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Caribou Ranch Studio

Bob Ragland with his book, The Artists' Survival Handbook

Bob Ragland's first oil painting, 1963

Two African American men, who include painter and sculptor Bob Ragland, stand and chat at an art show at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Ragland wears a leather jacket and dark glasses, his hair is in a short afro and he has a beard and mustache. The other man wears a sports coat and a scarf. A sign on the wall reads: "Contemporary Black Artists Denver, '73."

Bob Ragland

A History of the Feast of Christmas

The Albany Hotel Fire

University Hills Mall Fire

Interior view of the Daniels and Fisher Stores Company, in Denver, Colorado; shows women at tables with mirrors, cosmetics, flowers, and an ash tray.

View of the corner, four-story Daniels & Fisher building at 16th (Sixteenth) and Lawrence Streets in the Central Business District in Denver, Colorado. Windows have hood molding and awnings and the flat roof line has decorative brackets and finials. Shows horse drawn carriages in the street, street car tracks on 16th Street and probably telephone poles. A sign reads: "W.F. Perkins, Cigars [and] Tobacco."

Daniels and Fisher Store

View of lumber and debris near the intersection of B Street and Victoria Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows water in the entrance to the stone Union Depot building and submerged telephone poles and trees.

Debris from the Arkansas River flood at 2nd (Second) Street and Grand Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows mud, timber, portions of ceiling molding, and a door near the wrecked, frame "Mammoth Corral" building. The three story brick "Colorado Bedding Co." building shows paint chipped off at the high water mark above first story windows.

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.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ A Flood of Biblical Proportions

Marine Sgt. Jeremy Kocher stands watch near the body of Lance Cpl. Evenor Herrera

Marines escort the casket of Marine Lance Corporal Evenor Herrera to a gravesite in Eagle.

Blanca Stibbs rests her head on her husband David Stibbs' shoulder

Final Salute

Columbine: Images of Tragedy

Colorado on Fire

Portrait of Tivoli-Union Brewery employees in Denver, Colorado, posing with beer mugs, kegs, and a pitcher.

View of the Tivoli Brewery wagon and Clydesdale horses in Denver, Colorado; people ride the conveyance and watch from sidelines by a loudspeaker. Harness includes silver studs.

View of the Tivoli Union Brewery beer wagon and team of horses, in Denver, Colorado; storefront sign reads: "Tivoli Beer T.W. Potter Barber Billiards."

Tivoli Brewery

View of the garages and tool shed at the Willis Case Municipal Golf Course (formerly Rocky Mountain Golf Course) in Denver, Colorado. Round and rectangular planters are near the buildings.

View of the women's restroom at Berkeley Park in Denver, Colorado. The stone building has a tiled roof and a painted sign that reads: "Ladies".

View of a water pump house at the Wellshire Golf Course (Wellshire Country Club) in Denver, Colorado. A sign that reads "Danger" is on a door of the building.

The Parks Album

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