Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Tramway cable
- A man stands in between two mine tramway cables in a forested, rocky area, in Colorado. The cables lead to a wooden structure nestled within the trees.
- Aerial tramways--Colorado--1890-1920.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920?]
- Waldorf, Colo. altitude: 11,666 feet at Post Office
- View of Waldorf, Clear Creek County, Colorado; shows buildings including (l to r): power house, stable, Post Office, and cables of the bucket line from Santiago to Waldorf.
- Waldorf (Colo.)--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Central City. Saratoga Mine (C-46)
- A group of miners stands in a cage inside a mine, possibly the Saratoga Mine in Russell Gulch near Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado, probably in the 1880s or 1890s. Cages such as this replaced bucket hoists by the 1880s in many mines, and...
- Mine hoisting--Colorado--Colorado--Central City--1880- 1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hoisting machinery--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1880-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Montrose, Colo. drilling for artesian water
- A group of Montrose, Colorado, citizens pose in front of drilling equipment that drills an artesian well in Montrose County. The drill is composed of cables and steel bars. Electrical cables are attached to a steam-powered tractor; a puff of...
- Montrose (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Artesian wells--Colorado--Montrose--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890]
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 12, 1910 March 19
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 3, 1911 January 14
- Underground construction, truck pulling U. G. cable
- Workers sit and stand near a manhole and install underground cables in Denver, Colorado. The men wear work clothes and hat. One man leans his hand on a pulley mechanism. A flat bed truck with a roll of cable is parked on the street nearby. Shows an...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--People--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Manholes--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Telecommunication cables--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.;...
- 1919
- Parking sign, Riverside Park, Salida
- View of a parking sign in Riverside Park at Sackett and F Street in Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado. It reads: " No Parking From Here to Eternity" with "Eternity" scratched on to the sign by hand. The pole of the sign has scratched off paint. A...
- Salida (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Signs (Notices).; Signs and signboards--Colorado--Salida--Pictorial works.; Salida (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1994
- Winter at Glenwood Springs
- View of snow covered trees, fence, building and utility cables in Glenwood Springs (Garfield County), Colorado.
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Snow--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1900-1910.; Trees--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1900-1910.; Winter--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Winter at Glenwood Springs
- View of snow and ice covered houses, a sidewalk, fence, trees and utility cables in Glenwood Springs (Garfield County), Colorado.
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Sidewalks--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1900-1910.; Snow--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1900-1910.; Winter--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- North Main Street scene
- View of North Main Street in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows commercial buildings, pedestrians, cars, electric light posts and bicycles. Signs read: "First National Bank," "Drugs," "Spoors Smokehouse Billiards," "Hotel," "McCabe Millinery...
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Pueblo--1910-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Pueblo--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Electric bus
- View of an electric, rubber-tired trolley coach on Lincoln Avenue and the Colorado State Capitol building in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The Denver Tramway Corporation electric bus reads: "DTC" and number "535" and is...
- Colorado State Capitol (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Denver Tramway Corporation (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Capitols--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Street...
- [between 1940 and 1945?]
- Mt. Logan retort Simplex
- View of an oil shale processing facility (a retort) near De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; shows sheds, ore cables, chutes, and pipes on a hillside.
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--De Beque--1900-1920.; De Beque (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Industrial facilities--Colorado--De Beque--1900-1920.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--De Beque--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Coal mine
- Men pose beside a tram at a coal camp in probably Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows a coal processing building, cables and coal piled in coal cars. Tailings piles, railroad tracks, houses and snow are in a valley.
- Las Animas (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas--1890-1920.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Las Animas--1890-1920.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Las Animas--1890-1920.
- [between 1895 and 1915?]
- Washington Avenue, Golden
- Cars are parked on Washington Avenue in Golden (Jefferson County), Colorado. Brick commercial buildings include the "Avenue Hotel," "City Tailor Shop," "Alpine Dru[g]" and the two story, brick Linder Block. Shows striped awnings on business fronts,...
- Golden (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Golden--1920-1930.
- [between 1921 and 1926?]
- Angle station, Gold Prince tram
- View of a gable-roofed aerial tramway station near the Gold Prince Mine near Gladstone (San Juan County), Colorado. Shows tram cables, building frame and the snow covered San Juan Range in the distance.
- San Juan County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Aerial tramways--Colorado--San Juan County--1900-1920.; Gold mining--Colorado--San Juan County--1900-1920.
