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Women at Union Station in Denver, Colorado
[1930-1940?]
Bamla Butpyce - Festival of India 1984
"Night of Old Madras" Denver Art Museum 1985
Denver, Colo., photo taken January 2, 2004-Ma Geeta Sharma (left) and Abhishek Ambani (right) gathered with many others from the community to the Sri Sri Radha Govinda Temple located at 1400 Cherry Street in Denver where they held a special program Su...
Denver, CO July 25, 2005 Karima Kisch (left) and Meera Rawat, Hindu dancers, rehearse for the huge interfaith festival that happens in August. Rick Giase/Special to the News
(DENVER, COLORADO, January 30, 2005) Arushi Raval, 7, left, poses for parents before her Sattriya Dance performance with the Assamese Association of Colorado on Sunday evening, January 30, 2005. The Tsunami Relief Fundraising Concert, organized by the...
(Denver, Colorado, 12/22/2005) Nanci Ricks (cq), from the Dalit Freedom Network, is thrilled with the non-profit's new offices in Greenwood Village. She also reflected on the past year and their upcoming annual trip to India in January to do more work...
12/24/05 - P. 6A;
DLM367 Ravi Krishnaswamy, 29, of Centennial prepares for the evening services at the Hindu Temple of Colorado in Littleton Tuesday July 11, 2006. Krishnaswamy, who is originally from southern India said he was saddened and angered by Tuesday's terrori...
Sharmila Chakravarti, left, and Leena Bhagat attend the Governor Bill Ritter's inaugural ball at the Colorado Convention Center on January 12, 2007. Sharmila Chakravarti, left, wears a black embroidered Salwar-Kameez. Salwars are loose pajama-like tr...
Mounika Chilakuri(cq), left, and her sister Nikhila Chilakuri(cq) watch for cars arriving for the ceremony in the Dove Valley area of Centennial, Colo on Saturday, June 23, 2007. The Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies held Bhoomi Pooja Sam...
Kari Grossman holds her child Shanti Grossman, 4, at their parents home in Denver, Colo., on Monday, July 14, 2008. Kari and Geeorge Grossman won the Colorado parents of the Year Award. They adopted Grady Grossman, 8, from Cambodia, and Shanti Grossman...
MJM065 Acharya Kailash Upadyay (cq), far left, and Ned Kumar (cq), watch as Jyoti Yagnik (cq), center to right, Jigisha Yagnik (cq) and Tosha Shah (cq) perform the "Aarti" at a Hindu Temple in a converted home in Littleton, Colo. Thursday 11/13/08. ...
02/25/2005 Denver, Colorado-Daljit Kaur (cq:Daljit Kaur), who hails from India, waits to be sworn in as a U.S. citizen on Friday. Newly naturalized citizens were officially sworn in during a ceremony at the Immigration Office at the Department of Homel...

Indian-Americans in Colorado

The barn that was later converted into the recording studio at Caribou Ranch can be seen at the back of this photo of a Sunday horse show during the 1940s at the Lazy VV Ranch.
While trees may have grown over the years, the site has always been a beautiful locale, from its days as a horse ranch through the arrival of Caribou Ranch recording studios in the '70s.
A cattle drive approaches the front gate of the Lazy VV Ranch near Nederland during the 1940s. The two V's in the ranch's name came from founder L. W. Van Vleet. The location later became home to the Caribou Ranch recording studio.
Studio rates for Caribou Ranch. Exclusive use for Caribou Ranch story.
The band, Chicago at Carbou ranch. Exclusive use for Caribou Ranch story.
Stephen Stills at Caribou Ranch. Exclusive use for Caribou Ranch story.
Kris Kristofferson and his daughter at Caribou Ranch. date unknown. Photo by Henry Diltz.
Carl Wilson of Beach Boys at Caribou Ranch. Exclusive use for Caribou Ranch story.
Jim Guercio got his start in the '60s band The Buckinghams before producing Blood Sweat & Tears and most famously Chicago. He took his riches from those and started a variety of projects, most notably Caribou Studios. Located in the mountains near Ne...
Jim Guercio got his start in the '60s band The Buckinghams before producing Blood Sweat & Tears and most famously Chicago. He took his riches from those and started a variety of projects, most notably Caribou Studios. Located in the mountains near Ne...
01/26/2008 - P. 2NEWS;
Original recording studio at Caribou Ranch. Exclusive use for Caribou Ranch story.

