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Torch of Controversy Lighted

Reluctant Host: Denver and the 1976 Winter Olympic Games

Men pose in graduation gowns and mortarboards with tassels at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Turbo Boost Your Research with WHG's Thesis and Dissertation Collection

Two men about 30 feet apart hold a rope between them, probably near Craig, Colorado; early surveying for homestead boundaries, sage prairie.

When the City of Denver Was Begging People to Move Here

View of homes in the Baker Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features include shingle imbrication, covered porches, bargeboard, arched windows, corbeled brick, and an inset balcony.

Denver Neighborhood Guides

View of wagons, one with a covered wagon frame, pulled by teams of six horses on a dirt road in Arizona. Shows men and supplies in the wagons, rocky buttes, brush and saguaro cacti near the road on the Apache Trail in probably the Superstition Mountains.

Truth or Superstition?

Burnis McCloud Photo: Boy Scouts

African American Colorado History: Memorable People and Events

Japanese men arrive from the Merced Assembly Center, California, by train, carrying suitcases and boarding school buses on their way to Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A United States soldier in uniform stands next to the passenger train car and looks on as the line of evacuees board the bus.

Remembering Forgotten People Through the Power of Place

Bibliotecarii et Glutinatores: An Artists' Book Exhibition by Librarians

Victor Hornbein

Victor Hornbein (1913 - 1995)

Black and white convicts lie in cots in the hospital at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. The walls are partly tiled; electric lights and a steam radiator furnish the interior.

Denver's Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Tim Flores

Tim Flores (1919 - 1988)

Portia Lubchenco

Portia Lubchenco (1887 - 1978)