Things of the past ... May 15, 2023

 

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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.

Digital Version Created From Denver Press Club.

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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.

Related Material Image File: ZZR710013148

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.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

 

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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.

Denver Public Library Special Collections.

 

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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."

Format of Original Material: 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 25 x 14 cm (10 x 6 in.)

Type of Material: Night photographs; Photographic prints; Black & white photographs.

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Wilson's hopes for League, health fail in Pueblo

Edith Bolt Galt Wilson is labeled by some as the first woman to serve as president  

By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com

“Mr. Chairman and fellow countrymen: It is with a great deal of genuine pleasure that I find myself in Pueblo, and I feel it is a compliment in this beautiful hall. One of the advantages of this hall, as I look about, is that you are not too far away from me, because there is nothing so reassuring to men who are trying to express the public sentiment as getting into real personal contact with their fellow citizens.”
___ President Woodrow Wilson, opening statements or the Final address in Support of the League of Nations, delivered Sept. 25, 1919, in Memorial Hall, Pueblo, Colo.

At the end of WW I, President Woodrow Wilson traveled to Paris to help personally negotiate terms of the treaty with our Allies in the war. In Europe, he successfully put forth the idea of a League of Nations. Here at home however, conservative members of the Senate (“the irreconcilables”) blocked such provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson, still determined, decided to try to sell it directly to the American people. He embarked on a whistle-stop speaking tour.
“During the trip, Wilson complained of headaches and sleeplessness. He collapsed in Pueblo, Colorado. The trip was canceled and Wilson returned to the White House, where he suffered a stroke,” according the Health Media Lab.
“From that time on the president was incapable of carrying out his duties. Wilson’s inner circle, consisting of the First Lady, his personal physician, private secretary, and the Secretary of State, kept the president’s condition a secret. No one was allowed to see him. The Cabinet and the press were told that Wilson had suffered a nervous breakdown. Vice President Thomas Marshal was never informed. The American people never knew their President was an invalid. Wilson completed his second term in office in 1921. His health improved only slightly. He died in retirement on 3 February, 1924.”
Edith Bolt Galt Wilson, the president’s second wife (his first wife died earlier during his presidency and he and Edith were married in the White House), is labeled by some as the first woman to serve as president, because of her role when her husband was incapacitated.
“On the morning of October 2, Mrs. Wilson found her husband unconscious on the bathroom floor of their private White House quarters bleeding from a cut on his head.” According to Eye Witness to History account by Ike Hoover, the president’s Chief Usher.
“At exactly ten minutes before nine o’clock on this memorable day (I noted the time in writing the same day), my telephone the desk in the Usher’s Room at the White House rang and Mrs. Wilson’s voice said, ‘Please get Dr. Grayson, the president is very sick.’ The telephone used was a private one that did not go through the general telephone switchboard. Mrs. Wilson had come all the way out to the end of the upper hall to use this particular telephone instead of the regular one in their bedroom. I reasoned at the time that it was done to avoid publicity, for there had been talk about the operators of the switchboard listening in and distributing information they picked up. I immediately called Dr. Grayson at his home, repeated the message as Mrs. Wilson had given it to me, and ordered one of the White House automobiles to go for him with all haste. I then went upstairs to see if there was anything I could do,” Hoover said.
The Chief Usher waited for the Doctor, who when he arrived, attempted to walk directly in but was stopped by a locked door. The doctor knocked and was let in.
“In about ten minutes Doctor Grayson came out with raised arms and said, ‘My God, the President is paralyzed! Send for Doctor Stit and the nurse,’” according to Hoover’s account. Hoover was later allowed in to rearrange furniture.
“The President lay stretched out on the large Lincoln bed. He looked as if he were dead. There was not a sign of life. His face had a long cut about the temple from which signs of blood were still evident. His nose bore a long cut lengthwise. This too looked red and raw. There was no bandage.”
Hoover asked at the time how it happened.
“I was told — and I know it to be right — that he had gone to the bathroom upon arising in the morning and was sitting on the stool when the affliction overcame him; that he tumbled to the floor, striking his head on the sharp plumbing of the bathtub in his fall; that Mrs. Wilson, hearing groans from the bathroom, went in and found him in an unconscious condition. She dragged him to the bed in the room adjoining and came out into the hall to call over the telephone for the doctor, as I have related.”
Wilson did not attend a cabinet meeting until almost six months after his stroke. Dr. Cary T. Grayson never admitted publicly that Wilson suffered from a stroke and refused to declare him disabled.
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