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National Western Horse Show & Rodeo souvenir program, 1933

The 1933 National Western Horse Show & Rodeo

Map is dated August 15, 1938 and illustrates the redlining of neighborhoods in the City and County of Denver where minorities were excluded from receiving home loan funds because they were considered poor economic risks. Redline aspects added to commercially published map by Hotchkiss entitled: Guide map of Denver and suburbs, Colorado.

New in WHG: 1938 Redlining Map of Denver

Advertising card for A. L. Welch & Company Dry Goods. Part of the Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH7)

Found In The Archives: A 19th-Century Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook

Men use shovels to clear mud from the Cherry Creek flood after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break in Denver, Colorado. Teenage boys look on; storefront signs read: "Coca Cola," "Patterson's Eggs," and "233."

Cherry Creek Flood Film Footage

Pedestrians walk along bustling Sixteenth Street around noon at the intersection of Stout Street in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Christmas wreaths hang from the lightposts. Cars and bicycles are parked along the street. Landmarks include the Daniels and Fisher Tower.

Denver's Daniels & Fisher Department Store [PHOTO GALLERY]

Maude Fealy poses for a studio bust portrait, possibly for the role of "Filiberta" in "The Cardinal." She has long, wavy hair; wears a bracelet, a pearl necklace, and a dress with gathered, sheer fabric and beadwork; and holds a bouquet of lilies.

Actress Maude Fealy: Called Denver "Home"

View of the Colorado State Home and Training School (or Ridge Home), an institution for the mentally handicapped, in Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado; shows brick buildings with low gabled roofs and wide eaves.

The Dark History of an Abandoned Institution

Goblins given a warm reception by Mrs. Robert Fiori. October 31, 1966. Photo by Mel Schieltz. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

Photos of Halloween in Denver, 1960-1988

Mount Calvary Cemetery (later Denver Botanic Gardens), the Catholic section of Mount Prospect Cemetery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, is overgrown with weeds; an obelisk-shaped monument has toppled to the ground in the foreground. Names on the headstones: "Monahan" and "Taney."

Cheesman Park's Past Life...as a Cemetery

Rocky Mountain News Final Day Collection

The Beginning and the End of the Rocky Mountain News

Interior view of a dance hall at Manhattan Beach amusement park in Denver, Colorado; shows men and women dancing.

How Dancing 'til You Drop in Denver led to the Invention of Roller Derby

View east of the Adolph Coors Company Brewery, between Table Mountain, Golden, Jefferson County, shows lake in front of the multi-story buildings, tall "Coors" smokestack and wooden fence.

From Brewery to Pottery: The Coors Porcelain Company