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Photo Diary: Colorado History Center, Denver [1]

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Date: 2023-08-30  

This is Colorado's official state history museum, located just a couple blocks from the Capitol complex. It was full of school groups when I arrived, but after a while they all left and I had the place to myself.

Some photos from a visit.

For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit.

The museum

A collection of photos from nature photographer John Fielder

Fielder’s photographic equipment

Inside the museum

During Prohibition, the Coors Brewing Company made malted milk in order to keep all its machinery intact and running

This Civil War monument stood in front of the State Capitol until it was toppled by protesters in 2020

Native American pottery

12th century Mesa Verde pottery bowl

This stone Pueblo object is called “Tchamahia”. Nobody is sure what it was used for.

A steel plow blade from the Homesteading period

One of Benito Mussolini’s hats, brought back to the US by a soldier after the war

Denver Broncos superfan “The Barrel Man”

Fritchie electric car from the 1910s

1970 ski lift gondola

38-star flag from 1876, when Colorado joined the Union

Items from the Pig’N’Whistle, a Denver tourist center from the 1920s

Reconstructed barracks from the Amache center in Colorado Springs, where Japanese-Americans were interned during WW2

KKK items. The Klan was powerful in Colorado in the 1920s.

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