - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Unknown Soldiers and Friends - from the collection of Paul Stewart

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Veterans of the Past - African American Soldiers

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Posts by Hadiya

Blogs

2021 Juanita Gray Community Service Award - Congratulations to the Nominees

Fall R.A.D.A. Discussions & Workshop: Radical Self-love, Confronting Discrimination and the Opiate Epidemic

Pauline Short Robinson - African American Library Pioneer

Paul Stewart- Chronicler of the Western Black Cowboy

You May Plow Here: Exhibit & Gallery Talk

Exhibit and DIY Workshop with Christine Fontenot

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Museum on Main Street: The Way We Worked Exhibit

Veterans of the Past - African American Soldiers