Curated Galleries

View of an Idle 12 Club function. A group of African American (Black) men pose in front of a stage at a dance hall in Denver, Colorado. The men wear tuxedos and bow ties. A jazz band is on the stage in the distance. On the wall near the stage a sign reads "Stag Show, Feb. 1955."

Interior view of the Cooper home in Idaho Springs, Colorado, shows six musicians playing their instruments. Included are: coronet, valve trombone, piano, clarinet, and two violins. The upright piano has a decorative wooden engraving on the facing board and a star patterned cloth draped over it. A doll on top of the piano is leaning against a basket of flowers.

Joe Manns Orch. at jail at Lakeside

Sound Check: Musicians in Colorado

Studio portrait of Buckskin Charlie, a Native American man (Ute); dress includes fur, a hair pipe choker, a moustache, and a Rutherford Hayes Indian Peace Medal.

Studio portrait of Frank P. Stewart, owner of a confectionery store and a resident of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. He wears a dark corduroy jacket, an upright, round collar and a tie with a stickpin. He has a full, waxed mustache, is balding and his hair is combed back and parted on the side.

Notable Moustaches of the West

Dancers from the Georgia Land School of Dancing pose for a group photo in Denver, Colorado. The women, part of the Georgia Lane Group, wear short fringed skirts, bikini tops with sheer fabric overlays, and have their hair marcelled (waved). The woman posed at the extreme left is Sarah Francis "Sally" Orr.

Portrait of Denver Community Players in Denver, Colorado; William Myatt is in a jester costume, a woman in a satin flapper outfit looks on.

A studio portrait of Grayce Smith a possible student at North High School and a member of the Kismet Club. She has her hair slicked back and is wearing a black stain top with white lace pinned to it. She wearing a triple strand pearl necklace.

Ladies' hairstyles of the 1920s

Rooftop view of the Rivoli Theater at 1741 Curtis Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. The four-story building has an ornate entryway decorated with electric lights. Signs read: "Fox Rivoli," "Thos. H Ince's Great Drama 'The Cup of Life,'" and "Hotel Elwood."

View of the Victory Theater in Denver, Colorado; shows the arched entry, ornate plaster work, and the ticket window. Display depicts a cowboy with pistols and reads: "Richard Dix, in Womanhandled."

Night view of the Victory Theater in Denver, Colorado; neon signs and marquee read: "Victory, Girls, Fun For Adults Only, Girlesque, Acapulco Uncensored, Big Sin City, Spicy Films," and "Discount Credit Jewelers."

Denver Theaters

Men identified as Rocky Mountain News staff members stand in a row in front of tables that hold election tabulating machines inside the Rocky Mountain News building at 1720 Welton Street in Denver, Colorado. Some men work the machines, others study tapes with results from the machines.

View of a woman, a ward worker, in a dark dress and hat, talking to a woman who holds a baby and stands with a young girl. Well dressed men and women sit and stand on the porch of a building with signs that reads: "Polling Place, Ward and District 9, Precinct 1" and "Election Notice." The women wear long dresses and hats. The men wear suits and hats.

Colorado Governor Daniel Thornton stands and talks to two Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad employees near a railroad freight car in probably Denver, Colorado. He wears a suit, tie and a cowboy hat. The railroad employees wear overhauls and railroad caps. Members of the governor's staff are nearby.

Election Time!

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

Payne - from the collection of Paul Stewart

Robert Mitchell - from the collection of Paul Stewart

Veterans of the Past - African American Soldiers

Peck is accepting Carhart's proposal to limit development around Trappers Lake. "I fully agree that features of superlative interest belongs to all the people and should be protected from selfish individual use; we have a real duty in this regard. I cannot say just how absolute we should make our rule re: Trapper's Lake as I haven't seen it, but feel we should take the safest course, and am willing to concur in your plan tentatively. A.S.P." [initials of A.S. Peck, then Regional Forester R-2, Denver]

Memorandum from Arthur Carhart to Aldo Leopold.

Exhibit held September 3-November 2, 2014

Arthur Carhart

Wildlife Research News Letter (announcement of Aldo Leopold's death)

Exhibit held September 3-November 2, 2014

Aldo Leopold

Murie is asking President Eisenhower to oppose the buiding of dams within Dinosaur National Monument.

Adams is asking President Eisenhower to oppose the buiding of dams within Dinosaur National Monument.

Dinosaur now has full park protection.

The fight to save Echo Park