Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- 1308 Glenarm Street Denver, Colorado
- A man, probably Amos Steck, stands on the porch of a house at 1308 Glenarm Place in Denver, Colorado. The three-story brick masonry house has turrets, covered porch, and balconies.
- Steck, Amos,--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- Summer, 1886
- 16th Street, Denver
- Rooftop view of commercial buildings in the Union Station neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Multi-story brick and stone buildings on 16th (Sixteenth) Street include the Hotel Brunswick (Clarke Building), the corner Tabor Block and the "New York...
- Union Station (Denver, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1885?]
- 17th & Arapahoe Sts. Denver
- Rooftop view of Denver, Colorado. The intersection of 17th (Seventeenth) and Arapahoe Streets is nearby. A sign on a building reads: "Grocery."
- Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1874
- 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'l Bank, Gunnison, Established by Lewis Cheney 1882
- Men stand on a sidewalk in front of the First National Bank building on Virginia Avenue and Main Street in Gunnison (Gunnison County), Colorado. Signs read: "Abercrombie & Karr, Lawyers" and "Western Union Telegraph Office." Shows the Gunnison...
- First National Bank (Gunnison, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Banks--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; People--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.
- 1882?
- 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]
- 2401 Emerson
- View of a house and Black men, women, and children, 2401 Emerson Street, Denver, Colorado. Shows a two-story brick and stone building with porches, roof finials.
- African Americans--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Girls--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.
- [between 1889 and 1900?]
- 4-H exhibit Logan Co. Fair
- A man and a boy pose holding a picture of a Hereford cow and several calves in front of the four-leaf 4H clover at the Logan County Fair in Sterling, Colorado. The word "corn" is painted on an upright board and a clear, plastic bag of corn kernels...
- Sterling (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Cattle--Colorado--Sterling--1960-1970.; Fairs--Colorado--Sterling--1960-1970.
- [between 1963 and 1965]
- 400 blk. Main St.
- View along the 400 block of Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, shows the one, two and three story mainly brick commercial buildings with horse-drawn carriages along the dirt street. The Longmont National Bank is on the corner with striped awnings....
- Longmont (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.
- [between 1907 and 1910]
- [Dic]kerson, Thos "L" 12th Ky. Urt
- Studio portrait of Thomas Dickerson, a member of Farragut Post Number 46, G. A. R. He wears a medal in the shape of an eagle with a U. S. flag and a star pendant on his shirt.
- African Americans--1890-1910.; Insignia--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- [Sixteenth] 16th St. East side
- Rooftop view of 16th (Sixteenth) Street, Larimer Street and Lawrence Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. Signs on buildings read: "Pacific House" and "Denver Theatre." Shows a building construction site.
- Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Building construction--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.
- 1867
- [Victoria Tunnel] & Mendota Mine
- Men and women stand on a trail above the buildings of the Mendota Mine near Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A sign reads [?] [Tun]nel & Mendota Mine.
- Mendota Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1880-1900.; Women--Colorado--Silver Plume--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- "Big Jim's" cabin and daughter
- A Native American (Shawnee) woman holds a baby, identified as the grandson of Chief Tecumseh, outside of a small log cabin, possibly in Oklahoma. She wears a full length print dress and a scarf around her neck. A white woman stands next to her.
- Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813--Family.; Indians of North America--Women--Oklahoma--1880-1910.; Shawnee Indians--Children--Oklahoma--1880-1910.; Log cabins--Okahoma--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- "Cecile," a Flathead belle
- Sitting portrait of a Native American Flathead (Salish) woman, identified as Cecile. She wears an elaborately stitched and beaded dress, large circular earrings, a necklace, and a long, patterned bone (?) ornament around her neck.
- Indians of North America--1880-1910.; Salish Indians--Women--1880-1910.; Cecile,--Salish woman.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- "Cheyenne Lodge" (& surroundings)
- A Native American (Cheyenne) woman sits near a tepee. Near the tepee is a wood cooking tripod and a wood and brush drying rack from which meat and hide hangs. A metal pot is on the ground near the tripod. Other tepees are in the distance.
