Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Trinity fourth annual oratorio concert : Mendelssohn's Elijah
- Program for a presentation of Mendelssohn's Elijah performed at Trinity Methodist Church in Denver, Colorado on March 9, 1905. Included in the program are several pictures of prominent performers, list of performers, a detailed listing of the...
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Elias; Trinity Methodist Church (Denver, Colo.). Choir--Performances.; Oratorios--Librettos.; Trinity United Methodist Church (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (Denver,...
- 1905 March 9
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 11, 1910 March 12
- Manitou Soda Spring
- View of the Manitou Soda Spring in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest; shows the rustic gazebo with its branch uprights and benches, a man standing next to it, the boulder at the confluence of Ruxton and Fountai Creeke with several...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Sightseers--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [between 1872 and 1880?]
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 5, 1911 January 28
- Western History Subject Index
- Spiders. Black widow
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 7, 1909 April 3
- Cast picnic, Merry Widow
- Robert Edmond Jones, Gladys Swarthout, Ruth Brelschneider and Lee Whitney, actors from the cast of "The Merry Widow," gather around a picnic table in Central City, Colorado to help themselves to drinks from tin cups. Cofffee cups and a bottle of...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Actors--1930-1940.; Picnics--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Brelschneider, Ruth.; Jones, Robert Edmund, 1887-1954.; Swarthout, Gladys, 1904-; Whitney, Lee.
- 1933
- Merry widow cast
- Actors from the cast of The Merry widow play near a creek in Central City, Colorado. Dressed in swimming suits, trunks, and shorts, the men and women build a structure next to the creek out of tree branches and rocks.
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Actors--1930-1940.
- 1933
- Merry widow
- An crowd is gathered behind the string section of an orchestra and an empty NBC microphone in Central City, Colorado. Musicians hold basses and violins and sheet music sits on music stands. Sets and props for the Central City Opera House are in...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Audiences--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Orchestras--1930-1940.
- 1933
- Western History Subject Index
- Waterman, Charles Winfield
- Western History Subject Index
- Spiders . Black Widow
- Western History Subject Index
- Spiders. black widow
- Side elevation of Fitzroy Place
- View of side elevation of Fitzroy Place (1892), also known as the Warren-Iliff Mansion, at 2160 South Cook Street in the University Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a red sandstone residence with a composition roof. Features include...
- Warren, Elizabeth Iliff--Homes & haunts.; Warren, Henry White, 1831-1912--Homes & haunts.; Warren-Iliff Mansion (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; University Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Houses.; Warren, Elizabeth...
- 1997
- Cheesman Memorial Pavilion
- View of the west elevation of the Cheesman Memorial Pavilion (1910; Willis A. Marean and Albert J. Norton architects) located in Cheesman Park, 1000 High Street, in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The pavilion is a designated...
- Cheesman, Walter Scott, 1838-1907--Monuments.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--2000-2010.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Historic buildings.; Landscape pavilions.; Monuments & memorials.;...
- 2006
- Cheesman Memorial Pavilion
- View of the east elevation of the Cheesman Memorial Pavilion (1910; Willis A. Marean and Albert J. Norton, architects) in Cheesman Park, 1000 High Street, in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Both the memorial and the fountain are...
- Cheesman, Walter Scott, 1838-1907--Monuments.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--2000-2010.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Fountains.; Historic buildings.; Landscape pavilions.; Monuments &...
- 2005
- Cheesman Memorial Pavilion
- View of the east elevation of the Cheesman Memorial Pavilion (1910; Willis A. Marean and Albert J. Norton, architects) in Cheesman Park, 1000 High Street, in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The structure has dual columns and a...
- Cheesman, Walter Scott, 1838-1907--Monuments.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--2000-2010.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Historic buildings.; Landscape pavilions.; Monuments & memorials.;...
- 2005
- Fitzroy Place
- View of Fitzroy Place (1892) also known as the Warren-Iliff Mansion at 2160 South Cook Street in the University Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the facade of a red sandstone residence with a composition roof. Features include a...
- Warren, Elizabeth Iliff--Homes and Haunts--2000-2010.; Warren, Henry White, 1831-1912--Homes and haunts--2000-2010.; Warren-Iliff Mansion (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; University Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Historic...
- 2007
- Wolfe Hall, Denver, Colorado
- View of Wolfe Hall, a women's seminary school at 17th (Seventeenth) and Champa Streets in Denver, Colorado. The three-story brick building has a mansard roof with dormer windows, Roman arched windows, a widow's walk, and a frame cupola. A porch and...
- Wolfe Hall (Denver, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Church schools--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- [between 1873 and 1879?]
- Wolfe Hall
- People pose at Wolfe Hall, a women's seminary school at 17th (Seventeenth) and Champa Streets in Denver, Colorado. The building has a mansard roof with dormer windows, Roman arched windows, a widow's walk, and a frame cupola. Girls, women, and men...
- Wolfe Hall (Denver, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Church schools--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1870
- Entrance to the Cross, 300 acre orchard at Clifton, Colo
- View of the Red Cross Ranch in Clifton (Mesa County), Colorado; shows a peach orchard, wire fence, and a house with a widow's walk.
