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About The Collections (Please click on the photos to view larger. The Colorado Historical Society's collections are central to its educational mission of preserving and interpreting the history of Colorado and the West.
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An active program of acquisitions, conservation, and preservation ensures that the Society's collections will continue to foster appreciation, insight and useful understanding of Colorado's past and present for generations to come. The extent of the Colorado Historical Society's collections is
broad, documenting the social, cultural and economic life of the
state. Constituting the largest body of artifacts, documents and
photographs in the region, the collection is comprised of 250,000
accessioned artifacts; 750,000 historic photographs, 15 million
documents, 22,000 books housed in the
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| Other ethnographic collections illustrate the material culture of Native American peoples of the Great Plains, Great Basin and Southwest, including the Ute, Cheyenne, Sioux, Navajo, Apache, Shoshone and Pueblo peoples. The history of Anglo exploration and settlement is represented as well, with artifacts such as Kit Carson's buckskin coat and William Henry Jackson's collection of 20,000 glass-plate negatives and prints documenting the growth and transformation of the West. Manuscript collections reflect Colorado's commerce and trade, including the mining booms and agricultural expansion that opened up the region, the development of railroads and ranching, and the establishment of cities and towns. | ||||||
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