Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Guyot's Assay Office
- Men stand and pose in front of the log "Guyot's Assay Office" building in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Men wear vests or jackets and hats. One man holds probably a canvas bag; another man holds probably a baseball bat. Shows log cabins,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Assaying--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1891?]
- Assay office interior
- Interior view of an assay office and laboratory in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows laboratory equipment, chemical glassware, tools, typewriter, desk, rotating chair, stools, closet, lamps, cabinets, workbench, funnels and a brick...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Assayers--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Laboratories--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Guyot's assay office
- Illustration depicts Guyot's assay office, Fremont, Colorado prior to incorporation as Cripple Creek; scene includes partial view of one-story log cabin with gable roof, stovepipe and sign on roof stating "Guyot's assay office"; three men stand in...
- Assaying--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1970]
- Assay office at Upper Fulford
- Two abandoned and dilapidated log buildings, one an assay office, are by the side of a two-track road in Upper Fulford, Colorado. The buildings are surrounded by brush, and tall evergreens grow on the hillside behind.
- Fulford (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Fulford--1960-1970.
- [1960?]
- Cripple Creek, Colo., Schuchs' Building
- Men identified as Philip Schuch Jr. and Earl Akin stand in the door of an assay office, signs read: "Pittsburg - Colorado Sampling Works and Assay Office, Philip Schuch, Jr.," Cripple Creek, Colorado. The business is housed in a false front...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Assayers--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1870-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1870-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1870-1900.; Akin, Dean.; Akin, Earl.; Schuch, Philip.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Sts John mine buildings
- In Saints John, Summit County, Colorado, this two-story log guest house has a rustic porch/balcony, bargeboard, antlers, and external stairs. It is flanked by the foremen's home and the assay office: frame and log buildings.
- Saints John (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Guesthouses--Colorado--Saints John--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Saints John--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Fryer Hill
- Two boys sit on Fryer Hill and look at the Little Pittsburgh Mines office and assay office and the Matchless in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Shows frame and log buildings.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Buckeye Cabin, La Sal Mt's. Utah
- A boy sits in front of Buckeye Cabin in the La Sal Mountains, Utah. A sign reads, "Assay Office Buckeye Cabin." On a table are reagent bottles, a box of assay weights, a beaker, test tubes, glass-stoppered acid bottles, evaporating dishes, and a...
- Assaying apparatus--Utah--1890-1900.; La Sal Mountains (Utah)--1890-1900.; Boys--Utah--1890-1900.; Equipment--Utah--1890-1900.; Log Cabins--Utah--1890-1900.
- 1897 Aug. 24
- Eaglbird [sic] assay office Battle Mountain
- View of a mine identified as the Eaglebird Mine on the Eagle River near Gilman on Battle Mountain (Eagle County), Colorado. Shows a foot bridge, a wood frame aerial tram house and assay office, log supports buttressing a tailings pile, and a mine...
- Battle Mountain (Eagle County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Eagle Bird assay office, Battle Mountain, Eagle River [?]
- Two men lean on a wooden bridge and look toward the Eagle Bird Assay office on the Eagle River, Eagle County, Colorado. Shows the Eagle Bird Mine, mining tramway tracks, cable for an aerial tram from the Belden mine, a mine dump and wood frame...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Eagle River (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1890.; Pedestrian...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Assay Office, Argent M Co. Gilmore Property
- Men pose by an abandoned log cabin identified as the Argent Mining Company Assay Office, on the Gilmore Property in the Platoro Mining District, Conejos County, Colorado.
- Conejos County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Assay office
- Interior view of an assay office in Denver, Colorado; shows a man, a spittoon, scales, a cash register, and glass display cases.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Offices--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- Eagle Bird Assay Office, Battle Mountain, Eagle River Canon
- View of men, one sits and one stands on a wooden bridge across the Eagle River at Battle Mountain, Eagle County, Colorado. Shows the Assay Office of the Eagle Bird Mine, tram tracks, cable for the aerial tram, and a mine dump.
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Eagle River (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Assaying--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- The remains of the assay office at Sts. John, Colorado
- At Saints John, in Summit County, Colorado, a frame building is collapsing with its roof intact. This was the assay office for the Montezuma mining district.
- Saints John (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Saints John--1950-1960.
- 1957
- Assay office
- View of the American Mining Company's assay office near American City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Snow covers the ground.
- American Mining Company (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.; American City (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1905]
- Assay office
- View of the American Mining Company's assay office near American City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Snow covers the ground.
- American Mining Company (Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.; American City (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1905]
- Assay laboratory interior
- Interior view of a mining assay office, in (probably) Colorado; shows a furnace, chemical bottles, beakers, mortars, scales, piled powders, a pouring mold, a dust pan and whisk broom, and label: "Nitric Acid."
- Assaying--Colorado--1880-1900.; Laboratories--Colorado--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Mine assay office
- Interior view of the Fifty Gold Mines Corporation mining assay laboratory in Blackhawk, Colorado; shows balance-scales, a distiller, chemical glassware including beakers, funnels, flasks, alembics, mortars, and bottles labeled: "Nitric Acid." A man...
