Magdalena Gallegos papers, 1951-2021.

Gallegos, Magdalena, 1935-2021 creator.

C MSS WH1364

Finding aid available online and in repository.

1951-2014, 2021.

3 linear ft. (3 boxes), 1 oversize box, 1 oversize file folder, 1 audio-visual box

Organized into 5 series: 1. Personal, 1951-2021 (Box1). 2. Professional, 1968-2014 (Box2). 3, Displaced Aurarians, 1982-2002 (Box1, 3). 4. Audio-Visual, 1976 (AVBo1). 5. Oversize, 1984-2003 (OVFF1, OVBox1).

Magdalena Gallegos was born on 10th St. in the Auraria neighborhood of Denver, Colo. on July 12, 1935. She received a BA in Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Denver (1984). Her writings have been published in Colorado Heritage. She currently counsels at the Educational Opportunity Center at the Community College of Denver. Gallegos is interested in documenting and preserving the social and cultural history of her former neighborhood through writting and oral histories. The location of her birth was orginally known as the town of Auraria. It was founded in Kansas Territory in 1858 by gold miners from Auraria, Ga. The area is bordered by the west bank of Cherry Creek to the east bank of the South Platte River, and on the south by Colfax Ave. Once a neighborhood consisting of private homes, churches and businesses, the location now contains the Auraria Campus, made up of the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD), Community College of Denver, and Metropolitan State College of Denver. The 9th St. Historic Park on the campus contains some remnants of the residential and commercial structures that used to be located in the neighborhood. Gallegos died on May 12, 2021.

Collection contains correspondence, copies of published articles, notes, directory of social services, research articles, history of historic homes and Hispanics in Auraria in the 20th century, clippings, Colorado Heritage Magazine award, personal papers, certificates, badges, audio tapes, memorial program.

Gallegos, Magdalena, 1935-2021 -- Archives.

Hispanic Americans -- Colorado -- Auraria -- 20th century.

Auraria (Colo.) -- History.

Correspondence.

Personal papers.

Oral histories (document genres)

Catalog record based on preliminary inventory.

Contact Special Collections and Archives Dept., Denver Public Library, Denver, Colo.

Repository also has transcripts and copies of oral histories conducted by Gallegos: Auraria remembered (OH500).

Gift; Bernadine Gant; 2022.

Gift; Magdalena Gallegos; 2010, 2015, 2020.

Gift; Jamie Seemiller; 2021.