Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- 1909-1922 Index to the Denver Municipal Facts
- View of the Sangre de Cristos from South Colony Lakes Road
- View the Sangre De Cristo Range and an abandoned road grade in Custer County, Colorado. Shows rocky slopes and a peak.
- Custer County (Colo.)--1970-1990.; Sangre De Cristo Range (Colo.)--1970-1990.; Mountain roads--Colorado--Custer County--1970-1990.
- [between 1975 and 1981?]
- Amity, Colorado
- View of remains of Amity, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, includes a few dilapidated wood frame structures and partial stone walls in tall grasses. One lone tree, telephone poles, post fence, and a dirt road show in foreground. Atchison,...
- Amity (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Streets--Colorado--Amity--1960-1980.; Trading posts--Colorado--Amity--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980]
- Amity, Colorado
- View down along dirt street of Amity, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, includes two one-story false fronts with canopy roofs over entries stand in tall weeds. The ruins of James Child's stone grocery and dry goods store shows on distance...
- Amity (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dry goods stores--Colorado--Amity--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Amity--1890-1900.; Trading posts--Colorado--Amity--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1980]
- Col. Hollands' home, Amity, Colorado
- Exterior view Thomas Holland's ("father" of Fort Amity) house in Amity, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, features two story, gingerbread gable trim, wrap-around screened porch with decorative turned posts, brackets and balustrade. A man leans...
- Amity (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Amity--1960-1980.; Trading posts--Colorado--Amity--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980]
- Frank McGrath
- Frank McGrath stands on the side of the Amity post office, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. He wears a beret-style cap, striped tie, cuffed pants, wristwatch, and round framed eyeglasses. The one-story, front gable building has wood shingles,...
- Amity (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Post offices--Colorado--Amity--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Amity--1890-1900.; Trading posts--Colorado--Amity--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1980]
- Union Colony pioneers who came to Greeley in 1870
- View of fifteen portraits of Greeley pioneers in Greeley (known initially as Union Colony), Colorado in Weld County. Photos of two couples, eight women, and five men.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Greeley, Colorado pioneers
- Photo of eighteen portraits of Greeley people in Greeley (known initially as Union Colony), Colorado in Weld County. Photos include one couple, eight women, and nine men.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1950-1980.
- [between 1950 and 1980]
- Greeley, Colorado, portraits
- View of fifteen portraits of Greeley pioneers in Greeley (known initially as Union Colony), Colorado in Weld County. Photos of one couple, seven women, and seven men.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1980]
- Greeley, Colorado, portraits
- View of portraits of fifteen Greeley people in Greeley (known initially as Union Colony), Colorado, in Weld County. Photos include one couple, three women, and eleven men.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1950-1980.
- [between 1950 and 1980]
- Occasions of note from the first and second decades of Greeley history, the 1880's and 1890's
- Photoprint of five photos depicts the early history of the town of Greeley, Colorado in Weld County.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1950-1980.
- [between 1950 and 1980]
- Union pioneers who came to Greeley in 1870
- Photo of fourteen portraits of Greeley people in Greeley (known initially as Union Colony), Colorado in Weld County. Photos of seven women and seven men.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1950-1980.
- [between 1950 and 1980]
- Union pioneers who came to Greeley in 1870
- View of fourteen portraits of Greeley pioneers in Greeley (known initially as Union Colony), Colorado, in Weld County. Photos of two couples, two women, and eleven men.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1950-1980.
- [between 1950 and 1980]
- Phi Kappa Sigma Colony fraternity
- Group portrait of young men, members of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity in Denver, Colorado. A pennant on the wall has Greek letters that read: "Phi Kappa Sigma."
- Phi Kappa Sigma (Fraternity)--People--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Fraternities & sororities--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- School Dist. No. 6 Greeley, Colo.
- A student carves a sculpture of a horse out of wood in an art class at a Greeley, Colorado, arts school in Weld County. A bas relief of the "Last Supper" leans against the wall behind him. The boy wears a long- sleeved, plaid shirt.
- Mexican Americans--Education--Colorado--Greeley--1930- 1940.; Greeley (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Greeley--1930-1940.; Sculpture--Colorado--Greeley--1930-1940.; Students--Colorado--Greeley--1930-1940.; Wood...
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Laporte
- A man sits on the porch of a hewn log and clapboard-sided store and house, a former Overland Trail stage station, in Laporte (Larimer County), Colorado. The one-story building has a gabled roof and a bay window. Shows cottonwood trees, a utility...
- Laporte (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Laporte--1920-1930.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Laporte--1920-1930.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Laporte--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- The Matachina [sic] Dance at Nat-te-so Pueblo, Indian Hills, Colorado
- Native American (Pueblo) men and a girl pose outdoors during a Matachines dance at Nat-te-so, a pueblo built as an artists' colony and tourist attraction near Indian Hills (Jefferson County), Colorado. The men wear moccasins, beaded leggings,...
