Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- 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
- Adolph Coors Company
- View southeast over the Adolph Coors Company brewery plant, Golden, Colorado, shows multi-story buildings, dark smoke pours from the tall smokestack, railroad freight boxcars and rooftop sign: "Coors Pure Malted Milk." Coors was the world's largest...
- Adolph Coors Company--1930-1940.; Golden (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Dairying--Colorado--Golden--1930-1940.
- [between 1935 and 1940]
- Agnes Memorial
- Tuberculosis patients in Denver, Colorado, enjoy fresh air on the balcony of the Agnes Memorial Sanatorium, built by Lawrences Phipps in 1903 and named for his mother Agnes McCall Phipps. The men sit in wicker rockers next to metal-framed beds...
- Agnes Memorial Sanatorium (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Sick persons--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Tuberculosis--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1903 and 1920]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Aspen, Colorado
- The town of Aspen, Colorado, from Smuggler Mountain, is visible in the foregound at the base of Aspen Mountain. The snow-covered town is in the valley below. Aspen Mountain is covered with snow and trees; ski runs cut between the trees. Highland...
- Aspen (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- 1947
- Aspen, Colorado
- View of Aspen, Colorado, taken from Aspen Mountain. Landmarks include the Hotel Jerome and the Wheeler Opera House. Red Mountain is in the background.
- Aspen (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- 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]
- Aspen, Colorado streets
- View toward the southwest along an unpaved Aspen, Colorado, street; shows a man driving a cart, an empty carriage, a man leaning against a telegraph post, and pedestrians along the sidewalks and street. The buildings have masonry storefronts;...
- Aspen (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Aspen--1880-1890.
- [about 1886?]
- Bicycle club float
- Men in white jackets, kneepants, and dusters pose with their Sunflower Carnival Parade float and bicycles, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The float is decorated with a patterned, tasseled, paper parasol, bunting, flowers, potted palms...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Flowers--Colorado--Colorado...
- 1897
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West
- Panoramic view of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody posing in the center of a large group of Native American members of the cast of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Sioux leader Iron Tail stands at Cody's right. Many of the men in the group wear...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Iron Tail.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1908?]
- C. & S. railroad tracks
- View east over Colorado and Southern Railroad tracks, gondolier cars, wood frame residences and sheds to Castle Rock, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado.
- Golden (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- 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
- Capitol Hill Review
- 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
- Caribou cemetery, 1950
- Caribou Cemetery northwest of town, Boulder County, Colorado; 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.
- 1950
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- 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]
- 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]
- Chestnut St., Leadville
- In this early view of a dirt Chestnut Street from Harrison Street in Leadville, Colorado, horse drawn wagons and horses are in the street, with pedestrians along the boardwalks. Telephone or telegraph poles with handbills are to the left. False...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885]
- 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?]
- Citizenship picnic at Collier Park Gertude Fonda, teacher
- A group of "new" Longmont citizens pose under a shade tree, during their Citizenship Picnic, Collyer Park, Colorado. They form four rows; children sit on grass, next row sits in chairs with end kneeling and back rows stand.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Immigrants--Colorado--Longmont--1930-1940.; Parks--Colorado--Longmont--1930-1940.; Picnics--Colorado--Longmont--1930-1940.
- 1939 July 2
- Colorado City, Hose Co. No. 1
- Colorado City Hose Company No. 1 poses outside their false front fire station, El Paso County, Colorado. The firefighters include boys and men of various ages holding the rope of their hosecart with decorated wheels and fire hose nozzles.
- Colorado City (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado City--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- 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
- 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?]
- Date Mason Saloon, Pitkin, Colo.
- One Black man poses with a group of men who raise a toast, in front on D. C. Mason's saloon, Pitkin, Gunnison County, Colorado. The men are identified as: 1. Joe McWilliams, bartender wearing apron, 2. Bill Miller, 3. Jim Stewart, 4. Bert Kanoble,...
- Mason, D. C.--Homes & haunts.; Pitkin (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bars--Colorado--Pitkin--1900-1910.
- 1905
- David Bruce Powers train of Leavenworth at Denver
- David Bruce Powers' supply train from Leavenworth, Kansas forms a circle on Market Street, Denver, Colorado. Men sit on burros and lead teams with covered wagons. Signs on businesses read: "Leather & Shoe Findings Storage & Commission," "Saddlery...
- Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Wagon trains--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.
- 1868 June 20
- 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?]
