John Taylor and Dick Charlie
[1880-1910?]
Isom Dart
[1870-1880?]
Portrait of a Denver police officer
[1883-1886?]
Eritrean Family 1984
Ethiopian Engineer Tsegaye Hailu 1991
Somali Girl Studying 1993
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Globeville Smelter
1940
Silver Front Saloon
circa 1911
201 E 45th
circa 1900
Globeville History
The Canon City High School class of 1919 poses for a class picture. Surgical masks were a bit hit when the Spanish flu pandemic hit Colorado in 1918-19. Colorado Historical Society.
[no title]
4/17/06 - P. 26A;
Coal miners' families
[1913 or 1914]
Refugees of Ludlow Tent Coloney [sic] at Trades Assembly Hall, Trinidad, Colorado
1914 April 22
Elementary school children being served milk at Grenada-Amache Japanese Internment Camp. (Photos from www.colorado.gov)
A junior high school class in art, preparing their own Christmas cards
1942 December 10
Amache Boy Scout Troop #719 at Grenada-Amache Japanese Internment Camp. (Photos from www.colorado.gov)
Life in Trying Times
Peek in a box with us
Remington to Fred B. Schell
May 30 (no year)
Illustration from back of Remington letter to Fred B. Schell
May 30 (no year)
Frederic Remington correspondence and publications
Tune Out Jerry Coalition 1993
Tune Out Jerry Coalition 1993
"I want an attendant for my birthday" protest sign from the 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
"We Will Ride" Regional Transportation District Plaque commemorating first wheelchair protest for accessible buses on July 5-6, 1978
circa 1992
"You can't have sex in a nursing home" protest sign from the 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
ADAPT flag near wheelchair on cross at ADAPT protest of the American Health Care Association
October 1994
Group of protesters at 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
Laura Hershey and Robin Stephens protesting United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China
August 1995
Laura Hershey participating in the 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
Laura Hershey protesting lack of access to United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China
August 1995
Laura Hershey wearing t-shirt picturing memorial for ADAPT leader Wade Blank and his son Lincoln.
1993
Man wearing reverend's garb at ADAPT protest of American Health Care Association
October 1994
Police offciers and security guards escorting protesters after they are arrested at 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
Police officers and secuity guards loading protestors onto bus at 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
Protesters speaking with woman at 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
Robin Stephens at the 1994 ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association
October 1994
Wooden coffin and wheelchair affixed to a cross at ADAPT protest of American Health Care Association
October 1994
Laura Hershey (1962 - 2010)
(GOLDEN, ROCKY FLATS, Colo., April 19, 2005) Waste Programs Organization Workers gathered in front of the containers for a group photo out in front of building #440. The final TRUPACT-II shipment left building #440 this morning. The semi hauling three ...
(JEFFERSON CO., Colo., Apr. 29, 1978) A protester in a skeleton mask lends a harsh note to an otherwise mild-mannered demostration Saturday at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. About 5,000 persons gathered to demand the plant's conversion to peace...
6/17/2004 - p.
(Arvada, Colo., October 8, 2004) Wally Gulden and his wife, Connie, relax with their Shih Tzu, Tinkerbelle, in their home in Arvada Friday. Wally Gulden was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer while working at Rocky Flats 10 years ago. Congress finally ...
10/9/04 - P. 4A;
(DENVER, Colo., January 5, 2005) Jon Lipsky, ex-FBI agent, brown sportcoat, wipes his brow often as he stood and talked to the media in the 3rd floor press room at the capitol this morning to present allegations of enviornmental crimes that took place ...
(from left) Cora Tafoya (cq), Michelle Dobrovolny (cq) and Mark Dobrovolny (cq) pose for a portrait on April 25th, 2007. Michelle (at center), takes a daily dosage of over 50 pills, consisting of Vicodin, Celebrex, Nexium, Ultram, Amitriptyline/Paxil,...
0349 Douglas DelForge, 46, of Northglen, worked at Rocky Flats for 24 years as a chemical operator and has an A-Typical Meningiona brain tumor, joins a rally with the American Steel workers Union during a National Institute for Occupational Safety and ...
02/15/2008 - P. 26NEWS;
088 The family of former Rocky Flats occupational safety engineer, Charlie Wolf, widow, Kathy Wolf (cq), center, and daughters, Stephanie Wolf (cq), bottom right, Charlotte Wolf (cq), top center, Amber Cain (cq), bottom left, embraces her daughter, and...
49 year-old Laura Schultz (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 12 years. She suffers of Renal Carcinoma, Cervical Cancer. Her husband, Jeff Schultz (cq), recently discovered 4 nodules in his lungs, and a lump in his thyroid. He worked at the facility for sev...
49 year-old Walter Mike Mobley (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 12 years as a carpenter. Doctors found a tumor behind his stomach which was removed following several chemotherapy sessions and finally becoming cancer free three years ago. Rocky Flats wor...
54 year-old Diane M. Jensen (cq) poses for a portrait before a decision is made at the Radiation Board meeting. She worked at Rocky Flats for 22 years, and came down with breast cancer. She beat the cancer and years later found a growth in her thyroid....
60 year-old Judy Padilla (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 22 years as a metallurgical operator, sheet metal technician and a radiological control technician. She fell ill with breast cancer, and had her right breast removed. Rocky Flats workers made thei...
61 year-old Mary Burke (cq) poses for a portrait before a decision is made at the Radiation Board meeting. She worked at Rocky Flats for 23 years, and came down with breast cancer. She beat the cancer and years later found a tumor in her stomach, one t...
