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Pub. Date
2015-
Description
The Stephen H. Hart Library & Research Center serves as the portal to the History Colorado Collection. Our Collection consists of a rich array of archives, artifacts, and photographs, all documenting the people and places of Colorado. We also provide research assistance and photo reproduction services. Search the database, scroll through the collection highlights and archives, and see what services History Colorado provides.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Some are born with a perfect palate, others with a perfect pitch. Denver Art Museum Curator of Paintings Lilly Sparks was born with a perfect eye. When the museum's billionaire benefactor is brutally murdered, the grisly tableau stuns her; it's the human embodiment of the museum's prized landscape by famed impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. Lily comes to believe that the Caillebotte was forged and the killer is a painter the art world has spurned....
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
The Walls Talk is a travel guide to thirty-seven of Colorado's historic house museums. It takes the reader to all corners of the statenot only to well known locations like the Molly Brown House in Denver, but to out-of-the-way places like Jack Dempsey's Cabin in Manassa or the Hedlund House in Hugo. You will learn more about famous Coloradans like Baby Doe and Horace Tabor, and make the acquaintance of lesser known figures like the mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
This book is a story of heroes - a newspaper editor igniting the effort to build a hospital, doctors treating severely injured miners at all hours of the day and night, dedicated nurses caring for the sick and injured, prominent citizens stepping forward to provide critical financial aid to save the hospital, a mysterious doctor arriving in town with a revolutionary idea to save miners' lives, and finally, farsighted citizens joining together to not...
20) America by Rail
Pub. Date
[2008], c2002
Description
From Denver to D.C., this DVD collection explores the heart of America's scenic beauty and legendary trains.