Special Collections & Archives

Includes digitized archival material from a selection of Conservation Collections in Denver Public Library's Special Collections and Archives. Search original historical documents about public land management, wildlife conservation, and individuals and organizations who shaped the American conservation movement.  

Includes digitized archival material from Denver Public Library's Special Collections and Archives. Search original historical documents about the Chicano/Chicana and Latino/Latina experience in Denver, Colorado, and the American Southwest. Primary sources created by writers, political figures, farmworkers, Chicano movement activists, and labor organizers. Papers and photographs of individuals, families, and organizations who worked for improved education, health care, and political representation for Mexican, Hispanic, and Latino Americans.

Research guides, research tools, blog posts, and more related to our distinctive non-circulating collections of book, maps, photos, artwork, archival collections and other related materials that tell the story and history of the Denver community and the Rocky Mountain West as well as the history of the American Conservation Movement, the Tenth Mountain Division, Genealogy and Blacks in the American West.