Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 3, 1910 January 15
- Morey Musings
- Booklet of poetry written by students of the Morey Junior High School
- Morey Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); School prose, American--Colorado--Denver.; Schools--Colorado--Denver.
- 1934
- The Good Old Days: Grigsby Family History
- Intensive document covering the Grisby family history starting in the early 1870's in Iowa.
- 2012 June 20
- Denver Building Permits File, 1906-1914
- Building permits--Colorado--Denver.
- 1998
- Chestnut St. from Harrison St., Leadville, Colo. "ex-horse car route"
- View west on Chestnut Street from Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado. A tall "Conoco" sign, gas pumps and crushed automobiles are on the right corner and a "Motel" is on the left corner. Wood frame residences with rooves of composite shingles,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Churches--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Hospitals--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Mountains--Colorado--1970-1980.; Residential...
- 1978
- Chestnut St. from Harrison St., Leadville, Colo.
- This view west on Chestnut Street from Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado includes crushed automobiles, a van and a wrecker on the north corner. A sign for "Motel, steam heat, TV, wall to wall carpeting" lays on the south corner. The street is...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Churches--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Hospitals--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Residential streets--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.
- 1978
- Jesse McDonald's home on W. 7th St.
- This view of Jesse McDonald's home on West Seventh Street in Leadville, Colorado shows a large two-story clapboard structure with multi- gabled roofs, decorative fish-scale shingles, a front porch, brick chimneys, several large one sash and transom...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1968
- House in Leadville, Colorado
- View of a two story house in Leadville, Colorado shows the original clapboard siding covered with composite siding. There is decorative front gable trim with turned finials, three second-story windows with front gable overhangs, an arched attic...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1962
- Gabled house in Leadville
- This angled side view of a two story front gable house in Leadville, Colorado shows the original clapboard siding covered with composite siding, three second-story windows with front gable overhangs and decorative brackets, an arched attic window,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.
- 1962
- Three houses in Leadville
- View of three wood frame houses on West Fourth Street in Leadville, Colorado. In the right foreground is a close-up of a small L- shaped house with a front gable and intersecting side gable. The corner front porch has turned posts, a spindle frieze...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1962
- Chicago Rock Island & Pacific locomotive
- Composite view of Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway locomotive number 1202 and railroad tracks.
- Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company--1900-1910.; Railroad locomotives--1900-1910.; Railroad tracks--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Moccasin Bend
- Composite image of an area identified as Moccasin Bend west of Chattanooga (Hamilton County), Tennessee. Shows the tree lined banks of the Tennessee River and agricultural fields. Moccasin Bend, a Native American burial ground is in the distance.
- Hamilton County (Tenn.)--1880-1910.; Moccasin Bend (Tenn.)--1880-1910.; Tennessee River--1880-1910.; Croplands--Tennessee--Hamilton County--1880-1910.; Rivers--Tennessee--Hamilton County--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Denver Juvenile Court - 7 pictures of boys center - "Charles McCallistor? Juvenile Court Services"
- Composite of seven photographs shows boys in Denver, Colorado, and a man (Charles McCallistor?) in a uniform with a hat reading: "Juvenile Court." The background of one image includes the Pioneer Monument.
- Juvenile courts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Juvenile Court - 7 pictures
- Composite of seven photographs shows boys in Denver, Colorado; titles read: "No School For Me," "Street Arab," "Looking For A Job," "Contentment," "Innocent Amusement," "Looking Into The Future," and "Playing Truant." One boy wears a jacket with a...
- Juvenile courts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Juvenile Court - boys sent to Ft. Lupton beet fields
- Composite of two photographs shows boys at Fort Lupton (Weld County), Colorado, working in beet fields and standing in a canvas tent.
- Fort Lupton (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Beets--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Juvenile Court - boys in beet fields at Ft. Lupton
- Composite of two photographs shows boys at Fort Lupton (Weld County), Colorado, working in beet fields and posing by a canvas tent. They hold hoes and wear bib overalls and hats; men look on.
- Fort Lupton (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Beets--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Denver Juvenile Court - juvenile detention facility
- Composite of five photographs shows exterior and interior views of the Detention Home School at 2844 Downing Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, and a group of boys. Captions read: "Sitting Room," "Dining Room," "Juvenile...
- Detention Home School (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Denver Juvenile Court - "Children of the slums after first bath by Juvenile Court"
- Composite of five photographs shows boys and girls in custody of the Denver Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado, posing.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Girls--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Reformatories--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Truants - types - first boys in detention home
- Composite of two photographs shows boys in custody of the Denver Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado, posing.
- Juvenile courts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Boy's Home
- Composite of seven photographs shows boys in custody of the Denver Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado, posing in uniforms.
- Juvenile courts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Gangs
- Composite of eight photographs shows boys in custody of the Denver Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado, posing.
