Time Machine Tuesday: Education in Early Colorado
What was the first school organized in Colorado, and who was the first teacher? Where was the first schoolhouse? What …
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Time Machine Tuesday: Child Nutrition
March is National Nutrition Month. This campaign for awareness of healthy eating began with National Nutrition Week in 1973, and …
Time Machine Tuesday: Public Opinion on Water Quality
This week we’re only going back a decade, to 2007, but a lot has changed in ten years concerning today’s …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Railroads
In 1885, there were 2,840.51 miles of railroad track in Colorado. That year, W.B. Felker, the State Railroad Commissioner, issued …
Time Machine Tuesday: Public Welfare and Institutions, 1939
Our library collection contains many state reports about public welfare in the Great Depression. Among these is a report from …
Time Machine Tuesday: Old School Images
If you’re looking for early photos of Colorado’s schools, you may not think to look in government documents. But in …
Time Machine Tuesday: Avalanches
Avalanche danger is nothing new in Colorado. Forty years ago, the University of Colorado’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research …
Time Machine Tuesday: Sugar Beets
A century ago sugar beets were one of Colorado’s most important agricultural industries. More than twenty sugar refineries could be …
Time Machine Tuesday: History of Colorado Cannabis Laws
The topic of marijuana/cannabis in Colorado is not a new one. In our library you can find state publications that …
Time Machine Tuesday: The Union Colony at Greeley
The story of the founding of Greeley, Colorado, is an interesting one. It was named for New York newspaperman Horace …
Time Machine Tuesday: National Western Stock Show
Who says Denver’s not a cow town? The National Western Stock Show, held in Denver every January, is now in …
Time Machine Tuesday: The Taylor Grazing Act
With the 1862 Homestead Act thousands of settlers poured into the Great Plains, and over the years cattle grazing and …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Constitution
Of all the Colorado state publications, our state constitution reigns supreme. After 140 years of amendments, conventions, and change, it …
Time Machine Tuesday: Leadville Metals Exposure Study
Leadville is one of Colorado’s most historic mountain towns. Though a small mountain town today, in the 1870s and 1880s …
Time Machine Tuesday: The White Ash Mine Disaster
This fall the Colorado School of Mines unveiled a new memorial dedicated to the victims of the White Ash Mine …
Time Machine Tuesday: Education Standards, Yesterday and Today
The Colorado Department of Education issues academic standards, or descriptions of what should be taught in Colorado schools in each …
Time Machine Tuesday: Pearl Harbor
It was “a date that will live in infamy” — December 7, 1941 — and to this day we still …
Time Machine Tuesday: Highway Beautification Act of 1965
The Highway Beautification Act, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 22, 1965, charged states with controlling outdoor advertising …
Time Machine Tuesday: Davis Waite and the City Hall War
Colorado’s only third-party governor, Davis Waite, was elected in 1892 as a member of the Populist Party. In the era …
Time Machine Tuesday: Oil Shale
In 1921 the Colorado Geological Survey published a bulletin entitled Oil Shales of Colorado. According to the report, Pennsylvania and …