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Interior view at the Denver Municipal Auditorium in Denver, Colorado; shows an audience, a pipe organ, and a coffin at the funeral of Mayor Robert Speer.

How Denver said goodbye to Mayor Robert W. Speer

Horse-drawn wagons are parked near buildings on Blake Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. Signs on the buildings read: "Wholesale Groceries," "H. Burton Storage & Commission," and "Missouri House." The hotel has other signs: "Bar Room," "Boarding," and long horned cattle are tethered among the horses. Water of the South Platte River is in the background.

William Byers's 1860 Walking Tour of Auraria

Making sense of Denver Streets with Phil Goodstein's "Denver Streets"

Connecting with DPL Customers via Social Media

View of the Denver Municipal Trap Club clubhouse at Sloans Lake Park in Denver, Colorado. The adobe style building has wooden vigas and a sign that reads: "Denver Municipal Traps".

That building on the Southwest corner of Sloans Lake was once the Denver Municipal Trap Club

Mary Sabin in the 1911 East High School Yearbook

Denver's "Other Miss Sabin": Florence's sister Mary

How Do Librarians Work from Home?: Writing Solo

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