- Nateso Pueblo (Colo.)--People--1920-1930.; Indians of North America--Dance--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.; Matachines (Dance)--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.; Pueblo indians--Dance--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.; Indian Hills...
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Craig Colony
- A man waters a flower garden at the Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. A sign on a small building reads: "Arvada."
- Craig Colony--1910-1920.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Flower gardens--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Gardening--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.
- [between 1916 and 1925?]
- Craig Colony
- A man delivers laundry from a cart at the Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. He wears a tie and straw hat.
- Craig Colony--1910-1930.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Laundry--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.
- [between 1916 and 1925?]
- Craig Colony
- View of a new building at the Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium near Colfax Avenue and Harlan Street in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. The one-story brick building has a flagpole on the roof.
- Craig Colony--1910-1920.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.
- [between 1916 and 1920]
- Granby, Colorado
- View along Agate Avenue (Highway 40), in Granby, Grand County, Colorado, shows wood false front businesses along the wide muddy street. Signs read: "Granby Head Lettuce Growers Association," "Head Lettuce Colony," "Granby Cafe Co.," "Cafe, Ice Cold...
- Granby (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Granby--1910-1930.
- [between 1915 and 1930]
- Craig Colony
- A doctor examines a patient at the Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. Other men look on.
- Craig Colony--1910-1930.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Examinations--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Physicians--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.
- [between 1915 and 1925?]
- Craig Colony
- Patients play croquet at the Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. They wear ties and straw hats.
- Craig Colony--1910-1930.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Croquet--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.
- [between 1915 and 1925?]
- Great Divide Homestead Colony
- View of the Great Divide Homestead Colony, in Moffat County, north of Craig, Colorado; shows tents, wagons, a simple wooden building, and horses grazing.
- Homesteading--Colorado--Craig--1910-1920.
- [between 1911 and 1920]
- Raw land open to entry, Iron Spgs. Divide, near Great Divide Colony
- View of wagon ruts winding through brush-covered rolling hills at Iron Springs Divide, Moffat County, Colorado.
- Roads--Colorado--Moffat County--1910-1920.
- [between 1911 and 1920]
- Craig Colony
- Men, probably doctors, examine a patient in bed at the Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. The men wear suits.
- Craig Colony--1910-1930.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Interiors--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Physicians--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Craig Colony
- Men sit and stand near a dining room table at the Craig Colony a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. The table is littered with dishes.
- Craig Colony--1910-1930.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Dining rooms--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Oil shale settlement
- Shacks, outhouses, and sheds comprise this colony in (probably) Colorado or Utah; men stand by a truck and tanks; desert ridges and valleys are in the distance.
- Oil-shale industry--1910-1930.; Petroleum industry--1910-1930.; Settlements--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Craig Colony
- Men stand on boardwalks at Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. Small houses with canvas walls are nearby.
- Craig Colony--1910-1930.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Cabins--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.; Wooden sidewalks--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1925?]
- Craig Colony
- Montage of activities during the winter at Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. A man holds a shovelful of snow. Another man named Mayns carries a quarter of beef on his shoulder.
- Craig Colony--1910-1920.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Blizzards--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Meat--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Man in Craig Colony
- A man reads a book as he sits in a wood and canvas lounge chair in his room at the Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. A dresser, gas light, chamber pot, and bed are nearby.
- Craig Colony--1910-1920.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Reading--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Judge Gavin's office Craig Colony
- Men and women nurses pose near a small building at Craig Colony (Craig Hospital) a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. A sign on the building reads: "Cornelius J. Gavin The People's Judge."
- Craig Colony--1910-1920.; Edgewater (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Buildings--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Nurses--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.; Sick persons--Colorado--Edgewater--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- The Old school house, Amity, Colo.
- View of a frame school building with a cupola and finial near a dirt road in the Salvation Army colony at Amity (Prowers County), Colorado. Picket and barbed wire fences are beside the road, and probably a farm house is near the school.
- Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1910?]
- Amity, Colo., colony wagon shop and livery stable
- View of a frame livery barn with a gabled roof and false-front and a frame building with a sign that reads: "Wagon Shop" in Amity, a Salvation Army colony, in Prowers County, Colorado. A wooden wagon and a carriage are parked under the livery roof,...
- Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Stables--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Workshops--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1903?]
- Colony farmers loading cantaloupe
- Men stand and pose on a wooden loading platform at the Salvation Army colony at Amity (Prowers County), Colorado. Farmers stand beside wooden crates of cantaloupe and stacks of wooden pallets. A horse-drawn wagon and probably Atchison Topeka &...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1910.; Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cantaloupes--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Farmers--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Fruit...
- [between 1902 and 1903?]
- General store, Amity, Colo.
