North Empire, Clear Creek County, Colorado, consists of log and frame dwellings and commercial buildings. Wagons and lumber are in the dirt streets; hills in the background are covered in dead trees and dirt roads.
View of frame and brick buildings on Gregory Street in Blackhawk (Black Hawk), Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows the Presbyterian Church with a steeple on a hillside and commercial buildings with signs that read: "Wholesale & Retail Meat Market" and...
View of frame and brick commercial buildings and houses near downtown Denver, Colorado and the flooded South Platte River and Cherry Creek. People stand beside Cherry Creek near a brick building with a sign that reads: "Drugs, Chemicals, Paints,...
Cherry Creek (El Paso County-Denver County, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Floods--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.;...
Panoramic view of log cabins and frame buildings in Empire (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Businesses have false fronts, and a reservoir is on the West Fork of Clear Creek.
View of houses in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado from the Stevens and Leiter irrigation ditch near a frame two-story house on 8th (Eighth) Avenue in Leadville.
View of the three-story brick Tabor Opera House on Harrison Avenue in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. A wooden passage is between the third story of the Opera House and the Clarendon Hotel next door. Store-fronts on the bottom floor have banners...
Tabor Opera House--1870-1880.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
View of log, frame, and probably mine buildings in Montgomery (Park County), Colorado. Cabins have log or sod roofs, stone chimneys, and metal pipes. Shows a wooden water wheel and timber piles between houses. A commercial building sign reads:...
View of a wooden water wheel and an arrastre used for grinding ore in Montgomery (Park County), Colorado. A flume and probably a wooden platform are on the hillside near waterfalls and a creek.
Panoramic view of log and frame houses, mine buildings, and a lake near the Middle Fork of the South Platte River in Montgomery (Park County), Colorado. Shows snow-covered mountains in probably the Tenmile Range.
Montgomery (Colo.)--1860-1870.; South Platte River, Middle Fork (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Montgomery--1860-1870.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Montgomery--1860-1870.; Log cabins--Colorado--Montgomery--1860-1870.; Mine...
View of the exterior of W.H. Rose's office, in Leadville, Colorado. Rose was a civil engineer and surveyor. The small front gabled structure with board and batten construction has a panel entry door with "92" on the jamb and a sash pane window....
Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Offices--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Rose, W. H.
View of the arrastre (or arrastra) at Montgomery, Park County, Colorado, a frame wheel-construction used by miners for grinding ore. Water rushes through rocks; trees, slopes, and a flume are in the background.
Studio portrait of First Lieutenant Fred A. Spencer, Colorado Volunteers, Second Cavalry Regiment, Company G. Uniform includes a sword and kepi hat.
United States. Army. Colorado Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1863-1865)--People.; Cavalry--Colorado--1860-1870.; Military officers--Colorado--1860-1870.; Spencer, Fred A.
View of log houses and probably mine buildings in Montgomery, Park County, Colorado. Cabins have log or grass roofs and metal chimney pipes. Stacks of timber are between houses. A commercial building sign reads: "Groceries and Provisio[ns?]." Dead...
View across the Twin Lakes Reservoir towards snow covered Mounts Elbert and Massive near Twin Lakes (Lake County), Colorado. A woman wears a dress and stands near a covered wagon along a dirt trail. Fir trees dot the hills.
Elbert, Mount (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Lake County (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Twin Lakes (Colo. : Lake)--1860-1870.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Lake County--1860-1870.
View across the Twin Lakes Reservoir towards Mounts Elbert and Massive near Twin Lakes (Lake County), Colorado. Shows fir trees, rocks and a dirt path. A man and a woman sit on a boulder.
Elbert, Mount (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Lake County (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Twin Lakes (Colo. : Lake)--1860-1870.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Lake County--1860-1870.
A man poses in the Garden of the Gods near rock formations in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows The Needles, a collection of vertical, sandstone pinnacles.
Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Parks--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1860-1870.; Rock formations--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1860-1870.
View northwest from Carbonate Hill across Leadville, Colorado includes a foreground filled with downed trees and stumps and buildings with log and wood frame construction. Gabled roofs and false fronts are on a majority of buildings in the booming...
View from Capitol Hill across Leadville, Colorado shows a booming town filled with log and wood frame houses, lean-tos, sheds and barns, and some canvas tents. There is a make-shift corral, a horse and a long tent in the foreground.
View northwest of early Black Hawk, Colorado, showing Gregory St. and central business district. North Clear Creek is visible in lower right corner. Business names visible include: Printing Office, Wholesale and Retail Meat Market. ...
Blackhawk (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Business districts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1970.
View north from Bobtail Hill, in Black Hawk, Colorado, up four mile Gulch to Dory Hill, where the state's first cemetery was located. Central business district includes: Undertaker, Union House (on Selak Street), Drugs (brick, arched windows and...
Blackhawk (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Business districts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.
View west from Harrison Avenue down Leadville, Colorado's State Street (later Second Street.) Businesses include "Little Pittsburg Beer Hall," "Theater Comique," "St. James Restaurant," "A.M. Jane, Commission Merchant," "Odeon," "Occidental...
Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Brothels--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Gambling--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
Exterior view of a two-story brick building on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Main Street (renamed West 3rd (Third) Street) in Leadville, Colorado. Built in 1879, the building features a bracketed cornice, tall storefronts with double doors,...
This view south on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado shows a dirt street lined with wood frame false fronts and telegraph or telephone poles. The street is busy with horse-drawn flatbed and covered wagons in the road and pedestrians on...
Tabor Opera House--1870-1880.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Building construction--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
View down the dirt street through Buckskin Joe, Park County, Colorado. Buildings along the street include one and two-story log cabins; wheelbarrow is in center of road.
Buckskin Joe (Park County, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Log cabins--Colorado--Buckskin Joe--1860-1870.
In this view of west Leadville, Colorado, mine tailings and a long pipe are in the foreground with sheds, barns, lean-tos, log cabins, one-story residences, plank fences, cows, horses, and burros in the middleground. A sign on top of the barn roof...
Exterior view of the two-story Hotel Windsor in Leadville, Colorado shows a false front with bracketed cornice, clapboard siding, four storefronts with double door entries and multi-pane windows and three second-story sash windows above each store....
Hotel Windsor (Leadville, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
View of Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County before the fire that destroyed most of the town. Piles of boards behind commercial buildings near patches of snow on the ground. Signs: "Clothing & Furnishing Goods O. K. Store Wholesale & Retail,"...
Several storefronts face Main and Eureka streets in early day Central City, Colorado, probably in the early 1860s. Among the businesses are a clothing store, a hardware store and a concert hall with billiard rooms. Several horse-drawn wagons travel...
Horse-drawn vehicles--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Billiard rooms--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Building construction--Colorado--Central City--1860- 1870.; Clothing stores--Colorado--Central...