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Night view of Harry Hoffman's Cut Price Liquor store at Curtis and 18th (Eighteenth) Streets in Denver, Colorado. Windows display bottles of Calvert whiskey; neon signs read "Harry Hoffman's," "Liquor," and "Free Parking."

Bygone Denver: Harry Hoffman Liquors

EVENTS AND EXHIBITS IN JULY @ THE BLAIR-CALDWELL LIBRARY

Fred Harvey, the Man Who Civilized the West

View of the terrain that surrounds the area in which the Sand Creek Massacre took place, November 29 and 30, 1864, in Kiowa County, Colorado; United States troops killed some 200 Native Americans (Cheyenne and Arapaho), two thirds of whom were women and children. A farm house, windmill, and utility buildings stand on an open prairie landscape.

How Exactly Was Sod Busted? New WH/G Titles for May 2015

WH/G Archives Digitizes Old Colorado Film Footage

Events and Exhibits in June @ the Blair-Caldwell Library

THE BOOK REPORT: June's NEW AND COMING SOON

Thayer's Map of Colorado

Check Out WH/G's New Collection of High-Resolution Downloadable, Denver Maps

Wade Blank, his son Lincoln, and fellow Atlantis cofounder Michael Auberger celebrate the laying of the plaque, dedicated to the original protesters - The Gang of 19 - who blocked the intersection to protest the inaccessible buses in 1978. WH2283/Box5/F16

"We Will Ride!" The Origin of the Disability Rights Movement in Denver

Ku Klux Klan memeber light candles in metal cans buried in a dirt mound probably in Denver, Colorado. They wear hoods and robes.

The Rocky Mountain American: The KKK's Colorado Newspaper

The Diving Elk of Denver's Chutes Park

Girls pose by a wall-sized map of the Park Hill District at Smiley Junior High School, in Denver, Colorado. Lettering at the top reads: "Smiley Housing Survey, Park Hill District."

Housing Crisis in Denver isn't unique to 2015