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by Alejandro Hernández on March 4, 2021

Portrait of women, girls, and dogs in a tent in (probably) Denver, Colorado; one plays a mandolin. A star / crescent motif is on the striped canvas; embroidery and quilts are inside.

View of an orphanage in Denver, Colorado; the brick residence has gables, widow's walks, and bays. People pose on the covered porch.

Boys and girls stand in a circle and pose in the backyard of a small house used as an orphanage while the Denver Orphans' Home is constructed. Shows children in swings on a swingset. Three women caregivers stand with the children.

A man stands with arms crossed in front of a shanty near probably 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue and Clay Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Houses are made of wood and corrugated metal with metal chimneys. A house has a scalloped edge over the eves of a gabled roof. Pots and pans hang by a window, and laundry, wooden trunks, and metal buckets are near trees.

View of several brick structures associated with Arapahoe County Hospital (Denver General Hospital) at West 6th (Sixth) Avenue and Cherokee Street in Denver, Colorado. Shows the Training School building with two-tier porch in the distance. The chimney from the plant building extends above the trees.

Interior view of a soup kitchen for the unemployed in Denver, Colorado; African American (Black) and white men and boys sit or stand at tables with bowls of soup and bread. Shows a coffee urn and cafeteria employees.

A woman in a white uniform and a white cap that reads: "First Aid," sits at a table and stamps paper sacks for surplus commodities at the State Grocery Warehouse at 1535 13th (Thirteenth) Street in Denver, Colorado. Piles of paper bags, an ink pad and a spool of string are on the table. A wooden file with cubbyholes is on a shelf. Labels attached to the file read: "Not To Be Sold" and "Graham Flour."

Two women eat Christmas dinner at the Citizen's Mission at 1617 Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. Shows a Christmas table decoration of pine bough and colored bulbs. The women wear scarves and winter coats.

A barefoot girl prepares to open the front door of the Sunshine Rescue Mission at 1822 Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. The sign in the windows shows a sun with sunbeams that reads: "[Sunshin]e Rescue Mission" and "If [?] Love Shall Conquer Theft." The sign on the door reads: "Hope for all w[?]. Sunshine Rescue Miss[ion]. Service 12 O'clock Noon and [?]. Jim Goodh[eart], Superintende[nt]."

Drunk men sit and lie on the floor of a holding cell in the Police Building, Denver, Colorado. Several men are passed out on the floor. Trash and cigarette butts lie near their bodies. An African American (Black) man sits with his back against the wall and his head bowed. Two young men sit on either side of him with their arms crossed and heads lowered. A man who sits against the wall smiles a toothless smile.

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