Rare and Distinctive Collections

One of the longest running women’s peace organization, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was established in 1915 as a reaction to World War I. Following World War I, the group took an ever broader look at the causes of war,

The Western Federation of Miners (WFM), which in 1916 became the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) was, from its founding in 1893 to its merger into the United Steelworkers of America in 1967, the major American union

Ira D. Kneeland moved with his family from Kansas to Valmont, Colorado around 1881, and shortly thereafter to Boulder. He worked for Meile, a photographer on Pearl Street. At some point, Ira quit the gallery and went into prospecting until 1886 when

James Stanley Brakhage, better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker and is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. A prolific filmmaker, he made nearly 350 films in his 52-year

Tim Wirth, US Congressman and Senator from Colorado from 1974 to 1992, was one of several Democrats elected in a Post-Vietnam War reaction to conservative politics. He represented Boulder and the Denver suburbs in the U.S. House of

Glen Slaughter, Seiichi "Tony" Komesu and Glenn Nelson in Okinawa, 1945 Glen K. Slaughter and Glenn W. Nelson were Marine Corps Japanese Language Officers who met at the US. Navy Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado Boulder

Francis Ramaley, of EPO Biology Building fame, began CU Boulder's tradition of mountain biology when he started the Tolland Summer Biology Camp in 1909. Students used the tools of their trade in those years, shotguns, butterfly nets, and shovels.

Hal Sayre, a Colorado 59er, assayer, and mining promoter, arrived in Colorado in 1859 and became the first surveyor in the territory. He was a member of the partnership that founded La Porte, Colorado and at one time owned Dillon, Colorado. Sayre

This image is of The American Quartet and Mandolin Club posed in front of “Rocky Mountain Joe,” Joseph Sturtevant’s photography studio, in Chautauqua Park, Colorado around 1900. Joseph Sturtevant took up photography in 1884 and became one of the

Nancy Hembold, far left, and two other women at the US Navy Japanese Language School at CU Boulder Born December 16, 1918, in Abilene, Texas, Nancy Pearce Helmbold was the second of three daughters to a typewriter salesman and his wife. After