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Damon Runyon & Jim Wong
Jim Wong at Denver Press Club
Date: 1910-1920
At the Denver (Colorado) Press Club, author Damon Runyon wears a suit and holds a cigar. Jim Wong, the night porter at the Club, sits beside him. Portraits hang on the interior wall in the background.
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Engine Co. 2
Date: 1899
Firemen pose with equipment by the firehouse in Rico, Dolores County, Colorado. They are identified as: (l to r) "Schoot, Troy, Siebert, Chief Dulmager ?, Scherer, Goodman; (standing) - Ford, Robert Dulmager?, Pemberton, and Reyman.
Digital Version Created From: Capt. Louis Goodman, Engine No. 21.
Notes: Identification hand-written on back of photoprint. Title hand-written on front of photoprint.
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Dolores County organized March 14, 1881
Creator: Harber, William G.
Date: [1910-1920?]
Dolores County Court House in Rico, Dolores County, Colorado; shows brick and stone building with arched entry and tower, dormers, and incised letters: "Court House."
Title and: "(Colo. State Session laws 1881, p92)" penciled on back of photoprint. Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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With best wishes from Jane
Creator: Duncan, Geoffrey.
Date: 1909 September 4
Studio portrait of Jane Bernoudy, an actress and trick roper born in New Castle, Colorado. She wears cowgirl clothes, spurs, boots, an embroidered pouch, leather gauntlets, and a cowboy hat.
Photographer's byline printed on back of cabinet card with ornate flourishes and studio hours. Title inked on cabinet card.
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Off for the ruins at Cortez, Colo.
Date: [1890-1900]
Men and women sit in horse drawn covered wagons in Cortez (Montezuma County) Colorado, by the Montezuma County Courthouse, a stone building with a cornice.
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Protesters prepare for nuclear disarmament march
Creator: Groer, Steve
Date: May 10, 1984
Donor: Rocky Mountain News
Eric Wright [left] and Pat Gilmore make final adjustments on the Mother Earth Mobile, a Volkswagen covered by a statue at Governors Park (at the intersection of Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Street). The Mother Earth Mobile was used in the Mother's Day Peace March by the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND). Demonstrators marched the mobile to the Colorado State Capitol. The mobile has a sign that reads: "Mother Earth."
Original Material Found in Collection: Rocky Mountain News records.
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Dolores, stages for the San Juan
Creator: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Date: [1892-1893?]
Stagecoaches and passengers on the main street in Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado. A man on horseback packs a rifle, gold pan, and shovel. Men stand in front of a storefront with a sign that reads: "J.J. Harris & Co."
at Dolores" penciled on photoprint binding. Attribution to Jackson based on inclusion in bound W. H. Jackson sample album. Condition: edges worn, discolored. Hand-lettered title reproduced in print. Mounted on verso of album page: WHJ-1037. Number: "[4]244" hand lettered on negative and reproduced on print. W. H. Jackson sample album. Colorado Book V. no. 94. History Colorado.
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Donated to the Denver Public Library by the Rocky Mountain News.
Caption: Photo by Harry M. Rhoads President Woodrow Wilson sits surrounded by a group of men at the Denver Press Club, Denver, Colorado. Date September 25, 1919.
MANDATORY CREDIT: Denver Public Library/The Harry M. Rhoads Photograph Collection
President Woodrow Wilson poses with a group at the Denver Press Club in 1919.
Other descriptive information: Photo by Harry M. Rhoads President Woodrow Wilson sits surrounded by a group of men at the Denver Press Club, Denver, Colorado. Date September 25, 1919. MUST CREDIT: Colorado Historical Museum/The Harry M. Rhoads Photograph Collection
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Dolores, Colo.
Date: [1890-1900]
Dolores (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows a Rio Grande Southern Railroad train, schoolhouse, and wooden buildings on a main street.
Title hand written on album page.
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RGS narrow gauge motor car number 6
Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge motor car number 6
Creator Richardson, Robert W.
Date: 1951
Head on; stub switch in foreground; Work Goose. (The Work Goose never carried passengers or freight. It was used in maintenance of way service.) Photographed: Dolores, Colorado, 1951.
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Silver Dollar Tabor
Date: 1910, August 29
Rose Mary Silver Dollar Tabor shaking hands with President Roosevelt in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
Deterioration on original reproduced in copy photoprint. Formerly F10905. Title and additional information penciled on back of photoprint. Written on the back of the image, "Silver Dollar Tabor, daughter of Senator H. A. W. Tabor being presented to President Roosevelt by Sheriff Alexander Nisbet and Senator Irby, President of the Press Club at the chuck dinner given by the Press Club, August 29, 1910."
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Victory Theater at night
Creator: Whitworth, John.
Date: 1969 July 27
Night view of the Victory Theater in Denver, Colorado; neon signs and marquee read: "Victory, Girls, Fun For Adults Only, Girlesque, Acapulco Uncensored, Big Sin City, Spicy Films," and "Discount Credit Jewelers."
Type of Material: Night photographs; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.
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