Irene McWilliams
Musician, Teacher and Churchwoman
W.P.A. music teacher, 1933-1939; director of Denver U.S.O., WWII: taught at Littlejohn School of Music (a federal project to rehabilitate wounded soldiers through music); conducted choirs for...
View north from South Table Mountain over Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, includes the Adolph Coors Brewery, greenhouses and residence, Colorado and Southern (formerly Colorado Central) Railroad, depot and trains, North Table Mountain and the...
Adolph Coors Company--1930-1940.; Golden (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Brewing industry--Colorado--Golden--1930-1940.
View southeast of the Adolph Coors Company brewery, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, shows the cooling pond, tall smokestack and multi-story brick plant buildings.
Adolph Coors Company--1930-1940.; Golden (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Brewing industry--Colorado--Golden--1930-1940.
The Alamosa Courthouse in Alamosa County, Colorado, was built in 1938 with W.P.A. help and has Mission-style architecture with a U-shaped floor plan, brick construction, curvilinear gables, tile roof, and an arcade along all three sides of the...
In a girls' eighth grade gym class at Central School in Alamosa, Colorado, the girls all wear white, short sleeved blouses, belted dark shorts, socks and white tennis shoes. Several girls stand on their heads while pairs of girls hold them up. The...
An eighth grade girl's gym class forms a human pyramid at the Central School in Alamosa, Colorado. The girls wear white, short sleeved blouses, belted dark shorts, socks and white tennis shoes. Four girls are on their hands and knees in the center....
Boys and girls in a group at the side of a studio piano in classroom number 208 at Central School in Alamosa, Colorado, while Miss Crosir plays from sheet music. The blackboard behind the piano contains a list which includes "2. What is in, 3. The...
Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Christmas decorations--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Music education--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Schools--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.;...
Boys and girls sit in rows of wooden desks in a third grade classroom at Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado. Some boys wear overalls and one wears a bow tie. The girls wear print dresses with clips or bows in their hair. Built in bookshelves with...
Boys and girls sit in rows of wooden desks in a fourth grade classroom at Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado. Built in bookshelves with jars of dried weeds on the top shelf are along the back wall. A blackboard is on the side wall near a bulletin...
In this sixth grade classroom at Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado, boys and girls sit in rows of wooden desks. Two children stand and read at bookshelves built into the back of the room. A boy with a paintbrush works on a mural of the Nativity...
In Miss Borego's third grade classroom, number 202, at Central School in Alamosa, Colorado, boys and girls sit in rows of wooden desks reading books. One boy reads "Sails, Wheels, and Wings." A blackboard has a scene of wisemen and their camels,...
Boys and girls sit around rectangular tables and weave hot pads in Miss Monroe's second grade classroom at Central School in Alamosa, Colorado. Striped shirts are popular among the boys and floral print dresses are worn by most girls. A long coat...
A group of children performs a Christmas pageant on the stage of Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado. Children in the center wear a uniform of pants, jackets and hats with round brims. They hold flashlights and stand on risers with one child in the...
A group of children performs a Christmas pageant on the stage of Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado. Children in the center wear a uniform of pants, jackets and hats with round brims. They stand on risers with one child in the top row, and rows...
A large group of children is gathered on and at the foot of stairs in Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado, singing Christmas carols. Some of the boys wear overalls with bibs and a young black boy wears a tie. Most of the girls wear dresses and...
Boys and girls sit with open books at wooden desks with ornate iron sides in Miss Sootz's classroom at Central School in Alamosa, Colorado. Two pairs of children stand at a table in front of the room performing a science experiment with beakers of...
Boys and girls sit around rectangular tables making art with clay in a first grade classroom at Central School in Alamosa, Colorado. Some children stand at a blackboard painting on paper with a table of paint jars and brushes behind them. An...
The two-story Central School in Alamosa in Alamosa County, Colorado, is a brick building featuring a low hip tile roof, pane sash windows, and double door entries. A trace of snow and an automobile are in front of the building.
The courthouse in Alamosa, Colorado was built in 1938 with W.P.A. assistance and has Mission-style architecture with U-shape plan, brick construction, curvilinear gables, tile roof and an arcade along the interior courtyard with flowers. Two...
The Alamosa Courthouse in Colorado was built in 1938 with W.P.A. help and has Mission-style architecture with U-shape plan, brick construction, curvilinear gables, tile roof and an arcade along the interior courtyard with flowers. A car and a truck...
Boys in short trunks, numbered tank tops, knee socks, high top tennis shoes, and knee pads spring to action during tip-off in a basketball game between Alamosa High School and Sanford. Two referees in striped shirts are ready for play while the...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Basketball players--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Basketball--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
Boys and a few girls sit on wooden folding chairs at long tables in a classroom at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado. The tables have books and papers on them. A blackboard with a row of student drawings along the top is on the left. A...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
Girls in aprons stand at tables inside a classroom at Alamosa High, Alamosa County, Colorado. Front table has tub of "Crisco," covered tin of sugar, vanilla bottle, milk jar, flour sifter, bowl and hand beaters, "Calumet" baking powder and "Betty...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Home economics--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
In a physics classroom at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado, pairs of students work at lab tables with a "Periodic chart of the atoms" posted high on the wall behind them. Blackboards line the walls, with bulletin board strips above them.
