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How a WHG librarian Found His Family Through DNA

Passenger train on Horse Shoe curve; 6 cars, 10 MPH. Photographed: near Altoona, Pa., August 19, 1933.

New Western History Acquisitions for Q1 2022

Census enumerator visiting a Virginia household during the 1950 U.S. Census. Image courtesy of the National Archives.

1950 U.S. Census research tips and strategies

Exterior of the future Women's Bank, circa 1978. The Women's Bank Records, WH2365, Box 1

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

Ukranian striped flag with blue on top and yellow below

Ukrainians in Colorado

An interior view of the Clear Creek County Courthouse (?) in Georgetown, Colorado, including five Victorian rocking chairs lined up, a woman in slacks and a peasant blouse looking out the window, another rocking chair (partially visible), and wallpaper with small print. The chairs and floor shine from the window's light.

Civic Duty: Colorado Women and the Jury Box

May Arno Schwatt, n.d., courtesy of Charles E. Spivak

May Arno, “Musician, Author, Teacher, Actress”

Two women work at ledgers while standing at a desk in a bank in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County.

Numbers Too Big to Ignore: A History of Female Financial Empowerment in Colorado

Little Pepina's menu

DPL's Illustrious Menu Collection

View of the Marion Street Parkway, in Denver, Colorado; shows landscaping, street lights, the City Ditch, and homes.

Denver's 'Oldest Working Thing' Has Been Flowing for 155 Years

Murder in the Cathedral

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