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 47001 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1955
Interior view of the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory in Denver, Colorado. A young boy with a bubble helmet looks through the telescope.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1975
View of the old University of New Mexico telescope in Albuquerque.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, between 1920-1970
Interior view of the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory in Denver, Colorado. Two girls hold a paper to demonstrate the solar eclipse.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1948
Interior view of the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory in Denver, Colorado. A student looks through the Meridian Circle.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, between 1894-1998
Interior view of the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory in Denver, Colorado. Students look through a large telescope.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, between 1894-1950
Interior view of the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory in Denver, Colorado. View of the large telescope in the center of the observatory.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, circa 1913
View of the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory in Denver, Colorado from the Park.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory
View of the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory in Denver, Colorado before area was landscaped.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory, 1954
Black and white print of four young women looking at the 20-inch refracting telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado in 1954.
University of Denver Chamberlin Observatory
Black and white print of three unidentified men assembling or repairing a telescope lens inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.