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Cellar, undated. Photograph by Harry Mellon Rhoads, Rh-2224

"Skeleton and Ghost": Just A Poem...Or An Account of A Denver Haunting?

Death Notice

Obituary Files

A Book Finds Its Way Home

A Book Finds Its Way Home

Studio portrait (sitting and standing) of a husband and wife probably on their wedding day. She holds a bouquet and wears a dress with a bustle.

The History of Wedding Photography

Studio portrait of Mrs. Leonel Ross Anthony O'Brien holding an umbrella with lace trim. She wears leather gloves and a dress with a pleated waist line, buttons, and lace collar.

Exploring Your Irish Roots: Where to Start

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

Great Aunt Justa's Empanadas

Sharing Cultures Through the Foods of Our Immigrant Ancestors

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"

Studio portrait of Patrick McCann, an employee in a reduction works in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. He wears a coat with bound, wide lapels, a vest, a shirt with an upright collar and a bow tie. His dark hair is parted on the side and combed into a cowlick. He has a long mustache.

Is There a Photo of My Ancestor in the Archives?

Saloon, Georgetown, Colorado, between 1880 and 1910. X-1287

A Ghost at Georgetown, 1868

Mount Calvary Cemetery (later Denver Botanic Gardens), the Catholic section of Mount Prospect Cemetery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, is overgrown with weeds; an obelisk-shaped monument has toppled to the ground in the foreground. Names on the headstones: "Monahan" and "Taney."

Cheesman Park's Past Life...as a Cemetery

Worthington Whittredge: An artist's draw to Colorado