Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- B.P.O.E. Lodge-367, Victor, Colo.
- Group view of Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Lodge 367, Victor, Colorado posed in front of Donnelley building, 412 West Victor Avenue; men are posed (seated or standing) in three-piece suits, many with silk top hats or derby hats with...
- Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Victor--1910-1920.
- [1910?]
- Victor fire
- Bird's eye view of Victor, Colorado, during devastating fire on August 21, 1899, taken from vantage point on hillside where many people fled with household goods & personal belongings for safety. Shows horse- drawn wagons & carriages filled with...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Miners Union store, Victor
- Exterior view of Miners Union Hall, also called Donnelley Mercantile building, 412 West Victor Avenue, Victor, Colorado, a two-story commerical building with brick masonry and decorative frieze. Second-story on right side has tall, narrow windows...
- Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Commercial buildings--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Miners' unions--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.
- [1904]
- Victor, Colo. from west
- Distant view of Victor, Colorado, from west; includes wooden frame and log commerical buildings and residences, canvas tent with wooden frames, construction of wooden frame buildings, and sign painted on building's falsefront: "A. Reynolds, Gents...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [1894 or 1895?]
- Victor, Colo.
- Bird's eye view of distant Victor, Colorado; shows wooden frame residences & brick commercial buildings, school, church, cone-shaped shingle covered spire of Victor Hotel, Gold Coin Mine & tailings, and railroad tracks around perimeter of town.
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1899]
- Cripple Creek
- Aftermath of destruction caused by April, 1896 fire, Cripple Creek, Colorado; men, women and children stroll down street that has debris and rubble left from fire; foreground includes woman holding baby, boy drinking from fire hydrant, canvas...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1896]
- View of fire, Cripple Creek
- Bird's eye view of April, 1896, fire sweeping through commercial business district of Cripple Creek, Colorado; one and two-story gabled and lean-to residences in foreground.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [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]
- Church Sunday School picnic at Sunset, Colo. Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific RR.
- People pose by the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific tracks and depot, Sunset, (originally Penn's Gluch) Boulder County, Colorado. They are dressed in their finest for the Sunday School picnic excursion. A residence, tent, lunch room and grocery store...
- Greeley, Salt Lake, and Pacific Railway Company--1880-1890.; Sunset (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Picnics--Colorado--Sunset--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Sunset--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Sunset--1880-1890.
- 1885
- Cripple Creek
- Bird's eye view northwest over Cripple Creek, Colorado with Mount Pisgah in background (possibly taken from Gold Hill); residences and commercial business district are in the distance.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900]
- Cripple Creek
- Background view of commercial business district with one and two- story flat-roof wooden frame buildings, some with falsefronts (possibly Bennett Avenue), Cripple Creek, Colorado; sign attached to building states "Market"; canvas tent with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1892 or 1893?]
- On Bennett Avenue looking east in 1892-93
- View east on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado (formerly Fremont prior to incorporation); street scene includes horse-drawn wagons, boardwalk, flagpole, dogs, unhaltered colt, and one and two-story flat-roof commercial wooden frame buildings...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1892 or 1893
- From Tough Cuss Bend looking up
- A view of Colorado Central Railroad railroad tracks beside Clear Creek in Clear Creek Canyon in Jefferson County, Colorado. A flume constructed of timber is across the creek.
- Colorado Central Railroad Company--1870-1890.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1870-1890.; Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--Jefferson County--1870-1890.; Railroad...
- [between 1871 and 1890]
- Bird's eye view of Victor Colo. from Cripple Creek trail, north
- Bird's eye view of Victor, Colorado, from Cripple Creek Trail to north; shows sparse settlement with two brick buildings, wooden frame buildings with false fronts, some log buildings, and canvas tents. Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad station...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Trails & paths--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1894?]
