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May Arno Schwatt, n.d., courtesy of Charles E. Spivak

May Arno, “Musician, Author, Teacher, Actress”

Little Pepina's menu

DPL's Illustrious Menu Collection

Murder in the Cathedral

Scott Brady, star of "Canon City," and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post from 1946-1971, with a Denver Post newspaper, look at the headlines in an office in Denver, Colorado. A sheet with "The Denver Post Deadline Schedule" sits on the desk. The headline, about the 1947 prison break on which "Canon City" was based, reads: "2 Slain, 9 Captured, In State Pen Break, Stir Crazy Cons Lead Pen Break."

Special Collections and Digital Archives Blogs: Staff Favorites From 2021

Satanic Panic in Colorado

The more the merrier on a slide

The George Washington Carver Day Nursery, Denver’s First Racially Integrated Day Care

"'Fox' - Frontier or Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, Wyo." (fox relief sculpture), 1930. PhotoBox: 1, Page: 21, Julius Peter Ambrusch Papers (WH2473)

Why Everything In The Archives Isn't Digitized (Yet)

"Models of Surveyor & Engineer," relief sculptures and Julius P. Ambrusch

Behind the Scenes - Processing & Cataloging Archives

Terra Cotta

A Collection is Born - Collections Acquisitions

The First Colorado Saint

The First African American Coloradoan To Be Nominated for Sainthood

From back of photograph: Demonstrators march against traffic during trek Saturday to Police Bldg. Lt. Jerry R. Caroccia drives police car.

Behind the Photo: Demonstrators March to the Denver Police Building, July 22, 1967

Poster gathered near Civic Center Park in Denver after a protest that took place in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder. The text reads "I couldn't breathe" and shows a drawing of George Floyd.

Assembling the George Floyd Protest Collection at DPL