The Working West

Inspired by "The Way We Worked," an exhibition created by the National Archives and part of Museum on Main Street, and a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Colorado Humanities, it seemed appropriate that the Western History Department's Digital Collections should throw our hat into the ring, with a few of our many, many wonderful photographs of working life in Colorado and the West. Tour the gallery below, and then explore our online collections, for a seemingly endless trove of photographs of fields, factories and machinery, and the men and women who work them.