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Continental Oil refinery fire

Continental Oil Refinery Explosion and Fire

Two military tanks parade on a Arvada street, Jefferson County, Colorado. The lead tank's cannon smokes; drivers can be seen through small front hatch doors. Arvada Chamber of Commerce sponsors the parade during the third Annual Harvest Festival. Spectators look on from the sidewalk and automobiles are parked curbside.

Wow Photo Friday - Tanks for Nothing, Arvada

Finding Delphinia: Mystery Letter Gets A Name and Date at WHG

View of Rocky Flats in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado (a Department of Energy site that manufactures plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons); shows buildings, fields, a water tower, and mountains.

Keep Controversy Alive: Rocky Flats' Rocky Relationship with its Neighbors

View of a huge dark cloud of dust possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A house and line of trees is barely visible. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.

Keeping Libraries Relevant One One-of-a-Kind Item at a Time

Roundhouse. Photographed: Como, Colo., March 25, 1951.

Como Railroad Roundhouse

Solid Muldoon, or the Cardiff Giant Heads West

Checking a people mover model at the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Expo '73 Friday in Currigan Hall are Marty Van Doornick, 8, of 1630 Leyden St., front, and Philip Allen, 7, of 1544 Grape St. June 9, 1973. Photo by Mel Schieltz. (WH2129-2018-1309)

Denver's 1970s Flirtation with Personal Rapid Transit

Front Elevation blueprint for the Harker Building

Larimer Square in the News and in the Archives

From The Rocky Mountain News Photo Collection: Robert F. Kennedy In Colorado

The Rabbit Hole, or How Sheet Music Revealed a Missile in Civic Center Park

At the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado, John Milton targets a rolling graph paper with a mechanical pencil. The date on the paper is: "Jul 23 1968." The glass, metal, and rubber gasket cover is opened, and the surrounding metal frames have electronic components mounted in them. Gauges, toggle switches, dials, digital (mechanical) readouts, and RF cables front each of the instruments.

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