Ann Sneesby-Koch

Archives Collections Specialist

Ann Sneesby-Koch is an Archives Collections Specialist at History Colorado, where she started in 2016 as the Project Manager for the NEH-funded Colorado Digital Newspaper Project. Ann graduated from the University of Wyoming (BA, Humanities and Fine Arts), as well as University of Maryland (MA, Classics) and University of Tennessee (MS, Information Sciences).  She oversees the Colorado newspapers microfilm collection, the largest in the world, and loves old news—the weirder, the better. 

Close-up photo of author Ann Sneesby-Koch. She has shoulder length dark hair with bangs, and she's wearing a denim top. She's smiling at the camera.
Ann Sneesby-Koch

Written by Ann Sneesby-Koch

  • Portrait of Joseph D.D. Rivers, about 1900

    Black Voices in the Mountain West

    For more than seventy years, the Denver Star and The Colorado Statesman were vital channels for national and local news for Black residents of the Rocky Mountain West.

  • An illustration of the Solid Muldoon, which appeared in the Colorado Daily Chieftain

    The Folly and Fate of the Solid Muldoon

    Mystery swirled around the discovery of a petrified giant, but was it the find of a lifetime or the greatest fake of its age?

  • Laundry Queen, Lillian Powers, and other women

    The Women of Market Street

    Denver’s red-light district was the worst-kept secret in town, and the women who plied their trade there lived on the margins of society. Their stories reveal pain and violence, but also hope and sisterhood at a time when few had anywhere else to turn.