- Cheyenne Indians--1880-1910.; Indians of North America--1880-1910.; Tipis--1880-1910.; Women--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- "Lost" Lakes, near Meigs Peak, Col.
- Aerial view of summits and high mountain lakes, identified as "Lost Lakes" near "Meigs Peak", probably near Stunner Pass in Conejos County, Colorado. Shows dense forest, boulders and snow above timberline in the San Juan Mountains.
- Conejos County (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Colorado--Conejos County--1870-1880.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Conejos County--1870-1880.; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
- 1874
- "Spill" at dam at high water
- View of a dam on Clear Creek near the Clear Creek Mine and mill, Clear Creek County, Colorado.
- Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dams--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- "Wolpi", one of Moqui towns
- View of Native American (Hopi) stone and adobe, multi-story dwellings at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona. Sheep pens beside a steep slope have low stone walls. Ladders lean against buildings on the mesa.
- Hopi Indians--Structures--Arizona--Walpi--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Structures--Arizona--Walpi--1870-1880.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--Arizona--Walpi--1870-1880.; First Mesa (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1870-1880.;...
- [between 1871 and 1876?]
- A bit in Denver Bottoms
- A landscape oil painting by Henrietta Bromwell of buildings, smoke stacks; bushes are in the foreground and along the stream. Henrietta uses orange, blue, purple, green, grey and pink oil paints on a rectangular board. An inscription on the back of...
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- A frontier camp near Fort Sill where TSE waited for opening
- Panoramic view of a Native American (Kiowa or Apache) tepee camp by a river near Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Wagons are parked in the camp.
- Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1870-1880.; Fort Sill (Okla.)--1870-1880.; Indian encampments--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1870-1880.; Rivers--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1870-1880.; Tipis--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880?]
- A modern adobe in Santa Fe
- Well dressed men and women stand on the porch of an adobe house with Territorial Style elements in Santa Fe (Santa Fe County), New Mexico. The house has a portal with square posts and windows with shutters. A Hispanic woman sits on the ground; she...
- Spanish Americans--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1880-1890.; Santa Fe (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Adobe houses--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1880-1890.; Women--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- A photo of some of the Attawa Indian boys taken in the early opening of the school
- Native American Iowa (Ioway) boys pose with their white instructor beside their clapboard school. The boys wear short cropped hair, sack jackets and trousers, two sit in chairs.
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Iowa Indians--1890-1900.; School children--1890-1900.; Teachers--1890-1900.
- 1870
- A sawmill in the Uintah Mountains
- Two men, one with a horse, rest near a scatter of logs and planks outside a sawmill in the Uinta (Uintah) Mountains in Utah. A log sawmill building and a stack of cut planks are nearby. A stand of pine trees is in the distance.
- Uinta Mountains (Utah and Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Utah--1870-1880.; Lumber industry--Utah--1870-1880.; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
- [1870]
- A shift of miners at mouth of Ridge tunnel
- Miners pose in front of the Ridge tunnel, Colorado.
- Miners--Colorado--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- A typical scene on Worthington [sic] street Phoenix, A. T.
- A Native American (Maricopa) woman stands on the sidewalk near a market on Washington Street in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds a basket and wears a blanket. A sign reads: "J. W. Dorris [W]ash". Shows a Native American man, white men, and a bicycle.
- Indians of North America--Arizona--Phoenix--1890-1900.; Maricopa Indians--Arizona--Phoenix--1890-1900.; Phoenix (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Arizona--Phoenix--1890-1900.; Women--Arizona--Phoenix--1890-1900.
- [either 1899 or 1900]
- A view of Cliff Palace, Cliff Palace Canon, Colorado
- View of Cliff Palace, North American Indian (Ancestral Puebloan) cliff dwellings in Cliff Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Shows crumbling, square and round, stone and masonry dwellings and kivas beneath a large cliff overhang. Trees are...
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--Colorado--Mesa Verde National Park 1890-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--Colorado--Mesa Verde National Park 1890-1900.; Chapin Mesa (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cliff...
