Choose a picture from this collection of historic photos of Denver and Colorado, then see if you can find the same spot today to replicate the photo. Some landmarks are gone, some have grown, and some have barely changed.
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Alamosa Shop Band Denver, @ state capital [i.e. capitol] Denver
[between 1920 and 1935?]
Big snow of December 1913 Colfax and Broadway
December 1913
Chief Healy's 9 passenger touring car
[1922]
East Denver High School
[between 1925 and 1930]
North Denver School building
[1889]
West High School
[between 1925 and 1930?]
A glimpse of the pavilion, City Park
[between 1900 and 1920]
A Denver High School swimmer at Washington Park
[between 1920 and 1930]
17th Street, Denver
1916
Brown Palace Hotel looking down 17th St. from Broadway
1953 May 15
17th St. from Union Station, Denver
[between 1906 and 1910]
Denver's Union Station through the Mizpah Arch
[between 1910 and 1931]
Lower 17th St., Denver
[between 1906 and 1908]
Union Station, Denver, Colorado
[between 1914 and 1925?]
Red Rock Sounding Board
[between 1910 and 1930?]
Red Rocks, Denver Mountain Parks, Colorado
[between 1930-1937?]
Bethany Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Denver Gospel Church)
circa 1929
Buckhorn Exchange
1984 March
Cline School
1974
Broadway view of the Capitol
[between 1950 and 1960?]
Daniels and Fisher's Tower
circa 1950
Denver Municipal Auditorium
circa 1915
Denver Tramway Company Powerhouse
1911
Dickinson Branch Library
1914
Eldora, Colorado 1890-99 (prints)
[between 1935 and 1950?]
Ski troops parade in "whites" at Camp Hale, Colorado
[1943-1944]