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Curated Galleries

Mae Sot, Thailand _ The Mae Tao clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border has become an essential lifeline for Burmese refugees, offering treatment for malaria. The clinic also has a prosthetics department for land mine victims.

(from left) 34 year-old Thaw Dah Win from Myanmar, Cire Wane (cq) from Mauritania, and Bol Abiar (cq) from Sudan, follow directions written in English, as to how to re-stock a hotel room with sheets and towels

34 year-old Thaw Dah Win asks for a break during a class at the Emily Griffith Opportunity School in Denver.

Burmese in Colorado

Lesbian couple arrested at Sloan's Lake - Denver Post August 14, 1906

Woman riding the rails as a man 1931

LGBTQ History

Miriam Mohamed works on her vocabulary words during tutoring session 1993

Teacher, Norma Trujillo goes over colors with her class of Somali Bantu refugees.

In the cafeteria of Whiteman Elementary school Somali Bantu refugee women gather wearing their traditional dress to learn English in a special class.

Somalis in Colorado

Colorado Tent Company Catalog 1923

Colorado Tent Company Catalog 1923

Denver Tent Company Catalog 1919

Tent Houses

Orphans Arrive at Stapleton Airport 1975 Rocky Mountain News

Woman Holding Orphan 1975

Refugees Commemorate Fall of Saigon at Holy Cross Lutheran Church 1978 Rocky Mountain News

Vietnamese in Colorado

Photograph of a Elyria's baseball team. The team sits in three rows, two on the ground, five on a bench, and four standing behind. All wear their uniforms. The upper portion of the photograph has damage and some of the faces can not been seen

Interior view of the Elyria branch of the Denver Public Library in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; decor includes open-beamed ceilings, a fireplace, book shelves, hanging lamps, French and lunette windows.

Elyria-Swansea

Toshihiro "Toshi" Kuzaki, Owner of Sushi Den June 23, 1985 - Rocky Mountain News

Yoko Cannon of Boulder Plays Koto at Boulder Art Fair 1993 - Rocky Mountain News

Kendo Demonstration at Aki Matsuri Festival - Rocky Mountain News August 8,1978

Japanese in Colorado

Four Indian women walk through Union Station in Denver, Colorado. Three of the women wear saris and one is dressed in a dress and hat.

"Night of Old Madras" Denver Art Museum 1985

Bamla Butpyce - Festival of India 1984

Indian-Americans in Colorado

Caribou Ranch Studio 1979

Rec Room Above Studio 1979

Caribou Ranch from Hilltop 1965

Caribou Ranch Studio