First of all, allow me to introduce myself. My name is A.J. Rappaport. Now, how I came to have that name is a story in its self. You see my Daddy’s name is Joshua, and his Daddy’s name is Joshua, so, they called me A.J. - just ‘another Joshua.’ I am in the News Paper game. I was...
My name is Margaret Winters, and I recall how thrilled we all were that the Museum of Natural History would be opening that summer of 1908. The Women’s Club of Denver had a Department of Literature and Science and we felt that this museum would be a wonderful place for those of us interested in...
How times have changed! When the Museum first opened its doors to the public in 1908, William Taft was elected president, the world’s first major commercial oil field was discovered in Iran, and for the first time ever the ball dropped in Time Square to herald the New Year. Ford Motor Company produced...
Larry Sessions asked about the elves or leprechauns in the dioramas. Always a popular subject. Attached is a file that will tell you how to find them.
The past is past, as they say, but it’s never dead. The Archives is constantly acquiring, learning, and preserving new pieces of information about the way things used to be here at the Museum. Sometimes we go looking for things and sometimes they come to us. Recently we’ve been focusing on...