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Sixteen members of the Leap Year Club in Basalt, Colorado pose in two lines. Ten women are in the first row, and six women are in the second row. Characteristic of the early twentieth century, their clothing includes long-sleeved, high-collar blouses with puffed sleeves and long skirts. Several of the women wear jewelry, including earrings, cameo broaches, and pendants. A painting of an ornate room is painted on the wall behind them.

Leap Year Romance Traditions

View of Colburn Hotel in Denver, Colorado; shows a brick building with urns and a covered entry. Cars are parked at the curb.

"The Hotel With A Personality:" Denver's Colburn Hotel

Two Denver Broncos professional football players tackle an opponent. Spectators are in the background.

Denver Broncos Super Bowl: The Spirit of '77

The Bill Hosokawa Papers

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