Heritage Colorado is a search interface allowing you to access digitized collections from throughout Colorado. It may be photographs from Burlington or newspapers from Akron. There are currently three major databases linked to Heritage Colorado. They are:
* Heritage Colorado (digitized photographs)
* Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection
* Colorado Main Streets (walking tours and architectural preservation)
HERITAGE COLORADO
· digitized photographs from numerous library and museum collections throughout the state. The photos themselves belong to that agency and you must contact them to order, print, save, or publish the photograph.
· Select a major area to search, i.e. 'people'. Then select a sub-category, i.e. 'Japanese'. Locate 'Amache high school student letters', then retrieve the scanned letters written in the 1940s.
· Select 'social science' and then 'cemeteries' for genealogy information.
COLORADO HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS
· Select 'search the collection' and select your Internet access mode (either dial-up or broadband).
· Select date, keyword, or featured topics (i.e. statehood)
COLORADO MAIN STREETS
· Search 'architecture' and then select from numerous choices. Try 'commercial buildings' and then 'theaters and opera houses'.
WESTERN TRAILS
· produced in cooperation among Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Kansas libraries, museums, and historical societies
Search Tips:
· use the internal navigation keys (back/forward etc)
· at this time, no Pueblo newspapers are included
· in each area, notice the 'teacher' or 'education' nodes to help locate information and search projects for students
The web site for Heritage Colorado is http://www.cdpheritage.org/