Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Covered Wagon Bar, San Luis
- View of the Covered Wagon Cafe and Bar at 126 Main Street, San Luis, Colorado. The one-story commercial style structure has a shaped parapet, and a stucco exterior with three entrances and four windows. One entrance has glass brick sidelights and a...
- Covered Wagon Cafe Bar (San Luis, Colo.)--1990-2000.; San Luis (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Restaurants.;Bars (Drinking establishments); Covered Wagon Cafe Bar (San Luis, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Restaurants--Colorado--San Luis--Pictorial works.; Bars...
- 1990
- Ninth Street Historic Park Auraria Higher Education Center
- View of houses on 9th (Ninth) Street in the Ninth Street Historic Park (Auraria Ninth Street Historic District) located on the Auraria Higher Education Center Campus in Denver, Colorado. Houses are identified (left to right): the Mullen House (1061...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--2000-2010.; Auraria 9th Street Historic District (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Ninth Street Historic Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Conservation &...
- 2000
- Rose trees, Hollenbeck Home, Los Angeles, Calif.
- View of the Hollenbeck Home, a retirement facility located at 573 South Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Shows a multi sided garden house covered in climbing roses. The small building is almost completely covered in rose vines, it has a...
- Hollenbeck Home (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Buildings--1900-1910.; Los Angeles (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Garden structures.; Rest homes.; Roses.
- [1906?]
- Cradleboard
- Show a Native American (Ute) toy cradleboard with a doll. The cradleboard is buckskin wrapped around a board and is decorated with fringe, multi-color beadwork sewn on with lazy stitch. The doll's head is possibly made of wood painted a medium...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Cradleboards--1880-1900.; Dolls--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Old home of George Simpson
- Exterior view of the George Simpson home, a pioneer, Trinidad, Colorado. This two story, shingle and cross gable roofed structure is made of adobe, and the seams between the bricks are clearly visible. A shed roofed porch in an inside corner is...
- Simpson, George--Homes & haunts.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Corner of General Grant Room at Teller House, Central City, Colo, 1933
- General Grant's bed is in the corner of a room in the Teller House in Central City, Colorado. The bedstead has carved woodwork and paneling with a finial on each side of the headboard. The bed is covered with a quilted spread. A dresser is next to...
- Teller House (Central City, Colo.)--Facilities--1930-1940.; Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Bedrooms--1930-1940.; Hotels--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Interiors--1930-1940.
- 1933
- Boulder
- View in Boulder, Colorado showing snow covered pine trees fronting a snow covered street; large three story snow covered house behind the trees; lone car in street in the distance.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1930-1970.
- [between 1933 and 1966]
- Pine Street, Central City streets
- Winter view looking south on Pine Street in Central City, Colorado. The dirt road is covered with slush and bordered by snow on both sides. A white, wood-construction house, which stands above a stone retaining wall, has a peaked roof, and...
- Central City (Colo.)--1960-1990.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1960-1990.
- [between 1969 and 1990?]
- Indian "Turkish bath"
- Two white men stand near a Native American (Shoshone or Bannock) bath in an area covered with tall grass and bushes. The bath is covered with a wooden frame. One man wears a military uniform. The other man wears a suit.
- Bannock Indians--Structures--1880-1910.; Indians of North America--Structures--1880-1910.; Shoshoni Indians--Structures--1880-1910.; Steam baths--1880-1910.; Sweatbaths--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Wild West Show covered wagon
- Two members of the cast of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show sit on the buckboard of a covered wagon. A third man is stopped on a horse in the left midground near the back of the covered wagon. A landscape scene is painted on the backdrop behind where...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Covered wagons--1880-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Western end of Ute reservation sage and no grass, distant mesa, no vegetation
- View (facing possibly Ute Mountain) of Native American men and women (Ute), sitting and standing on sage covered ground near a brush shelter and a covered wagon, probably near Towaoc, Montezuma County, Colorado; shows three saddled horses;...
- Indians of North America--Colorado--Towaoc--1900-1910.; Ute Indians--Transportation--Colorado--Towaoc--1900-1910.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Towaoc--1900-1910.
- 1908
- Arapahoe camp Near Casper, Wyo. On the site of the old Oregon Trail
- Native American (Arapaho) men in leggings, beaded gauntlets, and beaded feather headdresses, pose near a group of tepees and a covered wagon near Casper, Wyoming. The tepees are painted and depict humans on horses and shields; a sign on the covered...
- Arapaho Indians--Clothing & dress--Wyoming--Casper--1880-1910.; Indians of North America--Wyoming--Casper--1880-1910.; Casper (Wyo.)--1880-1910.; Oregon Trail--1880-1910.; Covered wagons--Wyoming--Casper--1880-1910.;...
