View of "The Old Prospector," a statue of a miner on the roof of the Mining Exchange Building in downtown Denver, Colorado. The man holds a chunk of gold ore and a mining pick. The copper statue was created by Alphonse Pelzer and modeled after John...
View northeast across Ananconda residences in Teller County, Colorado, includes frame gabled houses, tents, log cabins, log houses, false fronts, lean-tos, outhouses, and a smelter, with wood shingle, sod, and plank board roofs. Patches of light...
This view of Main Street, in Breckenridge, Colorado, includes a building, on the left, which was built in 1880, and housed the Miner's Home Saloon. It has three sash windows on the second floor that have ornamented, pedimented heads. A first floor...
Copy of an 1881 circular engraving of Golden, Colorado, by Western Engraving Company, Omaha, shows a smoking Kimball locomotive and tender with a 2112 CCRR (Colorado Central Railroad) boxcar on tracks with the booming town and Castle Rock of South...
A miner sits in a Henderson Mine and Mill tramway engine as it pulls loaded mine ore cars in Grand County, Colorado.
Henderson Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--Equipment & supplies--1970-1980.; Grand County (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Grand County--1970-1980.; Miners--Colorado--Grand County--1970-1980.; Mining--Colorado--Grand...
A miner takes a reading from a gauge on giant compressors at the Henderson Mine in Clear Creek County, Colorado.
AMAX, Inc.--Branches, chapters, etc.--1970-1980.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Henderson Mine (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Air compressors--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.; Miners--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.;...
A miner watches over the hoist house controls near four windlasses at the Henderson Mine in Clear Creek County, Colorado.
AMAX, Inc.--Branches, chapters, etc.--1970-1980.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Henderson Mine (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.; Miners--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.;...
Miners, a man and a woman, work with a pneumatic drill in a tunnel of the Henderson Mine in Clear Creek County, Colorado. They wear hard hats with miners' lights.
AMAX, Inc.--Branches, chapters, etc.--1970-1980.; Henderson Mine (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Drilling & boring machinery--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.; Miners--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1970-1980.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek...
Shows a miner sitting in doorway of his log cabin (lean-to) built into mountainside with glass window frame; includes two dogs, various tools around entrance, wood chopping area, and other mine buildings and structures in background.
Interior view of a miner's home; includes two men playing cards at table and a miner stretched out on cot; shows wooden framework of house, shelving, wood stove, cooking utensils and gold pan.
Apex Miner's Hall, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado, features a log frame structure with a hipped roof, heavy chinking, and flag pole on roof. Building served as a recreation hall and theater. A dirt road is in front...
Firefighters extinguish a fire near the Post Office building on Arapahoe Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. Spectators and a fire truck are in the street. Signs on nearby buildings read: "For Rent Will Divide to Suit Call Owner," "Mayer...
View of the tent city and the people of Ludlow, Colorado in Las Animas County, the site of the coal strikes and the subsequent massacre. Laundry hangs from the clothesline in the foreground.
A miner poses in a shaft of the Johnny Bull Mine near Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado. He holds a small piece of ore and a prospector's pick and wears a hard hat with a miner's light.
Johnny Bull Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Miners--Colorado--Silver Plume--1960-1970.; Mining equipment--Colorado--Silver Plume--1960-1970.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1960-1970.
Earl Williams stands with a team of burros loaded with various types of equipment in front of the Roberts Bros. Mercantile Company in Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado.
Roberts Brothers Mercantile Company (Silver Plume, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--1910-1920.; General stores--Colorado--Silver Plume--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Silver Plume--1910-1920.; Packtrains--Colorado--Silver Plume--1910-1920.;...
The view looking west, of Idaho Springs, Colorado, shows the central business district in downtown Idaho Springs, flat topped and false fronted commercial structures along Miner Street, the Wilson House, and the schoolhouse. Also included are the...
