Colorado

How the Lark Bunting Became Colorado's State Bird

Interior view at the Community Vocational Center at the Cosmopolitan Branch of the Denver Public Library in Denver, Colorado; children listen to a Black (African American) woman read a story. Sign reads: "The Gold Star Reading Club."

Special Collections and Archives Blogs: Staff Favorites from 2022

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

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

Scott Brady, star of "Canon City," and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post from 1946-1971, with a Denver Post newspaper, look at the headlines in an office in Denver, Colorado. A sheet with "The Denver Post Deadline Schedule" sits on the desk. The headline, about the 1947 prison break on which "Canon City" was based, reads: "2 Slain, 9 Captured, In State Pen Break, Stir Crazy Cons Lead Pen Break."

Special Collections and Digital Archives Blogs: Staff Favorites From 2021

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

Taken during the Italian campaign, the photograph shows two Tenth Mountain Division soldiers relaxing in a haystack by reading magazines. In the background are mountains and leafless trees.

Western History and Genealogy Blogs: Staff Favorites from 2020

The Owl Club of Denver

Bob Huff reads a Beadle's Half Dime Library dime novel titled "Fancy Frank of Colorado" in the Western History department of the Denver Public Library at Colfax Avenue and Bannock Street in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. An illustration of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody is on the novel.

Western History and Genealogy Blogs: Staff Favorites from 2019

Men and women work in the Bibliographic Center in the Denver Public Library at Colfax Avenue and Bannock Street in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Books and stacks are nearby. A sign reads: "Please Do Not Close the C.B.I. and U.S. Catalogs Turn Pages Carefully."

Western History and Genealogy Blogs: Staff Favorites from 2018

George Leitch prepares to carve a turkey on Thanksgiving in his house at 2957 Humboldt Street in Denver, Colorado. May, men, women, and a girl look on.

Thanksgiving on the Shelves of Western History and Genealogy

The Rabbit Hole, or How Sheet Music Revealed a Missile in Civic Center Park

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