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Atoem Elem Wh Skil Em Me (Chief Eagle)
[1906]
Antoine and Michael
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Flathead beauties
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Grizzley Bear and Marie Stere-ich-im
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Mat-a-lin, Isabelle, Louise, Mrs. La-tati, Agnes
[between 1905 and 1907?]
Antoine Ninamee, Loma Charlemain
[between 19065 and 1907?]

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Edward H. Boos

Arapahoe Peak 1941
[1941?]
Timberline "Spirit of the Storm" (tree) 1930's
[between 1935 and 1950?]
Wagon Wheels at Lost Lake
[between 1935 and 1950?]
Diamond Lake - Looking toward Arapaho Peak
[between 1935 and 1950?]
A.D. Breed, Eben Smith, Wm. Bryant
[between 1935 and 1950?]
Range View, North from Berthoud Pass
[between 1935 and 1950?]

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Donald Kemp

Sunrise, Pikes Peak
Example of early post card with no space for a message
P.M. Train

Post cards

DPL Archives Michael Graves photo by William Taylor
DPL Archives Western History drawings
DPL Archives Central Library Michael Graves
DPL Archives Central Library SW side (photo by Edward Blandon, 1997)

Remembering Michael Graves

John Kernan Mullen
1933
Mrs. John Kernan Mullen
[between 1910 and 1925?]
J. K. Mullen (Shackelton) residence
[between 1870 and 1880?]
J.K. Mullen Home for the Aged recreation building
[between 1932 and 1940?]
Boys of St. Vincent leaving home of J. K. Mullen after visit to his bedside
1929

J.K. Mullen

Denver, snowstorm
1913
Denver, snowstorm
1913 December
Denver, snow scenes
1913 December
Floss, Big Snow Storm of 1914 [sic] on Clarkson Street
1913 December
A street car blockaded at 16 and Welton Sts. Taken in the snow-storm the morning of Dec. 6, 1913
1913 December 6
Big snow of December 1913 17th Ave. looking toward Broadway
December 1913
Big snow of December 1913 Colfax and Broadway
December 1913
Big snow of December 1913 Colfax looking east from Broadway
December 1913

The biggest snowstorm in Denver history, 1913

Horse-drawn Coors carriage Saint Patrick's Day parade, Civic Center, Denver
1987
James Joyce Society float and Senator Dennis Gallagher Saint Patrick's Day parade, Civic Center, Denver
1987
Saint Patrick's Day parade at 16th and Broadway
1977
Nallen's Irish Pub, 1617 California Street, Denver
[between 1992 and 1995]
Denver churches, Catholic, St. Patrick
[between 1907 and 1920?]
Holyoke - St. Patrick's Church First Communion Class May 17, 1953
1953
Boys of St. Vincent leaving home of J. K. Mullen after visit to his bedside
1929
J. K. Mullen (Shackelton) residence
[between 1870 and 1880?]
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

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.
Four of the patronesses and backers of the newly formed International Beauty Academy, which will open "beauty schools" thruout America and England... Lillian Russell, one-time reigning "American Beauty," now Mrs. Alexander P Moore.
10-4-1921 [International Beauty Academy]
Gambling Bust: L to R Roger Smith,security and custodian police department; Captain John O'Donnell; John H. Winchell, clerk, District Court; Dave Rosner, Deputy District Attorney. [gambling]
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]
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]
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]

The Photo Collection Named After a Dog

Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert Service
C811 S49baLc1 1907 STXII Level 5
A Canyon Voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, artist, and assistant topographer of the expedition...
C978.91 P873dec 1908 STX II Level 5
Women of Red River by William J. Healy
C971.27 H347w 1923 STX II Level 5
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
Songs of the Rockies by Charles Edwin Hewes
C811 H49s1 1922 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
Forty Liars and Other Lies by Bill Nye
C817 N983fo1 1893 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
The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams
C636.209 A211Loe 1927 STX II Level 5
Tommy's First Speaker by Tommy Himself
C808.54 T598 1886 STX II Level 5
Adventures Among the Indians by W. H. G. Kingston
C970.1 K618ad1 1888 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
The Book of Cowboys by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
C636.2 R659bo 1921 STX II Level 5
The Sunny Side of the Street, by Marshall P. Wilder
C817 W645su 1905 STX II Level 5
Crest of the Continent by Ernest Ingersoll
C978.805 I473cr 1885 STX II Level 5
Rhymes of a Rancher bt E. A. L. Griffin
C811 G8735rh 1924 STX II Level 5
Indian Horrors, or Massacres by the Red Men by Henry Davenport Northrop
C970.9 N817in 1890 STX II Level 5

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