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Shovels and Pancakes: Gudy Gaskill and the Building of the Colorado Trail

View of the Denver Public Library at 1357 Broadway Street (at 13th Avenue) in the Civic Center Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Construction workers on scaffolds work on the stone cladding of the Michael Graves addition; pedestrian shelter reads: "Hyman Etkin Construction."

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George Morrison, Sr.
Musician
Violinist, 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

Jazz in Five Points: A Brief History: Part One

McDonald's official Dennis Morris talks with spokespersons for a group of protestors that use wheelchairs. The protestors are blocking entrances to the McDonald's located on Colfax Avenue and Pennsylvania Street demanding wheelchair access so that the experience of indoor dining can be available to all patrons (universal design) and accessible to people with disabilities (barrier-free design).

“Ronald McDonald stop clowning around and make your stores accessible”: A story about Access Institute, McDonald’s and the fight for accessible spaces

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

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

This painting depicts an aerial view of the Colorado River as it winds its way through the banded hills of the Grand Canyon. The painting was created in an original and distinctive technique that the artist calls “Neogeometric.”

Artist Burnis Calvin Day

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

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

The First African American Coloradoan To Be Nominated for Sainthood