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Events

View of April 29th, 1896, fire and clouds of smoke from junction of Myers Avenue and "A" Street after explosion at El Paso Livery stable, Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes horse-drawn wagons with household goods or personal belongings parked in front of small wooden frame residences (probably cribs of infamous red-light district of Myers Avenue); men and women are in front of residences and on the dirt street.

April 29, 1896: A Fire Nearly Levels Cripple Creek

Exterior view of Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colorado; shows overview of hotel, streets, street car tracks, and wagons at the intersection of Broadway and 17th (Seventeenth) Street; backside of Equitable Building distant left and Denver High School, distant right.

Denver, By Pen and Picture

View of the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado. Shows The Flatirons and foothills.

The A.E. Mathews Papers

Remembering Denver's Fashion Bar

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