Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- William F. Cody on horseback
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody rides a dark horse in the left midground in a dirt arena during a rehearsal for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. A group of Native Americans on horseback is gathered in the right midground watching Cody ride in...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Rehearsals--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- William F. Cody on horseback
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody poses on horseback in a dirt arena during a rehearsal for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He wears a dark hat and a dark, striped suit. Gaiters that lace up the side cover the lower part of his pant legs. He...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Rehearsals--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- Cowboy riding bucking horse
- A cowboy rides a bucking horse in a dirt arena during a rehearsal for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He holds his right arm in the air. He wears a cowboy hat, a vest and sheepskin chaps. Another cowboy rides in the right midground. A large tent and...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Cowboys--1900-1910.; Trick riding--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- Riff Arabians
- A group of Arab members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show forms a pyramid in an arena during a performance of the show. One man stands on the top of the pyramid by balancing on the shoulders of another man. The pyramid is supported by one man...
- Arabs--1900-1910.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Acrobats--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- Wild West Show cowgirls
- Four cowgirls in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show ride horses in an arena during a performance. Two of the women ride sidesaddle. A group of Native American riders is stopped in the right midground. A large tent canopy is in the background.
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Cowgirls--1900-1910.; Horseback riding--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- Wild West Show cooks
- Cooks for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show pour water into iron kettles over cooking fires using buckets at the ends of poles. Also shows a canvas tent and piled logs. The Wild West Show reportedly employed seven cooks, two pastry chefs and two...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Chefs--1900-1910.; Cookery--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- William F. Cody and group on beach
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody poses on horseback in the left center midground of a panoramic view of a beach, probably in Europe. A long row of Native American men and women also on horseback line the shore behind Cody. A man wearing a...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Alpine, Colorado
- Alpine, Chaffee County, Colorado, street scene shows frame buildings, an American flag, a walled tent, "Mining Agency," and Badger Hotel. A spring wagon is in the street.
- Alpine (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Alpine--1870-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Alpine--1870-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Alpine--1870-1890.
- [between 1878 and 1882]
- 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?]
- Evans Chapel
- Exterior of the Evans Chapel, Denver, Colorado; a small grand, Gothic, stone structure features: a steep front gable with a stone cross, side entry vestibule, stained glass windows, and roof cresting; built in 1873-1878 by Dr. John Evans,...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Churches--Colorado--Denver--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Todd Boarding House, north west over the hill from Caribou, 1953
- View of the remains of the Todd Boarding House near Caribou, a Boulder County mining town, Colorado, shows a sagging gabled structure with missing shingles, and much of the clapboard siding; evergreens and Bald Mountain show in background.
- Caribou (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Remains of Caribou, 1953
- View of the remains of Caribou, a Boulder County mining town, Colorado, includes dilapidated log and wood frame structures. Some have sucken in gable roofs, one has a low arched roof. A two-door convertible automoble parks at the Y in a gravel road.
- Caribou (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Caribou cemetery fenced 1953
- A woman in a dress walks behind a barbwire fence around Caribou Cemetery northwest of town, Boulder County, Colorado. A few gravestone markers remain; one has a iron fence around the plot. Evergreens and Bald Mountain show in background.
- Caribou (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Caribou--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Indian Dance, Santa Clara
- A crowd of Native Americans and white people gather to watch a Santa Clara Pueblo Matachines Dance. The dancers perform wearing mitre headdresses.
- Indians of North America--Dance--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1890-1920.; Matachines (Dance)--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1890-1920.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1890-1920.; Tewa Indians--New Mexico--Santa Clara...
- [between 1890 and 1920]
- Sunflower carnival parade
- Sunflower (Flower) Carnival Parade, Colorado Springs, Colorado: a man, in a tutu standing on a wooden horse, and a clown ride on top of a small cart pulled by a group of Black men in hooded, striped gowns. A man and woman ride bicycles behind the...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; African Americans--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Clowns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Cycling--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.;...
- 1898
- Sunflower carnival parade
- Two women ride in a foliage covered, horse drawn buggy at the Sunflower (Flower) Carnival Parade, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Spectators line the street; houses in background.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Parades &...
