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Celery harvesting on the Platte River Bottom

Trenched Celery, Blanched Celery and Pascal Celery: The Forgotten Story of Colorado's Once Mighty Celery Industry

The Spanish Colonial mission at Santa Cruz, New Mexico is adobe and has two pitched-roof steeples with crosses on top. A woman with a dark shawl wrapped over her head and shoulders walks in the foreground down a path at the side of the mission.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 6

Satanic Panic in Colorado

This painting depicts an aerial view of the Colorado River as it winds its way through the banded hills of the Grand Canyon. The painting was created in an original and distinctive technique that the artist calls “Neogeometric.”

Artist Burnis Calvin Day

The more the merrier on a slide

The George Washington Carver Day Nursery, Denver’s First Racially Integrated Day Care

Interior view of the wedding of Lupe Morales and Gene Vigil at St. Cajetan's Catholic Church, 1190 Ninth (9th) Street, in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The couple kneel in front of the altar, shows religious paintings and statues. People are in the pews, and rose petals are sprinkled along the aisle.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 5

Photo of Francisco Valadez Sanchez

Francisco "Paco" Sanchez (1915-1973)

"'Fox' - Frontier or Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, Wyo." (fox relief sculpture), 1930. PhotoBox: 1, Page: 21, Julius Peter Ambrusch Papers (WH2473)

Why Everything In The Archives Isn't Digitized (Yet)

"Models of Surveyor & Engineer," relief sculptures and Julius P. Ambrusch

Behind the Scenes - Processing & Cataloging Archives

Terra Cotta

A Collection is Born - Collections Acquisitions

Studio portrait of Pablo C. de Baca, his wife Emilia Rudolph C. de Baca, their unidentified son and an unidentified infant. Pablo wears a dark suit and tie, has his hair parted in the middle and has a waxed mustache. His wife Emilia wears a blouse with puffed sleeves. The young boy wears a dark vest and a shirt with a lace Bertha collar and an over sized bow tie. The baby wears a dark dress and has its hair parted in the middle.

Hispanic and Southwest Genealogy Tips and Strategies, Part 4

Portrait of Daddy Bruce Randolph, African-American restaurateur and philanthropist, in (possibly) Denver, Colorado.

"Daddy" Bruce Randolph (1900 - 1994)