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- On Oregon Trail, Ezra Meeker getting ready to cross the Loup
- Men wear trousers, shirts, suspenders, and hats and stand in the Loup River beside a prairie schooner and wagon wheels in probably Nance County or Platte County, Nebraska. Ezra Meeker, an elderly man, stands in the bed of the covered wagon used for...
- Loup River (Neb.)--1910-1920.; Oregon National Historic Trail--1910-1920.; Aged persons--Men--Nebraska--1910-1920.; Covered wagons--Nebraska--1910-1920.; Fords (Stream crossings)--Nebraska--1910-1920.; Pioneers--Nebraska--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1912?]
- Chuck Wagon Cafe
- Exterior of the Chuck Wagon Cafe and Cocktail Lounge, Granby, Grand County, Colorado, shows the stone restaurant with pyramidal roof, covered wagon entrance, and painted log addition. A neon covered wagon sign tops the roof and a pickup truck and...
- Granby (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Granby--1980-1990.; Restaurants--Colorado--Granby--1980-1990.
- 1980
- Eldora - Snow covered trees Sulphide Flats
- Tall trees and shrubs stand on a snow-covered ridge near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. The branches of several of the trees are covered in snow.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Shrubs--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Snow--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.; Trees--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1950.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Early modes of transportation, Independence Rock, Wyo.
- View of covered wagons pulled by oxen, horse-drawn covered wagons, a stagecoach, a Pony Express rider, people on horseback and on foot on the Oregon Trail near Independence Rock on the Sweetwater River in Natrona County, Wyoming. Tepees, a wagon...
- Independence Rock (Wyo.)--1860-1870.; Natrona County (Wyo.)--1860-1870.; Oregon National Historic Trail--1860-1870.; Split Rock (Natrona County, Wyo.)--1860-1870.; Sweetwater River (Wyo.)--1860-1870.; Covered wagons--Wyoming--Natrona...
- 1932
- South Pass, Wyo.
- A wagon train on the Oregon Trail moves through South Pass in Fremont County, Wyoming. Shows covered wagons drawn by horses and oxen. Men ride horseback; one drives a herd of horses. The Sweetwater River and the snow covered Wind River Mountains...
- Fremont County (Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Oregon National Historic Trail--1850-1870.; South Pass (Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Sweetwater River (Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Wind River Range (Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Covered wagons--Wyoming--Fremont County--1850-1870.; Horseback...
- 1929
- Morada, San Francisco, Colo.
- View of the Morada in San Francisco (Costilla County), Colorado. The one story adobe structure has a stucco exterior and a pitched roof covered in tar paper. A white wooden cross is hung near the buildings entrance with the initials F.P.D.N.P.J....
- Hermanos Penitentes--Buildings--2000-2010.; San Francisco (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Churches.; Adobe buildings.; Historic buildings.; Hermanos Penitentes--Buildings--Pictorial works.; Moradas--Colorado--San Francisco--Pictorial works.; Adobe...
- 2001?
- Seventeen Mile House
- View of the Seventeen Mile House (17 Mile House Farm Park.) at 1818 South Parker Road in Parker (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The white two-level clapboard house has a covered porch and an exterior wood stairwell to the second story. The covered...
- Seventeen Mile House (Parker, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Parker (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Houses.; Arps, Louisa Ward, 1901---Pictorial works.; Seventeen Mile House (Parker, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Dwellings--Colorado--Parker--Pictorial works.; Parker...
- 1977
- Bob's Place
- View of Bob's Place on Colorado Boulevard in Glendale (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The abandoned gas station is a rectangular brick building with a car port (porte cochere) with stone covered columns. Part of the facade has been covered with stone,...
- Bob's Place (Glendale, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Glendale (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Abandoned buildings.; Automobile service stations.; Bob's Place (Glendale, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Glendale--Pictorial works.; Service...
- 1986
- The John L. Gibson House and the Haskell House
- View of the John L. Gibson House (1892; Baerresen Brothers, architects) at 1647 Emerson Street and the Haskell House (1892; Robert G. Balcomb and Eugene Rice, architects) in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the...
- Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses.; Gibson, John L., resident, Denver, Colo.--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works.; Haskell family--Homes & haunts.; Haskell family--Homes and haunts.; Gibson, John L.,...
- 1976
- Ferril Lake, pavilion, and bandstand in City Park
- View of Ferril Lake (1896), the pavilion (1896, William E. Fisher and John Humphreys; remodeled in 1929), and bandstand (reconstructed 1984) in City Park, Denver, Colorado. The lake, also known as the Large Lake and City Park Lake, is covered in...
- City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Ferril Lake (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Lakes.; Parks.; Pavilions.; Lakes--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Pavilions--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Urban...