- 1898
- Predecessor to Virginia Village - 1950 S. Holly
- Interior view of the South Holly Neighborhood Library in the Virginia Village neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Children read and browse bookshelves and are identified as Martha Kaplan and Terri and Dave Holland.
- Denver Public Library--Facilities--1960-1970.; Denver (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Virginia Village (Denver, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Bookcases--Colorado--Denver--1960-1970.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1960-1970.; Girls--Colorado--Denver--1960-1970.;...
- 1964 November 4
- The walking club, Cro'nesh [?]
- Men and women sit or stand and pose on a rock during a picnic in probably El Paso County, Colorado. The women wear hats, long dresses and jackets; the men wear suits and derby hats. Wicker baskets and glass bottles are beside the group, and trees...
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Picnics--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Ruins of Ludlow Tent Colony
- UMW camp for coal miners on strike against CF&I in Forbes, Las Animas County, Colorado, after a fire set by the Colorado National Guard; shows a stove, cookware, a cellar entrance, and charred wood.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Strikes--1910-1920.; United Mine Workers of America--Strikes--1910-1920.; Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.; Ludlow (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Arson--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Fires--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Miners'...
- 1914
- East end
- Mine tunnel entrances and ore car tracks are in a mountain valley near frame buildings. Houses have gabled roofs and brick chimneys. A building has a square stone cupola with a finial. Timber fences, laundry on a clothesline, and tree stumps are...
- Houses--1860-1870.; Mine railroads--1860-1870.; Mining--1860-1870.
- 1866
- Thomas American Horse, Sioux
- Standing portrait of Thomas American Horse, Native American Sioux, holding a blanket and wearing a cotton tunic, quilled vest, animal fur bandolier, leggings, moccasins, and feathers and bead string in his hair. A headdress prop is on the floor in...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1890-1900.; American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908.
- 1899
- Pueblo children.
- Unidentified Pueblo Native American boys and girls gather in circle, some are nude, some wear body paint or cotton clothes.
- Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Children--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Oraibi Snake view leaving kiva to hunt snakes
- Two Native American (Hopi) Pueblo men leave the kiva to hunt snakes for the Snake Dance, Oraibi Pueblo, Third Mesa, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Dance--Arizona--Oraibi--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Arizona--Oraibi--1880-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Spiritual life--Arizona--Oraibi--1880-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1880-1900.; Oraibi (Ariz.)--1880-1900.; Rites &...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Oraibi Indians lunching in field & throwing boomerang just before Big Rabbit Hunt
- Native American (Hopi) Pueblo men have lunch and throw boomerangs in a field, Oraibi Pueblo, Third Mesa, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Arizona--Oraibi--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Arizona--Oraibi--1880-1890.; Pueblo Indians--Arizona--Oraibi--1880-1890.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1880-1890.; Oraibi (Ariz.)--1880-1890.; Throwing...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Sergeant W. J. McClure, full blood Choctaw, veteran of Philippine and Border Campaigns
- Sergeant W. J. McClure, Native American Choctaw, poses in uniform in front of other soldiers of the Spanish-American War.
- Choctaw Indians--Military service--1890-1910.; Five Civilized Tribes--Military service--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--Military service--1890-1910.; Spanish-American War, 1898--Military personnel--1890-1910.; Soldiers--American--1890-1910.;...
- [between 1898 and 1905?]
- Indian Medicine man
- Standing portrait of Strong Eagle, Native American Spokane, wearing feather headdress, kilt, leggings, and necklaces.
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Spokane Indians--1900-1910.; Shamans--1900-1910.; Strong Eagle, Chief.
- [between 1900 and 1907?]
- Christian Hopi Indians on the trail to a heathen pueblo to hold a gospel street meeting
- Hopi Pueblo Native Americans walk and ride burros on a trail leading to a mesa top, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Arizona--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Arizona--1880-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Arizona--1880-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1880-1900.; Trails & paths--Arizona--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Spokane portrait
- Standing portrait of a Native American Spokane man and two women; he wears a shirt, beaded vest, gauntlets and a blanket; the women wear dresses, bead necklaces, abalone shell disk earrings; one is wrapped in a blanket, the other holds a...
- Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Spokane Indians--Women--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Indians, Dakota
- Two white women wearing long skirts and necklaces with crosses pose outside a tepee with a Native American Sioux man with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, he wears a hair pipe breastplate, vest with quillwork and leggings.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--People--1900-1910.; Dakota Indians--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Women--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Unidentified Apache women
- View of two unidentified Native American Apache women; one stands holding a baby, the other sits and weaves a basket.
- Apache Indians--Arts & crafts--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Basket making--1890-1900.; Infants--1890-1900.; Women--1890-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Sioux mother and son, Frontier Days at Cheyenne out in the Union Pacific Country
- Frontier Days, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, shows a Native American Dakota Sioux mother wearing a hair pipe necklace walking with a child, a uniformed soldier with a gun, tripods of rifles and a box camera, and grandstands with spectators in background.
- Cheyenne Frontier Days--1910-1920.; Dakota Indians--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.; Cheyenne (Wyo.)--1910-1920.; Boys--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.; Festivals--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1916 and 1918?]
- Indian School, Flandreau, S. Dak.
- View of the Native American (Sioux Santee) Flandreau Indian School, Flandreau, South Dakota, includes a buggy on the road leading across a river with a iron bridge to the multi-story school buildings.
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Flandreau--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Flandreau--1910-1920.; Santee Indians--South Dakota--Flandreau--1910-1920.; Flandreau (S.D.)--1910-1920.; Rivers--South Dakota--Flandreau--1910-1920.;...
- 1918?
- Camp Modoc, Indian Territory
- Group portrait of Native American (Modoc or Ottawa) young women and children with missionaries at the Quapaw Mission, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). In the top row stands four white women, and a white man, possibly A. C. Tuttle, who holds a small...
- Indians of North America--Indian Territory--1880-1890.; Indian Territory--1880-1890.; Missionaries--Indian Territory--1880-1890.; School children--Indian Territory--1880-1890.; Tuttle, A. C.
- 1888 or 1890 March 6
- Cherrelyn horse car
- Two men lean out of the weathered Cherrelyn Gravity and Broncho Street Railway horse car at Cherrelyn, (Englewood) Arapahoe County, Colorado. The wooden trolley is covered with posters advertising: "Too Many Wives, The New York Musical Success,...
- Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.
- [between 1904 and 1905]
- Never was Capitol
- View a false front log structure on the Broadmoor golf club grounds moved from Colorado City, (capitol of Colorado Territory in 1861) El Paso County, Colorado; shows a corrugated sheet metal roof, hand-hewn timbers, a weathered clapboard front with...
- Colorado City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; False fronts--Colorado--Colorado City--1940-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Colorado City--1940-1950.
- February 5, 1948
- Cassel's [sic] Resort, Platte Canon
- View across a pond to Cassell's Hotel, a summer resort in the South Platte Canyon, on the Colorado and Southern Railway, Park County, Colorado; shows a resort inn with a wrap-around veranda. People, horses, and a woman with wildflowers walk in...
- Cassell (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Cassell--1910-1920.; Cassell's Hotel (Cassell, Colo.)
- [between 1919 and 1920]
- 10th Mountain Quartermaster Battalion, Officers
- Group portrait of the Tenth Mountain Quartermaster Battalion, Officers. Left to right top row: 1) Fetzer, James B., 2) Unidentified, 3) Unidentified, 4) Unidentified, 5) Unidentified, 6) Unidentified, 7) Unidentified, 8) Unidentified, 9)...
- Military officers--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Quartermaster Battalion.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- 1944
- Lynching of Duggan in Denver fight of photographers for view of remains.
- Reproduction of an A. P. Proctor engraving of a scene after the lynching of Sanford C. Duggan, murderer and fugitive, Cherry Street, Denver. The dead man hangs from a rope noose thrown around a leaveless cottonwood tree. A policeman breaks up a...
