Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- #109 Apple packers at Roberts #2
- Apple packers pose in front of the North Fork Fruit Growers Association Warehouse No. 2 in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. A group stands under the covered porch adjacent to the building. A second group congregates around a pile of crates near...
- North Fork Fruit Growers Association (Paonia, Colo.)--1900- 1910.; Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Food industry--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Food storage buildings--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- October 13, 1908
- #116 Nelson Packers in auto
- A man drives a carload of six women past a fruit-packing warehouse in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. Warehouse fruit-packers stand behind stacks of fruit crates under the covered area adjacent to the building. Crates read: "North Fork Fruit, The...
- Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Convertible automobiles--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Crates--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- September 22, 1909
- #303 Paonia Meat Market Phil Eisenkramer owner
- Phil Eisenkramer holds a plucked goose inside of his meat market in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. Other plucked birds hang on a rack behind him. Wreaths hang above the rack and the windows. Tins of buscuits from the National Biscuit Company...
- Eisenkramer, Phil--Homes & haunts.; Poultry--Carcasses--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Butchers--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- 1909?
- #305 Eisenkramer's Meat Market
- A bearded customer of Eisenkramer's Meat Market sits in front of the service counter holding a wrapped parcel of meat in his hands. A second parcel of wrapped meat is on the counter next to a ceramic bowl. Two employees stand behind the meat...
- Meat--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Poultry--Carcasses--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Butchers--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- November 22, 1909
- #306 Paonia Meat Market Phil Eisenkramer owner
- A man sits on a stool in front of the customer counter in Eisenkramer's Meat Market in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. A man wearing an apron and a man in a suit stand behind the counter. Animal carcasses, including a pig, birds, and beef, hang...
- Meat--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Pork--Carcasses--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Poultry--Carcasses--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Butchers--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- November 22, 1909
- #307 Miller Mercantile Company Dry Goods & Dept. Store
- Three employees, two men and a woman, of the Miller Mercantile Company Dry Goods & Department Store stand behind a display counter in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. Items on display include window coverings and bolts of fabric.
- Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Dry goods stores--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Sales personnel--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Showcases--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- #313 Interior of Emry Shoe & Clothing Co.
- A male employee of the Emry Shoe & Clothing Company fits a customer with a jacket as the man, who wears a hat, looks at himself in the mirror. Hundreds of boxes of shoes are stacked on shelves behind the mirror. Merchandise, including shirts, is...
- Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Clothing stores--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Sales personnel--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Shoe stores--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- #319 Paonia Meat Market Eisenkramer's
- Interior view of the Eisenkramer's Meat Market in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. Man holding wrapped package of meat sitting on stool in front of customer counter. Butcher behind counter wearing apron. Items on counter: scale and cash register...
- Meat--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1920.; Paonia (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1920.; Butchers--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1920.
- 1911?
- #322 Cobbler at work - rear of Emry Shoe and Clothing Company
- A cobbler repairs the sole of a shoe in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. The shoe is mounted on an iron that the cobbler holds between his feet as he sits on a wooden bench. He taps the sole with a hammer. His box of tools in on the bench next...
- Shoes--Maintenance and repair--Colorado--Paonia--1900- 1910.; Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Shoemakers--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- #357 Studio wrestling
- Studio portrait of two men wrestling with one another in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. Both men have bare torsos and wear wrestling tights. The man in the dark tights twists the arm of the second man behind his back as he grasps his legs. A...
- Paonia (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Posing.; Wrestling--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1920.
- [1911?]
- #97 Apple packers Robert's #1
- Apple packers pose in front of the Fruit Growers Association Warehouse in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. One group stands under the covered porch adjacent to the building. A second group congregates around a pile of crates near the building. ...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1900-1910.; North Fork Fruit Growers Association (Paonia, Colo.)--1900- 1910.; Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Food industry--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Food storage...
- October 13, 1908
- (New) Cardinal - 1942
- View of (New) Cardinal, Boulder County, Colorado; includes a one- story gable-roofed wooden building with a hill behind it; stone fence and a log fence in front.
- (New) Cardinal (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--(New) Cardinal--1940-1950.
- 1942
- (New) Cardinal - 1942
- View of (New) Cardinal, Boulder County, Colorado showing tall grass and flowers growing in a field in front of a small wooden house; wagon wheels partially hidden by the grass; trees behind the house in the field.
- (New) Cardinal (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- 1942
- 1 very old swimming pool, 2 bath house, 3 office
- A view of the springs in Sulphur Hot Springs, Colorado, includes the natural steaming swimming pool, a stone bath house, a wood building, a log cabin, a wood bridge, a tent, and a rail fence surrounding the area. Three men are near the fence; one...
- Hot Sulphur Springs (Colo.)--1860-1920.; Girls--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1860-1920.; Resorts--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1860-1920.; Springs--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1860-1920.
- [between 1860 and 1912?]
