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View of a huge dark cloud of dust possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A house and line of trees is barely visible. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.

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Portrait photograph of Ralph Carr

Ralph Carr (1887-1950)

Mary Antoinette Perry-Frueauff (1888-1946)

Roundhouse. Photographed: Como, Colo., March 25, 1951.

Como Railroad Roundhouse

Portrait of Maude Fealy

Maude Fealy (1881-1971)

Belle Turnbull

Belle Turnbull (1881-1970)

Helen Rich (1894-1971)

Otto Perry

Otto Perry (1894-1970)

Solid Muldoon, or the Cardiff Giant Heads West

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Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (1869-1943)

439 A family huddles together as thousands of Colorado Rockies fans watch fireworks from the field during the Fourth of July celebration after the Colorado Rockies beat the New York Mets at Coors Field Denver, Colo., Tuesday, July 3, 2007. The firewor...

Denver’s “Safe and Sane” Fourth

Checking a people mover model at the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Expo '73 Friday in Currigan Hall are Marty Van Doornick, 8, of 1630 Leyden St., front, and Philip Allen, 7, of 1544 Grape St. June 9, 1973. Photo by Mel Schieltz. (WH2129-2018-1309)

Denver's 1970s Flirtation with Personal Rapid Transit