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Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The Tabor Grand Opera House

139 years ago this week, on September 5, 1881, occurred what was arguably the most…

Amy Zimmer, September 1, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Schools During Wartime

This year, as students head back to school, classes will be a very different experience….

Amy Zimmer, August 25, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Governors: Job Adams Cooper

Job A. Cooper served as Colorado governor from 1889 to 1891. It was a time…

Amy Zimmer, August 20, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The Cattle Industry in Colorado

For over 150 years, the cattle industry has been an integral part of Colorado’s agricultural…

Amy Zimmer, August 18, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The 1920 Denver Tramway Strike

A recent pandemic, economic instability, and protests in downtown Denver. Sound familiar? Only this was…

Amy Zimmer, August 4, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado in the Cold War

Seventy-five years ago this week, on July 16, 1945, the United States conducted its first…

Amy Zimmer, July 14, 2020
Colorado Historic Newspapers, CSL News, Plains to Peaks Collective

Get To Know CSL: Leigh Jeremias on Archives, Digital Collections, and Our Connections to History

In a series of conversations, we are finding out about how the people of Colorado…

Michael Peever, July 7, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park

This year marks the 105th anniversary of Rocky Mountain National Park, as well as the…

Amy Zimmer, June 9, 2020
Colorado Historic Newspapers

A Window to History: CHNC’s Extraordinary Brightside Newspaper

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) has a lot of gems in its archives. Brightside,…

Michael Peever, June 4, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Agnes Wright Spring

New to the library’s digital collection is Denver’s Historic Markers, Memorials, Statues, and Parks (1959)….

Amy Zimmer, June 2, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Historic Properties on the State and National Registers

The State Publications Library often receives questions about historically designated properties, including how to determine…

Amy Zimmer, May 28, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Governors: Alva Adams

Continuing our series on Colorado’s chief executives, we now turn to Alva Adams, whose multiple…

Amy Zimmer, May 21, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Carnation Industry

No flower is more associated with Mother’s Day than the carnation. But did you know…

Amy Zimmer, May 5, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Day by Day

Looking for a “this-day-in-history” resource for Colorado? A new addition to our library collection is…

Amy Zimmer, April 27, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home

In 1889 the State of Colorado established a home for aging Civil War veterans and…

Amy Zimmer, April 14, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Early Development of the Telephone in Colorado

Alexander Graham Bell first patented the telephone in 1876, the same year Colorado became a…

Amy Zimmer, March 31, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Governors: Benjamin Eaton

Benjamin Harrison Eaton first came to Colorado in the 1859 Gold Rush. He had been…

Amy Zimmer, March 19, 2020
Colorado Historic Newspapers

How Gunnison Dealt with the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

The year was 1918 and the Spanish Flu pandemic was in full swing. The disease…

Michael Peever, March 17, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Building the State Capitol

Today, the Capitol Building with its famous gold dome is one of the most recognized…

Amy Zimmer, March 3, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: 100th Anniversary of Prohibition

One hundred years ago this week marked the beginning of Prohibition in the United States,…

Amy Zimmer, January 14, 2020
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