Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Carson Indian School, Stewart, Nevada, "Ancient and lovely things awake from their dreams," a craft revival in Washoe Indian basketry
- A Native American Washoe (Washo) women sits and weaves a basket, a white man looks over finished baskets, Carson Indian School, Stewart, Nevada.
- Indians of North America--Nevada--Stewart--1930-1940.; Washo baskets--Nevada--Stewart--1930-1940.; Washo Indians--Arts & crafts--Nevada--Stewart--1930-1940.; Washo women--Nevada--Stewart--1930-1940.; Stewart (Nev.)--1930-1940.; Basket...
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- King Phillip
- Reproduction of a lithograph shows King Phillip, son of Massasoit, grand sachem of the east coast Native American Wampanoag, who lead bloody war 1675-1676 against the English colonists. He stands holding a rifle with a powder horn and tomahawk at...
- Indians of North America--1670-1690.; Wampanoag Indians--1670-1690.; King Phillip, Chief of Wampanoag Indians.
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- Englewood, Cherrelyn horse car at south end of line on South Broadway in Cherrelyn, Colorado
- View of the Cherrelyn Gravity and Broncho Street Railway car on its return trip downhill from Cherrelyn, (district incorporated into Englewood) Arapahoe County, Colorado, shows the horse on the rear platform and a wooden ramp board on the ground....
- Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Horse railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.
- 1902
- Industry mines on Red Mt.
- View of wood frame structures of the mining town of Guston, Ouray County, Colorado, on the slopes of the Red Mountains, near the Yankee Girl Mine.
- Guston (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Guston--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Longmont's Cornet Band serenading at Fourth and Kimbark.
- View of the Cornet Band in the intersection of Fourth (4th) Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont, Colorado, taken from upper a window of the old City Hall. Townspeople look on as the uniformed band plays in a circle formation with the bass and snare...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Band uniforms--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Bands--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Musical instruments--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- A Longmont, Colo. pumpkin pie day parade float
- A Pumpkin Pie Day Parade float pauses on a street, Longmont, Colorado. Hattie Secor, Martha Donova, Louise Boynton and Harriet Smith sit in the carriage elaborately decorated with flowers. They wear white dresses and hold parasols with ruffles....
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- The McKiernan store delivery rig
- William Laycook, driver, and Pete Fesler are on a delivery wagon along side of the "T Store, City Bakery," Fourth Avenue and Main Street, Longmont, Colorado. Dr. E. J. Clark stands under his sign in background. Other business signs read: "J. A. St....
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900.]
- Ruins of Masonic Temple fire
- View of the ruins of the Masonic Temple and nearby storefronts, Main Street, Longmont, Colorado. "The three story lodge building adjoined Dickens Opera House, shown at extreme right. Thomas Butler Hardware store did not burn, but collapse of Temple...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fires--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.
- 1905 February 13
- Patterson's Harness Shop, Longmont, Colo.
- Interior view of the James Patterson Harness Shop, Longmont, Colorado, shows "Jimmy" on the left and another man, both wearing overhalls at the rear to the shop filled with leather harnesses and assorted tack, bridles, horse collars, hames, whips...
- Patterson, James E.--Homes & haunts.; Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Interiors.; Leather industry--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.; Saddlery--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- St. Vrain Block, Longmont, Colorado east side of Main Street.
- "The St. Vrain Block was on the east side of Main Street, in 300 block. It housed the Chicago-Colorado Colony office, shown at left, the St. Vrain Hotel and offices. It burned to the ground in the fire of 1879. Byron L. Carr, lawyer, is shown...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.
- 1872
- A view of early Longmont taken from top floor of Farmer's Mill.
- View from Farmer's Mill over Longmont, Colorado, shows widely spaced one and two-story wood frame residences. "#1 is the old Denio mill on Bross street that burned about 1934. #2 is the G. M. Davis home, later moved and replaced by H. W. Balmer...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Houses--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880.]
- Shown at right is John Burbank a partner with William H. Dickens in the ice business.
- John Burbank, iceman, poses next to his horse-drawn wooden delivery wagon on 4th (Fourth) Avenue in Longmont (Boulder County) Colorado. Pinstriping is by ornate letters: "ICE," "St. Vrain Ice Co.," "Dickens & Burbank," and a polar bear.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Ice industry--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Burbank, John.
- [between 1880 and 1890.]
- Early Longmont, Colorado hose company drilling at Fourth & Coffman
- View of a Longmont fire department pulling a hose cart in the intersection of Fourth (4th) Avenue and Coffman Street, Colorado. The first schoolhouse building moved from Main Street serves as their fire station. Next door is the Quality Creamery...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- A Longmont hose company drilling in the 300 block of Main Street.
- View of a fire department pulling a hose cart on Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, shows the men posing in flexed postions wearing long underwear. They include McGann, Wilson, Horace Bunie, Metcalf, Henry Feittia, J. Grant. The Dickens Opera House...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910.]
- Unique barber pole in front of Longmont, Colo. shop on Main Street.
