Denver Library to Catalog Jane Silverstein Ries, FASLA, Archive
ASLA Colorado Chapter and Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation donate $10,000 to begin catalog.

Representatives from ASLA, ASLA Colorado Chapter, and the Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation meet with staff from the Denver Public Library. Pictured from left to right are: Paul Morris, FASLA, past-president ASLA; Ellen Zazzarino, Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library; Joan Harms, Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library; James Kroll, manager of the Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library; Donald W. Leslie, FASLA, past-president ASLA; Cathe Mitchell, ASLA, past-president Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation; Dick Marshall, FASLA. DHM Design director of business development, president Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation; Matt Spidell , ASLA, past president of Colorado Chapter (Photo by John M. Birkey, ASLA )

Representatives from ASLA, ASLA Colorado Chapter, and the Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation met with staff from the Denver Public Library to posthumously present the ASLA Medal that was awarded to Jane Silverstein Ries, FASLA, in October, along with a $10,000 check to the library from CCASLA and the JSR Foundation to begin cataloging Ries’s work in the library’s collection. Attending the meeting were Donald W. Leslie, FASLA, past-president ASLA; Paul Morris, FASLA, past-president ASLA; John M. Birkey, ASLA, past-president CCASLA ; Cathe Mitchell, ASLA, past-president Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation; Dick Marshall, DHM Design director of business development, president, Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation; and Jim Kroll, manager of the Western History Department, Denver Public Library.

Ries’s archives will add to the library’s growing landscape architecture collection, which already includes the papers of landscape architects Arthur H. Carhart, the first landscape architect/recreational engineer hired by the U.S. Forest Service, Reinhard Schuetze, and S.R. Deboer.
 
In addition, the Denver Public Library is the home to the Conservation Collection, a major archive of environmental history. Organizations such as The Wilderness Society, American Rivers, and American Farmland Trust have designated the library as the official repository for their records.