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Denver Library—Western History and Genealogy— Denver Parks Collection Documented in the collection are projects created by the city’s celebrated planners, including Reinhard Schuetze, Charles Mulford Robinson, George Kessler and the Olmsted Brothers. Denver Municipal Facts, a magazine published by the city from 1909 to 1931, covers all facets of the city’s development during much of the time of the City Beautiful Movement. The reporting of park, parkway and recreation development is an important feature throughout its years of publication. In the July 1921 issue, a researcher can find a fold-out map entitled Denver Municipal Facts Map, Denver to Mt. Evans including Mountain Parks. Other maps in the department’s map collection include, for example, a 1909 Map of the City of Denver by George S. Clason that shows an expanding city with three large city parks-City Park, Cheesman Park and Washington Park. Other smaller parks are designated and identified. Another is Prather’s Aerial View of Denver Mountain Parks and Mt. Evans Region, truly a piece of art, yet highly informative for the tourist or day-traveler during the 1920s. Over 500 photographs of Denver’s parks and mountain parks are included in the Library’s Western History Photography Collection. Images range from early views of golfers at Overland Park to the construction of Red Rocks Amphitheater to the gardens and zoo at City Park.
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