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Historic Denver, Inc

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Chris Whitacre for Colorado Reflections

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Identifier: couda-whitacre
Abstract Chris Whitacre reflects on her involvement with Historic Denver and writing a book about Molly Brown. Whitacre discusses Margaret Tobin Brown, "the Unsinkable Molly Brown," and her life in Denver. Discusses Brown's rags to riches story, moving to Leadville, surviving the Titanic sinking, and the myths that surround her story. Whitacre discusses the restoration of Molly Brown's Denver home by Historic Denver. Whitacre also discusses Justina Ford, the first Black woman physician in the Rocky...
Dates: Date Not Yet Determined

Elizabeth Schlosser for Colorado Reflections, about 1985, 2006 January 16

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Identifier: couda-schlosser
Abstract

The director of Historic Denver, Elizabeth Schlosser, describes how the organization was created in 1970 to save the Molly Brown House and its goals to preserve and protect the best of Colorado's architectural and historical past.

Dates: about 1985; Digitization: 2006 January 16

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  • Subject: Molly Brown House Museum (Denver, Colo.) X

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Architecture 1
Black women in United States history 1
Ford, Justina, 1871-1952 1
Historic preservation 1