Highlights from our Holdings at the National Archives at Denver

The National Archives at Denver holds permanent historical records of federal agencies and the courts dating back to 1847 that relate to Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Some of our most frequently requested records include Bureau of Reclamation project records from across the United States and around the world, records of various agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and records of the federal courts. We invite you to explore a few highlights from our record holdings in the National Archives at Denver by following the links below.

Winter Count of Good Voice Hawk

Section of transcribed winter count detailing 1840–1866

Air Force Academy Ready to Accept Women

U.S. Air Force Academy Press Release #328, October 8, 1975

Hayden Survey Sketches

Sketch entitled “Conglomerate Bluffs on the Grand River, Middle Park, Colorado Territory,” Thomas Wood Elliott, 1869

“Buffalo Bill” Cody Fights the Bureau of Reclamation

Letter from William F. Cody to James R. Garfield, Secretary of the Interior, February 13, 1909

Smokey the Bear Nature Stories

Smokey the Bear Nature Stories, No. 1214, August 1961

Japanese-American Scouts

Japanese Boy Scouts from Amache Relocation Center at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, 1943.

From Hoover Dam to the Yangtze River, China

Photograph of Jack Savage looking at potential dam sites on the Yangtze River, 1944

Wilfred Keyes, et al. v. Denver Public School District Number 1

Plaintiff’s Exhibit 827, “1970 Denver, Colorado: Percentage of Black Population by Blocks”

Denver Mint Robbery

Letter from George W. Lane to Salmon P. Chase, February 19, 1864

Portrait of An American Indian by Parker Boyiddle

Portrait of an American Indian - Self Porthole, 1978