Special Collections and Archives at Denver Public Library

Advertisements and a photo of the exterior of The 1942, a Denver Gay 🌈 bar located on 1942 Broadway, circa 1970s-1980s. Self-described as a "cruise and Levi disco bar" 🪩 🕺🏽🕺🏽

You can view the originals in-person on the 5th floor of Central Library



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CBLA Scholarship Application form The Colorado Black Library Association (CBLA) will award one LIS student a $500 scholarship to support them as they pursue a degree in Library and Information Science. Persons wishing to apply must: -be an African American residing in Colorado or Wyoming -be enrolled in an ALA-accepted degree progra...

"The Moon's Shadow on the Earth, as Seen from the Moon", from The Study of the Sky (1896) by Herbert Alonzo Howe. Howe used a $50,000 gift to the University of Denver from Humphrey Chamberlin to fund construction of the Chamberlin Observatory in 1889. In 1892, Howe was named director of the observatory.

Through the Scenic Wonderland of Denver's Mountain Parks, a tourist adventure map of the Arapaho, Pike, and Roosevelt National Forests in what is now called the Mount Blue Sky region in Colorado from 1942.

A hand-drawn aerial map in stylized pen-and-ink depicts the Italian Campaign, as traveled by the U.S. 87th Infantry Regiment, created by George F. Earle in 1945.