- 1. Jo Raymond, 2. - , 3. Fred (Aklin?) 4. Jo Cuerto, 5. Paddy Welch, 6. Geo Layden 7. Chas Gow, 8. Jo (Broad?) 9. M. Welch 10.-
- Street scene in front of Georgetown, Colorado saloon. Chan Gow, a Chinese man, sits in a two wheel cart being drawn by a burro. A Pitbull dog is next to him. Other men in suits and hats are behind; the saloonkeeper has a vest, tie and white apron,...
- Chinese--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- [between 1875 and 1892]
- 11 days work
- Workmen for W. Johnson, in Brighton, Colorado, pose in bib overalls, aprons, sack suits, ties and gold chains, with a line of new houses behind them. The dwellings are frame, one-story, and gable roofed; some have covered porches, all have brick...
- Brighton (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Construction--Colorado--Brighton--1910-1920.
- April 9, 1917
- 1137 Pearl Street
- Posing in sack suits, hats, ties and gold chains, in Boulder, Colorado, these men are identified from left to right as: Hi Washburn, John Bester, Mell Sundstrag, Mr Bottoms, Barkley Sanders (or T.F. Wagner). The storefront behind them has window...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Facades--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- 11th Annual Capitol Hill People's Fair
- 13th Annual Capitol Hill People's Fair Guide Official Program
- 1421 Champa, operator's school
- A woman sits at a desk and interviews an applicant for a position as an operator at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph building, 1421 Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. The woman behind the desk wears a dress with a broad collar and has a...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--People--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Employment interviewing--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Telephone...
- 1921 June 9
- 1421 Champa, operator's school
- Teachers stand behind a group of students who work at a switchboard at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company operator's school at 1421 Champa Street, Denver, Colorado. The women wear headsets and sit in tall chairs facing the...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--People--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Teachers--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Telephone operators--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Telephone...
- 1921 June 9
- 14th Street Viaduct, Retaining Wall
- Shows the rock ashlar retaining wall for the 14th (Fourteenth) Street viaduct in Denver, Colorado. A residential apartment building and the D.S. Waugh Machine Shop are behind the wall on Wazee Street. The viaduct began at 14th and Wazee and ended...
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Bridge construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Retaining walls--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- 1899 January 13
- 17th Street, Denver
- View northeast on 17th (Seventeenth) from California Street, Denver, Colorado; identifiable buildings include California, Equitable, First National Bank, Boston, Ernst & Cranmer, & Quincy buildings; street railway car number 231 (17th Street) and...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; City & town life--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [1911 or 1912]
- 1876 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 4th Annual Denver City directory
- 1878 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s 6th Annual Denver City directory
- 1883 Denver High School Commencement Program
- Program for the seventh Graduation of the Denver High School in 1883.
- Miles, Emily Hannah, 1860-1918.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1883
- 18th and Market Street, Denver
- View of a one story commercial building at the corner of 18th (Eighteenth) Street and Market Street in the Union Station neighborhood of downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows address numbers and business entrances on both Market and 18th Streets. Signs...
- Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Union Station (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1980-1990.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Stores &...
- 1985 August
- 18th St. and Market St., Denver
- View of a one story commercial building at the corner of 18th (Eighteenth) Street and Market Street in the Union Station neighborhood of downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows address numbers and business entrances on both Market and 18th Streets. Signs...
- Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Union Station (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1980-1990.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1985 August
- 1909-1922 Index to the Denver Municipal Facts
- 1915 Corbett & Ballenger's 43rd Annual Denver City Directory
- 1980
- A pick-up truck is parked near a small dilapidated house with a refrigerator and a cast iron heater in front of it near Gateway, Colorado. A woman hangs laundry from a camper nearby, and a 1950s sedan and a trailer, surrounded by trash, are near a...
- Gateway (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Houses--Colorado--Gateway--1980-1990.; Laundry--Colorado--Gateway--1980-1990.; Women--Colorado--Gateway--1980-1990.
- 1980
- 1st Federal
- First Federal Savings Bank in Englewood, Colorado, is under construction at 4301 South Broadway. The new building was built when First Federal of Colorado merged with First Federal of Englewood in 1959. Girders are suspended over an elevated...
- Englewood (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Banks--Colorado--Englewood--1950-1960.; Building construction--Colorado--Englewood--1950-1960.
- [1959?]
- 1st grade art work at Central, 1941
- 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...
- Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Classrooms--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Schools--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
- 1941
- 1st Nat. Bank, 20 yrs. ago, A. H. Hunt, cash, at window
- Interior view of the First National Bank, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, features coffered wood ceilings and an ornate, three-windowed tellers box and brass footrails under writing shelves. A. H. Hunt, the cashier is behind beaded...
- First National Bank (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Bank tellers--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1910-1920.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Banking--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1910-1920.; Banks--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- 1st National Bank, Gunnison, Colo. left to right Sam P. Spencer, E. J. Schimer, Joe Miller.
- Sam P. Spencer, President, stands outside the tellers cage, E. J. Schimer, Book Keeper, Joe J. Miller, Cashier, stand behind the tellers cage window, First National Bank, northwest corner of Main and Virginia, Gunnison, Colorado, built 1882 and...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Banks--Colorado--Gunnison--1910-1930.; Interiors.
