The daughters of Pauline Gallegos Chavez pose outdoors for a portrait probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. They are identified, (left to right): Teenagers, Racheal Chavez and Helen Chavez; Ida Chavez, who holds a dog; and Lucy Chavez and Emma...
Mexican Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Women.; Girls.; Teenagers.; Families.; Interiors.; Chavez, Pauline Gallegos, 1887-1986--Family--Pictorial works.; Chavez...
View of the Bent County Courthouse at 725 Carson Street in Las Animas (Bent County), Colorado. The two-story red brick courthouse with Romanesque details has a hip roof, central clock tower, pilasters, pillars, corner towers with semicircular...
Bent County Courthouse (Las Animas, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Las Animas (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Courthouses.; Historic buildings.; Bent County Courthouse (Las Animas, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Courthouses--Colorado--Las Animas--Pictorial works.; Historic...
View of Pat's Cafe at 514 Bent Avenue in Las Animas (Bent County), Colorado. The two story, plastered brick, commercial style building has two large windows on the first floor surrounded by faux stone. The building has a cornice with a pediment in...
Hispanic American María Salomé Córdova sits in a chair and spins yarn in her yard in Hoehne (Las Animas County), Colorado. She holds a wood spindle in one hand and the wool in the other. The spindle rests in a wood bowl in her lap. The...
View of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coal camp of Engle in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows company housing, industrial mining buildings, a powerhouse, and a water tower. Fishers Peak is in the distance.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1870-1930.; Mining camps--Colorado--Las Animas County--1870-1930.; Engle Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1870-1930.; Fishers Peak (Colo.)--1870-1930.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1870-1930.; Coal...
Men stand outside businesses on a street in probably Las Animas (later covered by John Martin Reservoir) near the present day Las Animas (Bent County), Colorado. Shows false front frame buildings and signs that read: "G.M. Woodworth's Livery...
Las Animas (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Las Animas--1870-1890.
A woman and her three children, the family of a coal miner, pose near their home probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. The woman holds a baby in her arms and leans on a fence constructed from sticks. Two young girls, one with a shaved head,...
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Adobe houses--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mothers & children--Colorado--Las Animas...
A woman poses with a group of children near a house in a coal camp probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. The woman wears a blouse with a ruffle and puffy sleeves. Some of the children hold pets including dogs, cats, and rabbits. The house is a...
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Children--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Families--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.;...
A woman and child stand on the porch of a house in a mining camp probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. The woman wears a loose fitting calico dress. The boy wears a light colored shirt and cap. The house is made from planks. Screen is tacked to...
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mothers & children--Colorado--Las Animas...
Workers with shovels and rakes stand near a row of coke ovens in an unidentified coal camp probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. Some men stand and sit on train cars loaded with coal. Smoke rises from the ovens.
Striking coal miners and their families pose near Joe Zanetell's tent during the UMW labor strike against CF & I. at Forbes Camp near Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado The people are identified (left to right) as: 1) an unidentified man, 2)...
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Strikes--1910-1920.; United Mine Workers of America--Strikes--1910-1920.; Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Children--Colorado--Las Animas County--1910-1920.; Miners'...
Striking coal miners and family at Forbes Camp, Las Animas County, Colorado during the UMW labor strike against CF&I. Shows tents with Joe Zanatell between the two Prescot boys, Mrs. Mosei, and Emma Zanatell's sister with baby.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Strikes--1910-1920.; United Mine Workers of America--Strikes--1910-1920.; Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Children--Colorado--Las Animas County--1910-1920.; Miners'...
View of a large church with a cross between two steeples faces a wide dirt road in Las Vegas, New Mexico; shows a dark cross to the right of the main entrance and a wood fence borders a row of trees with bare branches in front of the church.
A horse is tied to a post in front of the El Corona Saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The words "Beer, Fine Cigars and Pool" are painted on the side of the building. The upstairs porch is enclosed by a wood railing. A smaller balcony is on the roof.
A construction crew puts down probably water lines under Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railroad track near the corner of Railroad Avenue and Lincoln in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Several storefronts face the dirt road, including "Toms Shop and Bath Room,"...
Las Vegas (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Commercial facilities--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Commercial streets--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Railroad construction & maintenance--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Pipes (Conduits)--New Mexico--Las...
View of the plaza in Las Vegas (San Miguel County), New Mexico. Shows adobe buildings and houses, a log buildings and the four story Rumaldo Baca residence (known locally as Baca's Folly); the building had rooms for stores and offices. The building...
View of the plaza in Las Vegas (San Miguel County), New Mexico. People pose in front of the adobe buildings, one with a false brick front. Two of the buildings have portals with Territorial style posts and window frames. Horse-drawn covered wagons,...
Coal miners Eloy Cruz (left) and his brother-in-law Leandro Vigil pose near the entrance to the Frederick Mine in Valdez (Las Animas County), Colorado. Eloy wears a jacket, a cap with a battery operated lantern, safety boots and holds a bucket and...
Hispanic Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Frederick Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Coal miners.; Cruz, Eloy--Pictorial works.; Vigil, Leandro--Pictorial...
Rails lead into a mine probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. A coal car sits by the entrance. The sloping side of the hill is reinforced by cut logs.
