Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 21, 1910 May 21
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 33, 1912 August 17
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 35, 1912 August 31
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 36, 1912 September 7
- 1907 Ballenger & Richards 35th Annual Denver City Directory
- 1893 Corbett & Ballenger's 21st Annual Denver City Directory
- Denver Building Permits File, 1906-1914
- Building permits--Colorado--Denver.
- 1998
- (New) Cardinal - 1942
- View of (New) Cardinal, Boulder County, Colorado; features a rutted road winding by gable roof buildings, two of board-and-batten construction, and the third with a corrugated metal roof; 1940s automobile parked further down the road.
- (New) Cardinal (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Fluorspar Mill, 4UR Ranch
- View of the abandoned Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine and mill on the 4UR ranch in Wagon Wheel Gap (Mineral County), Colorado. Shows a tailing pile, ore house and deteriorated wooden buildings. Corrugated metal buildings are next to the mill. Goose...
- 4UR Ranch (Wagon Wheel, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine (Mineral County, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Wagon Wheel Gap (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Abandoned mines.; Mills.; Ore industry.; 4UR Ranch (Wagon Wheel, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 2009
- Ajax Peak above Smuggler Mill @ Pandora
- View of the Smuggler Mill in Pandora (San Miguel County), Colorado. Shows a corrugated metal building with multipaned windows, a smokestack and a ventilator cupola. A road winds up Ajax Peak in the distance.
- Ajax Peak (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Pandora (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Pandora Mill (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mills--Colorado--Pandora--1940-1950.; Ore industry--Colorado--Pandora--1940-1950.
- 1949 May 28
- Alice post office
- A long log cabin with a corrugated sheet metal roof on Fall River in Alice, was a Clear Creek County, Colorado. The largest mining camp settled in the early 1880s in the valley below Saint (St.) Mary's Glacier. The cabin features a side gable,...
- Alice (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Post offices--Colorado--Alice--1890-1910.
- [between 1898 and 1904]
- Alice, Colorado, 1904, Mrs. Harper's cabin
- A long log cabin with a corrugated sheet metal roof on Fall River in Alice, Colorado was a post office in Clear Creek County. Once one of the largest mining camps in the valley below Saint (St.) Mary's Glacier, Alice was settled in the early 1880s....
- Alice (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Post offices--Colorado--Alice--1900-1910.
- [1904]
- Ore chute near Hancock
- View of the ore loading station for the Alley Belle Mine near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. The building has slipped and is tipped precariously over the dirt road. The station is a log building with truncated corrugated tin hip roofs. The...
- Alley Belle Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Hancock (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Hancock--1970-1980.; Building collapse--Colorado--Hancock--1970-1980.; Log buildings--Colorado--Hancock--1970-1980.; Mine...
- 1971
- Alley Belle Mine, Romley
- View of the ore loading station for the Alley Belle Mine near Romley (Chaffee County), Colorado. The building has slipped and is tipped precariously over the dirt road. The station is a log building with truncated corrugated tin hip roofs. The...
- Alley Belle Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Romley (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Abandoned buildings.; Mine buildings.; Building collapse.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Romley--Pictorial works.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Romley--Pictorial...
- 1988
- Romley
- View of the ore loading station for the Alley Belle Mine on Colorado Road 295, a dirt road near Romley (Chaffee County), Colorado. The station is a log building with truncated corrugated tin hip roofs and a wooden ore chute. Log buildings, one with...
- Allie Belle Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Romley (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Romley--1940-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Romley--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Romley--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950]
- WPCD, unpacking Hercules Powder
- A man with a hat unpacks boxes of "Hercules Powder" explosives, probably at the West Portal of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Continental Divide Tunnel) of the Colorado Big Thompson project in Grand County, Colorado. Shows the corrugated powder house...
- Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Employees--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Explosives--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Metal buildings--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Sheds--Colorado--Grand...
- [between 1940 and 1942?]
- West Port[al] CD shanking steel - blacksmith shop
- Interior view of a machine shop at the West Portal of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Continental Divide Tunnel) of the Colorado Big Thompson project in Grand County, Colorado. Men work in a corrugated steel shed.
- Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Machine shops--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- WPCD locomotives in yard
- View of the locomotive yard at the West Portal construction site of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Continental Divide Tunnel) of the Colorado Big Thompson project in Grand County, Colorado. Shows men, mine locomotives, corrugated sheds, power station, a...
- Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1942?]
- Arvada Flour Mill Museum, Colo.
