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National Western Stock Show 2015

National Western Stock Show 2015

MLK Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo

National Western Stock Show & MLK Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo

Civil unions take effect!

Civil unions take effect!

Civil unions take effect!

Marriage Equality in Colorado

A Native American man stands next to a tuff cliffside with eroded holes enlarged by ancestral Pueblo Indians for dwellings and ceremonial spaces, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico; became Bandelier National Monument in 1916.

Windows and bird nest holes show in the soft volcanic rock of a verticle tuff cliffside with natural caves, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

View along a soft volcanic tuff cliffside with natural caves, enlarged to create living and ceremonial spaces by ancestral Pueblo Indians, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ George Beam

Men pose in a horse drawn buggy in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado; one holds a handbill: "Denver The Great Western Livestock Market - The Denver Union Stock Yards - Home Market." Sign reads: "Winchester Hotel."

View of an award ribbon granted to Joe "Awful" Coffee's Ringside Lounge in Denver, Colorado; letters read: "Western Stock Show Association, National Western Stock Show 1948, 4-H Prize Beef, Bought by Joe 'Awful' Coffee's Ringside Lounge." Also shows a drawing of a cow with a crown.

View of an award ribbon granted to Joe "Awful" Coffee's Ringside Lounge in Denver, Colorado; letters read: "Western Stock Show Association, Golden Anniversary National Western Stock Show, 1st Prize Beef, Bought by Lindner, Pkg. & Prov. Co." and "For Joe 'Awful' Coffee's Ringside Lounge."

The National Western Stock Show Over the Years

View looking northwest towards downtown from State Capitol steps, Denver, Colorado, includes cable street cars, carriages, Engine Company No. 1's victorian firehouse across the intersection of Broadway and Colfax and the Arapahoe County Courthouse in distant haze. Signs on billboards and foreground businesses read: "Palace Stables," "Plymouth Hotel," "$25.00 Rio Grande," "Denver Clothes Pressing Co., $3.00 for 3 Months," "Automobiles, Repairs, Storage."

Rooftop view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Majestic Building, and the YMCA Building.

Rooftop view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Buildings include the Arapahoe County Courthouse. Signs read: "The Shannon Reid Plumbing and Heating Co" and "Uhland's Drug Store."

Point of View: Photographs taken from the Colorado State Capitol Building

Stock Show Parade 2015

Stock Show Parade 2015

Stock Show Parade 2015

National Western Stock Show Parade

Interior view of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (Corporation), Pueblo, Colorado, a steel and iron manufacturing plant; shows male employee operating a machine which produces steel wire from steel rods.

A young man sits in the bed of a truck loaded with sugar beets parked in sugar beet field in Northern Colorado. Shows a line of large beets displayed along the chained sideboard of the truck bed.

Interior of the Denver Tramway Company machine shop; a worker operates a large drill press.

The Working West

Wartime bride scrapbook pages with visible phonebook pages. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)

Wartime bride scrapbook pages. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)

Wartime bride scrapbook cover. Scrapbook made from old telephone book. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)

Scrapbook pages from the Gertrude Reasor Papers

View of a car on the Taylor State Road, in Glenwood Canyon (Eagle or Garfield County) Colorado; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks are across the Colorado River.

View of Addie Mellon and Harry Fisher Rhoads, parents of Harry M. Rhoads, with an electric automobile in front of City Park pavilion, Denver, Colorado.

A small boy cries, climbing the side of his crib.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Harry Rhoads