Caribou Ranch Studio

Bob Ragland (Top Left)
Bob Ragland Early 1960s
Bob Ragland Early 1960s

Bob Ragland

Brehane Meskele Madhaiy holds his daughter Millete Brehane
March 6, 1984
Portrait of hydrogeologist Tsegaye Hailu
May 16, 1991
Sara Takale shows Nigest Abreham English sentences in a book
March 3, 1984
Ethiopia fan, Seife Tesfemariam, 26, of Denver, holds up a Ethiopian flag as he and others celebrate the men's Team Ethiopia victory in the 27th Annual Bolder Boulder held in Boulder, Colo., on Monday, May 30, 2005. (RODOLFO GONZALEZ/ROCKY MOUNTAIN N...
Beza Hailu(cq) poses for a portrait after a radio show by Kidane Teklu(cq), an Ethiopian immigrant, at KLTT studios in Denver, Colo., Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005. Teklu moved to the United States 10 years ago, but is able to connect with his Ethiopian heritag...
Kidane Teklu(cq), right, an Ethiopian immigrant, laughs during his radio show while Beza Hailu(cq), ;left, ajusts her volume during a live show at KLTT studios in Denver, Colo., Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005. Teklu moved to the United States 10 years ago, but i...
8/13/05 - P. 7D;
Father Likelikawnt Gebrehiwot poses for a portrait after a radio show by Kidane Teklu(cq), an Ethiopian immigrant, at KLTT studios in Denver, Colo., Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005. Teklu moved to the United States 10 years ago, but is able to connect with his Et...
8/13/05 - P. 7D;
This World Plate feature profiles Tsehay Hailu (cq), the owner of Ras Kassa's, an Ethiopian restaurant in Boulder. Tsehay's daughter Atsede Demelash (cq) (far right) pops a bite of delicious Ethiopian food into her aunt Fekerte Hailu's (cq) mouth whil...
Woman join in dance and song that was part of an Ethiopian service Sunday morning October 1, 2006 in the new Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, 16200 E. Colfaz in Aurora. This is the largest Ethiopian Church outside of Ethiopia (***DON'T KNOW IF TRUE*...
left to right, Badhasso, Lisufe and Ali Mohamed, (cq), The Mohamed brothers from Ethiopia, take to the dance floor with a customary dance presentation during graduation ceremonies. The 190th graduation class of theWorkstyles program graduated 22 studen...
4/17/06 - P. 7A;
Asten Tefera, 3 year old, takes part in an Ethiopian service Sunday morning October 1, 2006 in the new Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, 16200 E. Colfaz in Aurora. This is the largest Ethiopian Church outside Ethiopia (***check to see if true***). Af...
10/2/06 - P. 12A;10/2/06 - P. 12A;
0686 Debre Salam Medhanealem Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church members Ashenafi Admassu, left, and Melaku "Angel" Hailegiorgis, right, hang an American flag along with a banner with the Ethiopian colors as they celebrate the inaguration of their new ...
Ethiopian Book Education Children's Fund. Awassa, Ethiopia. July 1, 2007.
Sofia Kedir, 7, center foreground, dances at Strings Restaurant in Denver, Colo., on Thursday, August 16, 2007. The girls are members of Mesgana Dancers of Ethiopia, a troupe of 11 girls ages 8-12 from Ethiopia that performed traditional Ethiopian Danc...
Yohannes Gebregeorgis (cq) speaks to children at Arrowwood Elementary in Highlands Ranch Wednesday November 12,2008. Gebregeorgis is a man who believes in giving back. and then giving back some more. six years ago, the ethiopian immigrant, created eth...
MJM758 In honor Jesus washing the feet of his dsiciples at the last supper, Reverend Kiros, center, cleanses the feet and hands of his parishioners Thursday afternoon at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Denver. (MATT MCCLAIN/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS)
Zewditu (Zodi) Aboye (cq), owner of the ethiopian restaurant, Queen of Sheba at 7225 E. Colfax, at Quebec, on January 10, 2007, for World Plate food story. The platter of traditional meat and vegetarian stews (named "wat") is sitting in a "mesob," an...
1/17/07 - P. 4D;
Mr. Bruk Berhanu (cq) is a civil engineer who volunteers his time to the Children's Heart Fund in Ethiopia. The Boulder Community Hospital and Project C.U.R.E. team up to help build First Children's Cardiac Center in Africa. A Cardiac Catheterization L...
3/6/07 - P. 21NEWS;
25 year-old Tigest Kassaw (cq) from Ethiopia dances to traditional East African music at Washington Park in Denver, Colorado on July 1st 2007. Every year, the African Community Center of Denver introduces newly arrived refugees to American holidays and...
Rawda Ibrahim who immigrated from Ethiopia,holds an American flag during a United States Naturalization Ceremony in which he became a United States Citizen, Tuesday July 11, 2006. The ceremony was held at the Learning Source for Adults and Families at...
7/12/06 - P. 15A;

