Author: BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Title: Colorado: The Centennial State
Description: Denver, CO, Smith-Brooks Printing Company. 1958, Revised Edition. Wraps, 12mo over 6¾" 7¾" tall. Ill.: Wood Block Prints, Full-Color Map. Paperback, Compiled by Denver school children as their contribution to the Colorado Centennial Celebration of 1959, with their names listed on a contributors page at the rear; A "Colorado Centennial Rush to the Rockies" program of events for 1959, is laid in; Tipped in at the rear is a large, folded, full-color Gerald Herndon map of Colorado; This unpaginated booklet was first published in 1948 by the Junior Red Cross of the Denver Public Schools for the use of veterans who had come to the hospitals of Colorado as a result of World War II. The literary research and art work was done by members of the Denver Chapter of the American Junior Red Cross, under the supervision of the Department of Art and the Department of Instruction of the Denver Public Schools. It became a popular Colorado history reference and was widely distributed by the Junior Red Cross. Covers are lightly edge-scuffed, else clean and tight; Not listed in Wynar/Depp. Very Good+.

Keywords: Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush, Colorado History, Denver History, Colorado Centennial Celebration Wood Block Prints, Full-Color Map


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