- Two barbers stand beside their barbershop pole in front of their shaving parlor, Main Street, Longmont, Colorado. The wooden pole is painted with a diamond pattern. The tall shop front window has lettering painted on the window: "Herb & L[ather?]...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Barbershops--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.
- [betweem 1880 and 1890.]
- View inside the Longmont Ledger office on Main Street, 400 block, west side.
- Charles Boynton, owner and editor, poses with two other men behind the counter of the Longmont Ledger office, Longmont, Colorado. The printing press of the weekly paper, drying racks, desks and type drawers show in the office.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Newspapers--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Boynton, Charles W.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Early Longmont Colorado home talent group, probably in Dickens Opera House
- A group of actors of various ages pose in costume on stage, probably at the Dickens Opera House, Longmont, Colorado. The center figures are of royalty, a king and queen, with guards holding halberds crossed above their heads. Young girls sit in...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Actors--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Theaters--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- The Emerson & Buckingham Bank, at Longmont, Colo.
- A man ties his horse-drawn carriage on front post of the Emerson and Buckingham Bank, Longmont, Colorado. "Opened in April 1871, this frame building, with living quarters upstairs, was in the 300 block of Main, on the west side of street. It was...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Banks--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1885]
- Farmer's Mill
- Men with their horse-drawn wagons full of sacks of grain or flour pose in front of Farmer's Mill, built 1886, on south Main Street, Longmont. The mill consists of a brick three-story building with low gable roof and arched windows with a tall grain...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Grain industry--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Mills--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.
- [betweem 1880 and 1890]
- Ledger office on Main Street, 400 block, west side
- Charles W. Boynton, editor of the Longmont Ledger, weekly paper, for 45 years until his death in 1926," poses with two other men in front of the printing office, Main Street, Longmont, Colorado. Longmont Fair signs hang in the large storefront...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Newspapers--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Boynton, Charles W.
- [1895]
- Library Hall & Longs Peak, Longmont, Colo. built in 1871 by C. C. Calkins and where the 1st male child, B. W. Calkins was born, in the City of Longmont.
- "Library Hall, the large building left center, was built in 1871, and served as Longmont's first school, town hall, library and community center. It was paid for and partly furnished by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, of New York, for whom the park, one...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Buildings--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.
- 1872
- Local talent at the Dickens Opera House Third and Main, Longmont, Colo.
- Performers Jim McLellan (left wearing a cowboy hat) and Bud Rowen (dressed as a woman) pose on stage at the Dickens Opera House, Longmont, Colorado. The stage curtain drop has a painting of a rocky coast line with crashing waves, surrounded by...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Actors--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Advertisements--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Theaters--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Early day grocery store at Lyons, Colo
- Interior view of a grocery store, Lyons, Colorado, operated by Major Small, far left, next to him is a small boy, Harry St. Clair, and other men unidentified. They pose a dog on a chair with a hat on its head and a pipe in its mouth. Merchandise...
- Lyons (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Dogs--Colorado--Lyons--1870-1880.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Lyons--1870-1880.; Interiors.; Small, Major.; St. Clair, Harry.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- Longmont's Main St. in horse and buggy days
- View taken from the top of Dickens Opera House, shows part of the 300 block, looking north on Main Street, Longmont, Colorado. The well tracked dirt street is busy with delivery wagons, buggies and pedestrians. Many of the brick commercial...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1905]
- Longmont's Main Street, 300 block, east side
- Early view of Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, includes the two- story Moore & Dell Hardware store, grocery stores and a horse-drawn delivery wagons.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1883]
- Longmont's Main Street, 400 block, from Fourth and Main intersection
- View from 4th Avenue of west Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, includes horse-drawn wagons with early automobiles in the commercial district. Signs read: "Gunning - Palmer, Ice Cream, Candies," "Art Theater," "Longmont Electric," "Carlton Rooms,"...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1910-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1925]
- Longmont, Colorado
- View of 400 block of Main Street, Longmont, looking southeast, includess the Odd Fellows Hall, built in 1907. Many of the commercial buildings have awnings. Early automobiles are on the dirt street lined with a tall wide concrete sidewalk.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1910-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Longmont, Colorado Main Street in winter during horse and buggy days, looking south from Fourth and Main intersection.
- View south from 4th Avenue of a snowcovered Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, includes a horse-drawn wagons, carriages, pedestrians, barbershop poles, and trees with snow-covered branches. Business signs read: "McFarland's Cash Store, Dry Goods,...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Looking south at the 300 block of Main Street, Longmont, Colo.
- View of a snowcovered Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, includes horse-drawn wagons and carriages parked diagonally in front of the commercial buildings. An advertising "Boot" hangs outside a clothing store.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1883]
- Looking southwest at the 300 block of Main Street, Longmont
- View past tall bare cottonwood trees along the 300 block of Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, includes, brick commercial buildings, horse- drawn wagons and carriages and bicycles. Board walkways bridge the dirt street and the raised concrete...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1910-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- West side of Main Street, Longmont, Colorado
- View of 300 block, west side of Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, includes the first Emerson & Buckingham Bank. Building replaced by brick structure about 1875. Farm machinery shows beside the "Furniture" store. A row of young trees is planted in...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.
- 1872