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Overview of prefabricated army-style barracks at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, includes small trees and gardens with rolling prairie in the background.

Recently Acquired Internment Camp Letter Speaks Volumes With Few Words

Rare Atlas of Mexico and Other Titles Added to the Library’s Genealogy Collection

Enemy Aliens in WWI

McDonald's official Dennis Morris talks with spokespersons for a group of protestors that use wheelchairs. The protestors are blocking entrances to the McDonald's located on Colfax Avenue and Pennsylvania Street demanding wheelchair access so that the experience of indoor dining can be available to all patrons (universal design) and accessible to people with disabilities (barrier-free design).

“Ronald McDonald stop clowning around and make your stores accessible”: A story about Access Institute, McDonald’s and the fight for accessible spaces

How a WHG librarian Found His Family Through DNA

Studio group portrait taken at the time of the baptism of Mercedes Gómez in Vigil (Las Animas County), Colorado. Members of the Hispanic American Gómez family are identified: top left to right: Carolina Gómez, Lucía Gómez, Domecinda Gómez. Front, left-right: Juanita M. Girardot Gómez, Mercedes Gómez (baby). and Leandro Gómez.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 7

Passenger train on Horse Shoe curve; 6 cars, 10 MPH. Photographed: near Altoona, Pa., August 19, 1933.

New Western History Acquisitions for Q1 2022

1950 U.S. Census research tips and strategies

'A Bank For All People': Remembering The Women's Bank

Ukranian striped flag with blue on top and yellow below

Ukrainians in Colorado

An interior view of the Clear Creek County Courthouse (?) in Georgetown, Colorado, including five Victorian rocking chairs lined up, a woman in slacks and a peasant blouse looking out the window, another rocking chair (partially visible), and wallpaper with small print. The chairs and floor shine from the window's light.

Civic Duty: Colorado Women and the Jury Box

May Arno, “Musician, Author, Teacher, Actress”