Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 37, 1910 September 10
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 45, 1910 November 5
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 9, 1911 February 25
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 21, 1911 May 20
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 9, 1912 March 2
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 39, 1912 September 28
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 7, 1909 April 3
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 19, 1912 May 11
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 45, 1909 December 25
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 4, 1910 January 22
- Colorado portrait and biography index : gathered and arranged from histories, magazines, newspaper files, land records, and many other sources, 1931, 1932, 1933, Denver.
- Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
- Colorado--Biography.
- 1933, 2005
- Western History Subject Index
- Alamosa, Colorado. Fire department
- Decoration Day, Alma, showing upper part of Main St. and Mt. Bross in distance, May 30th 1885
- View northwest along upper Main Street in Alma, (10,353 feet) in Park County, Colorado. Uniformed men with American flags march in the Decoration parade. Log cabins, front gable and wood frame residences, and false front commercial buildings line...
- Alma (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bross, Mount (Colo.); Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.
- 1885 May 30
- C.S.P. prison firing range
- Suited men, accompanied by a uniformed guard or soldier aim their pistols at arm's length. They are in a field at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A tractor is on the road in the background.
- Bombing and gunnery ranges--Colorado--Canon City--1950- 1960.; Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1950-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- Draft Copy of Cemetery to Conservatory
- Pony Express Riders
- Uniformed Boy Scouts of Brush, Morgan County, Colorado, pose with bicycles; some equipped with horns and lamps. Men in cowboy hats, shirts and bandanas are with them; Governor Ralph L. Carr, in a suit and white Homburg hat, holds a scarf. The...
- Boy Scouts of America--1930-1940.; Brush (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Brush--1930-1940.
- June 29, 1939
- McCleary mayor of Colorado Springs and Reich send off Scouts to the International Jamboree in Japan
- Mayor Eugene MacCleary hands a uniformed Boy Scout a piece of paper as another Scout and Joseph A. Reich look on, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Outfits include suit jackets, ties, horn rimmed glasses and Scout uniforms with medals,...
- Boy Scouts of America. Pikes Peak Council--People--1970- 1980.; Boy scouts--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1970-1980.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Boys--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1970-1980.; Mayors--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1970-1980.;...
- [1975.]
- Elks' parade
- Aerial view of an Elks' Club parade with uniformed marchers on 17th (Seventeenth) Street in Denver, Colorado. Buntings and banners decorate the streetlamps and the Brown Palace Hotel. Signs read: "Drexel", "Colorado", "Haw's Drug Store On Corner...
- Brown Palace Hotel (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Elks (Fraternal order)
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Probably Camp George West
- Portrait of an unidentified, uniformed cavalry officer on a horse at Camp George West (Jefferson County), Colorado.
- Camp George West (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Golden (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Cavalry--Colorado--Golden--1910-1930.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Golden--1910-1930.; Military officers--Colorado--Golden--1910-1930.
- [between 1918 and 1925?]
- Southeast corner of 4th and Main Streets
- At Fourth and Main Streets in Canon City, Colorado, uniformed cadets are in formation with bayoneted (fake?) rifles at the shoulder. Two have flags; one of the United States. A suited brass band of men and boys have cornets, a bass drum, and...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bands--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Cadets--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1884
- Old military band and cadets
- At Seventh and Macon Streets in Canon City, Colorado, uniformed cadets are in formation with bayoneted (fake?) rifles at the shoulder. One has a United States flag. A suited brass band leads with horns and drums. Brick, two story residences in the...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cadets--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Military bands--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1884
- Old military academy
- At the old Military School in Canon City, Colorado, uniformed cadets are at parade rest with rifle butts to the ground. Two have flags, one of the United States. A three story brick building behind them has a mansard roof, bracketed cornice, stone...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cadets--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Military education--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1880 or 1881
- Group of officers
- Uniformed guards and a man in a suit and fedora pose at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Their hatbands read: "Overseer," "Cell house," and "Lieutenant." They carry canes with spherical knobs; barred windows are behind them.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1950-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1890 and 1895?]
