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Post card with small image
Chipmunks at Longs Peak Inn
Post Office
Summit House of Mt. Manitou
Corley Mountain Highway, Colorado Springs
Cold Shivers Point, Colorado National Monument
Mountain Hotel
Valley View Motel
Galloping Goose
Bridal Veil Falls
After the Feast
1471 Race Street, Denver, CO
Daniels and Fisher Tower
Denver Ice Rink
Jonas Bros Furs
Luna Park Steamboat "frolic" Denver, CO
Elitch's Gardens
Post cards
DPL Archives Aerial drawing
DPL Archives Central Model
DPL Archives Western History Model
DPL Archives North side construction
DPL Archives Central from park
DPL Archives Central Library from CHS 2001
DPL Archives Central Library SW side (photo by Edward Blandon, 1997)
DPL Archives Central from southwest
DPL Archives Central West Side
DPL Archives WH/G Spirit of the West
DPL Archives Michael Graves photo by William Taylor
DPL Archives Michael Graves March 1995
Remembering Michael Graves
A street car blockaded at 16 and Welton Sts. Taken in the snow-storm the morning of Dec. 6, 1913
1913 December 6
The biggest snowstorm in Denver history, 1913
St. Patrick's Day Denver Times Coverage 1902
St. Patricks Day, Denver Times 16 March 1902, p.25
St. Patrick's Day Denver Times Coverage 1910
St. Patricks Day, Denver Times March 17, 1910, p.4
St. Patrick's Day 2015
Colorado and the Irish - A Match Made in Heaven
Mariolive Zavislan Beauty and the beast again step from fairyland. This time they are Miss Mariolive Zavislan and her five-year old Palomino, "Stardust 2," from Penrose. Mariolive has been chosen by the Fremont County Saddle Club to represent
Fremont County in in the contest among Colorado's saddle clubs to choose Miss Colorado State Fair for the 1944 rodeo in Pueblo, August 28, thru September 1.
Seated at the head of a mess table in Camp Fechner at Big Meadows, Virginia, one of the five Civilian Conservation Corps camps he visited on August 12, President Roosevelt partook of the camp food, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Left to right, seated, are: General Paul B. Malone; Colonel Louis Howe, Secretary Ickes of the Interior Department, and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell. 8-13-1933 [Civilian Conservation Corps]
Paper costumes at City Park playground. Joe Burke, Burton Burke, May F. Burke, Zelda Kapland, Norma Stockham. August 1, 1943 [City Park]
John Lemm of Switzerland. [Boxing]
Here is "Miss Radio of 1928"
New York City, August 26, 1928: Miss Vivienne Osborne with a new type of loud speaker which will be exhibited at the Radio World's Fair, Miss Osborne was selected from hundreds of applicants as "Miss Radio of 1928" by G. Clayton Irwin Jr., general manager
of the Radio World's Fair.... Underwood and Underwood, Photo.
"Morey Bernstein, center, hypnotizes Ruth Simmons, a Colorado housewife, and tape records her memories of a previous lifetime as Bridey Murphy,
and her life in 18th century Ireland." The Bridey Murphy story was a Colorado-homegrown national sensation in the 1950s.
Heading west on Colfax Avenue at Grant Street, March 19, 1952
The "Old Hanging Tree" - Valverde
This tree in the 1400 block of West Alameda was a Denver landmark since the city's founding, unti the six foot diameter cottonwood died and was cut down in 1923. Despite its name, evidence collected from "old timers," according to Denver Municipal Facts,
suggests that the tree was never actually used for lynching anyone.
"Glory Holes for Trout mark the course of Willow Creek above the ghost town of Tincup, Colorado, in Gunnison National Forest. An angler tries for the big ones that lurk where a mining dredge went down to bedrock in search of placer gold.
Photography by Charlie Wunder. 7-30-50 [scenery]
C. M. Hubbard Pikes Peak Races 1925 [Pikes Peak Race]
Suffrage delegates bound for Copenhagen [from the New York Herald Syndicate] [Suffrage]
Mrs. Ballington Booth, addressing the conference [Suffrage]
Photo shows California women delegates to the Democratic convention still energetic and able to parade and cheer for their choice after two weeks of listening to speeches and balloting in the hottest of New York city weather.
What male delegate dares say women are the weaker sex? July 12, 1924 [Politics]
Passing the Torch August 11, 1915: A women's suffrage activist passes a torch from a boat to another woman.
"General" Rosalie Jones giving the marching order 2-16-1913 [Suffrage]
Alman G. Hark 6-25-11 [Inventions]
The Photo Collection Named After a Dog
Highways and Byways of The Pacific Coast written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson
C917.9043 J63hi 1908 STX II Level 5
The Beef Bonanza, or How to Get Rich on the Plains, by James Sanks Brisbin
C636.2 B775be 1881 STX II Level 5
The Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West
C973 L899pr1 1892 STX II Level 5
Official Route Book of the Yellowstone Highway in Wyoming and Colorado
C917.870431 O32 1916 STX II Level 5
Zezula; or Pioneer Days in the Smoky Water Country by Jessamine Slaughter Burgum
C970.9 B916ze 1937 STX II Level 5
The Story of the American Indian, by Elbridge S. Brooks
Cj970.1 B791st 1887 STX II Level 5
The Romance of the Colorado River by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
C978.91 P873de 1902 STX II Level 5
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by Ellsworth L. Kolb
C917.913 K83th 1902 STX II Level 5
On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thomas D. Murphy
C917.940451 M958on 1915 STX II Level 5
Indian Horrors, or Massacres by the Red Men by Henry Davenport Northrop
C970.9 N817in 1890 STX II Level 5