Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Curley, Crow Scout, left foot on stump, full length
- Full length studio portrait of Curley, Crow male scout for General George Custer, holding rifle bag, standing with foot on rock in front of painted backdrop.
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Rifles.; Curly.; Crow Indians.; Indians of North America--Portraits.
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- Colorado
- Levi E. Marshal, Colorado pioneer
- Head and shoulders portrait of Levi E. Marshall, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado with short cropped hair and a bushy mustache; fitted sack jacket buttoned all the way up to the small lapels.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Marshall, Levi E.
- 1859
- From a water color by T. S. Brandegee in 1871, showing the north side of Main Street between 3rd and 4th
- People and a wagon are among commercial buildings and dwellings in Canon City, Colorado. Low hills are in the background. Writing at the bottom reads: Canon City - T. S. Brandegee - 1861.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- 1861 or 1871
- Gen. George A. Custer, in uniform, bust
- General George Armstrong Custer, head and shoulders framed portrait, wearing military uniform and hat; actual portrait made in 1865.
- Generals--1880-1890.; Military officers--United States--1880-1890.; Military uniforms--1880-1890.; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876.
- 1865
- A photo of some of the Attawa Indian boys taken in the early opening of the school
- Native American Iowa (Ioway) boys pose with their white instructor beside their clapboard school. The boys wear short cropped hair, sack jackets and trousers, two sit in chairs.
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Iowa Indians--1890-1900.; School children--1890-1900.; Teachers--1890-1900.
- 1870
- Main Street between third and fourth north side
- Commercial buildings on Main Street in Canon City, Colorado, have striped, canvas awnings, bracketed cornices, open porches, arched windows, balconies, and are fronted by boardwalk, crates, a barber pole, bare trees, and horse drawn wagons,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- 1878
- Main Street north side, looking east from the corner of third
- Commercial buildings on Main Street in Canon City, Colorado, have striped, canvas awnings, bracketed cornices, open porches, arched windows, and balconies. Boardwalk with crates, a barber pole, bare trees, and power poles edge the dirt street, busy...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- 1878
- Gall, Dakota Chief, standing, holding bow, full length
- Standing full-length studio protrait of Gall, Dakota Chief, with one feather in hair, earrings, braids wrapped in fur, scarf tied at neck, vest, shoulders and forearm painted or tattoos, decorated hide wrapped around lower torso, holding bow and...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Portraits--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Gall, ca. 1840-1894.
- 1880
- Gall's tepee with several others
- Dakota Chief Gall's camp at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory; twenty tepees grouped together with firewood, kindling, wooden barrel and crates stacked outside on open plains or prairie.
- Fort Buford (Fort Buford, N.D.)--1880-1890.; Indian encampments--Dakota Territory.; Prairies--1880-1890.; Tipis--1880-1890.; Gall, ca. 1840-1894.
- 1881
- Group of prospectors
- A group of prospectors and their burro pose around a campfire and tent on the floor of a steep walled valley.
- Campfires--1880-1890.; Donkeys--1880-1890.; Miners--1880-1890.; Mining--1880-1890.; Tents--1880-1890.
- 1881?
- Ready to go down a shaft
- Two miners prepare to be lowered down a mine shaft in an ore bucket that hangs from a cable over the opening to the shaft. The men wear long rubber coats, hats and boots.
- Mine shafts--1880-1890.; Miners--1880-1890.; Mining--1880-1890.
- 1883
- Block's Home in Irwin Gunnison Co., Colo.
- Mrs. Louise Block, the wife of Joseph Block, and her daughter Marie Block pose in front of their home in Irwin, Colorado. The house is of made of boards, and the roof extends to cover the porch; boards prop the side of the building. The women wear...
- Block, Joseph H.--Homes & haunts.; Irwin (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.; Block, Louise.; Block, Marie.
- 1884?
- The flood, Main St. Walsenburg
- View of Cucharas River flooding Main Street, Walsenburg, Huerfano County, Colorado; business district has barber poles and signs: "Restaurant," "New York Clothing House," "World Printing Office," "L. W. Burtch, County Surveyor," and "The Club."
- Cucharas River (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Walsenburg (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Floods--Colorado--Walsenburg--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Walsenburg--1900-1910.
- 1886
- Custer Battlefield, east side of Reno hill, 1886
- Reenactment of Battle at Little Bighorn, taken during Tenth Anniversary and Reunion on June 25, 1886; east side of Reno hill, large group of soldiers and Native Americans, some on horseback and others standing in distant center background;...
- Battlefields--Montana--1886.; Historical reenactments--1880-1890.; Soldiers--1880-1890.; Baldwin, Frank D.; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
- 1886
- Custer Battlefield, Reno ford of the Little Big Horn, 1886
- Reenactment of Battle of Little Bighorn taken on Tenth Anniversary and Reunion of battle, June 26, 1886; shows the area where Reno first crossed the Little Bighorn River River, and people on horses on the other side.
- Little Bighorn River (Wyo. and Mont.) --1880-1890.; Battlefields--Montana--1880-1890.; Fords (Stream crossings)--Montana--1880-1890.; Historical reenactments--Montana--1880-1890.; Rivers--Montana--1880-1890.; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont.,...
- 1886
- Custer Battlefield, skirmish line west side of hill, 1886
- Reenactment of Battle at Little Bighorn during Tenth Anniversary and Reunion of battle on June 25, 1886; skirmish line on west side of ridge where Custer and his men dismounted and fought as told by Chief Gall during the Anniversary; reenactment...
