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Studio portrait of Patrick McCann, an employee in a reduction works in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. He wears a coat with bound, wide lapels, a vest, a shirt with an upright collar and a bow tie. His dark hair is parted on the side and combed into a cowlick. He has a long mustache.

Is There a Photo of My Ancestor in the Archives?

Events and Exhibits in November @ the Blair-Caldwell Library

View of Pikes Peak trail at timberline with a group of men and women on horseback, El Paso County, Colorado.

Climbing Pikes Peak: The Early Years

View of the Colorado State Home and Training School (or Ridge Home), an institution for the mentally handicapped, in Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado; shows brick buildings with low gabled roofs and wide eaves.

The Dark History of an Abandoned Institution

Goblins given a warm reception by Mrs. Robert Fiori. October 31, 1966. Photo by Mel Schieltz. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

Photos of Halloween in Denver, 1960-1988

Featured Titles

The Book Report: November's New and Coming Soon

Alferd Packer

Alferd Packer: The Truth is Out There (Or Right Here)

Saloon, Georgetown, Colorado, between 1880 and 1910. X-1287

A Ghost at Georgetown, 1868

The Rocky's Pulitzer Prize photographers

Five men stand in front of the Rocky Mountain News building near 1301 Walnut Street in the Auraria neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a single story wood frame building with brick chimney. Four men wear dark suits and straw boaters or bowlers. One man wears suspenders and leans on a cane. A Midland Railroad advertisment is posted on the side of the building.

The Rocky Mountain News Lives...at Denver Public Library

Mount Calvary Cemetery (later Denver Botanic Gardens), the Catholic section of Mount Prospect Cemetery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, is overgrown with weeds; an obelisk-shaped monument has toppled to the ground in the foreground. Names on the headstones: "Monahan" and "Taney."

Cheesman Park's Past Life...as a Cemetery

Scan of Chaucer book

The Kelmscott Press: A Bibliophile's Dream Come True