- Juvenile courts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Boy's Home
- Composite of two photographs shows boys in custody of the Denver Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado, posing in uniforms.
- Juvenile courts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Graduation composite
- Montage of Rifle High School students in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado; they wear marcel hairstyles and are identified as: "1. William Coney, 2. Russell McDaniels, 3. Elizabeth Casey, 4. Leo Wells, 5. Zoe Marshall, 6. Lafe Butler, 7. Mattie...
- Students--Colorado--Rifle--1920-1930.
- 1928
- Rifle Falls Ranch composite A. L. Zerbe, prop.
- Photomontage of scenes in the Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado area; shows the Rifle Falls, the waterfalls in ice, hunters with deer carcasses, Rifle Gap cliffs, a log bridge, a lynx, people, and the Zerbe Ranch Hotel. Labels read: "Open June 1....
- East Rifle Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Rifle Falls (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Trappers Lake (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Zerbe's Ranch composite
- Photomontage of scenes in the Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado area; shows the Falls, the waterfalls in ice, hunters with deer carcasses, Rifle Gap cliffs, a log bridge, a lynx, people, and the Zerbe Ranch Hotel. Labels read: "Open June 1. Good...
- East Rifle Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Rifle Falls (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1910.; Ranches--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1910.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Portrait of a woman
- Montage of studio portraits of a woman in Colorado. She wears a dress and lace scarf.
- Women--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Winfield & Hodges, 366 Larimer Street, Denver, Colorado
- Composite photograph shows a man in a horse drawn wagon with letters: "F. Winfield," and oversized potatoes.
- Winfield & Hodges--Buildings--1860-1880.; Denver (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Denver--1860-1880.; Horses--Colorado--Denver--1860-1880.; Potatoes--Colorado--Denver--1860-1880.
- [between 1869 and 1879]
- Colorado & Southern and Denver, Laramie & Northern event
- Panoramic view shows well dressed men and women, and railroad employees, posed by locomotives, a steam shovel, tenders, boxcars, passenger coaches, flat cars and gondola cars at Utah Junction (near Pecos Street and Cargill Drive) (Adams County),...
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1900-1910.; Adams County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Passengers--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; People--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Railroad cars--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Railroad...
- [May 1908?]
- Colorado & Southern and Denver, Laramie & Northern event
- Men, one with a shovel, pose near flat cars filled with dirt at Utah Junction, near Pecos Street and Cargill Drive, in Adams County, Colorado. A railroad gondola car, a flatcar with crates, passenger cars, and freight cars are in the distance....
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1900-1910.; Passengers--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Railroad passenger cars--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Denver, Laramie, and Northwestern...
- [May 1908?]
- Mount Rosalie
- View of snow-covered Mount Evans, (Mount Rosalie), from Denver, Colorado. Shows a rusticated stone church, telegraph poles and frame houses on the plain. Foothills are in the distance.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Evans, Mount (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Mountains--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Steel, in the black breath of this great steel mill
- A composite photograph of steelworkers at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Pueblo, Colorado, a steel and iron manufacturing plant; shows a male worker holding a mallet and another a "tipping" rod, blast furnace, stoves, and smokestacks.
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Steel industry--Colorado--Pueblo--1950-1970.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
- [between 1950 and 1970?]
- Scene along Taos Street, Georgetown, Colorado, from site of the McClellan Opera House, Alpine Hose Company tower in backyard
- View southwest along Taos Street, Georgetown, Colorado. The white paint of Alpine Hose Company Tower contrasts the background evergreens, red and gray rocky slopes of Leavenworth, Republican and Pendleton Mountains. Also with the dilapidated false...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.
- [1948?]
- Western History Subject Index
- COLORADO. ECONOMICS
- Views of the Colorado Midland Railway
- A composite of scenes from the Colorado Midland Railroad route shows landscapes of Cascade (El Paso County), Pike's Peak and the Gateway from the Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs), Buena Vista and the Arkansas Valley (Chaffee County), the Loop...
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1880-1890.; Buena Vista (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cascade (El Paso County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gate Rock (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ivanhoe Lake...
- [between 1887 and 1890?]
- 1927 Senate, 26th General Assembly, State of Colorado
- Composite of studio portraits of members of the 26th General Assembly of the Colorado State Senate. Identifications, center row, top to bottom: E.C. Abbey, G.M. Corlett, President, R.J. Weaver. Top row, left to right: A.E. Headlee, T.M. Hudson,...
- Colorado. General Assembly. Senate.--People--1920-1930.; Legislators--Colorado--1920-1930.
- 1927
- Colorado Senate
- Composite of studio portraits of twenty-nine members of the Colorado Senate of 1885. Identification: 13. Governor B.H. Eaton; 12. Liet.-Gov. Peter W. Breene, President of Senate; R. 18. Jas. Moynahan, President Pro Tem; 7. Geo. T. Clark; R. 1 Jas...
