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Curated Galleries

Laradon Hall formerly Globeville School

Sam Maestas Jr., home on leave

View of the work yard at the Globe Smelter at 52nd (Fifty-second), Logan, and Washington Streets in Denver, Colorado. A worker pushes an ore cart on the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad tracks past a pile of loose rails. Shows brick masonry buildings. Men work under the eaves by the smelter. Chimneys belch smoke.

Globeville History

Life in Trying Times

Frederic Remington correspondence and publications

Laura Hershey (1962 - 2010)

Rocky Flats

View of Colorado Senator Casimiro Barela's country home in El Moro (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows a house with gabled roofs and an small cabin. Men and women pose near the house and near horse drawn carriages. Senator Barela poses right center with an unidentified woman.

Damiana and Casimiro Barela

Hispanic American Damiana Rivera de Barela, wife of Colorado State Senator Casimiro Barela, poses for a portrait in an embroidered cape trimmed in fur and a hat decorated with feathers, a bow and a veil. She wears a pin in the shape of a cross.

Casimiro Barela

Stapleton International Airport Fuel Tank Fire

Page with hand-copied tableau 2

Twelfth night revels ornamentation

The Magnificat of Mary

A History of the Feast of Christmas

Continental Oil Fire #8

Continental Oil Fire #7

Continental Oil Fire #6

Continental Oil Refinery Explosion and Fire