Ethiopians in Colorado

St. Mary’s Dormition Orthodox Church 1980
Alexis and Portia Lubchenco 1917
Alexis Lubchenco 1941
Bob Schaffer would bring decorated Easter eggs to his fellow Senators. Schaffer is part Ukrainian, where Easter is a huge holiday. Photo dated 2/16/89.
Joseph Shoshenskiy, 91, from the Ukraine, came to the United States five years and seven months ago and took only four months to become naturalized as a U.S. citizen once he started the process. He is a Soviet WWII war hero and was proud to wear all o...

Ukrainians in Colorado

Stella Yellow Shirt and baby
Studio portrait (sitting) of Stella Yellow Shirt and her baby, a Native American (Brule Sioux) woman and child.
1899
Denver Orphans' Home
[1910-1915?]
Arapahoe woman Ft. Washakie, Wyo
[1920-1930?]
Dr. Justina L. Ford
Doctor Ford was one of the first women doctors in the Denver area. She was instrumental in the development of health care in Denver.
circa 1935
Nurse with GI in hospital, Italy
A nurse takes the temperature and pulse of Tenth Mountain Division soldier, S/Sergeant George V. Geiss as he lies in his hospital bed in Italy.
1945
Well-visit with Dr. Debbie Chapman
Aleysha Gonzalez, 6 months-old gets her "Well Child Check" from Dr. Debbie Chapman
Nov. 23, 2004
Dr. Jenny Bajaj MD discusses lab results
Dr. Jenny Bajaj MD,MPH (left), goes over medical lab results on the computer with patient Ann Lackey at Kaiser's East Denver Campus
December 2, 2008
A nurse leads a tour of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
A nurse leads a tour of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Children's Hospital at the Anshutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO.
September 6, 2007
Family nurse practitioner Inez Buggs
Family nurse practitioner Inez Buggs checks 18-month-old Joseph Zamora's heart during a routine checkup as he sits on the lap of his mother, Jennifer Armenta, at Clinica Campesina in Lafayette.
April 19, 2006
Teacher Linda Alston
Linda Alston, a national-award winning teacher who works in low-income schools, reads with her kindergarten student Ashante Pierce, 5, during class.
March 5, 2008
Lena Archuleta and Dora Valdez
Called "guiding lights" among Hispanic women, Lena was Denver's first Hispanic female principal and has a school named after her. Dora is the widow of Bernie Valdez, a civil rights leader in Denver history.
Nov. 25, 2008
Teresa Hinz of Ault, Colorado
Teresa Hinz, mother of 3, resting her eyes while holding daughter 9 month old Katie while Kylie plays during the Bishop Machebeuf Buffaloes vs Cedaredge Bruins.
March 9, 2007
Denver Paramedic Maryanne Foerster holds baby, Sariah Unique Trevino
Dominique Trevino, 18 lets Denver Paramedic Maryanne Foerster hold her baby, Sariah Unique Trevino, at a press conference at Denver Health.
January 28, 2009
(Superior, Colo., April 17, 2005) Melanie Pray, a firefighter with Boulder Mountain Fire, holds a cat named Abby she rescued hiding in a second story closet of a burned out building at the Horizons at Rock Creek Apartments in Superior, Co at 1995 Tyler...
4/19/05 - P. 4A;

