Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer. still image Digital photographs Color 2010-2020. gmgpc 2015-09-01. eng Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once the Lincoln Home, which was long the only Colored Orphanage and Old Folks Home west of the Mississippi River. Once supported by sixteen Federated Colored Women's Clubs throughout the state, its buildings were donated to the Martin Luther King Holiday Commission and to Ms. Steele, its longtime member, in order to create the cultural center and museum. Opened in 1997, the center is now (2015) a repository of African-American heritage and a meeting place for dialogue about race relations. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gates Frontiers Fund; Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. America Ruth Steele Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center and Museum Colored Orphanage and Old Folks Home Federated Colored Women's Clubs United States Colorado Pueblo. Carol M. Highsmith Archive. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.33866 No known restrictions on publication.