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1880-1910.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Las Animas County--1880-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1880-1910.; Retaining walls--Colorado--Las Animas...
View of the main street in the town of Las Animas (Bent County), Colorado. Shows wood frame buildings including the "People's Hotel" and the "Merchant's Hotel." Horses and covered wagons are on the dirt road. A sign on one of the shops reads...
Las Animas (Colo.)--1870-1880.; City & town life--Colorado--Las Animas--1870-1880.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Las Animas--1870-1880.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Las Animas--1870-1880.
A miner sits on a coal cart pulled by two mules at the Wootton Land & Fuel Company near Raton Pass in Las Animas County, Colorado.
Wootton Land & Fuel Company (Las Animas County, Colo.)--People--1900-1920.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Mules--Colorado--Las Animas...
A group of miners pose in a coal camp probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. The men wear work clothes including overalls, work pants, jackets, boots, and flannel shirts. The men wear oil wick caps with lamps. One man smokes a pipe.
Mining camps--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Coal miners--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.
An engineer sits in a locomotive near coal loading chutes probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. Labels on the train read: "Railway Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 20487" and "4."
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1930.; Railroad employees--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1930.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Las Animas...
View of the Tabasco coal mine (Las Animas County), Colorado. Mine railroad tracks connect the shafthouse and processing plants. Smoke rises from the nearby smokestacks.
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Tabasco Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas...
A cowboy on horseback attempts to rope a calf during a round up probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. The cowboy has a lasso and wears a hat and boots.
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cattle herding--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Cowboys--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Roping--Colorado--Las Animas...
A group of men pose near a house, possibly a boarding house, in a coal camp probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. Some of the men hold tools in their hands including axes, brooms, saws, and picks. Others hold liquor bottles. Several men sit on...
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1910.
Six coal ore carts on their way down the steep incline tracks of the Victor American Fuel Company's Bowman Mine, Las Animas County, Colorado; tracks split in foreground under powerlines.
Victor American Fuel Company (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Bowman Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Las Animas...
View of the Victor American Fuel Company Gray Creek Mine tipple, Las Animas County, Colorado; a wood frame coal screening plant set in a valley.
Victor American Fuel Company (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Tipples--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Gray Creek Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.;...
Full ore carts line wooden trestle of tipple above railroad cars in Maitland, Las Animas County, Colorado; wooden structures, smokestacks and ore cart tracks make up the coal screening plant.
Tipples--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Las Animas...
Men, members of the Hermanos Penitentes, bear crosses in a Good Friday procession in Las Animas County, Colorado. One man without a shirt flagellates himself on the back and bleeds; others kneel or stand and observe. Adobe structures and fenced...
Hermanos Penitentes--People--1890-1900.; Flagellation--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1900.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Adoration--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1900.; Religious groups--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1900.;...
The bath house at the hot springs in Las Vegas, New Mexico, stands in the midground next to the Gallinas River. Opened in 1882, the bath house was 42 x 200 feet and divided into separate compartments for men and women. A portion of the two-story,...
Gallinas River (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Las Vegas (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Bathhouses--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Buildings--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Rivers--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.
international high school.; The Phoenix Hotel stands in the distance across a field of trees with bare branches. The hotel was located on the Gallinas River about six miles north of Las Vegas, New Mexico. The Phoenix Hotel, built in 1887 had 250...
Wide dirt roads surround the Plaza in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Large, two-story buildings stand on the outer perimeter of the Plaza. Trees with bare branches stand in the park bordered by a stone wall.
H.H. Lake's wife, Theodora, sits with another woman on a bench on the Plaza in Las Vegas, New Mexico. A sign that reads: "Meat Market" hangs on a two-story building in the background. Additional shops and buildings line the dirt road. Both women...
A large, stone house with a two-story porch on its front faces a dirt road in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Four large columns support the porch. The front door has an arched band of windows around it. A stone wall surrounds the property and extends back...
A long, one-story house faces a dirt road in Las Vegas, New Mexico. White columns line the front porch of the house. Large trees with bare branches stand in front of the house behind a wrought iron fence. A decorative wood fence borders another...
View of Las Vegas (San Miguel County), New Mexico. Shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops, round house, trains, and yards. Houses and buildings are in the distance. Shows the eroded edges of the Gallinas River.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company--1870-1880.; Gallinas River--1870-1880.; Las Vegas (N.M.)--1870-1880.; Cities & towns--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1870-1880.; Railroad facilities--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1870-1880.; Railroad shops &...
View of adobe and brick buildings on the plaza in Las Vegas (San Miguel County), New Mexico. A false front brick building has a sign that reads: "H. Romero & Bros. 1878." Other signs read: "Tailor Shop," "Meat Market," and "Bakery." Men pose under...
Men and women pose near an adobe house and horno (oven) near Las Vegas (San Miguel County), New Mexico. The house has wooden shutters and vigas. A house with a wooden corral and mountains are in the distance.
Group of uniformed firemen and two young boys pose with ladder hose and bucket cart in front of the fire station, Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado. They wear flat top caps, and light colored breast bibs on their shirts. Two of the men hold horns.
Las Animas (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Las Animas--1880-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Las Animas--1880-1900.; Uniforms--Colorado--Las Animas--1880-1900.