- Fifty Gold Mines Corporation--1900-1910.; Assaying--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Gold--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Laboratories--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.
- [between 1906 and 1910?]
- Climax, Colorado assay laboratory
- Interior view of a mine assay office in Climax, Colorado; shows a workbench with chemical glassware including funnels, beakers and flasks, an electric fan, and a distiller or gas-generator.
- Assaying--Colorado--Climax--1890-1900.; Climax (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold--Colorado--Climax--1890-1900.; Laboratories--Colorado--Climax--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Climax--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Assay Laboratory, Power House, and Stratton Hall, School of Mines
- View of Colorado School of Mines campus Golden (Jefferson County) Colorado; shows the Assay Laboratory, Power House, and Stratton Hall. The brick buildings have mission style parapets.
- Colorado School of Mines--1910-1920.; Golden (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Power plants--Colorado--Golden--1910-1920.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Golden--1910-1920.
- [between 1912 and 1915]
- Assay furnace Lowell Clark
- Lowell Clark pours an ore sample from a porcelain cup near an assay furnace in the Gold Cycle Mill, El Paso County, Colorado.
- Golden Cycle Corporation--1930-1940.; El Paso County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Furnaces--Colorado--El Paso County--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--El Paso County--1930-1940.; Smelters--Colorado--El Paso County--1930-1940.; Lowell, Clark.
- 1932, August 5
- Assay outfit, Buckeye Cabin
- A boy and a dog sit beside Buckeye Cabin in the La Sal Mountains, Utah. A sign reads, "Assay Office Buckeye Cabin." On a table are reagent bottles which read, "Acid Nitric HNO₃," "Ammonium Hydroxide NH₄OH," and "Acid Hydrochloric HCL." Also on...
- Assaying apparatus--Utah--1890-1900.; La Sal Mountains (Utah)--1890-1900.; Boys--Utah--1890-1900.; Equipment--Utah--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Utah--1890-1900.
- 1897 Aug. 24
- Western History Subject Index
- Bethany lode. Georgetown district colorado
- Western History Subject Index
- Mexican lode. Georgetown district. Colorado
- Bonanza
- Men and women pose on a dirt street in Bonanza (Saguache County), Colorado. Frame buildings have false fronts and signs that read: "F.F. Roby Assayer" and "Second Hand Goods." Miners hold pick axes, shovels, sledge hammers and pose near a pile of...
- Bonanza (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Assayers--Colorado--Bonanza--1880-1890.; False fronts--Colorado--Bonanza--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Bonanza--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Bonanza--1880-1890.; People--Colorado--Bonanza--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- Wall Street [sic], Colo.
- The stone and brick Wallstreet Assay Office has a steep pitched, corrugated metal roof a tall chimney, a fenced yard and a nearby wooden shed in Wallstreet (Boulder County), Colorado. The stone ruins of the Wallstreet Gold Extraction Company Mill...
- Wallstreet (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Metallurgical industry--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Wall Street [sic], Colo.
- Stone and frame buildings are beside a dirt road in Wallstreet (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the stone and brick Wallstreet Assay Office with a steep pitched, corrugated metal roof a tall chimney, a fenced yard and a nearby wooden shed. The...
- Wallstreet (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Metallurgical industry--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Victor, Colo.
- View of frame commercial and mine buildings in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. A Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company freight train is on Colorado Midland Railroad tracks near tailings and the Independence Mine. Portland Mine buildings are...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Warehouses--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1898?]
- Aspen, Colo., W.R. Rust Sampler
- Men pose with mule-drawn wagons in front of frame buildings, probably a sampling or assay works for the Smuggler silver mine in Aspen (Pitkin County), Colorado. Buildings have chimneys and smokestacks, a shaft, and an elevator that connects to...
- Aspen (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Smuggler Mine (Pitkin County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Smuggler Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Aspen--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Aspen--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Aspen--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1887 and 1893?]
- Kramer Mines Inc.
- A man works in an assay office at the Kramer Mine in Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado. Test tubes and chemistry equipment sit on a counter top. The worker wears his shirt sleeves rolled up.
- Kramer Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Salida (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Assayers--Colorado--Salida--1930-1950.; Assaying--Colorado--Salida--1930-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Salida--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Salida--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Court house scene at Cripple Creek
- A crowd of people is gathered outside the Gold Mining Stock Exchange building at 373-379 East Bennett Avenue in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado, during the Western Federation of Miners strike. Signs read: "G.R. Lewis & Co.," "Benedict's...
- Colorado. National Guard.--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Crowds--Colorado--Cripple...
- [1903 September 21]
- Denver 1700 block on Champa
- Pedestrians and men with bicycles stand on the sidewalk and in the street on the 1700 block of Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. Signs on the nearby buildings read: "Bicycle Repairing," "Tin Shop," "Plumbing," "Merle Furnished Rooms Transient,"...