- Fourth of July celebration, Victor
- Street scene during Fourth (4th) of July celebration, Victor, Colorado; shows commercial street with brick and frame falsefronts, tightwire walker on ropes or wires between roofs of buildings stretching across street, people lining boardwalks, and...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Aerialists--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Celebrations--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Holidays--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Fourth of July celebration, Victor
- View of horse-drawn float in parade, Fourth (4th) of July celebration,Victor, Colorado; shows horse-drawn float consisting of several young boys standing in a model ship. Sign on Boston One-Price Shoe & Clothing House reads: "Shoes, Clothing,...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Celebrations--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado-- Victor--1900-1910.; Holidays--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1899]
- Fourth of July celebration, Victor
- Close-up view of Chief of Midland Band, Fourth of July celebration, 1895, Victor, Colorado; shows man in costume with feathered headdress holding large pointed staff, a young boy in street-clothes with suspenders and another man in costume with...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bands--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Celebrations--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Holidays--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1899]
- Fourth of July celebration, Victor
- View of man tightwire walking on ropes or wires strung between top floors or roofs of commercial business buildings, Fourth of July celebration, Victor, Colorado; a man in tights uses a long pole for balance.
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Aerialists--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Celebrations--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Holidays--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1899]
- Fourth of July festival, Victor
- Bird's eye view of Fourth Street during 4th of July celebration, 1899, Victor, Colorado. Parade consists of horse-drawn wagons & floats marching underneath welcoming arch lettered with Florence & Cripple Creek and Golden Circle names; erected for...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Celebrations--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Holidays--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Pack burros, Victor Avenue, Victor
- View of burro pack train, Victor Avenue, Victor, Colorado. Several burros are lined up and loaded with supplies; three men are on horseback, and one man holds reins to horse. The commercial business district consists primarily of two-story...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial districts--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1899]
- Smouldering ruins, Victor's big fire
- View of Victor, Colorado's smouldering remains of once thriving business & residential district after devastating fire of August 21, 1899. Shows men, women & children sifting through & inspecting remains; brick chimney stacks and smoke rising from...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Unidentified business interior, Victor
- Interior view of unidentified dry goods or mercantile store, possibly interior of B.P. Schoen drugstore or a smokeshop, Victor, Colorado; shows glass display cases lining exterior walls, one man on each side leaning on cases with cigars, equipment,...
- Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Commercial buildings--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.
- [190-]
- Victor fire
- View of Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad engine & train in ridge cut above Victor, Colorado, during devastating fire of August 21, 1889. Shows flat bed railroad cars filled with men holding personal belongings, household goods & furniture moved by...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Victor fire
- View across rooftops of Victor, Colorado, as devastating fire of August 21, 1899 sweeps across town; shows billows of smoke from wooden frame commercial buildings & residences, a painted sign on brick wall, and the W.J. Donnelley hardware building...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Victor Hotel
- Exterior view of original Victor Hotel (destroyed by Aug., 1899 fire), Victor Avenue & Fourth (4th) Street, Victor, Colorado, a two-story wooden frame commerical building; shows additional ground level with storeroom window displays & awnings,...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Victor Hotel (Victor, Colo.)
- [1895]
- Partial view of B.P.O.E. Lodge-367, Victor
- Partial group view of Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Lodge 367, Victor, Colorado; shows five rows of men in three-piece suits with silk top hats or derby hats, young boy in three-piece suit with silk top hat seated in front row, front door...
- Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Victor--1910-1920.
- [1910?]
- Victor, Colo. from the southeast
- Distant view of Victor, Colorado from the southeast; shows wooden frame & brick buildings, commercial district & residences, mine surface buildings & tailings, and Gold Coin mine.
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Cripple Creek
- View across rocky slope towards section of Cripple Creek, Colorado (possibly Golden public school building on Golden Avenue); commercial business district is in background.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900]
- Broadmoor Casino
- Panoramic view across the landscaped lawn of the Broadmoor Casino, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows the two-story frame hotel with a colonnaded portico, wrap around porch/balcony, friezes, bays, and lunette windows, a bandstand...