- Denver Public Library exterior of Main Library
- Automobiles line the curb in front of the Greek revival style Denver Public Library, Civic Center, Denver, Colorado. The Carnegie building features fluted columns with Corinthian capitols, inscription along frieze reads: "Erected in the year of our...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Libraries--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Denver Public Library.
- 1927
- 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]
- Dog sledding near old ghost town of Ashcroft, Colorado
- A team of seven pairs of Toklat Husky dogs pull a sled with a male driver with two women skiers in tow near remains of the mining camp of Ashcroft (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado. Valley and surrounding mountains are covered...
- Ashcroft (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dogsledding--Colorado--Ashcroft--1950-1960.
- 1951
- 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]
- 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
- 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?]
- Fort Logan World War I
- A 113 Class 2-8-0 freight engine No. 589 heads up a Denver and Rio Grande train of Pullman sleeping cars. Officers guide a troop of infantry men onto the train ready to depart from Fort Logan, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers,...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Fort Logan (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Soldiers--Colorado--Fort...
- [1917 or 1918]
- Fort Logan World War I
- Uniformed troops of infantry men board a Denver and Rio Grande train of Pullman sleeping cars, about to depart Fort Logan, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers, Colorado. Many wear uniforms consisting of jackets, jodhpurs, gaiters, boots...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Soldiers--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; United States. Army....
- [1917 or 1918]
- Fort Logan World War I
- A 113 Class 2-8-0 freight engine No. 589 heads up a Denver and Rio Grande train of Pullman sleeping cars. Officers guide a troop of infantry men onto the train ready to depart from Fort Logan, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers,...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Soldiers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; United States. Army....
- [1917 or 1918]
- Fort Logan World War I
- A Denver and Rio Grande engine smokes, heading up a train of Pullman sleeping cars. Infantry men form line to the train ready to depart from Fort Logan, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers, Colorado. The soldiers wear uniforms...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Soldiers--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; United States. Army....
- [1917 or 1918]
- Fort Logan World War I
- Officers look on as infantry men board Pullman sleeping cars headed up by a Denver and Rio Grande 113 Class 2-8-0 freight engine No. 589. The train ready to depart from Fort Logan, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers, Colorado. Many...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Soldiers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; United States. Army....
- [1917 or 1918]
- Fort Logan World War I
- Officers look on as infantry men gather to board Pullman sleeping cars headed up by a Denver and Rio Grande 113 Class 2-8-0 freight engine No. 589. The train readies to depart from Fort Logan, Colorado, a World War I assembly point for young...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Soldiers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; United States. Army....
- [1917 or 1918]
- Fort Logan World War I
- A group of infantry men walk balance beams, Fort Logan, Colorado. They wear uniforms consisting of jackets, sweaters, jodhpurs, gaiters, boots and wide brim hats with Montana creases. Barracks and foothills are in the background; a wagon is in the...
- World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Soldiers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st.; Fort Logan (Colo.)--1910-1920.
- [between 1917 and 1918]
- Fort Logan, World War I
- A group of infantry men are ready to depart on a Denver and Rio Grande train from Fort Logan, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers, southwest Denver, Colorado. They wear uniforms consisting of jackets with breast pockets, jodhpurs,...
- Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Soldiers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st.; Fort Logan (Colo.)--1910-1920.
- [1917 or 1918]
- Georgetown
- View of a flood in Georgetown, Colorado. The steeple of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church and the Catholic school, near Main Street, are visible in the distance. Water fills the foreground and surges around rocky patches of earth, houses,...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1917.; Floods--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1917.
- [between 1880 and 1917?]
- Georgetown House
- Exterior view of the Georgetown House, in Georgetown, Colorado. Four women in long dresses stand on boardwalk under the veranda supported by decorative scroll brackets. The dresses have full skirts, long sleeves and prints of flowers, and plaids....
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Boardwalks--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Georgetown House (Georgetown, Colo.)
- [between 1885 and 1892]
- Georgetown, Colo. street scene
- View of large excursion group mounted on their horses and burros on 6th (Sixth) Street (Alpine) Georgetown, Colorado. Men wear suits and hats, women ride side saddle and have on long dresses and bonnets; one holds a child. Street is lined with wood...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1892]
- 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]
- Goldfield, Independence & Altman
- View northwest towards Goldfield, Independence and Altman, in Teller County, Colorado, shows Goldfield at the bottom with Bull Hill far left and Bull Cliff on right. Independence is on the slope between the two hills and Altman is high on the...
- Altman (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Goldfield (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Independence (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1898]