Events

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

Aerial view of a flooded Arkansas River, damaged buildings and rail yards in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows the Pueblo Smelter, the Nuckolls Packing Company building, standing water identified as "Death Lake", a flooded Missouri Pacific Railway Company rail yard, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad bridges, and City Hall with a domed cupola.

Anniversary of the Great Pueblo Flood of 1921

CAROLINE BANCROFT HISTORY PRIZE COMMITTEE NAMES 2020 WINNER

Interior view of Harry M. Rhoads in his dark room; also shows a bellows camera.

Photo Sales Going All-Digital

An exterior view of the Park Hill Branch Library located on Dexter and Montview Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. The Park Hill branch library building was built by architects M.R. & Burnham Hoyt and features spanish tiled roof, stucco exterior walls. Two vases are on either side of the brick steps.

Library Built On Heels Of Flu Pandemic Turns 100 During COVID-19 Pandemic

Photograph of Charles Boettcher School student June Goodrich, age 18, working at a mimeograph at the Charles Boettcher School in Denver, Colorado.

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Newspaper Reports of A Leadville Haunting, 1907

Important and Historic Mural by Chicana Artist, Carlota Espinoza Back on Display

Group portrait of men, women, and girls in Denver, Colorado, at the ground breaking ceremony for the Denver Public Library, including (l to r): Jean Dudley, F. M. Richie, Mr. Frederick Ross (architect), Mr. C. R. Dudley, Helen F. Ingersoll, B. H. Lichter (contractor)[?], and Marion Dudley (in front).

DPL: A 'Chief Interest in People and Books' for 130 Years

Prolific Author Larry McMurtry Wins Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award

A Native American (Cheyenne) man on horseback holds a rifle and wears moccasins, fringed leggings and shirt, and a feather headdress.

Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington at DPL