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Denver Was Once Professional Football's 'Siberia'

The sun streams through two windows of a Central City bedroom where a twin bed with a quilted cover is in the foreground. The windowsills next to the bed are decorated with bric-a-brac, including flowers, vases, bells, and miniature birds. A decorative birdcage with a bird in it hangs in front of the window. Lace curtains, gathered at the sides, decorate each window. A butterfly design is on the curtain on the right. The masonry wall and the vegetation in the yard are visible through the window.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Sandra Dallas

View of Interstate Highway 25 in the Five Points Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; downtown skyscrapers fill the scene.

Killer On the Road

Portrait of a young man playing a banjo in Denver, Colorado, by a baby in a fur hood and lace dress.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Charles Lillybridge

A clerk presses the inked finger of a man onto a paper at the Denver Police Department offices in the City Hall Building, located at Fourteenth (14th) Street and Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. Another man sits at a roll top desk near a photographic lamp and backdrop. A map labeled "Chicago & North Western Line" hangs on the wall. A calendar advertising "The Continental Life Insurance Co." turned to March 1929 hangs nearby. Light fixtures hang from the ceiling.

Denver's Other Marijuana First

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Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Louis Charles McClure

A crowd of people gather around the pavilion and line the shores of City Park Lake (Ferril Lake) in City Park, Denver, Colorado. Men and women are on the balcony of the pavilion. A rowboat and a bandstand are in the lake.

A Joy Day: Sundays in Denver, circa 1901