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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

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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

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 Schwatt, n.d., courtesy of Charles E. Spivak

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

Two women work at ledgers while standing at a desk in a bank in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County.

Numbers Too Big to Ignore: A History of Female Financial Empowerment in Colorado

Little Pepina's menu

DPL's Illustrious Menu Collection