University of Denver
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 folderFound in 114 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1956 September
Black and white print of a boy looking through a telescope at the Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, while a woman walks up the steps to the platform. The sign on the platform reads, "Caution Platform holds 2 persons only".
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1956 September
A group of unidentified people wait in line to look through the telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. Two men are going up the steps to the platform, and two more are coming down the steps on the other side.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1956 September
A group of unidentified people wait in line to look through the telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. A woman is climbing the steps up to the platform, while another woman is descending the steps on the other side.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1956 September
A group of of unidentified persons, including several young children, wait in line to look through the telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1956 September
A group of unidentified persons wait in line to look through the telescopre inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1986 February
Interior view of a telescope under the partially opened dome of Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, circa 1986
View of a telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, taken from below, looking up towards the opening in the dome, showing the photographic guide tube alongside the main tube.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, circa 1981
An unidentified man looks through a telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, with the dome open to daylight above.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, between 1950-1990
An unidentified man looks through the telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1949
Group portrait of five unidentified men stand in Observatory Park in front of Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, at night.