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Photo of first iteration of WHG research room in 2021.

Special Collections and Archives opens new service point at DPL's Central Library

View of a trash can in Denver, Colorado; letters read: "Rubbish." Advertisements read: "Balsam for Colds," and "Cordove Cigar Co."

How Early Denver Dealt With Its Garbage

Rocky Mountain News - December 6, 1952

OF FLYING SAUCERS AND FRAUD: THE SILAS M. NEWTON STORY

[William N. Byers] [art original].

William N. Byers: Contributing to a Massacre

Portrait of Magdalena Gallegos as a young woman, the local historian and author poses with her hands on her hips in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado.

Magdalena Gallegos (1935 - 2021)

Juneteenth - June 19, 1865

Juneteenth: The Other Independence Day

Aerial view of a flooded Arkansas River, damaged buildings and rail yards in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows the Pueblo Smelter, the Nuckolls Packing Company building, standing water identified as "Death Lake", a flooded Missouri Pacific Railway Company rail yard, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad bridges, and City Hall with a domed cupola.

Anniversary of the Great Pueblo Flood of 1921

Train #101, City of San Francisco; 14 cars, 75 MPH. Photographed: near Cheyenne, Wyo., May 30, 1939.

Amtrak's 50th and the Longevity of Passenger Trains

A Chinese man poses on a wooden sidewalk near a business district possibly in Colorado. A nearby sign on a building reads: "[?]ng Lee [La]undry".

What happened to Denver's Chinatown, and its residents?

An epson scanner connected to a mac desktop, archival papers are laid out on the desk, a pair of white gloves are used to handle the archival papers.

Staff Spotlight: Stevie Gunter, Archivist Librarian

Cleo Parker Robinson 1981

Cleo Parker Robinson (1948 - )

Saint Francis of Assisi Church, Taos, N. M [art original].

Congenial friends, study and discussion: The Denver Fortnightly Club