Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to
history, culture and society and has been observed every year in March in the United States since 1987. Women’s History Month 2023 takes place from Wednesday, March 1 - Friday, March 31, 2023. Thing of the past ... and Colorado Restless Native recognizes just some of the women who have made a difference here in the Centennial state.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver Zephyr, beauty contestants
Date: 1936
Beauty contestant winners (identified from left to right) Elizabeth Foster, Wilma Adams, Florence Collier, Virginia Roper, Beverley Peterson, and their chaperon, Mrs. H.C. Leuty pose in the observation car of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver Zephyr. The seated women wear corsages and hold bouquets of flowers. They wear coats and hats.
Denver Public Library Special Collections.
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Denver, snowstorm
Date: 1913 December
Nude woman sculpted from snow during the snowstorm of 1913 in Denver, Colorado.
Photographic postcards. Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Dancers promote the Rocky Mountain News
Creator: Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 1881-1975
Date: [1925-1930?]
Donor: Morey Engle
A dance team of women wear identical outfits printed with Rocky Mountain News pages; headline reads: "You Can Believe What You See In The News!"
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University of Northern Colorado gymnasium
Date: [1905-1920]
Women exercise in the gymnasium at the University of Northern Colorado (formerly known as the State Normal School, Colorado Teacher's College, Colorado State College of Education, and Colorado State College) in Greeley, Colorado in Weld County. Two women hang from the rings; two climb a hanging ladder. One holds a medicine ball, and another hangs from a parallel bar. In the background two women exercise with a swing; one stands on top of the swing, and the other hangs upside down on the swing from her knees.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Denver Tramway
Creator: Rule, Lloyd
Date: [1951]
Donor: Pierce O'Farrill, donor
A model poses by a Denver Tramway streetcar in Denver, Colorado. The woman has a brush, a Butterfinger candy bar, and other items around her neck, and wears a tiny hat. The streetcar destination reader says "17th Street;" other signs read "Shopper's Special 5 cents."
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Face on the bar room floor Teller House, Central City
Creator: Newbury, Samuel S.
Date:1936
Face on the hardwood bar room floor of the Teller House in Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County; painted by Colorado artist Herndon Davis (1901-1962) in 1936.
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Jobyna Howland
Creator: Rose & Hopkins
Date: [1886-1901]
Full-length studio portrait of Jobyna Howland, stage and screen actress and comedienne; born in Indianapolis, educated in Denver; daughter of Joby A. Howland, minstrel man; made New York stage debut in 1899; original "Gibson Girl" (posed for artist Charles Dana Gibson). She wears a flowered hat and holds a flower. The backdrop has an ornate window.
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Denver Public Library Special Collections
Justina L. Ford
Date: circa 1935
Photograph of Doctor Justina L Ford holding a baby while standing on a porch. Doctor Ford was one of the first women doctors in the Denver area. She was instrumental in the development of health care in Denver. In summer of 1975, the Denver Public Library honored the memory of Dr. Ford by dedicating the Ford-Warren Library in east Denver.
Denver Public Library Archive
Denver Public Library. Ford Warren Branch.
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Mary Lathrop
Creator: Rose & Hopkins
Date: [1886-1901]
Studio portrait, head and shoulders, of Mary Florence Lathrop, first woman to practice law in Denver; graduated from University of Denver Law School, 1896; first woman admitted to practice in U.S. Courts of Colorado, 1898; admitted to Colorado Bar Association, 1913; admitted to American Bar Association, 1917; journalist for Philadelphia Press and McClure's Magazine.
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Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown
Date: [1900-1910?]
Studio portrait of Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown. She wears a bead necklace, sleeveless dress decorated with flowers and a train.
Denver Public Library Special Collections
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Mary Lincoln (Queen) Mellen was born in Prestonburg, Kentucky on March 26, 1850. She was the only child of Isabelle and William Proctor Mellen.
Queen married William Jackson Palmer on November 8, 1870 in Flushing, New York where the Mellen family lived at the time. The Palmer's had three children. Elsie, born in 1872, Dorothy, born in 1880 and Marjory, born in 1881.
Queen Palmer, at age twenty-one, opened the first public school in Colorado Springs in November, 1871. School was held in a three room house she rented on Cascade Avenue.
Photo: Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District
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After Horace Tabor died in 1899, his widow, Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor, spent the last three decades of her life trying to retain ownership of the Matchless Mine.
Horace Tabor had an extended affair with Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt, who came to be known as "Baby Doe" Tabor following their marriage in 1883.
Photo from Encyclopedia Colorado.