- c1899
- A view of Spruce Tree House, Navajo Canon, Colorado
- View of Spruce Tree House, North American Indian (Ancestral Puebloan) cliff dwellings in Spruce Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Shows crumbling, square and round, stone and masonry dwellings beneath a large cliff overhang. Trees are in...
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--Colorado--Mesa Verde National Park 1890-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--Colorado--Mesa Verde National Park 1890-1900.; Mesa Verde National Park...
- c1899
- A weazened [i.e. wizened] medicine man
- Studio portrait (standing) of Big Hand, a North American Indian (Sioux Arikara) man. He holds a staff and calumet and wears moccasins, leggings, robe, and feather in his headband.
- Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Aged persons--1880-1890.; Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Shamans--1880-1890.; Big Hand.
- [ca. 1880]
- A wigwam, at the Ioways vilage [sic]
- A Native American Iowa (Ioway) man and woman pose outside their tepee with a log fence around it, Ioway village.
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Iowa Indians--Women--1890-1900.; Tipis--1890-1900.
- 1890 May 1
- A. J. Bradley Ouray, Colo.
- Studio portrait of A. J. Bradley. He wears a tie and suit.
- Bradley, A. J.; Men--1890-1900.
- 1892
- A. Stedman
- Studio portrait of Arnold Stedman, a member of the Arapahoe County Board of Education (School District Number 1) from 1878 to 1890. He was also an advisory board member for School District Number 1's Public Library. He wears a stiff, high-collared...
- Arapahoe County (Colo.). School District, No. 1. Board of Education--People.; School board members--Colorado--Denver--1870-1890.; School boards--Colorado--Denver--1870-1890.; Stedman, A.
- [between 1878 and 1890]
- Aaron Gove residence
- Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Gove and Margaret Gove pose on and near the porch of their house at 2045 Grant Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one-story brick house has a hip roof, chimneys, and contrasting arches above the...
- Gove, Aaron, Mrs.; Gove, Aaron.; Gove, Margaret.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Aboriginal life among the Navajoe [sic] Indians, near old Fort Defiance, N.M. [sic]
- Native American (Navajo) men and women sit or stand beside a loom near old Fort Defiance (McKinley County), New Mexico. A man wears a woven shirt, leather leggings and moccasins and holds a bow and arrow. A man wears a loin cloth and leans against...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Fort Defiance--1870-1880.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--Fort Defiance--1870-1880.; Fort Defiance (N.M.)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--New Mexico--Fort Defiance--1870-1880.; Looms--New Mexico--Fort...
- 1873
- Aboursville, Colorado
- View of the 1880s company town of Arbourville (Arboursville, Arborville, Arbour-Villa, and later Conrow), Chaffee County, Colorado; includes log cabins and wood frame residences along a two track road in a valley surrounded by mountain slopes;...
- Arbourville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Roads--Colorado--Arbourville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1886]
- Acoma, N.M.
- View of dirt and rock street, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico; shows two-story pueblo walls constructed of adobe and rock, log ladders extending to second stories, two burros standing next to bundled firewood stacked by beehive oven, and meat or venison...
- Acoma (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Streets--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Actors at the Central City Opera House
- Photograph of two actors in a scene from a play. The taller actor on the left is wearing a top hat, a waitcoat, a light-colored jacket with dark lapels, checkered trousers, and black, leather shoes. He has a full, graying beard, is holding a...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Actors--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Costumes--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1939?]
- Actual photographs taken at Goldfield during bloody strike of 1904
- A crowd of striking miners, temporarily deputized by City Marshall Michael O'Connell, stand at the corner of Victor Avenue and Fourth Street in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. The men are members of the Western Federation of Miners labor union....
- Western Federation of Miners--Strikes--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Miners' strikes--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.;...
- [1904 June 6]
- AdAmAn Club climbing Pike's Peak to set off New Year's fireworks display
- Members of the AdAmAn Club with backpacks make their way along a wind swept rocky slope on Pikes Pike, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. An annual mountaineering trek to the top of the 14,110 foot mountain to set off fireworks on New...
- AdAmAn Club (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Mountaineering--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1950-1960.
