Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. It was pointed out in the discussion of the last of these posts that swastikas in Denver as a symbol of racial purity in the 1920s and 1930s would not have … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. Been awhile since I posted one of these, but I’m back to trolling through them. And, come to discover, the digital image collection has a great new feature which you can … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: Bird’s eye view from center of Native American Lakota Sioux camp to the northeast, across the council circle, after the fight at Wound Knee creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: Interior of Holy Cross Episcopal Church at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, shows standing army corp men and a Native American Sioux man with wounded Sioux from … Continue reading
This again. Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: Benjamin J. Hodges, a Mexican Black man, poses in Dodge City (Ford County) Kansas, with a sawed off shotgun and a pistol in a holster belt. … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: Bob Ford’s bar in the town of Creede, Colorado, in Mineral County, is a canvas tent with a ladder leaning next to it and a wood crate near … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: Men pose at a Faro table in Montezuma, Summit County, Colorado. The interior saloon scene includes slot machines, spittoons, a sign over the cash register: “The Senate T. … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: View of Hop Alley (between Wazee and Blake Streets) in Denver, Colorado. Men who include a Chinese man and a police officer stand near the brick buildings. A … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: A crowd stands on Market Street near City Hall, part of the “City Hall War,” a dispute over Fire and Police Board appointments, in Denver, Colorado. Horse-drawn wagons … Continue reading
I was trying to tell a friend about all the great historical photographs in the Denver Public Library’s collection a while back and not doing a very good job. I know I’ve posted some of the photographs before, but thought … Continue reading
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