Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- The charter and ordinances of the city of Black Hawk, Colorado. : Including the names of the members of city council and city officers from organization to 1887, also various acts amending charter / Rev., comp., and codified by Edwin W. Hurlbut,...
- Municipal charter for the City of Blackhawk, Colorado.
- Blackhawk (Colo.)
- 1881
- 1884 Corbett & Ballenger's 12th Annual Denver City Directory.
- 1873 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s Directory of the City of Denver for 1873 Volume 1
- Harrison St., Leadville
- Looking north on Harrison Street in Leadville, Colorado is a view of horse drawn wagons and carriages in the street, pedestrians along the boardwalks, and a group of men, one with a burro, in the middle of the street. False front businesses line...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [1879]
- Herman Hauser's jewelry store, Chestnut St., about 1880-1882
- View of businesses on Chestnut Avenue in Leadville, Colorado; shows storefront windows and signs: "Watchmaker & Jeweler," "Leadville Loan Office," "Stratton & Mead, Mining Engineers and Surveyors," "S.M. Newcomb, Assayer" and "Jolin Headquarters,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Jewelry stores--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Hauser, Herman.; Hauser, Irving.
- [between 1880 and 1882]
- Chestnut St. from Harrison Avenue, Leadville
- This early view of a busy dirt Chestnut Street in Leadville, Colorado includes horse drawn carriages, wagons loaded with goods, horses in the street, pedestrians on the boardwalks, and telephone or telegraph poles with handbills on the left. A two...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Office of W.H. Rose, Civil Engineer and Surveyor
- View of the exterior of W.H. Rose's office, in Leadville, Colorado. Rose was a civil engineer and surveyor. The small front gabled structure with board and batten construction has a panel entry door with "92" on the jamb and a sash pane window....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Offices--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Rose, W. H.
- [between 1879 and 1880]
- Leadville saloon
- Interior view of (possibly) Hyman's Saloon in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado; shows well dressed men, a bar, and a carved wood barback. Decor includes a punch bowl, frosted chip glass, swinging doors, liquor bottles, and taxidermy mounted deer...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bars--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1883 and 1889]
- Tabor Opera House, Leadville
- Exterior view of the Tabor Opera House, front facade, 308 Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado.
- Tabor Opera House--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Opera houses--1950-1960.
- [between 1955 and 1960]
- Herman Hauser's jewelry store on Harrison Ave
- View of businesses on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado; men pose in front of storefronts with display windows and signs: "John F. Humphrey's & Co. Real Estate & Mining Agents," "Hauser the Jeweler," and "Saddle Rock Restaurant, 417."
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Jewelry stores--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Restaurants--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1882]
- State street
- View west from Harrison Avenue down Leadville, Colorado's State Street (later Second Street.) Businesses include "Little Pittsburg Beer Hall," "Theater Comique," "St. James Restaurant," "A.M. Jane, Commission Merchant," "Odeon," "Occidental...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Brothels--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Gambling--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Western History Subject Index
- Farmington, New Mexico
- Western History Subject Index
- Andersen, Herbert
- Western History Subject Index
- Beam, James distilling company
- Western History Subject Index
- Bottles
- Carbonate Hill
- This view southeast towards a Carbonate Hill covered with mines in Leadville, Colorado, includes a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, a few brick and false front commercial structures. Business signs include "Democrat,"...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [1879?]
- 1874 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 2nd Annual Denver City directory
- 1875 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 3rd Annual Denver City directory
- 1876 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 4th Annual Denver City directory
- 1877 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 5th Annual Denver City directory
- 1878 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 6th Annual Denver City directory
- 1879 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 7th Annual Denver City directory
- 1880 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 8th Annual Denver City directory
- 1881 Corbett & Ballenger's 9th Annual Denver City Directory.
- 1882 Corbett & Ballenger's 10th Annual Denver City Directory.
- 1883 Corbett & Ballenger's 11th Annual Denver City Directory.
- 1885 Corbett & Ballenger's 13th Annual Denver City Directory.
- 1886 Corbett & Ballenger's 14th Annual Denver City Directory.
- Todd Boarding House, north west over the hill from Caribou, 1953
- View of the remains of the Todd Boarding House near Caribou, a Boulder County mining town, Colorado, shows a sagging gabled structure with missing shingles, and much of the clapboard siding; evergreens and Bald Mountain show in background.
- Caribou (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Remains of Caribou, 1953
- View of the remains of Caribou, a Boulder County mining town, Colorado, includes dilapidated log and wood frame structures. Some have sucken in gable roofs, one has a low arched roof. A two-door convertible automoble parks at the Y in a gravel road.
- Caribou (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Caribou cemetery fenced 1953
- A woman in a dress walks behind a barbwire fence around Caribou Cemetery northwest of town, Boulder County, Colorado. A few gravestone markers remain; one has a iron fence around the plot. Evergreens and Bald Mountain show in background.
- Caribou (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Caribou--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Post Office, new Opera House in corse [sic] of erection, Opera House, Claredon Hotel
- This view south on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado shows a dirt street lined with wood frame false fronts and telegraph or telephone poles. The street is busy with horse-drawn flatbed and covered wagons in the road and pedestrians on...