Panoramic view of well dressed men and a woman, they pose with a miner at the Denver Mine near Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A mine building and miner's cabin are nearby. A sign over the tunnel entrance reads: "Denver Tunnel".
A miner poses with his dog by the Revenue Mine on the edge of Sneffels Creek near Sneffels (Ouray County), Colorado. Stony Mountain is in the distance.
View of part of the Blanche Dunton funerary monument in the Idaho Springs Cemetery, Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The monument is a playhouse, a cement replica of a miner's log cabin. The name Dunton in carved above the cabin's...
View of a miner working a pneumatic drill with a double screw column support in a tunnel operated by the London Mountain Gold Mining Company near Fairplay, Colorado.
View of a drilling crew in the heading of an unidentified mine tending a large drilling rig identified as "Jumbo." A sign on the rig reads: "Atlas Gelodyn No. 1." Each miner wears a helmet and lamp.
Reproduction of a Stanely Loat [?] drawing of Lawson, Teller County, Colorado, shows the town along Clear Creek with Colorado Central railroad tracks. Mines are above the town on the slopes of Red Elephant Hill. "This town is the entrepot of the...
Street scene after the Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado. Mud and debris fill street with damaged wood-frame structures; Miner's Union Headquarters and Hospital are in background.
Cornet Creek (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Telluride (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Floods--Colorado--Telluride--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1910-1920.
Ike Welsh, a reporter for the Register-Call and Charles S. Ripley, a miner, pose on the porch of the Louisiana cabin near American City (Gilpin County), Colorado. A saddled horse is nearby.
American City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--American City--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--American City--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--American City--1890-1900.; Reporters--Colorado--American City--1890-1900.; Ripley, Charles S.; Welsh,...
Miners ride on a mine tramway engine as it pushes mine ore cars in the E tunnel of the Idarado Mine near Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. They wear hard hats with miner's lights.
Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Idarado Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Interiors--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1960-1970.; Miners--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1960-1970.; Mining--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1960-1970.;...
Colorado National Guard is posted at the Shurtloff Mine during the labor strike of the Western Federation of Miners, Cripple Creek District, Colorado. A miner stands on a platform attending a bucket of ore on a hoist.
Colorado. National Guard--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Militia--Colorado--Cripple...
The view looking north, in downtown Idaho Springs, Colorado, shows two young boys standing next to a burro which has a saddle blanket and an equipment harness on its back. The boys are dressed in suits and ties; one wears a flat cap, the other...
Fred C. Dopp, a hard-rock miner, drives a spike into a block of stone at a Mining Institute contest at the Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors in Civic Center Park, Denver, Colorado. Men in fedoras and topcoats are on the steps.
Greek Theater and Colonnade of Civic Benefactors (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Civic Center (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Amphitheaters--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Contests--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.;...
Walker Anderson 1866-1904
Construction Man
Came to Denver in 1880 to learn the brick laying trade; helped construct the old Denver Court Housem State Capitol, Daniels and Fisher building, Mining Exchange, Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs, and the...
Barney Ford 1822-1902
Businessman
Came to Denver in 1860; gold miner in Breckenridge, Colorado; owner of the former Inter-Ocean Hotel at 16th and Black Streets; a civil rights leader of the 19th century; established Denver's first Adult Education...
Index to obituaries that appeared in the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post from 1975 to 1979. Information includes last name, first name, date, page and newspaper.
Denver (Colo.)--Genealogy--Indexes.;Obituaries--Colorado--Indexes.; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado.
Exterior photograph of the Lafayette Miners Museum, located in Lafayette, Colorado. Building was once one of the original miner's homes constructed in the 1890s at the Gladstone Mine near Lafayette, it was moved to its present site after the start...
Exterior photograph of the back of the Lafayette Miners Museum, located in Lafayette, Colorado. Building was once one of the original miner's homes constructed in the 1890s at the Gladstone Mine near Lafayette, it was moved to its present site...