The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Colorado resources available for free on the Library's Web site.
The tools at the end of the page can help teachers use these in the classroom. Teachers can find even more primary sources, along with the tools to help use them in the classroom, at www.loc.gov/teachers. They can also search the Library's American Memory or Prints and Photographs collections.
![Bird's eye view of Denver, Colorado, 1908. Denver Lith. Co. Denver [1908] c1907.](images/colorado.jpg)
Bird's eye view of Denver, Colorado, 1908. Denver Lith. Co. Denver [1908] c1907.
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Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colo, 1940
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Life in Colorado--The Chances for Fortunes in the Mines--Mining and Farming--Old Milwaukee Settlers, (1880) |

Cripple Creek, 1967
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Cripple Creek barroom scene, 1899 |

Governors, Coats of Arms - Image 6 (W. Duke Sons & Co.)
1888
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America the beautiful, 1917 |

Part of the Vast Billboard Campaign of the Woman's Party. Putting up billboard in Denver-- 1916. |

Silver bricks / Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery Published at Central City, Colorado. 1875. |

Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street, East of South Platte River, Denver, Denver County, CO, 1968 |

An Act To establish the Rocky Mountain National Park in the State of Colorado |

Denver, Colorado. Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer. c1898. |
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