- Tabor Opera House--1870-1880.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Building construction--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [1879]
- Leadville from Capitol Hill
- View from Capitol Hill across Leadville, Colorado shows a booming town filled with log and wood frame houses, lean-tos, sheds and barns, and some canvas tents. There is a make-shift corral, a horse and a long tent in the foreground.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Log cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- 1879
- Leadville from Carbonate Hill
- View northwest from Carbonate Hill across Leadville, Colorado includes a foreground filled with downed trees and stumps and buildings with log and wood frame construction. Gabled roofs and false fronts are on a majority of buildings in the booming...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mountains--Colorado--1870-1880.
- 1879
- N. part of city [graphic]
- View north across Leadville, Colorado shows a booming town filled with log, board and batten and other wood frame constructed houses, lean-tos, false fronts, sheds, barns and outhouses. Horace A.W. Tabor's house on Carbonate Avenue (East 5th...
- Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, 1830-1899--Homes & haunts--1870-1880.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [1879?]
- Telephone building looking up main st.
- Exterior view of a two-story brick building on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Main Street (renamed West 3rd (Third) Street) in Leadville, Colorado. Built in 1879, the building features a bracketed cornice, tall storefronts with double doors,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1890.
- [between 1879 and 1884]
- 3 weeks ago, opposite is my store, hotel before ocupation [sic] [graphic]
- Exterior view of the two-story Hotel Windsor in Leadville, Colorado shows a false front with bracketed cornice, clapboard siding, four storefronts with double door entries and multi-pane windows and three second-story sash windows above each store....
- Hotel Windsor (Leadville, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [between 1879 and 1880]
- Leadville pack train
- In this view of a Leadville, Colorado commercial street, the dirt street is busy with with men on horseback and hairy burros loaded with goods. Several wood frame commercial buildings and a framed building under construction are in the background....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Donkeys--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Leadville
- This view from Chicken Hill, northwest across Leadville, Colorado, shows a town filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, mining operations and brick commercial and public structures. Landmarks include the Church of the Annunciation, and the...
- Church of the Annunciation (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- Southwest on Champa Street, at 14th Street, during Knights Templar 32nd Triennial Conclave
- Night view of the illumintated archway on Champa Street and Fourteenth, for the Knights Templar 32nd Triennial Conclave, Denver, Colorado. "Electric sunset and Mt. (Mount) of the Holy Cross. Over 60,000 candle power required to illuminate this...
- Knights Templar (Masonic Order)--Commemoration--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Arches--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Electric signs--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.;...
- 1913 August 12 - 15
- 1700 block on California Street looking northeast at night
- Night view northeast along 1700 block of California Street, Denver, Colorado, shows wet pavement with a Knights Templar Conclave sign illuminated on an archway: "In Hoc Signo Vinces;" part of the decorations for the thirty-second Triennial...
- Knights Templar (Masonic Order)--Commemoration--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Electric signs--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Festive decorations--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- 1913 August 12 - 15
- Telluride
- View southeast over snow-covered Telluride, Colorado, with Ballard Mountain and San Juans in background; shows one and two-story wood frame vernacular houses, and barns and sheds with predominately front gables. Landmark buildings include:...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1910]
- Moving day
- Man and woman on horseback with possessions loaded on two pack horses on Columbia Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. Man in jacket and hat has rope tied to pack animals on left; woman on right has long skirt, short jacket, hat and handbag. One pack horse...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Pack animals--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900]
- Telluride Colorado
- View north over west end of Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; shows San Juans with light snow and Cornet Falls in background, wood-frame vernacular houses, barns and sheds with predominately front gables, dirt Townsend and Colorado Avenues...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1901]
- Main Street, Telluride, Colo.
- View east down wide dirt Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado; Ajax, Telluride and Ingram Peaks with light snow and Ingram Falls are in background. Identifiable buildings include: painted brick San Miguel County...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- San Miguel Examiner
- Exterior view of San Miguel Examiner Printing, Telluride, Colorado, one of Tellride's early newspaper and printing offices (the newspaper was published weekly from 1897 to 1929). The false-front building has double-door entry flanked by large four...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.; Newspapers--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1924?]
- Students in front of old schoolhouse
- Group of students pose in front of the old schoolhouse at the corner of Columbia and Townsend Avenues, Telluride, Colorado. Girls wear dresses with hemlines just below their knees; some boys wear suits. Back row: Glenn (Babe) Hopkins, Albert Homer,...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.
- [1920?]
- Telluride business
- Group of three men in suits and ties, three women in long dresses, and two children pose on wooden stair platform outside two-story brick apartment building, Telluride, Colorado. Building has lace curtains in sash with transom windows, open double...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- Leadville
- This view from Carbonate Hill northwest across Leadville, Colorado, includes wood frame residences, the Tabor Opera House, the old Lake County Courthouse, the Vendome Hotel, and the old high school. Crushers, smelters with smokestacks, and mine...
- Tabor Opera House--1900-1910.; Vendome Hotel--1900-1910.; Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [1905?]
- Leadville
- View from Carbonate Hill northwest across Leadville, Colorado, includes wood frame residences, the old High School, the Annunciation Church, the Ninth Street School, the Colorado and Southern Railroad depot and yards, and crushers, smelters with...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [1905?]