- 1975
- Funeral for Albino Duran
- Julian Duran (left) and unidentified people gather around the coffin of Albino Duran outside a house in Florence (Fremont County), Colorado. Mourners include a woman with her head and shoulders covered in a shawl, a woman wearing an apron, an...
- Hispanic Americans--1920-1930.; Mexican Americans--1920-1930.; Florence (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Coffins.; Women.; Duran, Albino--Death & burial--1920-1930.; Duran, Albino--Death and burial--Pictorial works.; Duran, Julian, 1887-1933.;...
- [ca. 1926?]
- Portrait of a woman
- Full length studio portrait of a woman who wears a dress with a skirt pleated in the center. Her fitted bodice buttons up the center and is pleated up the center panel. She wears a bow around her neck and a square pin holds her collar shut. She...
- Clothing & dress--1890-1900.; Women--1890-1900.
- 1891
- Sneffels
- View of the snow covered San Juan Mountain Range near Sneffels (Ouray County), Colorado. Shows a partially covered wood frame building, fir trees and Mount Sneffels.
- Sneffels (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Sneffels, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.; Wood buildings--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Fort Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park
- View of Fort Yellowstone located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The Fort was built to house United States Army troops charged with protecting Yellowstone National Park from poachers, souvenir hunters and developers. Shows multi-storied...
- Fort Yellowstone (Wyo.)--1900-1910.; Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910.; Military facilities.; National parks & reserves.
- c1905
- University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
- View of the University of California campus at Berkeley, California. Buildings include South Hall, a Victorian Second Empire style building with mansard hip roofs, cast-iron cresting, string coursing, round dormers, and arched roof dormers, windows...
- University of California (1868-1952)--1900-1910.; Berkeley (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Educational facilities.; Universities & colleges.
- [between 1905 and 1910?]
- University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
- View of the University of California campus at Berkeley, California. Buildings include North Hall, in the Victorian Second Empire style, it has mansard hip roofs with cast iron cresting, an attic with round arched dormers with hood molding and...
- University of California (1868-1952)--1900-1910.; Berkeley (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Educational facilities.; Universities & colleges.
- [between 1905 and 1910?]
- Stock saddle
- Shows a saddle made by E. L. Gallatin & Co. from Cheyenne, Wyoming. The saddle has a double rig wood stirrup, the horn is covered with leather and the cantle is covered with laced rawhide. Inscription on the skirt reads: "E. L. Gallatin & Co....
- Saddles--1870-1900.
- [between 1871 and 1896]
- Women's dress
- A women's afternoon dress ensemble with cape. The bodice is semi-tailored with Empire? style waist, sleeveless, patterned white silk faille, a high rounded neckline, a spread collar, shoulder pads, blue piping at the armhole and waistline; down the...
- Dresses--1930-1950.
- [between 1938 and 1945]
- Interior of Pullman car
- Shows the interior of the Pullman car of the Colorado Midland Railway Company. The seat are upholstered double benches, the floor is covered with carpeting, the ceiling and side panels material is polished. Light fixtures hang from the ceiling and...
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--1890-1910.; Railroad passenger cars--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Cascade, Colorado
- A view of the resort town of Cascade in El Paso County, Colorado. The building with the domed turret is the Hotel Ramona. Other residences are partially covered by trees. Tree covered hills are in the background.
- Cascade (El Paso County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cascade--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- So. Ute sub-chief Nanise, with wives and children
- Native American (Southern Ute) Sub-chief Nanise sits in front of a tepee with a group of women and children at a fair in New Mexico. He wears a feather headdress, fur covered braids, a fringed buckskin shirt, hairpipe necklace, a George Washington...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Ute Indians--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Children--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Tribal chiefs--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Nanise.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- 14th & Lawrence
- A view of the snow covered intersection of 14th (Fourteenth) and Lawrence streets in Denver, Colorado. Shows trolley car tracks, utility poles, residences and snow covered trees.
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Street railroad tracks--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Sheridan, Wyoming
- View of the town of Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming. Shows wood frame residences, people by a bridge over Big Goose Creek, out buildings. A tent and covered wagon sit on the outskirts of town. The mountain range in the distance is probably the...
- Big Goose Creek (Wyo.)--1890-1900.; Sheridan (Wyo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Wyoming--Sheridan--1890-1900.; Streams--Wyoming--Sheridan--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1900]
- Cedar Rapids, C. & N.W. Ry. Station, tram sheds
- View of the Chicago & North-Western Railway Company station in Cedar Rapids (Linn County), Iowa. Shows a brick and stone building with half-timbered dormer windows, a center tower with corner turrets, a missions style parapet, a cupola with...