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Laboratories--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Science--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
In a chemistry classroom at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado, students in heavy aprons work at lab tables with beakers and jars with stoppers. Pane sash windows on the left side of the classroom allow sunlight to stream in the laboratory....
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Laboratories--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Science--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
Girls sit at typewriters in a classroom at Alamosa High School, Alamosa County, Colorado. Some of the girls wear glasses, some have curled hair. A blackboard in the background has a bulletin board along the upper edge with two 1941 calendars, one...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Typewriting--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
Boys are bent over wood tables at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado, using vises and planers on pieces of wood. Some boys draw on plans with the aid of yardsticks. There is a blackboard, wooden shelves, a step ladder and a sink in the room.
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Woodworking--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
Music students sit on wooden folding chairs holding their instruments and facing their music stands in a classroom at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado. The teacher, a man in a suit, conducts the orchestra which includes violins, tubas,...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Youth orchestras--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
Music students sit on wooden folding chairs with their instruments and music stands in a classroom at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado. The teacher, a man in a suit, conducts the orchestra with a baton. Instruments include violins, tubas,...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Youth orchestras--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
Stage scene during Junior play, The Ghost Flies South, at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado; living room scene includes students in costume: Native American woman (wearing beads and feather headband), house maid (face painted black, maid's...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Students--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Theatrical productions--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
On stage during the Junior play, "The Ghost Flies South," at Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Colorado, is a living room scene with a sofa, wooden rocker, and curtained doorway. The cast includes a student dressed as an Indian women with long dress,...
Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Theatrical productions--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
View west of Alma, (10,353 feet) Park County, Colorado, includes large tailing dumps from placer and hydraulic dredge mining above the Middle Fork of the South Platte River; shows frame residences, commercial buildings on main street, and ruins of...
Alma (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Alma--1920-1930.
Interior view of the West Portal of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Continental Divide Tunnel) of the Colorado Big Thompson project in Grand County, Colorado. Shows tracks, pipes, wires and possibly a switch.
Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Hydraulic facilities--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Tunnels--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.
View of two skiers in Aspen, Colorado; shows one skiing down the hill and the other looking down at the town; ski gates at the side of the hill and bare trees on either side of the slope; landmarks in the town include the Hotel Jerome, the Wheeler...
Skiers sit on chairs in the sun outside the Red Onion Restaurant on Cooper Avenue in Aspen, Colorado, dressed in ski clothes, including sweaters, ski boots, and sun glasses; one woman smokes a cigarette. Beer glasses and dishes are on the two...
The dilapidated, old Bailey train station is situated next to the rails of the Denver-South Park and Pacific railroad in Park County. The one-story, rectangular, clapboard structure has a side gable with a corrugated, tin roof that has pieces...
Bailey (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Bailey--1930-1940.; Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company.
Members of the William Bates family, Bill, Irene, Ralph, Jennie, and Arthur, pose in the interior of their home in Basalt, Colorado. They are seated on chairs and on an ottoman. Irene sits in Bill's lap. A retriever dog lies on the floor at...
View west up Gregory Gulch toward Central City, Colorado; shows Chas. Leitzman's blacksmith shop, "Wholesale & Retail Meat Market" (with a horse in front and men sitting on the steps), a building that housed many saloons (most notably Jesse...
View of the front of the Langford House in Chase Gulch near Black Hawk, Colorado; shows the arched entry to the foyer, arched casement window over the entryway, steep gable (typical of Carpenter Gothic architecture), decorative jigsaw bargeboard...
Blackhawk (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1970.; Stone walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1970.
The Bond School, made from an old passenger railroad car, is next to a dirt road in the town of Bond, Colorado (Eagle County). An outhouse is behind the school. Steps lead from the ground to the school door and brush grows around the foundation....
Bond (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Railroad cars--Colorado--Bond--1930-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Bond--1930-1940.
deposit more than 100 feet thick and was soon determined to be an unsuitable site and the plan was relocated to where the present Barker Dam sits east of Nederland. Several log cabins stand at the base of the hill in the background as well as in...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nederland (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.; Tree limbs--1890-1900.
A group of large pine trees stands in the midground near Sulphide Flats west of Nederland in Boulder County, Colorado. In 1907, the area was chosen as the site for a new dam to serve as a hydroelectric power source. W. Hollingsworth McCleod, a...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Nederland (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Pines--Colorado--Nederland--1930-1950.
View of a professional football game at Will Rogers Stadium, Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows spectators in bleachers, goalposts, United States flag, players, officials and Cheyenne Mountain in the background.
View of the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows the nine-story Italianate structure with a cupola, and a terrace on Broadmoor Lake with a footbridge leading to the island.
View of a miner's abandoned log cabin and outhouse in California Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado.
California Gulch (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Log cabins--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1940.; Privies--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1940.
View towards the domed tower of the Ramona Hotel, a popular Ute Pass resort, located in Cascade, (Cascade Canon) at the foot of Pikes Peak on the Midland Terminal Railroad and on the Pikes Peak Highway, El Paso County, Colorado, includes a street...
Cascade (El Paso county, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Cascade--1890-1900.; Ramona Hotel (Cascade, Colo.)