- [between 1915 and 1930]
- 1st switchboard, Grand Junction
- Interior view of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph switchboard office area, in Grand Junction, Colorado, shows two female switchboard operators behind a wooden spindle balustrade with swinging door. A group of men, women and one boy pose...
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors--1900-1910.; Telephone operators--Colorado--Grand Junction--1900-1910.; Telephone switchboards--Colorado--Grand Junction--1900- 1910.
- 1903
- 2 women, side saddle & 2 men
- Two men and two women ride donkeys on a dirt street with wooden sidewalks, probably in Colorado. Behind them is a brick building with a porch and columns.
- Donkeys--Colorado--1890-1910.; Riding--Colorado--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- 2121 Tremont Terrace
- View of the demolition of 2121 Tremont Terrace in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Men pick through the rubble on the construction site. The remains of a wall and staircase are behind a chain link fence. A construction worker with a...
- Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Demolition.; Debris.; Wrecking--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Construction and demolition debris--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial...
- 1976
- 268 head on backing at tank, town at rt.
- A (probably) Denver, Rio Grande Western locomotive approaches a water tank near frame houses in Crested Butte (Gunnison County) Colorado; snow capped peaks are behind the town.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.; Water towers--Colorado--Crested Butte--1950-1960.
- 1952 July 3
- 30 ft. snowcut, Rollins Pass, Moffat Road
- Denver and Salt Lake Arrow Turn (passenger car) parked east of Corona snowshed by thirty foot snowbank cut, Rollins Pass, Colorado; shows men, women and railroad employees posed behind train, on roof and on snowbank and standard gauge track.
- Rollins Pass (Colo.); Snow removal--Colorado--1910-1930.; Snowsheds--Colorado--1910-1930.; Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company.
- [between 1904 and 1920]
- 3827 West 32nd Avenue
- View of 3827 West 32nd (Thirty-Second) Avenue in the West Highland neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The two story brick, modified Queen Anne style home has yellow fishscale shingles on the front gable. An arched window is on the first story. A...
- West Highland (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Houses.; Culpin, Alan--Homes & haunts--Pictorial works.; Culpin, Mary--Homes & haunts--Pictorial works.; Dwellings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; West Highland (Denver,...
- 2006?
- 4-H canning club
- The 4-H club of Montrose, Colorado, consists of five girls and three women. They stand behind a display of their wares, which includes jarred fruits and vegetables placed on boxes of mason jars and a small table. A trophy cup and ribbons are on...
- Montrose (Colo.)--1930-1940.; 4-H clubs--Colorado--Montrose--1930-1940.; Girls--Colorado--Montrose--1930-1940.; Home food processing--Colorado--Montrose--1930-1940.
- [1936?]
- 482 plow front & postal car 65
- View of Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 482 (the San Juan train), with a pilot plow, and postal car no. 65 in the yard at Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. The locomotive vents smoke and steam. The railroad station roof is behind the...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad cars--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Railroad mail service--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.;...
- 1949 January 8
- 75th Anniversary Booklet for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
- Anniversary booklet detailing the seventy five year history of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colorado. Included are pictures of the Cathedral from its beginning to 1987.
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Denver, Colorado) -- History. ; Catholic churches--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Catholic Church -- Colorado -- Denver.
- 1987 October
- 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion (Reinforced) Company D
- Group portrait of the 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion (Reinforced) Company D. Taken at Fort Lewis, Washington. Men pose on bleachers with two mules on either side and barracks behind them. Few identified. Left to right top row: Jones, Jamesen....
- Military personnel--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company D.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- [1942]
- 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion (reinforced), Company A
- Group Portrait of 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion (reinforced), Company A. Taken at Fort Lewis, Washington, 1942. This was the first mountain troop unit. The men sit on bleachers with barracks behind them, two groups wear white camouflage...
- Military personnel--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Battalion, 87th. Company A.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- 1942
- 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment re-enforced, Company C preparing to support the Mount Rainier Test Expedition, Paradise, Washington
- Men from 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced), Company C line up beside their skis as they prepare to support the Mount Rainier Test Expedition. Behind them is Paradise Lodge, obscured by tremendous snow drifts.
- Ski troops--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Skiing--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain...
- Spring 1942
- [Boy with figure behind curtain] [art original].
- Painting, American.; Boys in art.
- [1969?]
- [South Broadway Christian Church interior]
- Interior view of the South Broadway Christian Church located at 23 Lincoln Street, Denver, Colorado. The view shows the pulpit, pews, cross, stained glass windows, and arched ceiling. The church organ located behind the pulpit was built and...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Churches--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1901 and 1930?]
- [Two] 2 surveyors standing in front of their Model T Ford
- A surveyor and his assistant pose with striped poles by a convertible automobile on the Alameda Avenue bridge in Denver, Colorado. The license plate reads: "462[?]4 Colo 19[1]3".
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Convertible automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Surveying equipment--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Surveyors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [1913]