- [between 1907 and 1917?]
- So. Platte Dr. Co.
- View of iron beams, cables, and pulleys on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- View of equipment on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge probably near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows chains, cables, and iron beams.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Mining machinery--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- View of bucket mechanisms on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows iron beams, cables, and buckets.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Dredging--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- Mechanized buckets scoop up soil on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows rock filled alluvial soil, cables, iron beams, and buckets.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Dredging--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- View of a tall iron beam structure that is part of the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows the iron beam framework, pulleys, and cables.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- View of an iron framework on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows mechanized buckets transporting dirt, cables, iron beams, and the Platte River.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Conveying systems--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- Buckets scoop soil from the Middle Fork South Platte River bed to be processed on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows iron beam framework, pulleys, and cables.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Dredging--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- Mechanized buckets lift dirt onto the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge probably near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows steel beam framework and cables.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Conveying systems--Colorado--Fairplay--1940-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1940-1950.; Dredging--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- So. Platte Drg. Co.
- View of an iron framework of machinery on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows cables, pulleys, and buckets.
- South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Urad Mine
- Interior view of the inside of a tunnel at the Urad Mine in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Shows ore cars, tracks, a bucket, pipe sections and cables.
- Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Urad Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1940-1950.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek...
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Mill buildings
- View of multi-level processing mills with gabled roofs, probably in Colorado. Shows tailings, barrels, piles of logs, a guard rail and a rocky hill. Cables hang from a roof.
- Mills--Colorado--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--1940-1950.; Ore industry--Colorado--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Eagle River Canon, Ben Butler Mine, Glenwood Extension D & RGRR
- Two men stand on narrow gauge tracks near a signal on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near the Ben Butler Mine in Eagle River Canyon (Eagle County), Colorado. Shows a train on the tracks, tailings, a tram house, cables for buckets, telegraph...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Ben Butler Mine (Eagle County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Eagle River (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Colo. National Bank Bldg. Denver
- Exterior view of the Colorado National Bank building at 17th (Seventeenth) and Champa Streets in Denver, Colorado; built in 1915 from Colorado Yule marble; neoclassical design by Arthur A. Fisher and William E. Fisher; shows street car tracks and...
- Colorado National Bank--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Banks--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1915 and 1920]
- Mining Exc. Bldg. Denver
- View of the Mining Exchange building at 15th (Fifteenth) and Arapahoe Streets in Denver, Colorado (completed in 1891, razed in 1963); shows street lamps, streetcar cables, Scholtz Drug Co. Loop Store on corner of building, Sell's Bakery and...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1914 and 1920?]
- Manitou, Colo.
- Power lines, street light, telgraph and telephone cables cross intersection of Manitou Avenue and Ruxton Avenue, Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Tourist shops include: "Rocky Mountain Gem Specimens and Free Museum," "Wing Fat's Chinese...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Street lights--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1910-1920.; Street railroads--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1910-1920.; Tourist trade--Colorado--Manitou...
- [1912]
- Nevadaville panorama
- Middle image of a panoramic view of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, shows frame and log dwellings, the Pozo Mill, tailings, a monitor roofed mining facility, tripods with pulleys and cables to move ore, neat stacks of firewood, and roads cut...
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Quartz Hill (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1888?
- Nevadaville
- View of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, includes frame houses, Main Street, Methodist Episcopal Church, and Christ Church, laundry lines, wood piles, retaining walls, and picket fences. Scaffolds support cables with buckets for moving ore;...
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- No. 62 Ophir, Colo, West End
- Ophir, Ouray County, Colorado, consists of frame houses, outhouses, and mining facilities. Frame towers support cables on pulleys; ore buckets hang at intervals. Laundry is in fenced yards; a schoolhouse tops a rise; mules stand by piled firewood....
- Ophir (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ophir--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Rico, Colo looking S. E.
- View of Rico, Dolores County, Colorado, shows town buildings, Dolores Mountain, Dolores River, and mines: Snowshoe, Albany, Lavta, Enterprise, Franklin, Golden Age, Jumbo, Montezuma, Stat., Newman Group, Enterprise Tunnel, Skeptical, Stanley, Rico...
- Rico (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Rico--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Watsons Mill, Dad & Richard
- View of Watson's Mill, Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado, shows four tiers and tram cables emerging from the top tier, piles of rock and 55-gallon drums flank the dirt road lead up to the building and two men pose in the doorway of the...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1920-1930.; Ore industry--Colorado--Silver Plume--1920-1930.
