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View of concession stands at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado. Signs read: "Penny Arcade," "Fun Palace," "Skee Roll Alley," "Shooting Gallery," and "Sea Planes."

Men, women and children swim in the indoor pool at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado. A girl prepares to go down a slide, and boys and men line up on a platform to use the diving board. Spectators lean against a fence.

View of Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado; people walk by a pavilion and the boat house. Lake Rhoda and Lakewood are in the background.

Lakeside Amusement Park

Twelve young women stand in a line near a leafy bush and a rock wall in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. Each of the women has her right hand on the shoulder of the girl in front of her. A pennant flag with "Eldorado Spgs.," printed on it hangs from the waist belt of a girl.

Swimmers and onlookers are at the pool in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. A sign near the pool reads: "Warning Bathers Are Not Allowed To Use Pool Except When Life Guards Are On Duty."

Crowd of people gather around the swimming pool at the resort in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. South Boulder Creek is in the foreground and has a bridge over it. Other people walk from their cars towards the pool. A building with the sign "Grand View" is in the distance.

Pool Party In Eldorado Canyon

Men pose with a mother and her child, probably in Colorado.

Close-up view of flowers, a bouquet of Colorado Columbines (Blue Columbine, Colorado Blue Columbine, Rocky Mountain Columbine), arranged in a stein on a table. Some blossoms are displayed on the table next to the bouquet.

Portrait of a Native American (Crow) woman holding a baby in her lap. She sits on a buffalo hide and wears moccasins, a blanket around her waist, and a shirt decorated with shells or possibly elk teeth. The infant is wrapped in a blanket.

Happy Mother's Day

Shows a young man and woman dressed in Aztec costumes for a production presented by Fiesta Alegre de Denver and sponsored by El Centro Cultural. The man wears a feathered head piece, and carrys a shield. The woman wears a decorated bodice with fringe and a headband.

A young Mexican American boy in an Aztec dance costume dances. He wears a smock with decorative trim, a headdress with feathers and he holds an arch of paper flowers.

Members of a Chicano theater group identified as the National Chicano Theater, directed by Enrique Montano, pose on a rise looking over the skyline of Denver, Colorado. They lean against or stand near two automobiles from the 1940's. The men are dressed as Zoot suiters and the women wear vintage style dresses and skirts and blouses. Two men wear long jackets, pegged pants, long chains and hats.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo

Earth Day

At the Gates Rubber Company's May Day celebration, several women in matching costumes, with headbands and ballet shoes, hold long ribbons attached to a Maypole. The May Day queen sits on a stage with a crown and a bouquet of flowers; John Gates stands behind her to the right. Shows interior with wall planters, sectional ceiling, and wood floor, Denver, Colorado.

Photograph of Adolph Mitterer, as he is crowned the winner of a "Beauty Contest" held at West High School in Denver, Colorado. Juanita Burke, another student at the school puts a paper crown on his head. Burke is standing on a small wooden barrel and step stool to place the crown. Mitterer is wearing a floral blouse, long black skirt and army boots.

The Hulett Rodeo Queen and her lady in waiting pose on horseback at the Hulett Rodeo in Hulett (Crook County), Wyoming.

Unique Queens

DPL Archives Michael Graves photo by William Taylor

DPL Archives Michael Graves March 1995

DPL Archives Western History drawings

Remembering Michael Graves

View of a heavy snowfall on Sixth (6th, Alpine) Street in Georgetown, Colorado. The Spruance Building and Kneisel-Curtis-Seifeld building are on the south side of the street. Five men ride large horses; five men stand (wearing heavy coats and hats) surrounded by piles of snow.

View of a nude woman sculpted from snow during the snowstorm of 1913 in Denver, Colorado.

Pedestrians trudge through snow on Welton and Sixteenth (16th) streets in the snowstorm of 1913 in Denver, Colorado. Shows a Denver City Tramway trolley car and snow-laden electrical wires, lamp posts and buildings. The Daniels and Fisher building is in the distance.

The biggest snowstorm in Denver history, 1913

National Western Stock Show 2015

National Western Stock Show 2015

MLK Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo

National Western Stock Show & MLK Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo

Civil unions take effect!

Civil unions take effect!

Civil unions take effect!

Marriage Equality in Colorado

Stock Show Parade 2015

Stock Show Parade 2015

Stock Show Parade 2015

National Western Stock Show Parade

Studio portrait of Buckskin Charlie, a Native American man (Ute); dress includes fur, a hair pipe choker, a moustache, and a Rutherford Hayes Indian Peace Medal.

Studio portrait of Frank P. Stewart, owner of a confectionery store and a resident of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. He wears a dark corduroy jacket, an upright, round collar and a tie with a stickpin. He has a full, waxed mustache, is balding and his hair is combed back and parted on the side.

Notable Moustaches of the West

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