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"'Fox' - Frontier or Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, Wyo." (fox relief sculpture), 1930. PhotoBox: 1, Page: 21, Julius Peter Ambrusch Papers (WH2473)

Why Everything In The Archives Isn't Digitized (Yet)

"Models of Surveyor & Engineer," relief sculptures and Julius P. Ambrusch

Behind the Scenes - Processing & Cataloging Archives

Terra Cotta

A Collection is Born - Collections Acquisitions

The First Colorado Saint

The First African American Coloradoan To Be Nominated for Sainthood

From back of photograph: Demonstrators march against traffic during trek Saturday to Police Bldg. Lt. Jerry R. Caroccia drives police car.

Behind the Photo: Demonstrators March to the Denver Police Building, July 22, 1967

Poster gathered near Civic Center Park in Denver after a protest that took place in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder. The text reads "I couldn't breathe" and shows a drawing of George Floyd.

Assembling the George Floyd Protest Collection at DPL

Photo of first iteration of WHG research room in 2021.

Special Collections and Archives opens new service point at DPL's Central Library

View of a trash can in Denver, Colorado; letters read: "Rubbish." Advertisements read: "Balsam for Colds," and "Cordove Cigar Co."

How Early Denver Dealt With Its Garbage

Rocky Mountain News - December 6, 1952

OF FLYING SAUCERS AND FRAUD: THE SILAS M. NEWTON STORY

[William N. Byers] [art original].

William N. Byers: Contributing to a Massacre

Aerial view of a flooded Arkansas River, damaged buildings and rail yards in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows the Pueblo Smelter, the Nuckolls Packing Company building, standing water identified as "Death Lake", a flooded Missouri Pacific Railway Company rail yard, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad bridges, and City Hall with a domed cupola.

Anniversary of the Great Pueblo Flood of 1921

Train #101, City of San Francisco; 14 cars, 75 MPH. Photographed: near Cheyenne, Wyo., May 30, 1939.

Amtrak's 50th and the Longevity of Passenger Trains