Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Leadville street scene, for Public Service Co., July 29, 1924
- View south down dirt Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado includes two young girls in dresses and cloche hats who sit on a sidewalk on a hill above the street and look down on the busy main street. Landmark buildings include the First...
- American National Bank (Leadville, Colo.)--1920-1930.; First Presbyterian Church (Leadville, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Vendome Hotel--1920-1930.; Leadville (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1920-1930.; City & town...
- 1924
- Altman, Colo.
- Panoramic view of frame houses and commercial buildings in Altman (Teller County), Colorado. Shows residences, mine buildings with smokestacks, false front businesses, and tailings piles. Business signs include: "Geo McMillan, Grocer" and "Johnson...
- Altman (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1898?]
- Entrance Revenue Tunnel
- View of the entrance to Revenue Tunnel Mine near Sneffels (Ouray County), Colorado. Three men sit on ore carts drawn by a mule along on narrow gauge tracks. A man stands in a building doorway near the tunnel.
- Ouray County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Revenue Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1890.; Mine railroad cars--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Longmont, Colo., street scene, residence section [graphic]
- View of a residential section in Longmont, Colorado, shows a corner two-story brick residence with decorative half timbering. Smaller brick and wood frame homes neighbor the more ornate one.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- 1926 November 30
- News-Times Longmont Band [graphic]
- The Longmont Boys' Band poses in front of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Times building on Glenarm Street, Denver, Colorado. The band members wear white shirts with "L" on sleeve, straight ties and soft peaked hats. The conductor and baton...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Band uniforms--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Musical instruments--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Youth bands--Longmont--Denver--1920-1930.
- 1924 May 9
- Longmont residence section [graphic]
- View of a residential section in Longmont, Colorado, shows a two- story Dutch Colonial style house with a gambrel roof and large bare trees in the yard. Other wood frame and brick homes show in background.
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- 1926 November 30
- Ladies S.J.A. glee club 1897-1900 Breckenridge, Colo
- Members of the ladies' glee club in Breckenridge, Colorado, pose at the piano while Agnes Finding Miner plays the upright, sitting on a three legged stool. They wear high collared, puff sleeved blouses in various patterns and long gold chains, and...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Guitars--1890-1900.; Pianos--1890-1900.; Singers--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
- [between 1897-1900?]
- Watson's store
- In a clothing store in Breckenridge, Colorado, eight men in suits and hats sit and stand around a drum shaped parlor stove at the center of this well stocked business. Piles of folded trousers are in the left foreground, shelves are loaded with hat...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Clothing stores--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1900.; Interiors.
- [between 1888 and 1895?]
- Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway
- View of two elevations of Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway standard gauge track with passenger train just crossed over wooden trestle, possibly near Silver Cascade Falls, Colorado in North Cheyenne Canyon; "High Drive" (dirt road)...
- North Cheyenne Canyon (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Silver Cascade Falls (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--North Cheyenne Canyon--1900-1920.; Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- C B & Q Depot Brush, Colo.
- View inside the Colorado, Burlington and Quincy railroad Depot in Brush (Morgan County), Colorado. E.S. Dutton, the agent, and George Stewart, the telegraph operator, sit at telegraph equipment. Dutton, in a bowler hat, taps out a message. The men...
- Brush (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors--1900-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Brush--1900-1910.; Telegraph offices--Colorado--Brush--1900-1910.; Telegraph--1900-1910.
- 1901
- Presbyterian Hospital
- Exterior view of Presbyterian Hospital located at Franklin Street and 20th (Twentieth) Avenue in the City Park West neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The five-story institutional structure has Spanish Colonial features including stucco walls, a...
- Presbyterian Hospital (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1930-1940.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Hospitals--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- 1934 March 6
- School of Mines
- Colorado School of Mines band sits in a semicircle outside the Hall of Engineering entrance, in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado. The young men are uniformed and hold their instruments, including cornets, french horns, clarinets, trombones and...
- Golden (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Bands--1920-1940.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Golden--1920-1940.; Colorado School of Mines.
- [between 1928 and 1935?]
- Boulder Brick Works located north of Northside Junior High.
- Masonry enclosures in Boulder, Colorado, have a flat roof, a plank shed, or stacked bricks in them. The gable-roofed shop has a saltbox mill-housing, and brick or metal smokestacks. A field with a circular divot, dwellings, tilled fields, bare...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Littleton Church Windemere Ave. & So. Broadway
- Exterior view of the newly constructed brick Littleton Church, Windemere Avenue and south Broadway, Colorado; features: intersecting gables, corner tower with battlement crenels and arched stained glass windows. Built by the Meade and Mount...
- Littleton (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Churches--Colorado--Littleton--1930-1940.
- June 21, 1935
- Wild West Show original company, ca. 1884
- The original cast of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show poses for a group portrait. William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody sits in the center of the second row wearing a wide-brimmed hat. Seated on the ground in front of Cody is John Y. Nelson, driver...