- 1959
- AdAmAn Club climbing Pike's Peak to set off New Year's fireworks display
- Members of the AdAmAn Club with backpacks make their way along a windswept rocky slope portion of the Pikes Pike trail, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. A gnarled bare timberline tree shows in foreground. The hike is part of an annual...
- AdAmAn Club (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Mountaineering--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1950-1960.
- 1959
- AdAmAn Club climbing Pike's Peak to set off New Year's fireworks display
- Members of the AdAmAn Club with backpacks, some wearing army jackets, track through deep snow on a evergreen lined portion of Pikes Pike trail, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.
- AdAmAn Club (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Mountaineering--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1950-1960.
- 1959
- AdAmAn Club, climbing Pikes Peak to set off New Year's fireworks display
- AdAmAn Club members climb among boulders, ice, and blowing snow, on Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. They wear parkas, backpacks, and have walking sticks.
- AdAmAn Club (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Blizzards--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1950-1960.; Clubs--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1950-1960.;...
- 1959
- Adams Express Company, portrait
- Studio portrait of employees of the Adams Express Company, Denver, Colorado. Identification: "First row, read left to right - 1. C. V. Riley, 2. F. J. Gould, 3. C. M. Day, 4. R. S. Towne, 5. F. O. Reed, 6. J. C. North, 7. C. I. Fitzgerald, 8. J. W....
- Adams Express Company--People--1900-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Addison Baker's farm residence
- Home of Mr. Addison Nathan Baker on Grand Avenue (West Colfax Avenue) in Denver, Colorado. The farm house is a two-story brick structure with a wrap-around porch. Family members sit in horse drawn carriages.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Farmhouses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Horse teams--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.;...
- January 1882
- Advertising - Billboards
- Three men stand near a billboard that advertises Cudahy's Soap possibly in Colorado. The billboard reads: "Cudahy's Diamond 'G' Soap, the C Mark, Does Better Work and Goes Further Than Any Other Laundry Soap." Two of the men wear work clothes and...
- Billboards--1890-1900.
- 1897, September 29
- African-American baby
- Studio portrait of a girl in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Her mother supports her torso from outside the frame.
- African Americans--Colorado--Georgetown--1860-1880.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Girls--Colorado--Georgetown--1860-1880.
- [between 1868 and 1875]
- African-American girl
- Studio portrait of a Black girl in Freehold, New Jersey. She wears a dress, a watch chain necklace, and a cloth belt with decorated buckle.
- African Americans--1870-1890.; Girls--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- After dinner at the Last Chance Mine Atlanta, Idaho
- Miners pose near the buildings of the Last Chance Mine in Idaho.
- Miners--Idaho--1880-1890.; Mining--Idaho--1880-1890.
- 1886
- Agency of Mora Mercantile Co. at Ribera, N.M.
- Interior view of a branch of the Mora Mercantile Co. in Ribera (San Miguel County), New Mexico. Hispanic men pose near a counter. Clothing hangs from clotheslines, can goods crowd the shelves, and bolts of cloth are stacked near the counter. Shows...
- Spanish Americans--New Mexico--Ribera--1900-1920.; Ribera (N.M.)--1900-1920.; General stores--New Mexico--Ribera--1900-1920.; Interiors--New Mexico--Ribera--1900-1920.; Merchandise displays--New Mexico--Ribera--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1915?]
- Alaska, U. S. Indian curios
- View of a display of wooden Native American artifacts from Alaska includes masks, yokes, totems, arrows, boxes, baskets, and various other artifacts. Cloth, hide, and fur were used on some of the pieces.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1890.; Totems--1880-1890.; Arrows--1880-1890.; Baskets--1880-1890.; Boxes--1880-1890.; Masks--1880-1890.
- 1887
- Alaska, U. S., Indian mat-makers
- Three Native American women and a baby pose near a tent somewhere in Alaska. The eldest woman is outside, working on a mat she is making. The two younger women and the baby are under the shelter of the tent. A log cabin and a second tent flank the...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Alaska--1880-1890.; Children--Alaska--1880-1890.; Tents--Alaska--1880-1890.; Weaving--Alaska--1880-1890.; Women--Alaska--1880-1890.
- 1887