- Clifton (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Clifton--1900-1920.; Peach orchards--Colorado--Clifton--1900-1920.; Ranches--Colorado--Clifton--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- D.R.G. Hospital, Salida, Colo.
- View of the three-story brick Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hospital in Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado. The hospital has a gabled and mansard roof, a widow's walk, a balcony and porch, ornate brick work under eaves, and a finial. Trees and...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hospital (Salida, Colo.)--1880-1910.; Salida (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Hospitals--Colorado--Salida--1880-1910.
- [between 1885 and 1903]
- St. Elmo excursionists at the La Veta Hotel, Gunnison
- A crowd of people and horse-drawn carriages are outside the four-story brick and stone Victorian La Veta Hotel at 219 South Boulevard in Gunnison (Gunnison County), Colorado. The hotel has stone lintels, a mansard roof with a widow's walk, a...
- La Veta Hotel (Gunnison, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.
- 1885 September 6
- Interurban car in Grand Junction
- Two men stand at the corner of Main and 3rd (Third) Streets, Grand Junction (Mesa County), Colorado. A Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway electric street car is at the intersection. The "Electric Building," a two-story, flat-roof, brick...
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Buildings--Colorado--Grand Junction--1900-1920.; Electric railroads--Colorado--Grand Junction--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Johnstown, Colorado, exchange building
- View of the Mountain States telephone exchange building in Johnstown (Weld County), Colorado. The building is a one-story frame store-front with a flat roof. A sign extending from the building reads: "Telephone." A sign painted on the door depicts...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--Buildings--1930-1940.; Johnstown (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Johnstown--1930-1940.
- 1931 October
- Meeker House, Greeley
- View of the two-story stone Meeker house on 9th (Ninth) Avenue in Greeley (Weld County), Colorado, built by Nathan C. Meeker, founder of Greeley. The house has wooden shutters, a low-pitched, hipped roof and a widow's walk. A man poses beside a...
- Meeker, Nathan Cook, 1814-1879--Homes & haunts.; Greeley (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Greeley--1900-1920.
- [between 1903 and 1920?]
- State Normal School, Greeley, Colo.
- Women stand at the entrance to the Cranford Hall building on the State Normal School (later University of Northern Colorado) campus in Greeley (Weld County), Colorado. The four-story brick classroom, library and administration building has a hipped...
- State Normal School of Colorado (Greeley, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1920.; Greeley (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Students--Colorado--Greeley--1890-1920.; Teachers' colleges--Colorado--Greeley--1890-1920.; Women--Colorado--Greeley--1890-1920.
- [between 1895 and 1911]
- Idaho Springs school
- A man stands and poses on a sidewalk in front of the Idaho Springs Public School building in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The two-story brick building has a square tower, decorative brick and stone work, a hipped roof with a...
- Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1886 and 1900?]
- Lakewood Golf Club club house (burned)
- Men stand and pose beside stairs and an entrance to "The Colorado Golf Club" (later Lakewood Country Club) in Lakewood (Jefferson County), Colorado. The two-story mission-style stucco building has a hipped roof, arched windows and doorways, a...
- Colorado Golf Club (Lakewood, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Lakewood (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Clubhouses--Colorado--Lakewood--1910-1920.; Country clubs--Colorado--Lakewood--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1913]
- Y.M.C.A. building
- Exterior view of Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) building, East 16th (Sixteenth) Avenue and Lincoln Street, Denver, Colorado. The Commercial style building has a flat roof, bracketed cornice, voussoirs above first floor windows, flag...
- Young Men's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Young Men's Christian associations--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1907 and 1915?]
- Pasadena, Cal., residence on Orange Grove Ave.
- View an unidentified home on a low hill on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena (Los Angeles County), California. The house has a cross gabled roof, bays, wall dormers, a porte cochere, a wrap-around porch, chimneys and a round tower with a widow's...
- Pasadena (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Driveways.; Houses.; Porte cocheres.; Trees.; Yards.
- [1899]
- The Tabor Grand, Leadville
- View of the Tabor Grand Hotel, Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The four-story building has a mansard roof, dormers and widow's walks.
- Tabor Grand Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [1885?]
- The Lion House
- A man sits in a donkey cart in front of the Lion House in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. Shows a stone and stucco residence with dormers, chimneys, and widow's walks, one with a cupola, behind a stuccoed wall.
- Young, Brigham, 1801-1877--Homes & haunts.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1880-1890.; Houses--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- The Eagle Gate, Salt Lake City
- View of the Eagle Gate in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. Four stone pillars with four arches support a center sculpture of an eagle that grasps a beehive. Shows the porch, balcony and widow's walk of the Beehive House.
- Young, Brigham, 1801-1877--Homes & haunts.; Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah)--1880-1890.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1880-1890.; Gates--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1890.; Houses--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- Eagle Gate, Salt Lake City
- Telegraph posts and wires stand in front of the Eagle Gate in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. Four stone pillars with four arches support a center structure capped by an eagle that grasps a beehive. Shows the porch, balcony, and widow's...