- 1926 or 1927
- Watsons Mill, Dad
- View of Watson's Mill, Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado, shows four tiers and tram cables emerging from the top tier, piles of rock and 55-gallon drums flank the dirt road leading up to the building and a man stands in the doorway of the...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1920-1930.; Ore industry--Colorado--Silver Plume--1920-1930.
- [1926 or 1927]
- Aerial tramway from Ferris Haggarty mine
- View shows the aerial tramway used at the Ferris Haggarty mine, Wyoming. Cables and buckets are attached to the central support tower.
- Ferris-Haggarty Mine (Carbon County, Wyo.)--1930-1950.; Aerial tramways--Wyoming--1930-1950.; Mining--Wyoming--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Avalanche recovery
- A group of people stand around to watch as an automobile is towed out of a ditch with cables on a dirt mountain road somewhere in Colorado.
- Accidents--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Salt Lake City - Brigham Young's house
- View of Beehive House and Eagle Gate, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah; also shows State Street and electric tramway cables.
- Young, Brigham, 1801-1877--Homes & haunts.; Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah)--1920-1930.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- Wheeler Clock
- View in Manitou Springs, Colorado, of the Wheeler Clock and environs, looking west. The clock was donated by Jerome Wheeler to the town of Manitou Springs to commemorate the opening of the Manitou Mineral Water Bottling Company in 1890. Made of...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Clocks & watches--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1940-1950.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1940- 1950.
- 1942
- DTC Park Hill car no. 230 in 900 block of 17th street
- View of Denver Tramway Company trolley Park Hill number 230 on 17th (Seventeenth) Street in Denver, Colorado. Downtown business signs and awnings read: "Postal Telegraph Commercial Cables", "Mutual Life", "National Life U.S.A.", "Brunskill Sign...
- Denver City Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Eagle Canyon
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad cars edge the Eagle River, in Eagle County, Colorado. A trestle catwalk serves a mine entrance, and a bucket shows on cables. Belden District mining structures supported by stilts are built on cliff faces;...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.--1930-1940.; Eagle River (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Gilman (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Gilman--1930-1940.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Gilman--1930-1940.; Railroad...
- [between 1934 and 1940?]
- Colo. National Bank, September 1920
- Exterior view of the Colorado National Bank, 17th (Seventeenth) and Champa Street, Denver; shows 1915 Neoclassical Greek temple style features, Colorado Yule marble and fluted columns with Ionic capitals. Sign on adjacent building reads: "Postal...
- Colorado National Bank--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Banks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- September 1920
- Royal Gorge, Suspension Bridge
- View of the Royal Gorge Suspension Bridge, Fremont County, Colorado, over 1000 feet above the Arkansas River. Tourists walk across the plank bridge floor, 1260 feet long and 18 feet wide with tall towers supporting the main cables. Built by the...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1930-1940.; Royal Gorge (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Royal Gorge Bridge (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--1930-1940.
- [1930]
- Seventeenth Street
- View of 17th (Seventeenth) Street in Denver, Colorado; shows the Brown Palace Hotel, the Denver Club, the Colorado State Capitol building, and the Tom Patterson home. Buggies and bicycles, are by cable car tracks.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Louisiana-Colo. Mining Co., Dallie Varde Mine
- View of aerial tram building, Dolly Varden Mine operated by Louisiana-Colorado Mining Company, on Mount Bross, near Alma, Park County, Colorado; also shows tramway cables, men or miners, a water tank, and ore buckets.
- Bross, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Park County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Aerial tramways--Colorado--Park County--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Park County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Park County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Union Station, after 1915
- View of Union Station, Denver, Colorado; shows automobiles and sightseeing cars, street railway tracks, and overhead electrical cables.
- Union Station (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Street railroad tracks--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1915 and 1920?]
- West High under construction
- View of West High School construction, 951 Elati Street, Denver, Colorado; shows construction towers and scaffolding, sandbags, electric street railway tracks and cables, and parked cars.
- Denver Public Schools--1920-1930.; West High School (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [1924 or 1925?]
- At Central Loop
- View of Central Loop, 15th (fifteenth) and Lawrence Street, Denver Tramway Company, Denver, Colorado; shows a masonry building with arcaded arches, domes, and terra cotta trim. Street railway tracks and electric cables pass in front.
- Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Street railroads--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]