- Broadmoor Hotel and Casino (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Broadmoor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Casinos--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1897?]
- Bicycle entry, Flower Carnival
- An entrant in the Sunflower Carnival parade poses on a bicycle in his white shirt and kneepants, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. His bicycle is decorated with white fabric woven into the spokes, a dirigible blimp with propellers...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Parades &...
- [between 1893 and 1906?]
- Parade entry, Flower Carnival
- People pose in a Sunflower Carnival Parade buggy with flowers and greenery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The women wear white dresses with ruffles, lace, flowered hats, and carry parasols; a man wears a suit and holds a ribboned...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Flowers--Colorado--Colorado...
- [between 1893 and 1906?]
- Early Broadmoor
- View of a fenced tract of land known as Broadmoor village, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Shows residences and mountains.
- Broadmoor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1900]
- A Burro and Wagon
- A burro stands hitched to a two wheeled wagon on a well-traveled dirt path. Folded blankets are on the wagon. A four wheeled wagon stands in the distance. Mountains and trees are visible in the distance.
- Carts & wagons--1890-1900.; Donkeys--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Aboriginal life among the Navajo Indians Cańon de Chelle, New Mexico [i. e. Arizona]
- A Native American (Navajo) man and woman sit near a loom and an earthen hogan near Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. A bundle of corn cobs hangs from a nearby tree.
- Indians of North America--Arizona--1870-1880.; Navajo Indians--Arizona--1870-1880.; Navajo women weavers--Arizona--1870-1880.; Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Looms--Arizona--1870-1880.; Weaving--Arizona--1870-1880.
- 1873
- The acequia, Pueblo San Juan. N.M.
- A Native American (San Juan, Tewa) man stands on a log that spans the the acequia (irrigation ditch) at San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico; a woman with an olla (a water vessel) kneels beside the ditch. Shows adobe buildings; the man wears buckskins and...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1900.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1900.; Tewa Indians--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1900.; San Juan Pueblo (N.M.)--1880-1900.; Clothing & dress--New Mexico--San...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Leadville Ice Palace
- Exterior side view Leadville's Ice Palace built for the 1896 Winter Crystal Carnival in Colorado. Two young boys in stocking hats and sweaters stand with a dog beside a round turret and an ice block wall with buttresses and battlements. Located on...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Ice sculpture--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1896]
- Leadville Ice Palace
- Exterior view of the Eighth Street facade of Leadville's Ice Palace in Colorado which was built for the 1896 Winter Crystal Carnival. The site is known as Capitol Hill and is between West Seventh and West Eighth Streets from Spruce to Leiter....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Ice sculpture--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1896]
- Skating rink in the Leadville Ice Palace
- Interior view of Leadville, Colorado's Ice Palace skating rink, built for the 1896 Winter Crystal Carnival. C.E. Joy designed the rink and Cobble & Kerr built the 80 x 190 foot structure. A skater is on the ice below the trussed roof. Ice arches...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Ice skating rinks--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Ice skating--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1896]
- Toboggan slide, Leadville Ice Palace time
- View of West Seventh Street toboggan slide, set up for Leadville, Colorado's 1896 Winter Crystal Carnival outside the Ice Palace. H.C. Dimick, contractor, built the wooden plank with a run of 900 feet in length and a pitch of 48 feet. A group of...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Toboggans--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Grave of Chipeta
- View of the grave site of Chipeta, a Native American (Ute) woman, near Montrose at Ouray Memorial Park (Montrose County), Colorado. The cement and granite tomb is near Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks.
- Indians of North America--Colorado--Montrose County--1920-1940.; Ute Indians--Colorado--Montrose County--1920-1940.; Montrose County (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Colorado--Montrose County--1920-1940.; Chipeta--Tomb.
- [between 1925 and 1935?]
- Chief Ouray's squaw, Chipeta
- Chipeta, a Native American (Ute) woman and wife of Chief Ouray, sits beside woven baskets and blankets probably in western Colorado. She wears a flowered shawl with fringe and a flowered dress.
