Pueblo County Historical Society

Email

Info@PuebloHistory.org

Phone:

(719) 543-6772

Hours:

Tuesday-Thursday 10-4
Friday 10-1 or by Appointment

Library - Pueblo Historical Society

Books and Research Materials

Librarians: Judy McGinnis
(info@pueblohistory.org)

Book Stacks

The Edward Broadhead Library has a large collection of thousands of titles, maps and photographs with an emphasis on regional history. Located on the second floor of the Southeastern Colorado Heritage Center, 203 West “B” Street. It is free and open to the public 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday — Thursday, Friday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and by appointment.

Research Materials

  • Books in library can be checked out by members.
  • Complete set of City Directories since 1871.
  • List of cemeteries in Pueblo and surrounding area and with names of buried.
  • Thirty one different magazine collections.
  • More than 200 maps.
  • Microfilm files of the Chieftain since 1868 until 1970.
  • Pueblo West newspapers on CD’s.
  • More than 200 oral histories on CD’s.
  • Yearbooks from city and rural area high schools and Colorado colleges and universities.
  • Nearly 50 file drawers of vertical files regarding local people, events, and places.

Also available are extensive collections of the works of photographers John Suhay, John W. C. Floyd and Frank Muramoto.71