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George Morrison, Sr.MusicianViolinist, orchestra leader, music teacher, churchman and philanthropist; served on Mayor's Committee on Music, 1947-1960; furnished music on the famous Denver Post Special Train to Cheyenne, Wyoming Frontier Days Rodeo; received the 50-year pin from Mile-Hi Chapter of American Red Cross, 1969; composer and arranger of jazz, spirituals and classics; thirty-second degree Mason. Inducted 1973.

JAZZ IN FIVE POINTS: A BRIEF HISTORY: PART TWO

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Ethiopians in Colorado

Studio portrait of Major Rafael Chacón (retired). He is dressed in his United States Army uniform. His jackets has two rows of brass buttons, he wears a cap and has a sword at his waist. He stands in front of a painted backdrop.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 8

View of St. Cajetan's Catholic Church (now St. Cajetan's Center), 1190 9th (Ninth) Street in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The church is surrounded by rubble, the remains of buildings destroyed for the Auraria Higher Education Center campus.

The Displaced Aurarian Scholarship & Where To Go For Documentation

The “Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República Mexicana” on display in the DPL Gates Reading Room.

Rare Atlas of Mexico and Other Titles Added to the Library’s Genealogy Collection

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How a WHG librarian Found His Family Through DNA

Studio group portrait taken at the time of the baptism of Mercedes Gómez in Vigil (Las Animas County), Colorado. Members of the Hispanic American Gómez family are identified: top left to right: Carolina Gómez, Lucía Gómez, Domecinda Gómez. Front, left-right: Juanita M. Girardot Gómez, Mercedes Gómez (baby). and Leandro Gómez.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 7

Census enumerator visiting a Virginia household during the 1950 U.S. Census. Image courtesy of the National Archives.

1950 U.S. Census research tips and strategies

Exterior of the future Women's Bank, circa 1978. The Women's Bank Records, WH2365, Box 1

'A Bank For All People': Remembering The Women's Bank

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Ukrainians in Colorado

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

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

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."

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