68 year-old Frances Samora (cq) holds a sign with the names of her family members, friends and other co-workers who have died or fell ill as a result to toxic exposures at Rocky Flats, as she participates in a rally that convened outside of the Departm...
75 year-old George Tutt (cq) a former uranium miner sits in his house in Shiprock, New Mexico as his 28 year-old son Davis Tutt (cq) sits in the kitchen table. He started working in the uranium mines since he was 16 years-old. Today, he suffers from a ...
07/19/2008 - P. 1NEWS;
82 year-old Robert Carlson (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 27 years. He suffered of colon cancer, and had 2 feet of his colon removed, as well as 2 feet of intestines, following a year-long treatment of chemotheraphy. He worked as an experimental operat...
As a Rocky Flats employee for 21 years Steven Weber (cq) says he saw his share of waste and corporate greed by Kaiser-Hill who oversaw the federally-funded cleanup of the former nuclear site near Boulder. He says the management ordered workers to throw...
Barry Gilbert (cq) from Aurora, worked at Rocky Flats for 22 years. He recently underwent surgery for brain tumors. He joined hundreds of former Rocky Flats workers and spouses of former Rocky Flats workers at the Arvada Center Monday evening, November...
Charlie Wolf, a 49 year-old former Occupational safety engineer worked at Rocky Flats for many years. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2002, and beat the odds by surviving six years when he was only given 6 months to live. His brain tumors went in...
CODER107 - Jennifer Thompson, the spokesperson for the Rocky Flats workers, left, comforts Nila Adkins, whose husband, Danny Adkins, died from cancer in September 2003 after working for Rocky Flats for 21 years, after they watched the Radiation Advisor...
A photo of Kay Barker (cq), and her husband Lawrence Barker, in 1994, just before he died of colon cancer after working at Rocky Flats for twenty-eight years. (JUDY DEHAAS/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) **Kay Barker (cq)
DLM6507 Kae Williams breaks into tears as she recollects her husband Don Gabel's death in 1980 and what she and her kids went through in the years that followed. Don Gabel, who worked in building 771 at Rocky Flats for almost 10 years, died in 1980 fr...
For five years, former Rocky Flats worker E. Levi Samora Jr. was denied compensation meant for sick nuclear weapons workers, even though he had a diagnosis of a bomb-related illness, from Rocky Flats doctors. Early in the compensation program, chronic ...
Valerie Thielen (cq), from Arvada, Michelle Dobrovolny (cq), from Arvada, and Dennis Romero (cq), from Thornton, all former workers at Rocky Flats, cry as the the Radiation Advisory Board voted 6 to 4 to not grandfather in the years they worked at the ...
George Barrie (cq) looks out the window of his double-semi trailer home in Craig Colorado. He worked in Rocky Flats, dealing with top-secret materials at this atomic weapon complex northwest of Denver. Doctors say he developed a pre-cancerous stomach...
07/21/2008 - P. 10SPECIAL;
James Turner (cq), age 63, is a former Rocky Flats worker with chronic beryllium disease. After years of being at the front of the dispute for workers compensation, he finally got awarded a sum of money in relation to his beryllium disease. He poses fo...
Jim Stone (cq), 82, won a multimilliondollar federal whistleblower lawsuit against Rockwell, the one-time operators of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, in 1999 but has collected none of it due to extended appeals, including a recently filed appea...
Kay Parker (cq) lost her husband to cancer, after fell ill from allegedly working at the Rocky Flats facility. She came to support his late husband's co-workers, as Rocky Flats employees made their last plea for help before Radiation Board, to determin...
Mary An Rupp (cq), the wife of Martin Rupp, a former Rocky Flats employee, weeps after the Board decided against the possibility to grandfather the former Rocky Flats employees into an aid program for those affected with cancer. Her husband died of lun...
5/4/07 - P. 4NEWS;
PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER TOMLINSON--Loa Richards at her home in Grand Junction with a photo of her late husband Warren Richards who worked at Rocky Flats and died of stomach cancer at age 51.Sent as LOA RICHARDS 1.
Frank Steinbach (cq) from Lakewood, (front center, in the plaid shirt, with cane and hat) joins hundreds of former Rocky Flats workers and spouses of former Rocky Flats workers fill a banquet room at the Arvada Center Monday evening, November 7, 2005, ...
Rocky Flats
Town of Barela
1880 Barela Homestead Patent (Courtesy Bureau of Land Management)
United States and Mexico 1838
Casimiro Barela, his wife Damiana Rivera Barela and daughter
[between 1900 and 1910?]
Casimiro Barela
WH2129 RMN Box 321 firefighters apply foam to fuel tanks George Kochaniec Jr
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 firefighters apply foam to fuel tanks on 3 day fire George Kochaniec Jr
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 George Garrod Asst Fire Chief George Kochaniec Jr 392
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 Mario Valverde of Station 12 pulls hoses George Kochaniec Jr 394
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 roaring fire engulfs fuel tanks at stapleton Jim Thompson 396
WH2129 RMN Box 321 roaring fire engulfs fuel tanks at Stapleton Jim Thompson 396
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 Royce Sanders taking a short break George Kochaniec Jr
November 1990
Stapleton International Airport Fuel Tank Fire
Christmas book box
This is the box in which the book is nestled.
Ornamented cover and cloth bookmark, nestled in box
Pages with illuminated letters and text
Sheet music for a Christmas carol in Latin
Page with hand-copied tableau
Al Koran page with decorations from a mosque
The Magnificat of Mary
Twelfth night revels ornamentation
Page with hand-copied tableau 2
