Kamis, 02 Maret 2017

Denver Public Library’s Western History Collection Is a Trove of Historic Papers

Photographs and artistic masterworks provide a visual treasure. The late Argentine author and poet Jorge Luis Borges famously wrote, “I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.” His resounding words are fittingly inscribed on the wall of an institution that houses one of the most extensive Western history collections in the United States. …

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