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Studio portrait of Alice Ivers "Poker Alice" Tubbs. She smokes a cigar and wears a sweater.

"Poker" Alice Tubbs (1851-1930)

Maurice Pate (1894-1965)

Frank Little and the IWW wins Caroline Bancroft History Prize

View of the Denver Public Library at 1357 Broadway Street (at 13th Avenue) in the Civic Center Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Construction workers on scaffolds work on the stone cladding of the Michael Graves addition; pedestrian shelter reads: "Hyman Etkin Construction."

What's New in the Western History Collection: 2018 Edition

Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric is Slow to Evolve

A Sample of Oral Histories in the Collection

10th Mountain Division Oral Histories Safe and Accessible

George Leitch prepares to carve a turkey on Thanksgiving in his house at 2957 Humboldt Street in Denver, Colorado. May, men, women, and a girl look on.

Thanksgiving on the Shelves of Western History and Genealogy

View of Mrs. George W. (Ethel R.) Gano's residence, South University Road, Denver, Colorado, a brick house with arches, picture windows, a flagstone patio, wicker furniture, and potted trees.

The Haunting at Bradmar

The Lawn Lake Flood

Fall R.A.D.A. Discussions & Workshop: Radical Self-love, Confronting Discrimination and the Opiate Epidemic

Fall R.A.D.A. Discussions & Workshop: Radical Self-love, Confronting Discrimination and the Opiate Epidemic

Otha Rice standing by Cadillac.

The Smithsonian's Robert F. Smith Fund and the Blair-Caldwell Library Preserving and Sharing Black History and Culture

Studio portrait of Davis Hanson Waite, Governor of Colorado and Populist Party member in probably Denver, Colorado. Davis Waite has a beard and moustache and wears a dark suit, bow tie, and oval shaped wire spectacles.

Davis Hanson Waite (1825-1901)