- View of the Arvada Flour Mill Museum located at 5580 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, Colo. The 30-foot-tall wooden structure with corrugated metal siding was built to process wheat and then distribute the flour produced as "Arva-Pride." Built in...
- Arvada Flour Mill Museum (Arvada, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Flour mills--Colorado--Arvada--2010-2020.; Arvada (Colo.)--2010-2020.; Arvada Flour Mill Museum (Arvada, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Flour mills--Colorado--Arvada--Pictorial works.; Arvada...
- 2010
- Ashcroft, Summer, 1943 [graphic]
- View of a hewn log residence, Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado; features a board and corrugated metal roof with a pipe smoke stack and a leaning ladder; metal buckets, cans, wash tub, gold pan and wooden crates on a...
- Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
- 1943
- The Morrison house, official residence of Lord Mayor Fletcher, Ashville
- Lord Mayor Fletcher, two children and two men pose in front of his home in Ashville, Colorado. A man sits in a rocker with a Chinese Pug on his lap, another man wearing a sack jacket stands next to a small girl. A young boy stands in a pile of...
- Ashville (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Ashcroft--1870-1890.; Huts--Colorado--Ashcroft--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890]
- Old Depot Bailey, Denver South Park and Pacific
- The dilapidated, old Bailey train station is situated next to the rails of the Denver-South Park and Pacific railroad in Park County. The one-story, rectangular, clapboard structure has a side gable with a corrugated, tin roof that has pieces...
- Bailey (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Bailey--1930-1940.; Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Bakerville No. 252
- A mill, which appears to be under construction, in Bakerville, Colorado, in Clear Creek County is at the base of a hill. The Mill is a rectangular building with a gable and a corrugated tin roof. The front part of the structure is only framed. A...
- Bakerville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mills--Colorado--Bakerville--1870-1880.
- [about 1870?]
- Big Evans Gulch
- View of the exterior of dilapidated mining structures in Big Evans Gluch, northeast of Leadville, Colorado. Wood frame buildings include a front gable with porch and wooden stairs, attached two-story side gable with double-hung pane windows, and...
- Big Evans Gulch (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Lake County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Big Evans Gulch--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Rawley mine - Bonanza, Colo.
- A large group of miners pose in front of corrugated metal mining buildings at the Rawley mine, Bonanza (Saguache County), Colorado.
- Bonanza (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Rawley Mine (Bonanza, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Bonanza--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Bonanza--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Bonanza--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Thurmond concentration, Bonanza
- A man on a horse, along with another horse and a dog, is in front of a mill in Bonanza, Colorado (Saguache County). The wood-frame mill has multi-level gables, a roof of corrugated tin, and a smokestack. A smaller, wood-frame, gabled stucture is on...
- Bonanza (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Bonanza--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Headframe and shaft house at Boncarbo mine
- View of a head frame and shaft house at Boncarbo mine in Sarcillo Canyon (Las Animas County), Colorado. The shaft house is constructed from corrugated tin. The headframe is made from iron beams.
- Boncarbo Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Sarcillo Canyon (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1930-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Las Animas County--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Headframe and shaft house at Boncarbo mine
- A man identified as George Hughes poses near a headframe and shaft house at the Boncarbo mine in Sarcillo Canyon (Las Animas County), Colorado. The shaft house is constructed from corrugated tin. The headframe is made of iron beams. Hughes wears a...
- Boncarbo Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Sarcillo Canyon (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1930-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Las Animas County--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Draft Copy of Cemetery to Conservatory
- 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?]
- Tonopa shops
- In this view of the Tonopa machine shop in Breckenridge, Colorado, a four horse team and ore wagon stand in front of the corrugated tin and frame building. A man in the driver's seat holds the reins, and a whip stands lodged next to him. Two other...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.; Machine shops--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
- 1914
- Summit County Courthouse, Breckenridge, Colo 1910
- In this view of the Summit County Courthouse looking northwest, the two story brick building's hipped gable roof, a slightly projecting gabled entry, and a cupola with sash windows are visible. The lintels, sills, entablature and pendants are of...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- 1910
- Tonopa shops
- The Tonopa machine shop in Breckenridge, Colorado, some three hundred feet long, is a corrugated tin and frame structure with a monitor roof. A dock along the length of the building has snow on it; a large flywheel is half exposed above the ground...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Machine shops--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Brown Hotel, 1965
- The Brown Hotel in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a two story, frame structure with a hipped gable roof and a dormer in front. A two story bay window is on the right, and the covered porch in front has a projecting, mitred central section that leads to...
- Brown Hotel (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Breckenridge--1960-1970.
