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Five women identified as George Washington Carver staff stand behind a table featuring punch bowls and tea snacks. The women are identified on the verso as "Staff at Nursery," and (L-R) "Baily, Ford, Boggess, Brown, and Edwards." The woman identified as "Ford" is believed to be long-time Carver teacher and director Erma Ford, who served at the school for more than 30 years.

On October 20, 1978, Governor Richard Lamm issued a proclamation announcing that date as official "George Washington Carver Day Nursery Day." The proclamation references the "more than 30,000 young children" the school had "provided loving care and attention to" since it's inception in 1916. This document is the official proclamation.

An indoor, group photograph of students and teachers at the George Washington Carver Day Nursery located on 2270 N. Humboldt in the City Park West neighborhood. The Carver Nursery divided their students into classes based on age group, and bestowed names, such as "Kidettes" and "Tom Thumbs," on each class in the school. This group, named the "Pinocchios" included sixteen students and three teachers. The children hold a sign reading "Pinocchios" and hand puppets.

George Washington Carver Day Nursery

Interior view of White and Davis clothing store at 301 N. Main Street after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows wrecked furniture, crates, mud and debris in the aisle. Signs for "Boys Dept." and "Collars" are posted on pipe columns with Corinthian capitals. The store has a pressed metal ceiling and overhead lamps with glass globes.

People walk on 2nd (Second) Street in front of damaged commercial buildings and piles of debris from the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Men pose on wreckage from a collapsed roof beside a damaged brick building with a decorative parapet. Shows cars, water and mud in the street.

View of Union Depot in the aftermath of the 1921 flood in Pueblo, Colorado, shows debris and destruction. Piles of timber and beams are stacked against overturned railroad passenger cars. Mud and debris from the receded flood waters extends to the railroad station platform of Union Depot. Empty and loaded railroad baggage carts are next to a group of men.

The Pueblo Flood of 1921

Courtney Gray, Transgender Civil Rights Advocate speaks at the rally.

Large group of protesters and signs

Studio portrait (sitting) of George Bent's wife Magpie, a Native American (Cheyenne) woman. She wears beaded moccasins, a fringed blanket, and bead necklaces.

Women's History Month

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Interior view of a lunch counter at the Home Public Market, in Denver, Colorado; shows a man, women including Ruth Handler [third from right], a neon sign, tile floor, a United States flag, and signs: "Coca Cola," "Watermelon on Ice," "Beer On Draught," and "Greenwald's Soda Fountain."

A young woman fishes with a bamboo pole, in (probably) Colorado or Utah; she wears hip waders and stands in the river. Her outfit also includes short-legged bib-overalls and a straw hat.

Two African American (Black) men shake hands in front of a Standard gas station at 29th and Colorado Boulevard in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

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