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Digital Collections: First Phase of Minoru Yasui Collection now online!
Special Collections and Digital Initiative
The first phase of what will surely be a years-long effort in digitizing the Minoru Yasui Collection is now in the Auraria Library Digital Collections. The Minoru Yasui Collection represents the physical remnants of the life and work of prominent Denver social justice activist and attorney, Minoru Yasui. Among other achievements, Minoru Yasui was the head of Denver's Commission on Community Relations, which, during the 1970s and 80s was the city's office focusing on repairing the…
New Digital Collection: Histoire de France: The History of France in Comic Form
Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
The latest oddity to be added to the Auraria Library Digitial Collections is Histoire de France: par l'Image et l'Observation directe, a comic-form history of France published in 1923. This beautiful example of early comic art for educational purposes was illustrated by Ferdinand Raffin (1870-1948), a French artist who worked primarily in children's literature and magazines like Le chat noir …
Special Collections Resources Tapped for Auraria History Project
Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
The CU Denver 4244/5244 - History Museums, Exhibits, and Education class recently took on the task of digitally telling the history of Auraria. Students from Dr. Rebecca A. Hunt’s class explored resources in Auraria Library’s Special Collections for historical information and images to complete three projects.
Students redesigned an exhibit in St. Catejan’s Church, recorded podcasts for historical Auraria campus walks…
New Digital Collection: A Plan for Black Liberation - Articles by the Progressive Labor Party
Special Collections and Digital Initiative
New to Auraria Library Digital Collections is A Plan for Black Liberation a 1969 booklet collecting articles by the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) concerning the progress of civil rights in the United States. This booklet served as a corrective measure in realigning the PLP's position on civil rights with the Black Liberation Movement's goals. The organizations, both with roots in the Communist Party USA, were highly concerned with the condition of the American working…
New Digital Collection: Denver Urban Art Directory
Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
The Denver Urban Art Directory is a new project by Auraria Library that collects images of murals, street art, sculpture and other examples of visual artistic expression in the City of Denver. The aim of this project is not just to collect images of urban art, but to involve our users and the general public in the process. Therefore, most of the images in the Directory were submitted by people like you! These generous submissions help to centralize and easily disperse information about…