Essential Women

Mexican settlement, near Walsenburg
1888
Portrait of a family
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Casimiro Barela Colorado's Hispanic "perpetual senator" from Colorado.
ca. 1910
Lucero family at door of the ranch house - White Mountain
Three girls and three boys posing for a group photograph
1950-1970
Members of Centro Mexico of Denver prepare to celebrate anniversary of Independence of Mexico from Spain
1967, September 14
Sandos family in front of the M.L. "Sam" Sandos West Side Health Center
Carlos Castaneda (cq), of Grupo Tlaloc, leads dancers and students, on a march through Auraria Campus after performing at the 2nd Annual Latino leadership Summit at the Tivoli Student Union in Denver, Colo., on Friday, March 31, 2006. The summit featu...
DM0451 Lena Archuleta and Dora Valdez pose for a photograph in Denver Tuesday Nov. 25, 2008. wo widows, now in their 80s, called "guiding lights" among Hispanic women. Lena was Denver's first Hispanic female principal -- and has a school named after h...
(11/03/04, Denver, CO) Ken Salazar held a press conference in the parking lot of his campaign office at 11th and Bannock Wednesday morning. He was inundated by media, especially latino oriented press. Here he is interviewed by Ana Mejia of KMAS Telemu...
11/4/04 - P. 6A;
(Denver, Colorado, 2/13/2006) Saturday Spotlight: Danny and Maruca Salazar (cq) are among winners of the Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts this year, an honor being noted at a reception February 21. They are both artists, and also long-time a...
2/21/06 - P. 9D;
28 year-old Maria Diaz de Jesus (cq) (at right) takes the oath to become a United States Citizen, after living in the U.S. for almost 20 years. 3 months ago, she decided to begin the nationalization process, and on August 21, 2007, she became a United ...
8/22/07 - P. 8NEWS;

Hispanic Heritage Month

George Washington Carver Nursery
[1940-1966?]
The Denver Star
The Denver Star
Negro Woman's Club Association from Clarkson Street
circa 1950
George Washington Carver school holiday celebration
circa 1960
George Washington Carver Nursery Mayday celebration
circa 1955
George Washington Carver Nursery students in classroom
circa 1950
Children on the George Washington Carver playground
circa 1950
George Washington Carver students perform a play
circa 1960
Groundbreaking ceremony at George Washington Carver Day Nursery
May 18, 1905
George Washington Carver day care center ground breaking
[1965]
George Washington Carver day care center dedication
[1966]
George Washington Carver day care center dedication
[1966]
George Washington Carver day care center dedication
[1966]
George Washington Carver day care center dedication
[1966]
George Washington Carver day care center dedication
[1966]
Lillian S. Bondurant at the Negro Woman's Club awards
circa 1965
Six-year-old Carol Copeland pays close attention to Sen. George McGovern, D-South Dakota, before digging in to her lunch at the George Wahington Carver Day Nursery at 2270 Humboldt St. in August 1971. JOHN WHITWORTH/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
George Washington Carver Day Nursery Day proclamation
Oct 20, 1978
George Washington Carver school meeting room and founders (?)
circa 1970
Pinocchios at the George Washington Carver Day Nursery
circa 1980
Denver Neighborhood History Project, 1993-94: Five Points Neighborhood
Denver Neighborhood History Project, 1993-94: Five Points Neighborhood
Denver Neighborhood History Project, 1993-94: Five Points Neighborhood

George Washington Carver Day Nursery

Airplane View, Pueblo in vicinity of east 4th St., D. & R.G. tracks across Fountain Creek
1921 June
Dreadful flood of Pueblo, Colo., looking the east [sic] from W. 4th St's. bridge
1921 June 3
Great flood, Pueblo, Colo., June 3rd '21, Union Station
1921 June 3
Flood scene, First Street, looking west, Pueblo
1921 June 6
Wrecked stores on Union Ave. looking east from Telephone Bldg. note searchers among the ruins.
[1921]
Airplane view, Arkansas River near Nuckolls Packing Plant, D.& R.G. and A.T.& S.F. bridges in foreground
1921 June
Debris at 2nd and Grand Ave., showing high water line
1921 June
Interior of White & Davis store, cor. 3rd and Main
1921 June
Looking west along 2nd St. from point near Main Street
1921 June
D. & R.G. freight yards looking east from viaduct Santa Fe bridge and Nuckoll's Packing Plant in the background.
[1921 June]

The Pueblo Flood of 1921

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