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Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: The State Office Building Turns 100

The State Office Building — home of the Colorado State Library — will soon be…

Amy Zimmer, December 8, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Colorado Governors: Davis Waite

Colorado’s only third-party governor, Davis Hanson Waite, served in office from 1893 to 1895. Waite…

Amy Zimmer, November 13, 2020
Colorado Historic Newspapers

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…

Michael Peever, November 3, 2020
Plains to Peaks Collective

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…

Leigh Jeremias, November 3, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

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…

Amy Zimmer, October 21, 2020
Colorado Historic Newspapers

CHNC: Making Historic Newspapers Easily Available to Your Patrons

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) has partnered with many libraries and cultural heritage institutions…

Michael Peever, October 8, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

Time Machine Tuesday: Roaring Fork Valley Ghost Towns

Located near Aspen, Colorado, are the ghost towns of Ashcroft and Independence, two fascinating reminders…

Amy Zimmer, September 22, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion

Colorado Women in World War II

World War II wasn’t just won by our soldiers. Women played a huge role in…

Amy Zimmer, September 17, 2020
Colorado State Publications Blog

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…

Amy Zimmer, September 3, 2020
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
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