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Denver 1700 block on Champa
- View of horses, one pulls a wagon, with banners that read: "Democrat" and White Republican on Ballot" on the 1700 block of Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. Signs on the nearby buildings read: "Plumbing," "Enterprise Hand Laundry," "Aurum Assay...
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Horses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Enterprise Laundry street scene 17th & Champa
- Men walk on the sidewalk near the Enterprise Laundry at 1719 Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. Signs on the buildings read: "Enterprise Hand Laundry Shirts 5 [cents] First Class Work Our Specialty [Me]nding Free," and "Aurum Assay Office Curtis...
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Fryer Hill
- Two boys sit on Fryer Hill and look at the Little Pittsburgh Mines, office, and assay office and the Matchless in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows frame and log buildings.
- Fryer Hill (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Hotel Monte Christo, Salida, Colo.
- View of the three-story Hotel Monte Christo in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. The hotel is half-timbered frame building with a mansard roof, pendants, a central faceted tower, a balcony and a porch. A freight car, "C.R.S. Trust Series B, D.&...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Hotel Monte Christo (Salida, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Salida (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Salida--1880-1900.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Salida--1880-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1883 and 1900?]
- Assaying, cupeling
- Men work in an assay office, probably in Colorado. Shows an assayer pouring ore into a cupel over a stove. Shows barrels, sacks, sifters, tins, mortars and pestles, tongs, and graduated sizes of cupels in the laboratory.
- Assayers--Colorado--1890-1900.; Assaying--Colorado--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [1897?]
- Assaying
- View of a laboratory in an assay office, probably in Colorado. One man sits at a counter to measure ore samples, another man with a pipette and beaker stands near a wood stove. Shows various ore measuring equipment, including a button-balance...
- Assayers--Colorado--1890-1900.; Assaying--Colorado--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Ouray Teamsters and Packers Union
- Ouray Teamsters and Packers Union pose with their Fourth (4th) of July (Independence Day) float in front of the Munn Brothers Assay Office, Second (2nd) Avenue, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. The float consists of an eight-horse team hitched to a...
- Ouray Teamsters' and Packers Union (Ouray, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ouray (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Festive decorations--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Fourth of July...
- 1906 July 4
- Midland Terminal Railway station, Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Crowd gathers near Midland Terminal Railway Station constructed in 1896, Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes miners with lunch buckets, horse-drawn carriage and riders, and group of men near the depot; street consists of...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Midland Terminal Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Birds Eye View of Leadville Lake County, Colo. 1879
- Bird's eye view rendering shows Leadville, Lake County, Colorado as dwellings, mining facilities, and mountains. Printing reads: "Court House, Jail, Public School, M. E. Church, Roman Catholic Church, Presbyterian Church, Office of the Daily...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- 1879
- Saints John, Colorado
- Saints John, Summit County, Colorado, consists of frame mining sheds and administration buildings. The Assay Office (2) is connected to the mill (1) by an elevated frame walkway. Glacier Mountain, in the background, is dotted with tailings;...
- Glacier Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Saints John (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Saints John--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Saints John--1900-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Saints John--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek
- Bird's eye view west on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; Mount Pisgah is in background; scene includes canvas tents, log buildings and numerous one and two-story buildings, both residential and commercial; one log frame building with side...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1893 or 1894]
- Silver Cliff, Colorado, Main St.
- View west of Main Street, Silver Cliff, Custer County, Colorado; shows wagons, people, businesses, signs: "Assay Office," "Security House," and the Sangre De Cristo Range.
- Sangre De Cristo Range (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Silver Cliff (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Silver Cliff--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Silver Cliff--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Silver Cliff--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Street scene, Cripple Creek
- Row of four attached one and two-story wooden frame buildings in the business district on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, the buildings have gable and flat-roofs, plain boxed cornice, falsefronts, double-sash windows with arch radiating voussoirs,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1895]
- Snow scene
- View of deep snow piled in front of Mandy's Assay Office and other scattered wood frame businesses, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Blizzards--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.
- 1936
- Pitkin
- View of the dilapidated Assay Office in Pitkin, Gunnison County, Colorado, a wooden, false front building with vertical board siding and a plank sidewalk surrounded by unkempt weeds and grass.
- Pitkin (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Pitkin--1930-1970.
- [between 1933 and 1970]
- Bird's eye view of Buena Vista, Colo.
- Reproduction of lithograph of Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado; shows: 1. Court House 2. School House 3. Hiller, Hallock & Co's Opera House 4. D&RGRR Depot 5. F W Ower's Sampling Works 6. Turn-Halle and Buena Vista Guards Armory, Co H; 7....
- Buena Vista (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Anchoria Leland Mine, Cripple Creek District, Colo.
- View of the tailings, shafthouse, and assay office of the Anchoria Leland Mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Anchoria Leland Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Cripple...
- [between 1895 and 1899]
- Buchanan (Assayor) [i. e. (Assayer)]
- Buchanan, an assayer, poses by a cabin near Apex (Gilpin County), Colorado.
- Assayers--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.; Apex (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.
- June 9, 1897