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View of two miners working in an underground coal mine, Lafayette, Colorado. One man squats and uses his pickaxe on a chunk of coal, the other holds an unidentified piece of equipment. An empty ore cart is next to them.

For Colorado coal miners, the canary in the coal mine was actually a mouse

A woman holds a loaf of bread in a towel, by an outdoor brick oven.

Uncovering North Denver's Outdoor Bread Ovens

Josephine Roche

Josephine Roche (1886 - 1976)

Is Work From Home Even Possible for a Couple of Western History and Genealogy Cart Jockeys?

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Denver's First Earth Day, 1970

Copy of Rocky Mountain News Dated April 23, 1859

Is this the first edition of the Rocky Mountain News? How to tell if you've got the real deal or an RMN reprint

THE RICHARD T. CASTRO PAPERS

Digitization of a map

How Do Librarians Work from Home?: Part 3 WHG's Only 'Essential Worker'

View of 15th (Fifteenth) (F) Street in Denver, Colorado. Signs on the wood and brick business district buildings read: "Broadway Store Dry Goods & Clothing Wholesale & Retail", "Tappan & Co.", "Chemicals Paints Oils Brushes & Glass", and "Drugs". Lawrence Street Methodist Episcopal Church is in the distance.

Downtown Denver burns to the ground: The Great Fire of 1863

Dr. Florence Sabin (1871-1953)

Rocky Mountain News April 20, 1861

The Reynolds Gang: Colorado Confederates and Their Buried Treasure

To each volume a shelf

HOW DO ARCHIVISTS WORK FROM HOME?