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University of Denver

 Organization

Biography

The first reference to Colorado Seminary was in The Rocky Mountain News of November 27, 1862: “ a board of Trustees, composed of the solid men of Denver, has been organized to superintend the erection of a seminary building… for an academic education.”

Sources

Breck, "From the Rockies to the World"

Biography

University of Denver votes to adopt quarter system in 1929.

Sources

"University Adopts New Quarter Plan; Vote Unanimous," The Denver Clarion, vol. 34, no. 19, November 26, 1929, 1.

Biography

First year Hillel organization features full programming at DU

Citation:
Jan. 30, 1974, letter to faculty, U172._.0003, Hillel folder

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Business Administration Students in Class, 1940-1959

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0049.0003.00002
Abstract

Still image of an instructor standing and pointing to a chart with multiple graphs on it. Four male and one female student are seated at tables immediately in front of him. The chart is titled: "Salient Features of the Postwar Transition".

Dates: 1940-1959

Business Administration Students in Typing Class, 1940-1959

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0049.0003.00001
Abstract

Still image of female professor standing over five business administration students seated at typewriters. The professor is leaning over, pointing at a paper, and smiling at a female student, who smiles back and also points at the paper. A blackboard in the backgrounds reads: "Please don't move the typewriters" in cursive. What appears to be a typing instruction poster is to the right of the written words. It is titled: "Diagrammatic Chart Royal", with other illegible words below.

Dates: 1940-1959

Business Business Administration Students with Film Projector, 1951 July

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0049.0003.00004
Abstract

Still image of business administration faculty and students gathered around a film projector. The group of about fifteen are standing in the middle of a classroom and appear to be looking at the inside of the projector. On the University of Denver campus, July, 1951.

Dates: 1951 July

Faculty Picnic, 1957 October

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0086.0021.00002
Abstract

Photographic image of four unidentified woman wearing festive hats, sitting at a roundtable with three white tea cups , in an unidentified room, with two unidentified people in the back ground on either side of the four woman, for the Faculty Tea Picnic at the University of Denver, in 10/1957.

Dates: 1957 October

Faculty Staff Picture, circa 1915

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0086.0014.00008
Abstract

Photographic image of 21 faculty members sitting outside, infront of an unidentified building, at the University of Denver, circa 1915. Three are identified: second row, seventh individual is Le Rossignol, front row, fourth individual is Howe and eighth individual is Russell.

Dates: circa 1915

First Faculty of Denver University, circa 1880

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0086.0014.00003
Abstract

Unidentified scrapbook page 2, has an image cut out from a magazine or newspaper, of 5 individuals with First Faculty, Denver University typed at the bottom, circa 1880. Three of the people are identified as Dean Hower, Chancellor David Hastings Moore, and Mrs. Moore.

Dates: circa 1880

Freshman Orientation, 1967 September

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0134.0006.00001
Abstract

The image depicts four individuals including Mrs. Mitchell and Chancellor Chester M. Alter greeting new students and parents at a Pionner Week reception, at the University of Denver, in September 1967.

Dates: 1967 September

Group Portrait of Faculty and Staff, circa 1950

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0086.0018.00005
Abstract

Black and white photographic image of University of Denver faculty and staff: Hartman, Russell Porter, Hall, Friday, Crown, H. Moore, M. Miller, Shirey, B. Cohn, [illegible] name, Engle, Fuller, E. Cohn, Vance Kirkland, [illegible] name, Rasmussen, [illegible] name, Fee, Young, Allen Breck, on campus outside, circa 1950.

Dates: circa 1950

Group Portrait of Faculty and Staff, between 1953-1966

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0086.0022.00001
Abstract

Group portrait of a large group of University of Denver faculty, staff, and administration at a retreat. The individuals are arranged in three rows, with the back two rows standing and the front row seated; visible in the background are a house with log shingles and a 1950s-type automobile.

Dates: between 1953-1966

Group Portrait of Faculty Members, between 1945-1962

 Item
Identifier: U201.01.0086.0018.00003
Abstract

Black and white print of eight University of Denver faculty members standing on a sidewalk at the bottom a set of stone steps. Faculty members pictured include Raymond Carey (Professor of History from 1945 to 1971), Elwood Murray (Professor of Speech from 1932 to 1962), Keith Case (head of Communication department), and Elton "Tad" Wieman (Director of Athletics).

Dates: between 1945-1962