Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Sacred Heart of Mary Church, Boulder
- Men, women, and children pose in front of this brick church in Boulder, Colorado, wearing suits, white dresses and flowered hats. Priests and nuns stand in the door, in vestments and habits. The brick church has arched and round stained glass...
- Sacred Heart of Mary Church (Boulder, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- State University campus, Boulder, Colo.
- View of the University of Colorado campus in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows unidentified houses, the Hale Scientific building (science), the president's house, Old Main and Woodbury Hall.
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses.; Universities & Colleges.
- [between 1897 and 1900?]
- Boulder, Colo. regents of the University of Colorado
- Men in suits, ties, and gold chains stand on steps fronting a brick building with an arched wooden door in Boulder, Colorado, and are identified left to right as: Delong, Gardiner, Farnsworth, Hale, Fulton, Bell, Palmer, Waggener.
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890-1900?]
- Old medical building
- Men and women pose on the open porch of the medical building at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in suits, ties, bowlers, and gold chains. The two-story brick building has a cottage roof, arched, paired sash windows, and a gable roofed...
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1898?]
- Mining camp, west of Eldora
- View of the Happy Valley Placer Co. mining camp in the Grand Island Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado with tents and a buggy. John H. Kemp leans on the fence to the left; Engineer August Mathez stands with a transit instrument and tripod...
- Happy Valley Placer Company (Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1900.; Mining camps--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Kemp, John H.;...
- Summer 1892
- Boulder
- View of frame houses in Boulder, Colorado. Shows wooden sidewalks and utility poles beside dirt streets. Houses and Mount Saint Gertrude Academy are on University Hill, and the buildings of the University of Colorado, Hale Science Building, Old...
- University of Colorado (Boulder Campus)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900?]
- Power House, Boulder, Colo.
- Men, women, and children pose in front of an electric street car on 12th (Twelfth) Street and Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. People stand on tracks beside a dog. Men wear suits and women wear dresses. An African American...
- Afro-Americans--Men--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Power plants--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Street railroads--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1899 June 24
- Colo. Northwestern & Pacific RR engine at Boulder
- Shows engine number 2 with a coal car, of the Colorado Northwestern and Pacific Railway company, better known as the "Switzerland Trail", on the tracks in Boulder (Boulder county), Colorado. A crew member walks behind the train.
- Colorado Northwestern Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [1898]
- First track laying to the Chautauqua, Boulder, Colo.
- View of street car track construction near Chautauqua Park on University Hill in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Men stand near tracks and railroad ties. Shows the stone Catholic girls' school Mount St. Gertrude Academy and the Chautauqua...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Construction--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Street railroad tracks--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Street railroads--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Boulder, Colo.
- View of Boulder (Boulder County) Colorado; shows "The Delano Mining and Milling Company," Boulder Creek, Colorado State University buildings, houses, and the Mount Saint Gertude Academy.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- North side of Boulder, Colo.
- View of Boulder, Colorado; shows houses, (possibly) Alpine Street, and distant Colorado State University buildings.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- 12th Street, Boulder, Colo.
- A man in a boat floats down a river of water on a flooded street in Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County during the city flood of 1894. Spectators stand on the side of the street and watch.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- June 1, 1894
- 18th St.
- Water floods the streets of Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County. Structures engulfed by the water include: one and two-story wood-frame houses and a fence.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- R.R. and foot bridge Boulder, Colo.
- People stand on this flood damaged railroad bridge in Boulder, Colorado. The tracks and ties twist downward where the piers have been washed out, and a waving man, a boy, and a dog walk on a swinging footbridge that crosses the creek and is lashed...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- June 1, 1894
- Depot and R.R. street. No. 113.
- Flood water surrounds the stone railroad Depot in Boulder, Colorado. Logs are washed up on a rise by a wooden shed, and rail tracks show in the foreground. The Depot is a stone building with a gabled roof, bracketed eaves, and a cupola with a...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Depot and R.R. Street. No. 113.
- Flood water surrounds the stone railroad Depot in Boulder, Colorado. Logs are washed up on a rise by a wooden shed, and rail tracks show in the foreground. The Depot is a stone building with a gabled roof, bracketed eaves, and a cupola with a...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Flood June 10, 1897 Boulder, Colo.