- Men and boys stand and pose outside the "Childs Block" building in Amity, a Salvation Army colony in Prowers County, Colorado. Painted signs on the stone building read: "Groceries and Dry Goods" and "Star Brand Shoes Are Better." Date on the stone...
- Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; General stores--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1903?]
- Children of the Cherry Tree Home, working on irrigation project
- Boys in overalls and straw hats use hoes to enlarge an irrigation ditch near the Cherry Tree Home (Amity Colony Children's Home) in Amity (Prowers County), Colorado. The home sits behind the boys. Shows a two-story structure with mansard roof, a...
- Cherry Tree Home (Amity, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Digging--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Orphanages--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1905?]
- La Jolla, Anna Held's Green Dragon Colony
- View of Anna Held's Green Dragon Colony cottages in La Jolla (San Diego County), California. Shows Anna Held's house, the Ark, and other cottages she owned on the bluffs above La Jolla Cove.
- Held, Anna, 1877?-1918--Homes & haunts.; La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)--1900-1920.; San Diego (Calif.)--1900-1920.; Artist colonies--California--San Diego--1900-1920.; Dwellings--California--San Diego--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Amity, Colorado, the broom industry
- A man wears suspenders and a hat and stands at the doorway of a stone house with a shingle roof in Amity, a Salvation Army colony, in Prowers County, Colorado. Brooms made with straw and wooden handles are on display beside stone walls. The...
- McAbee, Frank--Homes & haunts.; Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Broom & brush industry--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Brooms & brushes--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Taos, artists colony
- View of a man painting a canvas on an easel, and his Native American subject, in Taos, New Mexico.
- Taos (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Artists' models--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Artists--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Taos artists colony
- View of a man with a palette and a painting on an easel in Taos, New Mexico. His Native American subject stands nearby; fields are in the background.
- Taos (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America in art--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.; Painters--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Victor Higgins Taos Artist Colony
- View of Victor Higgins with a palette and a painting on an easel, at Taos, New Mexico. His Native American female subject holds a branch-hoop nearby; she wears a print dress and hair bangs. The canvas depicts her, the hoop, necklaces, and a parrot.
- Artists' models--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.; Artists--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Women--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.; Higgins, Victor, 1884-1949.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Taos, N M artists colony
- View of a Native American woman in Taos, New Mexico, holding a hoop made of branches. She wears a print dress, hair bangs, and a blanket.
- Taos (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Artists' models--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Women--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Homelands of member of Salvation Army Colony, Amity, Colo.
- View of a frame farm house with a hipped roof and a dormer window on a farm in Amity (Prowers County), Colorado. Shows a dog by the doorway, laundry on a clothesline, a carriage near the house, and haystacks behind trees on the farm.
- Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Farmhouses--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Farms--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Frank M. Craig
- Studio portrait of Dr. Frank M. Craig, founder of the Craig Colony, a tuberculosis sanitarium in Edgewater (Jefferson County), Colorado. He wears a jacket, shirt with high collar, and a tie.
- Physicians--1890-1910.; Craig, Frank M.
- [between 1890 and 1904?]
- Equality colony
- People pose on porches of a three-story building, possibly the Larson Hotel, in Hahns Peak (Routt County), Colorado. The frame building has an outdoor staircase to the second and third floors, balconies, and a steep pitched shingled roof. Men,...
- Hahns Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Richard E. Hart, the original Union Colony building 8th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues
- Richard Hart of Greeley, Colorado in Weld County stands outside of the original Union Colony (original name for Greeley). The wood-frame building has board-and-batten siding, a front gable, shingles, and two entry doors. Advertisements are posted...
- Greeley (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Buildings--Colorado--Greeley--1870-1880.; Hart, R. (Richard)
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- A view of early Longmont taken from top floor of Farmer's Mill.
- View from Farmer's Mill over Longmont, Colorado, shows widely spaced one and two-story wood frame residences. "#1 is the old Denio mill on Bross street that burned about 1934. #2 is the G. M. Davis home, later moved and replaced by H. W. Balmer...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Houses--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880.]
- Indian Hills, Nat-te-so Pueblo
- A view at Na-Te-So, a pueblo built by Indians as an artists' colony and tourist attraction, includes the entrance to an adobe building, with a cross atop an elevated section over the door. A sign in the shape of a thunderbird reads "Museum;" vigas...
- Nateso Pueblo (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Indian Hills (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Artists' studios--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.; Tourist trade--Colorado--Indian HIlls--1920-1930.
- [1928?]
- Indian Hills, Nat-te-so Pueblo
- A view at Na-Te-So, a pueblo built by Indians as an artists' colony and tourist attraction in Indian Hills, Colorado, includes a wood gate between two two-story adobe walls with vigas.
- Nateso Pueblo (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Indian Hills (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Artists' studios--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.; Tourist trade--Colorado--Indian Hills--1920-1930.
- [1928?]