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    Historic Photos of Denver
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    Historic Photos of Denver

    By Myron Vallier

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    From the Brown Palace Hotel to the Buckhorn Exchange, City Park to the Four Mile House, Historic Photos of Denver is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?the Mile High City? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Denver and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Denver!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateFeb 23, 2007
    ISBN9781618586223
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      Historic Photos of Denver - Myron Vallier

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      DENVER

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY MYRON VALLIER

      This view of downtown Denver taken in 1909, shows the Arapahoe County Court House on the left and the Majestic Building near the start of 16th Street. The Front Range is in the distance.

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      DENVER

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

      Nashville, Tennessee 37219

      (615) 255-2665

      www.turnerpublishing.com

      Historic Photos of Denver

      Copyright © 2007 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2006937077

      ISBN-13: 978-1-59652-319-7

      ISBN: 1-59652-319-0

      Printed in the United States of America

      08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15—0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      FROM GOLD CAMP TO QUEEN CITY OF THE PLAINS (1858–1899)

      THE BIRTH OF THE CITY BEAUTIFUL (1900–1919)

      PROGRESS, DEPRESSION, AND NEW DEAL (1920–1939)

      POST WORLD WAR II AND THE GROWTH OF DENVER (1940–1972)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      The Brown Palace Hotel, located at the intersection of Broadway and Tremont Place, was designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, for Henry C. Brown, and opened in 1892. It is still one of the great hotels of the world.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of Denver, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals and organizations. It takes a community to preserve local history, especially visual history. The photographs featured in this book come from the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department’s Western History Photograph Collection. This archive contains more than 600,000 photographs and negatives that document the history of Colorado and the trans-Mississippi West.

      The library’s photo database contains more than 110,000 images and catalog records of North American Indians, pioneer life, railroads, mining, Denver, Colorado towns, city, farm, and ranch life, recreation, landscape, as well as numerous other subjects.

      Most of the digitized material on the website is from the Denver Public Library’s Western History Photograph Collection; however, there is also a significant amount of material from the Colorado Historical Society photograph collection. The library sells high-resolution photographic prints, transparencies, and digital files of any of Denver Public Library’s images on the website. To view or find more information about the collection or to order images, visit the library’s website at

      www.photoswest.org

      This volume would not have been possible without the professional and amateur historians devoted to preserving the past, including the dedicated staff—past and present—of the Denver Public Library.

      Coi Drummond-Gehrig

      Linda Running Bently

      Bruce Hanson

      The publisher would also like to thank Myron Vallier, the author, for his valuable contributions and assistance in making this work possible.

      PREFACE

      Denver has thousands of historic photographs that reside in archives, both locally and nationally. This book began with the observation that, while those photographs are of great interest to many, they are not easily accessible. During a time when Denver is looking ahead and evaluating its future course, many people are asking, How do we treat the past? These decisions affect every aspect of the city—architecture, public spaces, commerce, infrastructure—and these, in turn, affect the way that people live their lives. This book seeks to provide easy access to a valuable, objective look into the history of Denver.

      The power of photographs is that they are less subjective than words in their treatment of history. Although the photographer can make decisions regarding subject matter and how to capture and present it, photographs do not provide the breadth of interpretation that text does. For this reason, they offer an original, untainted perspective that allows the viewer to interpret and observe.

      This project represents countless hours of review and research. The researchers and writer have reviewed thousands of photographs in numerous archives. We greatly appreciate the generous assistance of those listed in the acknowledgments of this work, without whom this project could not have been completed.

      The goal in publishing this work is to provide broader access to this set of extraordinary photographs which seek to inspire, provide perspective, and evoke insight that might assist people who are responsible for determining Denver’s future. In addition, the book seeks to preserve the past with

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