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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

Gold rush map promoting Nebraska City as a supply center, showing railroads, rivers, territorial boundaries, and types of resources available along the route. Advertisers from Nebraska City surround map.

Center for Colorado Studies Now at Denver Public Library

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

A cowboy rides a bucking horse in a dirt arena during a performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. The grandstand curves in the right background and is supported by large wood beams.

New Additions to the Colorado Authors Collection - February 2016

A Mexican-American man speaks into a microphone in Denver, Colorado, during a protest. Picket sign reads: "Chicano Means Power." An ornate lamp is on a brick building with entablature.

New Additions to the Western History Collection - February 2016

View of Colburn Hotel in Denver, Colorado; shows a brick building with urns and a covered entry. Cars are parked at the curb.

"The Hotel With A Personality:" Denver's Colburn Hotel

Dr. Clarence Holmes with camera

Historic Photographic Processes in a Nutshell

The Bill Hosokawa Papers

View of a dirt track auto race with car #19, probably at Overland Park in Denver, Colorado. Spectators watch from behind the fence.

Colorado Auto Racing: A Brief History

National Western Horse Show & Rodeo souvenir program, 1933

The 1933 National Western Horse Show & Rodeo

Night view of Curtis Street in Denver, Colorado; shows snow and movie theaters. Electric signs read: "Marquette," "Iris Theater," "Isis," and "The Nanking Chop Suey, Pool."

Denver Movie Theaters: The Glory Years

Photograph of two unidentified students, and three staff members from University Park Elementary School located in Denver, Colorado. In the picture, two boys stand to the side of the blackboard. They have pointers in their hands. Two women and one man stands behind the blackboard. The man appears to be writing something in a notebook.

Life Lessons from the Past