- People sit and stand on a railroad bridge over flooding Boulder Creek in Boulder, Colorado. A Black man is in a suit and a fedora, and another man wears a uniform and a Civil War soldier's hat. People sit on the bank, and behind them are sheds,...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; African Americans--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1897
- J.B. Sturdevant [sic] (Rocky Mt. Joe) 1898
- Photographer J. B. Sturtevant, nicknamed "Rocky Mountain Joe," stands near a large camera tripod in front of a studio backdrop painted with a landscape scene. Sturtevant, born in Boston, Massachusetts, became the first regular photographer in...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Photographers--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Photographic apparatus & supplies--1890-1900.; Photographic studios--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Studio props--1890-1900.; Sturtevant, J. Bevier (Joseph Bevier),...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- 19th St. looking east no. 122
- Water washes down 19th (Nineteenth) Street in Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County. Debris and garbage float on top of the water. A lone wood-frame residence is nearly covered by water.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- R. R. Bridge at 6th St. No 121
- The timbers supporting the railroad bridge have been washed away by the flood of 1894 in Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County at 6th (Sixth Street). The tracks sag above the swollen river. Men stand on either side of the bridge, as well as on the...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- From depot looking south No. 112
- Stacked lumber is on high ground surrounded by flood water in Boulder, Colorado. Cut logs are scattered in the water, and a board deck and small shed are in the foreground. A wooden wall contains a gravel pile with a wheelbarrow on it, and a...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Looking east from 7th st. No. 117
- Railroad tracks in Boulder, Colorado, are broken away from their ties and cluttered with flood debris. Water and trees are in the background.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Looking W. from top of flour mill. No. 125
- Freight cars and a frame railroad shed are surrounded by flood water in Boulder, Colorado. People stand on the washed out street ends at both sides of the floodplain. A frame dwelling among trees has been dislodged from its foundation, and a...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- First ground broke [sic] for street car line
- Men pose beside mules, horses, and a dog on probably College Avenue on University Hill in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Mules and horses are harnessed to probably grading equipment for a street car track line. Shows brick Victorian houses and...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Construction workers--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Construction--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Graders (Earthmoving machinery)--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.;...
- 1899 March 3
- Arts and Sciences members of '98
- Graduating Arts and Sciences students (class of 1898) at the University of Colorado at Boulder in formal attire are identified as: Front row (l-r): Edith Williams (Mrs. John Bunyan), James R. Hubbard, Elinor Wise (Mrs. C. Field Clay), Beulah...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Graduation ceremonies--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Students--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; University of Colorado (Boulder Campus)
- 1898
- Chautauqua Auditorium
- View of the frame Chautauqua Auditorium building in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. The building has open sides and square towers with hipped roofs. Canvas tents are set up near the auditorium. Shows mountains and The Flatirons in the distance.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1898 and 1899]
- Colorado Sanitarium
- View of the Colorado Sanitarium or "The Place Sanitarium" in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Architectural features of the Victorian building include: gables, shingle siding, arched windows, and wrap-around porches. A horse drawn carriage is at...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; People--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Colorado Sanitarium
- View of the Colorado Sanitarium or "The Place Sanitarium" in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Architectural features of the Victorian buildings include: gables, shingle siding, arched windows, and wrap-around porches. Horse drawn carriages are...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Colorado Sanitarium
- View of the Colorado Sanitarium or "The Place Sanitarium" in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Architectural features of the Victorian buildings include: gables, shingle siding, arched windows, and wrap-around porches.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Peddler of dry goods
- View of a horse drawn merchant's wagon and driver in Boulder, Colorado. A brick house is in the background.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Peddlers--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Transportation--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1890
- C & S passenger depot Boulder built in the 90's
- View of the sandstone train depot in Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County on the tracks of the Colorado & Southern Railroad. Architectural features: a hipped roof, a cupola, a finial, chimneys, and a bay with a bell-shaped roof. Signs: "Denver 29...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- East from 16th Street
- A river of water flows down 16th (Sixteenth) Street during the flood of 1894 in Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County. People stand inside of the house shaded by trees on the edge of the slope of the river. Trees are visible on the horizon.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Looking down Water Street from 12th
- Men inspect the flooded trolley tracks along Water Street in Boulder, Colorado, in Boulder County. The street is covered with wet silt. Debris, including lumber, branches, and other garbage litters the street.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Street railroads--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- June 12, 1894
- Narrow gage engine
- Flooding in Boulder, Colorado, has a narrow-gage engine half submerged, its full coal bin reading: "155," and its front end under water almost to the stack. Residences are on high ground with foothills behind them in the background, and railroad...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- June 1, 1894
- Railroad and swinging foot bridge
- Flood damage, in Boulder, Colorado, consists here of a railroad bridge sagging without piers. People sit atop the remaining secure part of the structure, and walk on a swinging footbridge extending out of the picture. Dwellings and foothills are in...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- June 1, 1894
- Flood in Boulder, Colorado
- Flood water fills the scene in Boulder, Colorado. The flat roofed extension of a brick house is partly caved in, and trees and fence edge the floodplain. The Mount Saint Gertrude Academy is on high ground further back, with the Flatirons behind it.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897?]