- Bogardus, Adam--Family--1880-1890.; Nelson, John Young, b. 1826--Family.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Ma Whitaker.; Baker, Johnny, d. 1931.; Bogardus, Adam.; Hathaway, Seth.; Keen,...
- [1884?]
- Billboard for Original "Manitou" Sparkling Water
- View of a billboard at 20th and Blake Streets in Denver, Colorado. The billboard has a frame that consists of two oversized newel posts with newel caps, and a cornice across the top with a small pediment with letters that read: "Alden Sign Co." The...
- Alden Sign Co.--Products--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Beverage industry.; Beverages.; Billboards.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Park Hill United Methodist Church Historic Building Application Forms
- University Park United Methodist Church
- Ten Mile Avenue, Kokomo
- View of log and frame buildings and commercial businesses on Ten Mile Avenue in Kokomo (Summit County), Colorado. Shows timber debris in the dirt street, scattered buildings near probably East Fork Arkansas River in the valley and snow on mountains...
- Kokomo (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Kokomo--1870-1890.
- [between 1879 and 1881?]
- Yellowstone, Grotto Geyser in Eruption
- View of the Grotto Geyser in eruption in the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. A pine forest is in the distance.
- Grotto Geyser (Wyo.)--1870-1890.; Upper Geyser Basin (Wyo.)--1870-1890.; Yellowstone National Park--1870-1890.; Geysers--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Mt. Shasta from Sissons [sic]
- Panoramic view of fir trees on Rainbow Ridge, a valley, and the snow-covered summit of Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, California. Buildings, houses, fences, and meadows in Mount Shasta (Sisson) are in the valley.
- Mount Shasta (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Rainbow Ridge (Siskiyou County, Calif.)--1880-1910.; Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain)--1880-1910.; Siskiyou County (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Cities & towns--California--Mount Shasta--1880-1910.;...
- [between 1887 and 1902?]
- "Rooster Rock," Columbia River
- View of Rooster Rock, a basalt pillar, and dense trees beside the Columbia River in Multnomah County, Oregon. People in a canoe are near the shore of the river.
- Columbia River--1880-1910.; Multnomah County (Or.)--1880-1910.; Rooster Rock (Multnomah County, Or. : Pillar)--1880-1910.; Beaches--Oregon--Multnomah County--1880-1910.; Canoes--Oregon--Multnomah County--1880-1910.; Rivers--Oregon--Multnomah...
- [between 1885 and 1902?]
- Boulder, Col.
- Panoramic view of frame houses and buildings in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Grass is on a hill near backyards on probably Hill Street (Mapleton Avenue). Downtown buildings include the domed Boulder County Courthouse and the Masonic Temple...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Flatirons, The (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- 1900
- Longmont, Colo. Millers home [graphic]
- View of the Miller's home in Longmont, Colorado, shows a two- story brick home featuring a corner lot, low front gable, bracketed overhanging eaves, porch with balcony, and a trellis fenced back yard.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- 1926 December 4
- Longmont, Colo.
- View of the two-story brick public school, Longmont, Colorado, shows small children beside a small wood lean-to basement entry. The school features an F-shape plan with gabled projecting wings flanking the simple columned entry and two long metal...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Children--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- November 30, 1926
- Longmont, Colo.
- Exterior of 1883 Methodist Church, Longmont, Colorado; features brick construction, an intersecting gable roof, L-plan with a large corner entry tower and open bell tower capped with faceted steeple and arched stained glass windows.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Methodist churches--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- November 30, 1926
- Longmont, Colo.
- View of a brick public school in Longmont, Colorado, shows the small multi-gabled building with a series of five windows on each of the front gabled wings. A hipped dormer and an American flag are above the center double door entry.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- November 30, 1926
- Bryant School
- Exterior of the Bryant School, Longmont, Colorado, shows the two- story brick building with hip roof and projecting front gable entry. Other features include a round tower, stone beltcourses, bracketed overhanging eaves, and a side metal tube fire...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- 1926 November 30
- Catholic school & church, Longmont, Colo.
- View of the two-story with basement brick Catholic school associated with St. John the Baptist Church, Longmont, Colorado, shows the rectangular building with arched entry and pedestrians on sidewalks.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Church schools--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Longmont, Colo.)
- November 30, 1926
- Catholic sisters & girls bldg., Longmont, Colo.
- View of the old college structure converted into the St. Joseph's Academy Catholic School by Franciscan Sisters, Fifth Avenue between Baker and Atwood Streets, Longmont, Colorado. A 1907 sleeping porch addition has been added on the south side of...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Church schools--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- 1926 November 30
- First Cong. Church
- Exterior of First Congregational Church, Longmont, Colorado; features brick construction, intersecting gables, L-shape plan with corner louvred belltower and large arched stained glass windows.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; First Congregational Church (Longmont, Colo.)
