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Studio portrait of Major Rafael Chacón (retired). He is dressed in his United States Army uniform. His jackets has two rows of brass buttons, he wears a cap and has a sword at his waist. He stands in front of a painted backdrop.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 8

Lorraine Granado (1948 - 2019)

View of St. Cajetan's Catholic Church (now St. Cajetan's Center), 1190 9th (Ninth) Street in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The church is surrounded by rubble, the remains of buildings destroyed for the Auraria Higher Education Center campus.

The Displaced Aurarian Scholarship & Where To Go For Documentation

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

The “Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República Mexicana” on display in the DPL Gates Reading Room.

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

Microscopic image

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

Census enumerator visiting a Virginia household during the 1950 U.S. Census. Image courtesy of the National Archives.

1950 U.S. Census research tips and strategies

Exterior of the future Women's Bank, circa 1978. The Women's Bank Records, WH2365, Box 1

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