- Indians of North America--Women--Colorado--1900-1910.; Ute Indians--Women--Colorado--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--1900-1910.; Chipeta.
- 1907
- "Roches Moutonnies" near the Mountain of the Holy Cross
- View of rock formations, boulders. and dead, fallen trees in an unidentified valley in Eagle County, Colorado. The Mount of the Holy Cross and the Sawatch Range are in the distance.
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Holy Cross, Mount of (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Boulders--Colorado--Eagle County--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Colorado--Eagle County--1870-1880.; Logs--Colorado--Eagle County--1870-1880.; Geological and...
- [1873?]
- Grand Canon, Colorado River, near Paria Creek, looking east
- Aerial view of eroded sandstone towers and talus in probably Marble Canyon on the Colorado River in Coconino County, Arizona.
- Coconino County (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1870-1880.; Marble Canyon (Coconino County, Ariz. : Canyon)--1870-1880.; Canyons--Arizona--Coconino County--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Arizona--Coconino County--1870-1880.;...
- 1872
- Limestone walls, Kanab Wash [sic]
- View of limestone, layered rock walls and talus in a narrow section of Kanab Canyon above Kanab Creek (Coconino County), Arizona.
- Coconino County (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Kanab Canyon (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Kanab Creek (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Canyons--Arizona--Coconino County--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Arizona--Coconino County--1870-1880.; Streams--Arizona--Coconino...
- 1872
- Commissioners and directors of the U.P.R.R.
- Men, identified as the commissioners and directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, stand in a row near railroad tracks and pose with a long piece of paper in probably Lincoln County, Nebraska. The Union Pacific Railroad officials wear suits with...
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--People--1860-1870.; Lincoln County (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Business men--Nebraska--Lincoln County--1860-1870.; Generals--Nebraska--Lincoln County--1860-1870.; Men--Nebraska--Lincoln County--1860-1870.; Railroad...
- 1866, October
- Opening of Manitou and Pikes Peak Ry.
- View of a Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway (Pikes Peak Cog Road) locomotive and passenger car near rock formations in El Paso County, Colorado. Men and women passengers pose near and on the train. Smoke rises from the engine. Plains are in the...
- Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Company--1890-1900.; El Paso County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountain railroads--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1900.; Passengers--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1900.
- 1891
- Camp site of engineering party, time of construction, Helena and Northern R.R. Montana
- View of the summer camp for engineers, E.H. McHenry, Research Engineer, on the Marysville Branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad (Helena and Northern Railroad Company) probably near Homestake Pass in Jefferson County or Silver Bow County, Montana....
- Helena and Northern Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Northern Pacific Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Construction camps--Montana--1880-1890.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Montana--1880-1890.; Tents--Montana--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Heebe-Tee-Tse, Shoshone
- Half-length studio portrait of Heebe-Tee-Tse, Shoshone Native American man, He wears a headdress and holds a tomahawk decorated with bells and feathers.
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Portraits--1890-1900.; Shoshoni Indians--1890-1900.; Tomahawks--1890-1900.; Heebe-Tee-Tse.
- c1899
- Royal Gorge, Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, Colorado
- A Denver and Rio Grande Railroad steam engine and passenger train crosses the Arkansas river on Hanging Bridge in the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. A stone retaining wall is along the Arkansas River beside three rail tracks. The steep...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Arkansas River--1890-1900.; Fremont County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Royal Gorge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Fremont County--1890-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Fremont...
- 1898
- Grand Canon; Sheavwitz Crossing
- A man, probably a member of the geological survey, wears a hat and stands on a rocky ridge at the edge of the Grand Canyon (later Grand Canyon National Park), Arizona, at Shivwits Plateau. Shows layered canyon walls in the distance.
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1870-1880.; Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Shivwits Plateau (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Canyons--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1880.; Cliffs--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Arizona--Grand...
- 1872