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The Colorado State Normal School Band poses for a photograph on the west stairs of Normal Hall (now Taylor Hall), 1914. Professor John C. Johnson is front row right, holding his cornet.
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View of the Heidelberg offset printer in the WSC Print Shop, ca. 1980. Bob Ener is on the right.
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Entire Student body and Faculty of Colorado State Normal School 1911.
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CSNS Domestic Science and Household Arts instructor Maria T. Hennes models the hat she designed, circa 1914.
One of the original ten teachers at Colorado State Normal School, Maria T. Hennes presided over the Household Economics department. She also designed the hat. Hennes taught cooking and sewing, but more importantly, she wrote, "manual dexterity, close observation, neatness, knowledge of materials, the dignity of labor, and, above all, the...
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Colorado State Normal School faculty and students pose for a group photograph on the west side of Normal Hall (now Taylor Hall) Spring, 1919.
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The second basketball team of Colorado State Normal School (now Western Colorado University), Winter term 1912-1913. Team members are player/coach John C. Johnson, Richard "Richie" Walker, Fred "Fritz" Zugelder, Arthur Chinery, Ralph "Pebbles" Stone, Ray B. Hollingshead, Verne Mauer, and Chester Pittser.
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Abandoned in a field near Parlin sits the most famous bus in Western's history. On November 18, 1950, it was carrying the football team to Canyon City for a game with Adams State College. Descending Monarch [Pass], the bus suddenly lost its brakes and the gear shift popped into neutral. While the driver fought to hold it on the road at speeds that reached over 100 miles an hour, the players, at his command, shifted their weight from one side to...
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John C. Johnson, Instructor in Biological Science and fullback on Colorado State Normal School's (now Western Colorado University) first football team, September 1912. Johnson writes, "We beat Montrose Town Team 6 to 0."
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View of the Whipp Maintenance Building from the southeast, ca. mid-1970s. The building was completed in 1959 at a total cost of $125,000.
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Anthropogenic impacts to wildlife populations represent a reoccurring theme in wildlife management as the human population expands into wild landscapes. Our study focused on a great blue heron (Ardea herodias) colony of approximately 20 nests uniquely located along the Slate River near Crested Butte, Colorado. This high mountain stream increasingly draws river recreationists, especially stand-up paddle boarders. Our study assessed how human activities...
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Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have reached unprecedented levels, posing a threat to the health of the biosphere. Soils store the largest amount of terrestrial carbon (C) and can be used as a method for sequestering atmospheric C. The cycling of C between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems is directly influenced by soil microbial activity and respiration. Compost amendments to soil systems have the potential to shift the composition of the...
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Western cheerleaders ready for Homecoming 2001 in Mountaineer Bowl.
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1415. The Concert Band
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The 1968 WSC Concert Band poses in the newly-constructed Quigley Hall band room.
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Guest director Miklos Rozsa conducts a 1957 Summer Music Camp concert band in Taylor Auditorium.
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The chorus of the Boots and Burros celebration pose for a photograph in Taylor Hall Auditorium, 1959.
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Irene Sweetkind, president of the Board of Trustees, shakes hands with the latest WSC graduate on stage in Wright Gymnasium, late 1970s.
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Within the sagebrush steppe ecosystem in the intermountain west, sagebrush obligate birds occupy a variety of specialized niches. The purpose of our research was to identify the effect of road presence and habitat covariates on the density of sagebrush obligate birds during their breeding season. Roads through sagebrush threaten local bird abundance through anthropogenic disturbance and habitat fragmentation (Knick et al. 2012). However, research...