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Mellman, Gerald (Gerald "Jerry" Mellman), 1927-2018

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Jerry Mellman (Aleksei Kolesnikov) was born May 26, 1927 and died in Denver August 6, 2018. He obtained a law degree, but soon became a sports photojournalist for the Intermountain Jewish News (IJN). He was at the IJN by the late 1930s. He was a fixture at sport games around Denver and also took photographs of sports legends such as Muhammad Ali. Jerry Mellman and his wife Genevieve's son David became a physician.

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Creating Communities Digitized Images

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Identifier: B406
Abstract The Denver Public Library began the Creating Communities Project in 2008. The library and partners, including the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society (RMJHS), contributed information and digitized images on different Denver neighborhoods. RMJHS contributed images of the West Colfax Jewish neighborhood. In 2012, the project expanded to digitize photographs of individual families. On July 23, 2012, RMJHS and the Denver Public Library had an ice cream social and digitized photographs of...
Dates: Digitization: 2012

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