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View of a dirt track auto race with car #19, probably at Overland Park in Denver, Colorado. Spectators watch from behind the fence.

Colorado Auto Racing: A Brief History

National Western Horse Show & Rodeo souvenir program, 1933

The 1933 National Western Horse Show & Rodeo

Night view of Curtis Street in Denver, Colorado; shows snow and movie theaters. Electric signs read: "Marquette," "Iris Theater," "Isis," and "The Nanking Chop Suey, Pool."

Denver Movie Theaters: The Glory Years

Photograph of two unidentified students, and three staff members from University Park Elementary School located in Denver, Colorado. In the picture, two boys stand to the side of the blackboard. They have pointers in their hands. Two women and one man stands behind the blackboard. The man appears to be writing something in a notebook.

Life Lessons from the Past

Map is dated August 15, 1938 and illustrates the redlining of neighborhoods in the City and County of Denver where minorities were excluded from receiving home loan funds because they were considered poor economic risks. Redline aspects added to commercially published map by Hotchkiss entitled: Guide map of Denver and suburbs, Colorado.

New in WHG: 1938 Redlining Map of Denver

Advertising card for A. L. Welch & Company Dry Goods. Part of the Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH7)

Found In The Archives: A 19th-Century Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook

Men use shovels to clear mud from the Cherry Creek flood after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break in Denver, Colorado. Teenage boys look on; storefront signs read: "Coca Cola," "Patterson's Eggs," and "233."

Cherry Creek Flood Film Footage

Portrait of Audi Cerrone, butcher and proprietor of Cerrone's Italian Market at 3617 Osage Street in the Highland Neighborhood of Denver. He stands behind a butcher block and holds a cut of meat. Shows the door to a walk in freezer, and a statue of the Virgin Mary, and a vase of dried flowers. Poster and certificates are on a wall.

What's the Meaning of The Feast of Seven Fishes?

Great Aunt Justa's Empanadas

Sharing Cultures Through the Foods of Our Immigrant Ancestors

Image of microfilm reader machine

Wait a Minute, You Still Use Microfilm?

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The Book Report: December's New and Coming Soon

View of the Campion home site at 800 Logan Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; an apartment building has a Moderne style mosaic finish.

Making History at 888 Logan