Time Machine Tuesday: The Vulcan Mine Explosion
This week we use our digitized historical documents to travel back to 1896 and one of the state’s worst mining …
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Time Machine Tuesday: Dandelions
Dandelions everywhere! They spring up along ditch banks, crowd into open places in alfalfa fields, or luxuriate in gardens and …
Time Machine Tuesday: Agriculture in Colorado, 1926
In 1926 the State Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) published a history of Colorado agriculture. This tome, at over …
Time Machine Tuesday: Urban Renewal in Colorado
This is still a timely topic, as HB15-1348 has been passed by the Legislature (it is still awaiting the Governor’s …
Time Machine Tuesday: 1965 Flood
September 2013 notwithstanding, springtime is generally the season when we are most prone to floods in Colorado. In fact it was …
Time Machine Tuesday: 1970s-era Clothing
Ask almost anyone what they remember as being the top fashion trend of the 1970s, and they’ll say bell-bottoms or …
Time Machine Tuesday: T-REX
No, not the dinosaur (that’s really going back in time!). Here I’m actually referring to the huge transportation project that …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado in the 1893 World’s Fair
In 1892-93 Chicago was transformed into the “White City” for the dazzling World’s Columbian Exposition, also known as the World’s …
Time Machine Tuesday: 1952's Irrigation Centennial
In 1952 Governor Dan Thornton organized the Colorado Irrigation Centennial Committee, which included 27 members from all parts of the …
Time Machine Tuesday: The Rocky Flats Fires
The Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant experienced two large fires, in 1957 and 1969, that resulted in the release of …
Time Machine Tuesday: 1950s Comic Books
No, we don’t have comic books in our collection. But we do have an interesting document that deals with them, …