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An Undiscovered Gem Emerges from DPL's Archives

Remembering a Fallen Coloradan on Veterans Day

Denver International Film Festival Program, 1979

The History of the Denver Film Festival

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