Curated Galleries

A Black man and women pose with mandolins and a guitar on the porch of a house in Denver, Colorado. A chicken and outhouse are near the two story wood frame house.

Miners pose with a pack train of burros near a lake or pond in the Red Mountain Mining District in Ouray or San Juan County, Colorado. Two of the men are African American. The men wear hats, and two smoke pipes. The burros carry split wooden logs. Shows a wooden post in a cairn.

A Black Corporal, (Buffalo Soldier) in the Ninth Cavalry, poses on his horse on the Native American (Lakota Sioux) Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. He wears a military uniform and has a gun in a holster on his belt. Snows covers the ground and frame agency buildings show in background.

Earliest Arrival of Africans in America

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library

Omar Blair

Elvin Caldwell

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library Building

Portrait of Charles "Charlie" Burrell

Portrait of Dr. Jennie Mae Rucker

Portrair of Denise Burgess

Blacks in Colorado Hall of Fame Inductees

View of a billboard located in Denver, Colorado. The billboard has a frame is in an Art-Deco style with stylized newel posts on either side, molding and a cornice mounted on the top that reads: "Public Service Company of Colorado." A small plaque on the bottom of the sign reads: "Alden Sign Co." The sign shows a woman in a shirt, pants and gloves, she aims a bow and arrow, the skyline of a city is behind her. Text reads: "For Selective Air Conditions" "General Electric Refrigerators."

View of a building on the corner of 13th (Thirteenth) Avenue and Lincoln Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. The one-story building has decorative brickwork and garage doors. Cars are parked nearby.

Snow fills the street of a town; people pose by shop windows, snow shoes, and a mortar and pestle. Business signs read: "Suomalainen Aptecki" (Finnish pharmacy), "Dr. G. J. Sorsen," "A. B. Turner, Bankers," "Star Clothing House," and "Hoskings Co. Dry Goods." Utility poles by the street have multiple insulator crossbeams.

Public Service Company

Fashion illustrations

Fashion illustrations

Fashion illustrations

Fashion

Muscleman

Dignitaries

Gambling Bust

Denver Post Photograph Collection