- November 1926
- Longmont new High School
- Angle view of a new public high school in Longmont, Colorado, shows the rectangular three story brick with flat roofline and projecting entry with curved parapet. Several bicycles lean against the building. The main building with curved parapet...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- 1926 November 30
- Loveland
- Looking east on Fourth (4th) Street, business district, Loveland, Colorado. The Foot & Stoddard Livery Stable, (later the Masonic Temple) is on the left. The construction of the cisterns to be filled with water from the Big Thompson shows along the...
- Loveland (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Loveland--1870-1890.
- [between 1879 and 1882]
- July 15, #7
- Seventh in a series of views documenting progress of the summer 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. This facade view shows brick work completed on the two story hotel with several men standing around. The wood...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- July 7, #6
- Sixth in a series of progress documentation views of the summer 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. This facade view shows brick work near completion on the two story hotel with two men posing on rafters. The...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- June 17, #3
- Third in a series of progress documentation views of the summer 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. The wooden facade openings with arched transoms are set, masons proceeds with brick work between them. Stacks...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- June 25, #4
- Fourth in a series of views documenting progress of the summer of 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. This facade view shows the brick and window work continuing on the second level. Workers stand on the upper...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- June 9, 96, #1
- First in a series of progress documentation views of the summer of 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. A large stack of bricks is piled in front of the beginnings of the wood frame work of the windows and...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- June 27, #5
- Fifth in a series of views documenting progress of the summer of 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. This facade view shows the wood frame work of the second story windows in place with brick work continuing on...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- The central portion, Cripple Creek
- Bird's eye view across rooftops of Cripple Creek, Colorado towards Carbonate Hill and Gold Hill; scene includes Golden public school building, Saint Peters Catholic Church, and rows of flat-roof one and two- story wooden frame and brick commercial...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1896]
- Fremont, Cripple Creek Dist.
- View of Bennett Avenue, Fremont, Colorado, July 14, 1892, prior to incorporation of town and area as Cripple Creek, Colorado; view includes canvas tent with wooden frame, and one and two-story flat-roof wooden frame commercial buildings (some with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fremont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Canadian School
- View of Canadian School in Walden, Jackson County, Colorado; shows (l to r) Cora Davis (Brown), Miss Anna Miles (Keenan) (in polka- dots); on horses: Charlie Riggen, Allie Durgan, Clyde Webb, Clint Riggen, Daisy Strope, Linsdy Coe, Clarence Webb;...
- Walden (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Walden--1880-1890.
- 1887 or 1888
- First church in Colorado built at Conejos, 1858, Catholic Church ("Our Lady of Guadalupe")
- Shows Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Conejos, Conejos County, Colorado, with towers, a cross, and a niche / statue.
- Our Lady of Guadalupe (Church : Conejos, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Conejos (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Conejos--1860-1870.
- [between 1860 and 1870?]
- The birth of "Sven", 1942
- A 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) soldier wearing snowshoes attempts to climb a steep snowbank behind another soldier who offers his hand to help. Two men walking on snowshoes are partially visible in the background. The soldier in...
- Ski troops--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Snowshoeing--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain...
- 1942
- Ben Hodges
- Benjamin J. Hodges, a Mexican Black man, poses with a cane.
- Hodges, Benjamin J., 1856-1929.; African Americans--1910-1930.; Hispanic Americans--1910-1930.; Racially mixed people--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1929?]
- Spokane Indians
- Native American Spokane men, women, and children pose in their camp, next to a tepee, Washington State. The men wear trousers, shirts and hats, while the women wear traditional Plateau-style dresses with square cut sleeves and abalone shell disk...
- Indians of North America--Children--Washington (State)--1900-1910.; Spokane Indians--Women--Washington (State)--1900-1910.
- 1905
- Hopi Snake Dance, Arizona
- Reproduction of a painting shows a Native American Hopi Pueblo Snake Dance with dancers wearing kilts and body paint, carrying snakes in their mouths and hands, Hopi Mesas, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Dance--Arizona--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Arizona--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Arizona--1900-1910.; Snake dance--Arizona--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- School, taken 20 of May, 1891
- Portrait of the students at the old school in Breckenridge, Colorado. The boys are simply dressed; most are hatless. The girls are in a variety of print frocks, many with lace collars. An adult is in the background on the right.
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; School children--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Students--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
- 1891
- Johnnie Dewer's Place (present town hall)
- Men pose around the wooden bar in a saloon in Breckenridge, Colorado. One holds a corncob pipe. The backbar pediment has carving and spindlework; bunting is tacked around the mirror. A cash register and metal sculptures of swordsmen are on it, and...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.; Interiors--1890-1900.
- 1894 or 1895
- Georgetown Glee Club, Sept. 8th 1890
- The Georgetown Glee Club poses in front of a painted studio backdrop with their instruments, Georgetown, Colorado. Eight men wearing suits and ties form two rows. Instruments include a cello, a mandolin, guitars, violin, and a cornet. Label tapped...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Musical instruments--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.; Musicians--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.
- 1890 September 8