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Exhibits

Baobab Tree, Africa

Mount Llampu from La Paz, Bolivia.

Mountain Snow Melt

Deco Trefoil ~ Denver Equipment Company Newsletter

Old Olsen's log and plank shack residence Petersburg (later Englewood), Arapahoe County, Colorado, includes a hand pump and washtub.

View of dilapidated cabins in Independence (Pitkin County), Colorado; features barren hills with new growth.

A dilapidated log and sheet metal shack stands on the verge of collapse at the Montezuma Mine, Pitkin County, Colorado.

Wow Photo Wednesday~ Ramshackle Houses

Firefighters amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center, New York City

Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) deck crew guides a fighter jet,

Gusty Chocknok, skipper of the salmon gillnetter F/V Helen Marg, operating in Bristol Bay, Alaska

Museum on Main Street: The Way We Worked Exhibit

Rooftop view of the Rivoli Theater at 1741 Curtis Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. The four-story building has an ornate entryway decorated with electric lights. Signs read: "Fox Rivoli," "Thos. H Ince's Great Drama 'The Cup of Life,'" and "Hotel Elwood."

View of the Victory Theater in Denver, Colorado; shows the arched entry, ornate plaster work, and the ticket window. Display depicts a cowboy with pistols and reads: "Richard Dix, in Womanhandled."

Night view of the Victory Theater in Denver, Colorado; neon signs and marquee read: "Victory, Girls, Fun For Adults Only, Girlesque, Acapulco Uncensored, Big Sin City, Spicy Films," and "Discount Credit Jewelers."

Denver Theaters

Harry M. Rhoads, behind the steering wheel, poses in a convertible with passenger in front of Westminster University or College, at 3455 West 83rd Avenue in Westminster (Adams County), Colorado. Animals graze in the barren field in which the building is situated. Architectural features of the building: sandstone construction, 175-foot tower with a hipped roof, conical towers, square towers, arched and square windows and entrances, gables, and chimneys.

View of an O'Malley-Kelley Oil and Auto Supply Company delivery truck in Denver, Colorado. Lettering on the side of the cab reads: "Zuni St & Lake Place."

View of Welton Street in Denver, Colorado; shows parked cars, pedestrians, and business signs: "Jim Furlong Loans," "Baker Hotel," and "Estes Hotel."

Sedans, Coupes and Tin Lizzies ~ The Early Days of the Automobile

View from the Ore Bucket Lodge in Crested Butte, Colorado; shows the silhouettes of an ore bucket hanging from a rafter on a chain, and a large tree branch laying under the bucket; two large stone columns and a roof form a frame for the two objects; image taken from shadow into light; residences and mountains in the background.

Interior view of the machine shop of General Iron Works at 1245 Osage Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Manhole covers, molds, machinery, and mobile overhead cranes are in the warehouse building.

A Tenth Mountain Division soldier enjoys the beach at Trieste with a woman. Both wear bathing costumes and pose for the camera. Behind them the beach is filled with other sun worshipers.

Double Takes

African-American men, women, and children, members of the American Woodmen's Association and Shriners, many in costume or uniform, pose with banners and pennants near the Association's office at 2100 Downing Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

David and Virgina Mallard with man in front of Mallard's Grocery & Confectionery.

Interior of Rhythm Records and Sporting Goods store

Five Points and Welton Street

The Smith's Route

Robert Smith’s Barber Shop

Robert Smith’s Barber Shop

The Story of the Smith Family

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

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