- Murderers--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Fugitives from justice--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Lynchings--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Duggan, Sanford C.
- [between 1868 and 1870]
- Aspen, Colorado schools 1880's
- Group view of students (older boys and girls) and instructor from the public school, Aspen, Colorado; posed in several rows both sitting and standing outside of a clapboard building; women wearing dresses and men dressed in suits and ties.
- Aspen (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Aspen--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Alpine, Colorado
- View along the dirt main street in Alpine, Chaffee County, Colorado, shows large carriages in front of false front, log, and tent businesses, including the "Mining Agency," and the Badger Hotel. An American flag flies middleground.
- Alpine (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Alpine--1870-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Alpine--1870-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Alpine--1870-1890.
- [between 1878 and 1882]
- Stockyards
- View over the Denver, Colorado, stockyards and pens, shows men inspecting the cattle. Smoke rises from the smokestacks of the Colorado Packing and Provision Company in the background. The sheep market barn is beyond the rows of stock pens.
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Meat industry--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.; Stockyards--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1940]
- Cow boys, Trinchera Estate
- Four cowboys pose on horseback inside a large pen filled with horses on the Trinchera Ranch in Costilla County, Colorado. The men are equipped with ropes, one wears woolies (chaps).
- Costilla County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cowboys--Colorado--Costilla County--1900-1910.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Costilla County--1900-1910.; Ranches--Colorado--Costilla County--1900-1910.
- 1909
- During Denver visit
- Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor, once the wife of millionaire Horace Tabor, walks on a Denver, Colorado sidewalk with other pedestrians. She is dressed poorly in long skirt and overcoat, scarf, and soft hat.
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Aged persons--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Legislators' spouses--United States--1930-1940.; Baby Doe, d. 1935.
- [between 1930 and 1935]
- David McCleskey
- Head and shoulders portrait, posssibly of David McCleskey, son- in-law of John Hamilton Gregory, early Gilpin County gold miner.
- McCleskey, David.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Castle Rock, Col., natural formation of rocks, Jan. 1894
- View north beside the standard and narrow gauge railroad tracks of Denver and Rio Grande Western and Colorado and Southern towards Castle Rock, a rhyolite lava rock formation, in Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colorado, includes gabled wood frame...
- Castle Rock (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Castle Rock (Douglas County, Colo. : Rock Formation)--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Castle Rock--1890-1900.; Colorado and Southern Railway.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway Company.
- 1894
- Denver Station
- Image is of a 1870s engraving that depicts a busy scene at Denver's railroad station, at the end of 22nd (Twenty Second) Street, Denver, Colorado. Passengers come and go from three lines, the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad, Kansas...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1870-1890.; Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company--1870-1890.; Kansas Pacific Railway Company--1870-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Denver--1870-1890.;...
- [between 1870 and 1881]
- Golden, Colo. from the north
- View southwest over Golden, Colorado, includes the Colorado Central Railroad roundhouse and freight depot, irrigation ditch, wood frame residences, Bella Vista Hotel, South School, and the old 1878 Jefferson County Courthouse with foothills in the...
- Golden (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [1883]
- Castle Rock, Golden Colo. from the north
- View southwest over Golden, Colorado, includes the Colorado Central Railroad roundhouse and freight depot with Union Pacific Denver Gulf box cars, Adolph Coors Brewery and residence, old 1878 Jefferson County Courthouse with the Castle Rock, South...
- Golden (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1883
- Alexander Industries building Englewood, Colorado.
- The Alexander Industries building in Englewood, Colorado, is a Spanish Colonial-style stucco building with large arched windows on the first floor, an arcade of windows with vigas over it on the second floor, an elaborate Baroque entry, a domed...
- Englewood (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Englewood--1920-1930.
- [between 1923 and 1928]
- Cherrelyn horse car
- John Bogue (conductor, driver and lessee) and his passengers pose on the Cherrelyn horse car with the harnessed horse, on the back platform, Cherrelyn, (district incorporated into Englewood) Arapahoe County, Colorado. The women wearing decorated...
- Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]