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Swine Flu Clinic, October 14, 1976. Photo by John Gordon. Rocky Mountain News Records (WH2129), PhotoBox 360

Denver's Flu History: Shedding Light On What A Coronavirus Outbreak Could Look Like

Friendship Doll at the Library

Portrait of Laura Hershey seated by her desk. Photographer unknown.

Laura Hershey (1962 - 2010)

Portrait of some members of the wedding party at the marriage of George McLaughlin. They are identified left to right as: Herbert McLaughlin, Mrs. Edith McLaughlin, George McLaughlin and Frederick McLaughlin.

All the News that's Fit to Print - Valentine's Day Edition

Alfred Packer

New Alferd Packer Papers

Celebrity Sports Center: Fun For Everyone!

Celebrity Sports Center: Bowling, video games, and your very first water slide

Elvis Presley, Denver, April 1976

Elvis Presley, the Denver Police, some Cadillacs and a Mile-High Legend

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams

2019 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Winner and Honor Book Named

"Big Phil" the Colorado Cannibal

View of 15th (Fifteenth) Street in Denver, Colorado; shows businesses identified as: "Warren Hussey & Co. Bank - nw corner of Holladay & F (15th st.); First Nat. Bank nw cor F & Blake." Sign reads: "People's Market."

Market Street's troubles are nothing new

Coffee cups

Denver Coffee House Menus: Paris on the Platte, Muddy’s and the Mercury Cafe

Touring the Metropolitan: Once Denver’s Largest Theater