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company--1890-1900.; Cedar Rapids (Iowa)--1890-1900.; Railroad stations--Iowa--Cedar Rapids--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Iowa--Cedar Rapids--1890-1900.
- [1898]
- Nevadaville Simmons' house - Letcher St log cabin inside one of the oldest houses in Nevadaville built in early '60's.
- The Simmons house, on Letcher Street, in Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, is a dilapidated one story frame structure with a gable roof, a covered porch, and lathe-turned piers. Door and window openings are empty or covered by corrugated tin;...
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.
- [between 1938 and 1940?]
- Estamere
- View of the facade of Estamere (or Estemere) in Palmer Lake, El Paso County, Colorado, a lodge devoted to the education of unemployed girls in the handicrafts. Architectural features of the building: a tower with a mansard roof, gables,...
- Estamere (Palmer Lake, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Palmer Lake (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Estates--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1930-1940.; Vocational education--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Estamere
- View of the facade of Estamere (or Estemere) in Palmer Lake, El Paso County, Colorado, a lodge devoted to the education of unemployed girls in the handicrafts. Architectural features of the building: a tower with a mansard roof, gables,...
- Estamere (Palmer Lake, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Palmer Lake (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Estates--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1930-1940.; Vocational education--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Residence of Jonah Maurcie Finn, Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Exterior view of Jonah Maurice Finn's neglected residence, Placer Street and Pikes Peak Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; nicknamed "the Towers" or "Finn's Folly"; this twenty-six room mansion completed by 1901 was torn down in 1920; features...
- Finn, Jonah Maurice--Homes & haunts.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- The Towers
- Exterior view of Jonah Maurice Finn's residence, Placer St. and Pikes Peak Ave., Cripple Creek, Colorado; the three-story palatial twenty- six room mansion was completed by 1901 and torn down in 1920; also called "The Towers" or "Finn's Folly";...
- Finn, Jonah Maurice--Homes & haunts.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1920.
- [between 1901 and 1920]
- The Towers, palatial home of J. Maurice Finn, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Jonah Maurice Finn's residence, Placer Street and Pikes Peak Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; nicknamed "The Towers" or "Finn's Folly"; palatial twenty-six room mansion was completed by 1901 and torn down in 1920; features include...
- Finn, Jonah Maurice--Homes & haunts.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1920.
- [between 1901 and 1920]
- Tabernash, Colo.
- An automobile parks by a false front business trimmed in split timber covered with bark, Tabernash, Grand County, Colorado. Letters above the covered porch read: Tabernash.
- Tabernash (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Automobiles--Colorado--Tabernash--1970-1980.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Tabernash--1970-1980.
- May 11, 1978
- Wounded men cross snowy field to the Battalion Aid Station, Mount Belvedere, Italy
- Eight men walk in a straight line on a trail across a snow covered field. According to the caption, they are both walking wounded and a litter squad, accompanying a wounded enemy soldier on a litter to the Tenth Mountain Division, 85th Mountain...
- Medicine, Military--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Medical aspects of war--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- February 20, 1945
- View of Riva Ridge with jeep, Italy
- View of Riva Ridge lightly dusted with snow. In the foreground a covered jeep is parked pointing toward the mountains along a gravel road. An open field covered with snow and some woods fill the middle ground.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- [February] 1945
- Instructors, Paradise, Washington
- Nineteen instructors from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) stand at ease on their skis, or sit in a snow covered valley. One man practices a snow-plough stop. All are wearing caps, dark wool uniforms and shoe-packs. Snow covered...
- 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...
- [1942]
- First Battalion, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment re-enforced, 1942, Paradise, Washington
- View of a group of skitroopers from 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) in the first winter camouflage uniforms or "whites" with rifles standing at ease in a snow covered field in the mountains. Taken, according to the photographer,...
- 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...
- [May] 1942
- Central City Opera House
- The Central City Opera House, partially obscured by a tree branch, was renovated and reopened in the 1930s and was described as "the finest temple of the Muse west of the Missouri." Designed by Architect Robert S. Roeschlaub, the oldest opera house...
- Central City Opera House--1960-1970.; Central City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.; Theaters--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.
- View of Colorado Central Narrow Gauge Railway yards
- A winter view of the Colorado Central Narrow Gauge railyards shows the one-story Central City building and the one story Black Hawk building. The Central City building has a gabled roof, a window, and a sign that reads "Central City 8475 Ft above...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--Central City--1950-1970.; Railroads--Colorado--Central City--1950-1970.
- [between 1950 and 1970?]
- Central City, 1953
- Several houses along Spring Street in Central City, Colorado, are built above a retaining wall. The house on the far left is a two story wood frame structure with a gabled roof, chimney, covered porch, rectangular windows, and a white-picket...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953