- 9th Street
- Flood water and debris in Boulder, Colorado, have moved a two- story frame and brick building off of its foundation. Trees, power, and light poles withstand the torrent, as does a sign reading: "Look out for the cars." On the far bank, a two-story...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- June 1, 1894
- 15th & Mapleton Mrs. Norton
- Posing on the boardwalk in her yard in Boulder, Colorado, this woman wears a white bonnet and shawl. A spinning wheel is in the foreground; fenced gardens, trees, and frame residences are in the background, including one with bargeboard.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Boulder Milling & Elevator Company
- Mill buildings in Boulder, Colorado, are of brick and corrugated tin, and have gable, flat, mansard (with dormers), or monitor roofs. Full burlap sacks, brooms, and bales of straw are on the wooden dock, fronted by bare trees with stumps painted...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Chautauqua
- Flags top the three-story turrets of Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado. The second floor deck is on piers, and the dining hall, with portico and entry steps, is nearby. White canvas tents are in the adjacent field, and the Flatirons rise...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1898 and 1900?]
- CU Hale Bldg
- Completed in 1894, the Hale science building at the University of Colorado at Boulder is a five-story structure of random coursed, local rusticated sandstone, with a high gabled-roof, projecting dormers, and a square tower housing the entry. Young...
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus); Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900?]
- Flour mill
- Wooden beams, drive belts, and hanging lamps with frosted glass shades borne on curving rods fill the interior of the Boulder Milling and Elevator Company in Boulder, Colorado. Metal sifting cabinets with hoppers and flywheels are against the...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- In rear of the camera
- Shingles and a chimney top this gable-roofed salt-box in Boulder, Colorado. A woman in a white dress is in the open screen door; a sign reads: "Rocky Mountain Views 5 for $1.00." Rectangular frames lean on the clapboard wall under a sash window,...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Photography stores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1895?]
- Interior Brown mercantile company, 1409 Pearl
- Hardwood shelves of crockery and tins line interior walls of this mercantile in Boulder, Colorado. Stacked, wood tables are crowded with canning jars, dinnerware, and cooking utensils. Tin buckets and lamps hang from the ceiling; crates in the...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Men--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895?]
- Interior of Fonda drug store
- Hardwood cabinets filled with apothecary bottles, jars, tins, and cannisters line the interior walls of Fonda's Pioneer Drug Store in Boulder, Colorado. Men pose in the store. Eben G. Fine pours liquid from a glass beaker into a glass container....
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Fine, Eben G.; Fonda's Pioneer Drug Store.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Poley drug store, Howard's resturant location [sic]
- Ornate hardwood cabinetwork finishes the interior of this business in Boulder, Colorado, filled with apothecary jars, bottles, and cannisters. Cigar boxes in curved glass display cases and a scale top the counter, and whisk brooms hang from it....
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- The Cabinet Janes and Sturtevant
- Cabinetcards in frames are on the wall of this flat-roofed plank shed in Boulder, Colorado. Rectangular photoplates lean against the wall and a woman stands in the door. Men and boys pose in the area, on the boardwalk. A gable roofed brick building...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Photography stores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1895?]
- Whitney drug store
- Ornate spandrels top colonettes between windows of this storefront in Boulder, Colorado. A beaded mortar and pestle in the foreground tops a pole, and men posing on the sidewalk are dapper in their suits, gold chains and bowlers. Adjacent steps...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Yount mill at mouth of Boulder [canyon], operated by water power
- Built on the sloping bank of Boulder Creek, this gambrel-roofed frame flour mill, operated by water power, in Boulder, Colorado, is supported at the end by piers. A horse and wagon are in the foreground, and a frame residence with an open porch is...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Mr and Mrs Charles S Turner in their plumbing store at 1125 Pearl
- Wallpaper and wainscoting finish the interior of this business in Boulder, Colorado. Charles Turner leans on a roll-top desk where Mrs. Turner sits, in a puff sleeved dress with a bow at the waist. An Italian revival chair is by the hardwood and...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Offices--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Plumbing fixtures--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1898