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Dr. James Underhill poses with Chinese-American miners (probably) in the Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Experimental Mine near Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. One man holds a saw.

Coal Mining in Colorado Lesson Plan

Studio portrait of unidentified Native American (Ute) women, children, and infants. The women wear dresses, shawls or blankets, one holds a purse. A boy wears a shirt and leggings, a girl, lying face down, wears a dress. The babies are in cradleboards.

Fort Collins Ancestors: Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Ute Lesson Plan

Hattie McDaniel (center), Chairman of the Negro Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee, takes time off from rehearsals...to lead a caravan of entertainers and hostesses to Minter Field,...for a vaudeville performance and dance for soldiers stationed there. The young lady to the right of Miss McDaniel is Miss Virginia Paris, a noted concert singer

Fort Collins Ancestors: Local Black History Lesson Plan

Wagons bringing in the sugar beet harvest

Fort Collins Ancestors: Migrant Agricultural Labor Lesson Plan

Mexican-Americans protest arrests by police in Denver, Colorado. They are identified as (l to r) Martha Medrano, Esquiel Lovato, Larry Aragon, Antonio Martinez, and Larry Lovato. Lettering reads; "La Casa Del Barrio."

Hispanic Civil Rights Lesson Plan

Ruth Cousins Denny and Clara Brown

Impactful Black Women in Colorado Lesson Plan

National Day of Mourning plaque

National Day of Mourning Lesson Plan

"Garden of the Gods" in Rambles on Overland Trails, 1915

Overland Trail Lesson Plan

Photograph of a Native American (Mojave) baseball team at the Colorado River Boarding School in Arizona. The boys are dressed in their baseball uniforms, which include long sleeve, collared shirts with the letters "C" and "R" printed on the front, pants, and caps. Some of them hold baseball bats. A dwelling with a metal roof is behind the group.

Sugar Beet Farming and Baseball Lesson Plan