- Colorado. General Assembly. Senate.--People--1880-1890.; Legislators--Colorado--1880-1890.
- 1885
- Colorado College of Dental Surgery
- Composite photographs of individual photographs of dental surgeons from the Colorado College of Dental Surgery. Identifications, top row, left to right: L.A. Walker, G. Seeley. Second row: R.N. Culver, D.A. Richardson, Howard Chinn, H.W....
- Colorado College of Dental Surgery--People--1900-1910.; Dentists--Colorado--1900-1910.; Dentistry--Colorado--1900-1910.
- 1900 April
- Harry Rhoads with family
- Interior view shows a superimposed image of Harry Rhoads, the photographer, with his family: his wife Mrs. (Sade) Rhoads, daughters Harriet and Mary Elizabeth Rhoads, and his parents Harry Fisher and Addie Mellon Rhoads and others in front of a...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Families--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Photographers--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Rhoads, Addie Mellon.; Rhoads, Harriet.; Rhoads, Harry Fisher.; Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or...
- [1925?]
- P.R. Agency, S.D., bird eye view of P.R. Agency, S.D., looking west
- Bird's eye view west over the Native American Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, shows people on the main street, agency buildings including the boarding school on the far end, the Episcopal church, far left, water tank tower, and wall tents...
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Pine Ridge...
- 1891
- Colorado House of Representatives, Eighth General Assembly
- Individual images of the members of Colorado's House of Representatives left to right and top to bottom are: John F. Topping, Charles R. Allen, A.E. Bromley, A.P. Rittenhouse, Charles M. Campbell, Joe E. Reynolds, F.E. Castello, [Nat]han Eldodt,...
- Legislators--Colorado--1890-1900.; Colorado. General Assembly. House of Representatives--People--1890-1900.
- 1891
- A bull fight in Mexico
- Composite of three photos shows matadors and a bull ring in Mexico. People crowd bleachers; outfits include vests, kneepants, and capes.
- Bullfighters--Mexico--1890-1910.; Bullfighting--Mexico--1890-1910.; Spectators--Mexico--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Aroya, Colorado
- View of a weathered schoolhouse (?) in Aroya (also spelled Arroyo) Cheyenne County, Colorado; features a one-story hipped roof building with belltower, composite shingles, boarded up windows, and symmetrical end entrances; prickly pear cactus and...
- Aroya (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Schools--Colorado--Aroya--1980-1990.
- 1988
- Aroya, Colorado
- View of a dilapidated composite of structures in Aroya (also spelled Arroyo) Cheyenne County, Colorado; features a one-story small side gable building covered with a hipped roof canopy supported by a Y-shape post; lighthouse-like tower structure...
- Aroya (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Aroya--1980-1990.
- 1988
- International Trust Co. bldg., Denver
- Exterior view of International Trust Company building (17th & corner of California), Denver, Colorado; designed by architects & brothers William E. & Arthur A. Fisher, completed in 1912, International Trust Company merged with First National Bank...
- International Trust Company (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; City & town life--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Office buildings--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1912 and 1920]
- Dakota group - Sitting Bull, Curley, Gall, John Grass, Rain-in- the-Face, oval portraits, busts
- Composite of reprinted photographs of four Dakota Native Americans and one Crow Native American involved in Battle of Little Bighorn, plus view of monument at the Custer Battlefield; head and shoulders studio portraits, oval framed of Gall, John...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Portraits--1880-1890.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1880- 1890.; Curly.; Gall, ca. 1840-1894.; Rain in the Face, ca. 1835-1905.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [188-?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Denver. Museums. Denver Museum of natural history
- Western History Subject Index
- Denver. Police department. Identification
- Columbian Hotel, Trinidad, Colorado
- Interior view of woodwork in the Columbian Hotel, in Trinidad, Colorado. This is a corner detail of either a mantle or a barback, consisting of a column with a composite capital topped by projecting entablature. A beaded border finishes the smooth...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Woodwork--Colorado--Trinidad--1960-1980.; Columbian Hotel (Trinidad, Colo.)
- [between 1965 and 1980?]
- Illustrated supplement Pueblo Chieftain
- Composite view of buildings, churches, residences & industrial sites, Pueblo, Colorado; identified illustrations include: Pueblo Hardware Co. on Thatcher Block, Charles Henkel's residence, Ferd [sic] Barndollar's residence, Hobson Block building,...
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Illustrated Supplement Pueblo Chieftain
- Composite view of buildings, residences & industrial sites, Pueblo, Colorado; illustrations include: Farris Hotel (J. R. Farris), Pueblo County Court House, Fifth Avenue Hotel (G. M. Chilcott, owner), E. H. Martin & Co.'s real estate office,...
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]