C.M. Day collection 1894-1949.

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C.M. Day collection 1894-1949.

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Correspondence; reports; contracts; journals; letter book; scrapbook; rosters; ephemera from Adams Express Co., American Railway Express, and Railway Express Co. and various Denver, Colorado civic organizations. Photographs: portraits of an actor and actress from a production of "She passed through Laramie" and sketches of sets for the "Emperor Jones" produced at the University Civic Theatre, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. Portraits of C.M. Day and images of unidentified men, women, and children in probably Colorado. Some views of Mexico and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Postcards of the 32nd Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar. Photographs of men haying. Album contains studio and group portraits of Native American men, women, and children taken at the Festival of Mountain and Plain by photographers Rose & Hopkins in 1899. Tribes and groups represented include: Ute, Arapaho, Pueblo, Shoshone, and Wiminuche.

1.5 linear ft. (2 boxes), 1 oversize box. + 1 box (37 photographic prints, 9 postcards, 1 photomechanical print) + 1 announcement, 1 album (47 photographic prints) + 1 piece of stationary.

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7171285

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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