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A. F. Curtis operated a hardware store in from the 1860s until 1882. He also served as a judge, was the president of the Mercantile National Bank, and was an active Republican and a member of the Clear Creek Bible Society. The A. F. Curtis collection in the CU Boulder...

Alan Lew was an aspiring Zen Priest, author, poet, television host, activist, teacher, and conservative rabbi in Northern California. Lew served as the rabbi of Congregation Eitz Chaim in Monroe, New York and as the first chaplain of the Jacob Perlow Hospice of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York...

One of the longest running women’s peace organization, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was established in 1915 as a reaction to World War I. Following World War I, the group took an ever broader look at the causes of war, promoting peace education, pressing for disarmament, and...

The Western Federation of Miners (WFM), which in 1916 became the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) was, from its founding in 1893 to its merger into the United Steelworkers of America in 1967, the major American union in the nonferrous metals industry. The WFM was involved...

Ira D. Kneeland moved with his family from Kansas to Valmont, Colorado around 1881, and shortly thereafter to Boulder. He worked for Meile, a photographer on Pearl Street. At some point, Ira quit the gallery and went into prospecting until 1886 when he became interested in the Topolobampo co-operative (American...

James Stanley Brakhage, better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker and is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film. A prolific filmmaker, he made nearly 350 films in his 52-year-long career that include psychodramas, autobiographical films, Freudian trance films, song cycles,...

Tim Wirth, US Congressman and Senator from Colorado from 1974 to 1992, was one of several Democrats elected in a Post-Vietnam War reaction to conservative politics. He represented Boulder and the Denver suburbs in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975–1987. In 1986, Wirth ran for the U.S. Senate, earning...

Glen Slaughter, Seiichi "Tony" Komesu and Glenn Nelson in Okinawa, 1945 Glen K. Slaughter and Glenn W. Nelson were Marine Corps Japanese Language Officers who met at the US. Navy Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado Boulder. They served together on Okinawa in the 6th Marine Division. Together...

Francis Ramaley, of EPO Biology Building fame, began CU Boulder's tradition of mountain biology when he started the Tolland Summer Biology Camp in 1909. Students used the tools of their trade in those years, shotguns, butterfly nets, and shovels. His camp closed in 1919, after the university purchased land to...

Hal Sayre, a Colorado 59er, assayer, and mining promoter, arrived in Colorado in 1859 and became the first surveyor in the territory. He was a member of the partnership that founded La Porte, Colorado and at one time owned Dillon, Colorado. Sayre later became president of the Rocky Mountain National...