Time Machine Tuesday: The State Office Building Turns 100
The State Office Building — home of the Colorado State Library — will soon be…
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Colorado Governors: Davis Waite
Colorado’s only third-party governor, Davis Hanson Waite, served in office from 1893 to 1895. Waite…
A Window to History: Alternative Newspapers from 1969-1980
I might have extolled the virtues of the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection’s (CHNC) diverse titles…
Touring Colorado’s Collections: What’s in a Wildlife Researcher’s Toolbox?
This guest post was written by Sara Szakaly, MLS, Archivist & Records Manager for the…
Where Do Coloradans Come From? And Where Do They Go?
Using census data from the past 150 years, the Colorado State Demography Office has prepared…
CHNC: Making Historic Newspapers Easily Available to Your Patrons
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) has partnered with many libraries and cultural heritage institutions…
Time Machine Tuesday: Roaring Fork Valley Ghost Towns
Located near Aspen, Colorado, are the ghost towns of Ashcroft and Independence, two fascinating reminders…
Colorado Women in World War II
World War II wasn’t just won by our soldiers. Women played a huge role in…
LiDAR Scanning: A New Way of Looking at Old Places
If a historic or archaeological site disappears or changes, how will we remember what it…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Tabor Grand Opera House
139 years ago this week, on September 5, 1881, occurred what was arguably the most…
Time Machine Tuesday: Schools During Wartime
This year, as students head back to school, classes will be a very different experience….
Colorado Governors: Job Adams Cooper
Job A. Cooper served as Colorado governor from 1889 to 1891. It was a time…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Cattle Industry in Colorado
For over 150 years, the cattle industry has been an integral part of Colorado’s agricultural…
Time Machine Tuesday: The 1920 Denver Tramway Strike
A recent pandemic, economic instability, and protests in downtown Denver. Sound familiar? Only this was…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado in the Cold War
Seventy-five years ago this week, on July 16, 1945, the United States conducted its first…
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…
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…
A Window to History: CHNC’s Extraordinary Brightside Newspaper
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) has a lot of gems in its archives. Brightside,…
Time Machine Tuesday: Agnes Wright Spring
New to the library’s digital collection is Denver’s Historic Markers, Memorials, Statues, and Parks (1959)….
Colorado Historic Properties on the State and National Registers
The State Publications Library often receives questions about historically designated properties, including how to determine…