- Outer tower
- A uniformed man stands on the balcony of this faceted stone guard tower at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Sash windows serve the second floor, and a cornice tops the building. A wagon and shed are next to the structure, railroad...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.; Towers--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Convicts in line
- Convicts at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, wear uniforms marked with wide, horizontal stripes. They stand in a line, each with his hands on the shoulders of the man in front of him. A uniformed guard in a double breasted jacket and...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Prison uniforms--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1900
- Pre 1910 old administration bldg - band on left 4 dignitaries
- In the yard of the prison in Canon City, Colorado, a group poses at the edge of the rock walled canal by a power pole. The men are in suits with derby hats; the women's outfits include fluted collars, gloves, flowered hats and a tam o' shanter with...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1920.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1910
- Ready to serve Christmas dinner at road camp
- Pine wreaths adorn the interior walls of a canvas tent at the State Penitentiary road building camp near Canon City, Colorado. A table is laden with dinnerware, food, and pitchers; a uniformed guard stands behind it.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1920.; Table settings & decorations--Colorado--Canon City--1910- 1920.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1910 qnd 1920?]
- State prison lunch line for prisoners
- Convicts hold metal plates in a lunch line at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Steel cooking pots are set into the table, which has spoons piled on it. One prisoner holds a metal cup, and some of the uniformed guards look at him....
- Canon City (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Bread & soup lines--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1930.; Interiors.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Captain at lock-up box State Prison
- Holding a ring of keys and a cigar, this uniformed Captain at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, operates a locking device next to hinged prison bars. A padded chair is in the background.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Interiors.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1910-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- West gate of prison during 1929 riot
- Officials and uniformed armed National Guardsmen at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, make way for an armored sedan (Colorado plates 61-161 1929). The car (with side-mounted gun) exits through a stone arch. The keystone reads: "1896;"...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Hearses--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Militias--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Prison riots--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1929
- Colorado State Prison machine shop
- At the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, men on a raised platform turn the crank of a hand-powered drill press; a uniformed guard poses nearby. Screens, an open-end wrench, a poker and ash shovel hang on the walls.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Interiors.; Prison laborers--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Electric eye search
- Inmates at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, wear pinstriped bib overalls and stand with arms crossed as they wait to pass through a wood electric eye gate flanked by spindle balustrades. Uniformed guards and a pipe smoking man in a...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Interiors.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Outside west gate
- Shouldering rifles, officials and uniformed guards consort outside the west gate of the prison during the 1929 insurrection at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A man holds a bloody piece of fabric; others stand by the one-story,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Prison riots--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1929
- Extension tower 9 side angle from north gate
- Pipe rails edge the balcony and catwalk of this guard tower at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Of stone masonry with extruded joints, the square tower with faceted roof has a searchlight atop it. A uniformed man at the rail lowers a...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Watch towers--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1939?]
- Colorado Penitentiary escapes
- John H. Prather, uniformed guard at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, looks at a dump truck on an embankment below; barrels, trash, and a prison fence are beyond. Lettering on the door reads: "328 Prison."
- Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Prison escapes--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1945?]
- Doorway leading into cell house #7
- Convicts with arms folded walk through an interior gate at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A uniformed guard looks on, and prison buildings can be seen outside behind the entering men.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1960.; Interiors.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1960.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1930 and 1954?]
- Roy Best, Warden of State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colorado, and unidentified group
- Responding to the 1947 break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, men and a woman pose in winter clothes with rifles, gloves and a baseball cap. Uniformed guards have ammunition belts, Warden Best wears a cowboy hat, and Orville Cox...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Prison escapes--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1948
- Prison tour
- Men in suits and a uniformed prison guard stand outside of barred cells at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Metal balconies above them have pipe railings and serve more barred cells. Sun comes through the factory windows behind them...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Interiors.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1950-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- Officer Payne, Anderson, Morley, Smith, Madison, Med. security
- Uniformed guards at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, pose in a landscaped area of the prison grounds. They wear sidearms and ammunition belts, ties, and fedoras. The rusticated stone wall behind them has a factory window.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1950-1960.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1952
- Colorado Penitentiary escapes
- Earl L. Budd, uniformed guard at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, has his hand on the stone below a hole. An embroidered patch on his arm reads: "Colorado State Prison."
- Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.
- 1965
- Colorado Penitentiary escapes
- Uniformed guards at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, look and point at a hole in the ground with dirt around it. In the background, men stand in the doorway of a stone building topped by power poles.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1962
- Colorado State Patrol officers
- Uniformed officers of the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colorado, stand at parade rest on lawn with trees, street, cars, and people in the background. Patches on their arms read: "Colorado State Reformatory."
- Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1960
- Guards of cell house No. 1
- Uniformed guards at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, pose under snow dusted, cast concrete letters reading: "Cell House No. 1." Brass buttons, stars, and oakleaves complete their outfits, and behind them are barred windows and a door.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Prison guards--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1960
- Diamond jubilee of the Cathedral parish, Denver, Colorado...1860-1935.
- Book created by Retired Reverend Monsignor Hugh L. McMenamin, LLD. for the Diamond Jubilee of the Cathedral Parish of Denver, Colorado. It covers the years of 1860 to 1935. Included in the book are sections dedicated to: Bishop Machebeuf, a...
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Denver, Colo.); Catholic Church Colorado.
- 1935
- Olinger's Drill
- Highlander Olinger Boys on parade in Cheeseman Park, Denver, Colorado. They wear uniformed belted overcoats and hats with rifles at their side; flagmen flank the formation. George Olinger, Denver mortician, organized the boys group in 1916....
- Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo.); Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Drill teams--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Uniforms--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [1928]
- Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in Denver Eleanor & daughter-in-law in shadows
- United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands next to a uniformed military officer, a stone arch, and a crowd in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
- Cheyenne (Wyo.)--1930-1940.; Military officers--United States--1930-1940.; Presidents--United States--1930-1940.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- [1936?]
- Sioux mother and son, Frontier Days at Cheyenne out in the Union Pacific Country
- Frontier Days, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, shows a Native American Dakota Sioux mother wearing a hair pipe necklace walking with a child, a uniformed soldier with a gun, tripods of rifles and a box camera, and grandstands with spectators in background.
- Cheyenne Frontier Days--1910-1920.; Dakota Indians--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.; Cheyenne (Wyo.)--1910-1920.; Boys--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.; Festivals--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1916 and 1918?]
- Chicago White Sox in Royal Gorge
- Uniformed baseball team members of the Chicago White Sox pose at Hanging Bridge, in the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River, Fremont County, Colorado, with a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad locomotive and men in suits.
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)--1910-1920.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company.--1910-1920.; Fremont County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Royal Gorge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Baseball players--Colorado--Fremont County--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- 1910
- D & RG 752, 4-6-0 Vauclain compound, westbound with Chicago White Sox Baseball team at Hanging Bridge, Colorado, in the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River
- View of Denver and Rio Grande engine 752 at Hanging Bridge, Royal Gorge, Fremont County, Colorado. Men including uniformed members of the Chicago White Sox pose on the locomotive, with a girl.
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)--1910-1920.; Royal Gorge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Bridges--Colorado--Royal Gorge--1910-1920.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Royal Gorge--1910-1920.
- 1910 February 27
- Group of Apache prisoners
- Two uniformed U.S. Army soldiers pose on a yucca covered slope with their Native American Chiricahua Apache women and children prisoners captured on Captain Crook's campaign, Arizona or Mexico.
- Chiricahua Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Children--1880-1890.; Prisoners--1880-1890.; Soldiers--1880-1890.; Women--1880-1890.; Crook, George, 1829-1890--Homes & haunts.
- [1884 or 1885]