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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

Denver Post 2/28/1969

Homeless in Denver Part 2

Leslie's Illustrated 1879

Homeless in Denver

Interior view of Harry M. Rhoads in his dark room; also shows a bellows camera.

Photo Sales Going All-Digital

Interior view at Dahlia Branch of the Denver Public Library in Denver, Colorado; a Black (African American) man sits at the counter. Paintings top bookshelves.

New Black History Titles in the Blair-Caldwell and Western History Collections at DPL