- Young, Brigham, 1801-1877--Homes & haunts.; Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah)--1880-1890.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1880-1890.; Gates--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1890.; Houses--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- The "Gardo House" or Amelia Palace
- View of the Gardo House in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. Shows a Second Empire style house with tall arched windows, veranda, balconies and widow's walks behind a wrought iron fence.
- Salt Lake City (Utah)--1880-1890.; Houses--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- Evergreen Lake, Colo.
- View of The Evergreen Hotel and dock on Evergreen Lakes outside of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The clapboard buildings have porches, a widow's walk and balustrade. Canoes and a sailboat are near the dock.
- Evergreen Hotel (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1910.; Evergreen Lakes (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Lake County (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1910.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1910.; Sailboats--Colorado--Lake...
- [between 1882 and 1910?]
- The Gardo House or Amelia's Palace
- View of the Gardo House, built by Brigham Young, Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. Shows a Second Empire style house with tall arched windows, veranda, balconies, and widow's walks behind a wrought iron fence.
- Young, Brigham, 1801-1877--Homes & haunts.; Gardo House (Salt Lake City, Utah)--1880-1900.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1880-1900.; Houses--Utah--Salt Lake City--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Victor
- Panoramic view of Victor (Teller County), Colorado. A clapboard building has a widow's walk. Houses, commercial buildings, probably a church steeple, and Midland Terminal Railroad or Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad tracks are in the distance.
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1900?]
- Cottonwood Springs Hotel, Buena Vista, Colo.
- People pose outside the Cottonwood Springs Hotel near Buena Vista (Chaffee County), Colorado. Women and girls wear dresses with aprons and stand or sit on porch steps or in a first-floor window, a wicker baby carriage is nearby. Some of the men and...
- Cottonwood Hotel (Buena Vista, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Buena Vista (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Buena Vista--1880-1900.; People--Colorado--Buena Vista--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1898?]
- Sacred Heart College
- This two-story rusticated stone building in Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado, has an open porch and balcony, clipped gables, brick chimneys, and a widow's walk. Built by George Morrison in 1874 as a hotel for Governor John Evans, this structure...
- Morrison (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Morrison--1900-1910.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Morrison--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Silverton brass band
- An outdoor portrait of a brass band in Silverton, Colorado; they wear sack suits with vests, gold chains and a variety of hats; all hold their instruments (including tubas, trombones, cornets, and a large bass drum with "Silverton" lettered on it)....
- Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bands--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.; Brass instruments--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Old Main
- Old Main, the first academic building on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, is a three- story brick Victorian with chimneys, cornices, pilasters, and a tower with a mansard roof and widow's walks....
- Colorado State University--1880-1890.; Fort Collins (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Fort Collins--1880-1890.
- [1880?]
- Old Main Building Colo. Agr. College
- People pose in front of "Old Main" on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado. The Victorian, two-story, brick building has a a dentiled cornice, widow's walks, and a square tower with a mansard roof.
- Colorado State University--1880-1890.; Fort Collins (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Fort Collins--1880-1890.
- 1886
- Hotel Vendome
- Reproduction shows the Hotel Vendome in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. The four-story building has a mansard roof, dormers, and widow's walks; storefronts fill the ground floor. Parts of the porch are covered; people, horses and buggies are in...
- Hotel Vendome (Leadville, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895?]
- Public School, Montrose, Colo
- The public school in Montrose, Montrose County, Colorado, is a two-story brick building with stone trim and hipped roofs. A square tower has an imbricated, tapered belfry, dormers, widow's walks, and a windvane. Children and a man in a suit pose by...
- Montrose (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Children & adults--Colorado--Montrose--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Montrose--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Montrose--1880-1890.
- 1884
- Denver and Rio Grande RR Hospital built in 1880's destroyed by fire about 1903
- The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad hospital in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, is an ornate brick house with wood trim, dormers, widow's walk, chimneys, porch and balcony. Wrought iron fence encloses the landscaped yard; other railroad buildings...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hospital (Salida, Colo.)--1880- 1890.; Salida (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hospitals--Colorado--Salida--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1890?]
- Residences in Salida, Colorado
- This two-story frame residence in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, has a mansard roof, widow's walk, bay windows, and a covered porch. Four people pose in the yard. A taxidermied deer is in the yard by a swingset and rocking chair; other houses...
- Salida (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Longfellow School, erected 1892, razed 1966
- View of Longfellow High School, Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, shows the five-story brick building with stone trim, projecting tower with lookout at the top, an arched columned entry, a widow's walk on the cross gabled roof and bicycles parked...
- Salida (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.
- [between 1892 and 1900?]
- Denver and Rio Grande Hospital built in 1880's destroyed by fire about 1903
- The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hospital in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, is an ornate brick structure with dormers, widow's walk, chimneys, and a porch and balcony, where men pose. Wrought iron fence encloses the landscaped yard; a fountain...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hospital (Salida, Colo.)--1890- 1900.; Salida (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hospitals--Colorado--Salida--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Second school built in Seibert
- View of the Seibert, Kit Carson County, Colorado, school; shows a frame building with belltower and widow's walk. Women pose.
- Seibert (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Seibert--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Seibert--1890-1910.
- [between 1893 and 1900]