- [1965?]
- J. D. Miller and Bro. Meat Market
- Joe Miller, George H. Adams and Louis Miller stand on boardwalk under the J. D. Miller and Bro. Meat Market corrugated metal awning. The Miller brothers wear long white soiled butcher aprons. The building built by Professor Clark in 1880 is...
- Butchers--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.; Gunnison (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Meat industry--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.
- 1904
- J. D. Miller Meat Market
- Jacob D. Miller and another man, both in long white butcher aprons, stand on the boardwalk of his market, Main Street, Gunnison, Colorado. The one-story false front has a corrugated metal awning, and a "Meat Market" sign on top of the cornice.
- Butchers--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.; Gunnison (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Meat industry--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.; Miller, Jacob D.
- [between 1890 and 1896]
- Camp Bird mine ltd.
- Remains of a mill with corrugated sheet metal, stamp machinery and boilers, Camp Bird mine, Camp Bird, Ouray County, Colorado.
- Camp Bird (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1910.; Ruins--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Camp Nizhoni - unidentified girls
- Three African American campers peer out their second floor cabin window at Camp Nizhoni in Lincoln Hills (Gilpin County) Colorado. Their cabin is made of corrugated metal (iron) and wood.
- Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--Facilities--1930-1940.; African Americans--Colorado--Lincoln Hills--1930-1940.; Lincoln Hills (Colo.)--1930-1940.;...
- [between 1937 and 1938]
- Diamond Fire Brick Co.
- Facilities of the Diamond Fire Brick Company, in Canon City, Colorado, consist of a brick, frame, and corrugated tin gable roofed shop with a metal stack and guywires. Men stand in the doorway; another stoops among piles of dirt. The kiln is a...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Brick industry--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Rudd cabin, Canon City, Anson Spencer Rudd in doorway
- This hewn log cabin in Canon City, Colorado, has a corrugated tin roof, plank gable ends and remnants of white chinking. A man in a suit stands by the door; he has a medal on his lapel. A power pole is by the corner, and the roof and chimneys of...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1920.
- [betwen 1910 and 1920?]
- State prison at Canon City : damaged building at riot 1929
- Buildings at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, are smoke blackened after the riot of 1929. The corrugated metal roof of the stone, one-story bakery is torn apart, and firehose and debris are on the ground by the two-story stone cell...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Fires--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Prison riots--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1929
- Another view of Rudd cabin, now part of museum in Canon City
- This hewn log cabin in Canon City, Colorado, has a corrugated tin roof, a stone chimney, and boards over the window. Goosefoot weeds are in front.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Log cabins--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Voc. machine shop at medium security
- Inmates (one Black) at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, use metalworking machinery under hanging, shaded flourescent lights. Wheeled tool carts are among vise mounted tables; a gas heater is on the interior block wall. Corrugated...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Metalworking--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Central City
- A dilapidated building on Lawrence Street in Central City, Colorado. The portion of the building to the left has a clapboard, false storefront; the roof and the sides are of corrugated sheet metal. Two boarded up, rectangular-shaped windows are...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- McFarlane Foundry, Ja 13, 1966
- The McFarlane Foundry is located on upper Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado. The dilapidated building is constructed of wood and corrugated tin siding and covered with tar paper, which is peeling off the side wall. The building has...
- Central City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Foundries--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.; Ruins--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.
- 1966
- McFarlane Foundry, Ja 13, 1966
- A tree branch hanging in the foreground partially obscures the old McFarlane foundry building in Central City, Colorado. The one-story structure with a flat roof and a false front is constructed of stone and wood and sided with corrugated tin and...
- Central City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Foundries--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.; Ruins--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.
- 1966
- Only remaining cabin at Chihuahua
- View of the log cabin remains in Chihuahua, an old mining camp at southern base of Gray's peak, Summit County, Colorado; shows a side gable structure with tar paper and corrugated sheet metal roofing.
- Chihuahua (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Log cabins--Colorado--Chihuahua--1950-1960.
- July 1955
- History of Denver
- City Park Dairy
- View of City Park Dairy barn in, Denver, Colorado; shows a corrugated metal barn with gambrel roof and ventilators. Guernsey cows are in the yard; lettering reads: "The City Park Barn."
- City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Barns--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Cows--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Dairying--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1909 and 1920?]
- Cabin of a gold-mine owner overlooking Clear Creek Canon (E. N. E.) Colo.
- A gold miner poses with his dog in the doorway of his corrugated metal cabin overlooking Clear Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado.
- Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cabins--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]