Western Historical Photograph Collection

A collection of over a thousand historic photographs, from 1910-2005, that cover a cross-section of campus activities, events, people, and architecture here at Western.


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Denver's Channel 9 News interview at Chance Gulch on Tenderfoot Mountain, June 2001
[Chance Gulch - Channel 9 News June 2001] crw, Denver's Channel 9 News interviews students and instructors at Chance Gulch on Tenderfoot Mountain, June 2001
Detail view of the original main entrance to Leslie J. Savage Library, circa 1960s.
Detail view of the original main entrance to the Leslie J. Savage Library (now the quiet study area) ca. 1960s. One legend, as told in the early 1970s, was that any student was guaranteed to pass his/her final exams by rubbing the nose of the face on the right. The question, however, was: The face on the right as one enters the building, or as one exits?
Dining area in Keating Hall, circa mid-1950s.
The dining area in Keating Hall circa mid-1950s. The beautiful beams were concealed in subsequent renovations.
Dining area of Keating Hall, circa mid-1940s.
The dining area of Keating Hall, ca. mid-1940s.
Directors Band - Western's Music Camp
Band directors became students at the 1956 WSC Summer Music Camp.
Display cases in the old Biology classroom, Taylor Hall, 1940.
Display cases in the old Biology classroom, Taylor Hall, 1940.
Display of WSC authored books:
Display of WSC authored books: Birds of Colorado's Gunnison Country (Hyde/Radovich) The Gunnison Country (Vandenbusche) Geology of the Gunnison Country (Prather)
Dolores Hall Nearing Completion, circa 1961.
Dolores Hall nearing completion, ca. 1961. View is from the northwest; Escalante Terrace is visible on the left; W Mountain is in the background.
Don and Sherri Radovich present original art for Dr. Hyde's "Birds of the Gunnison Country", 1979
Don and Sherri Radovich present original art for Dr. Hyde's "Birds of the Gunnison Country", 1979

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