- Battlefields--Montana--1886.; Historical reenactments--1880-1890.; Soldiers--1880-1890.; Baldwin, Frank D.; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
- 1886
- One of Sitting Bull's trials, Standing Rock Agency
- between Sitting Bull, Gall and others to lessen Sitting Bull's influence with Dakota Native Americans.; Sitting Bull's trial at Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, for allegedly instigating the Crow to go to war; large group of Dakota Native...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Judicial proceedings.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Trials, litigations, etc.; McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923.
- 1886
- One of Sitting Bull's trials, Standing Rock Agency
- between Sitting Bull, Gall and others to lessen Sitting Bull's influence with Dakota Native Americans.; Sitting Bull's trial at Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, for allegedly instigating the Crow to go to war; large group of Dakota Native...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Judicial proceedings.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Trials, litigations, etc.; McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923.
- 1886
- Rev. Cleveland, Maj. McLaughlin, Judge Wright, Capt. Pratt, two sitting and two standing, full length
- Full length studio portrait with painted backdrop of Second Sioux Commission of 1888 appointed by President Grover Cleveland to further break up the Great Sioux Native American Nation and Territory; left to right: Reverend William J. Cleveland,...
- Wright, John V.; Cleveland, William Joshua, 1845-1910.; McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923.; Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924.; United States. Sioux Commission (1876)
- 1888
- Mrs. Sherman Bell, Wetmore, Colo.
- Mrs. Sherman Bell poses for a studio portrait in Wetmore, Colorado in Custer County. She sits in a straight-back chair with her right arm propped on a table and wears a fitted dress with a ruffle around the bottom, an Elizabethan-style collar, a...
- Wetmore (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Wetmore--1880-1890.; Bell, Sherman 1866-1942, Mrs.
- 1888?
- W. O. Mosman's Overland freight outfit, Walden, North Park, Colo.
- View of W. O. Mosman's Overland freight outfit and store in Walden, Jackson County, Colorado; shows girls, women, men, horse teams, wagons, and a stone building with bracketed cornice, roof cresting, and signs: "Mosman & Galbraith," "1881 F. Miller...
- Mosman, W. O.--Homes & haunts.; Fort Collins (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Fort Collins--1880-1890.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Walden--1880-1890.
- 1889
- Gen. George Crook, seated, in group of unidentified white people, full length
- Full length portrait of General George Crook seated holding walking stick in middle of group of men and women. Identified men standing: second man from left, Governor Charles Foster of Ohio; fourth man from left, Senator William Warner of Missouri;...
- Military officers--United States--1880-1890.; Crook, George, 1829-1890.; Foster, Charles, 1828-1904.; Warner, William, 1840-1916.
- 1889
- Hairy Chin, Dakota, wearing an Uncle Sam outfit, full length
- Hairy Chin, Dakota, standing holding an umbrella and wearing socks and no shoes. He is dressed as Uncle Sam for a Fourth of July parade or for a cornerstone laying at the state capitol in Bismarck, North Dakota. Two days later Hairy Chin died; no...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Hairy Chin. Dakota Indian.; Indians of North America--Portraits.
- 1889
- Portrait of a man
- Head and shoulders studio portrait of a young man with cropped hair wearing a jacket and tie, Aspen, Colorado.
- Aspen (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1889
- Chatanooga [sic], Colo., near Silverton, 1889
- View along Main Street of the mining town of Chattanooga, San Juan County, Colorado, includes log and wood frame buildings, and false fronts. Men stand around horse or burro-drawn wagons on the Million Dollar Highway (Highway 550) with an extended...
- Chattanooga (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bridges--Colorado--Chattanooga--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Chattanooga--1880-1890.
- 1889
- Sioux Commission - Gen. Crook, Gov. Foster, Sen. Warner, all sitting, full length
- Full length portrait of the Sioux Commission of 1889, all seated, wooden railing of front porch in background; left to right: General George Crook holding carved walking stick or cane, Charles Foster of Ohio holding walking stick or cane, and...
- Crook, George, 1829-1890.; Foster, Charles, 1828-1904.; Warner, William, 1840-1916.; United States. Sioux Commission (1889)
- 1889
- Deputy Warden and inside residence
- Posing in a wicker chair, the uniformed Deputy Warden of the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, rests his arm on a carved wood table with crystal ball and a statue of a man and a woman on it. Interior details include a portrait of a woman,...
- Prison wardens--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.; Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Interiors.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1890
- Officers of 1st Infantry
- First Infantry officers poses in front of walled round tents during Native American Sioux campaigns, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. They wear overcoats, capes and fur skin coats.
- United States. Army. Infantry.--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Pine...
- 1891 January 12
- Fremont in early days the present townsite of Cripple Creek
- Bird's eye view of early sparse settlement of Fremont, Colorado in 1891; consolidated and renamed Cripple Creek in 1892; several log buildings under construction are interspersed with several canvas tents; distant view of hillsides.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dwellings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1891 November 1
- Raven Hill, Elkton.
- The Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District (C. S. & C. C. D.) train makes its way through Elkton (Teller County), Colorado. Along the way, is the loading station for the Elkton Mine. Below the mine, is the town of Elkton.
- Elkton (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Elkton--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado, U.S.A.
- View of the Mount of the Holy Cross, Sawatch Range, Rocky Mountains, Eagle County, Colorado.
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Holy Cross, Mount of the (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountains--Colorado--Eagle County--1890-1900.
- 1898
- Mr and Mrs Charles S Turner in their plumbing store at 1125 Pearl
- Wallpaper and wainscoting finish the interior of this business in Boulder, Colorado. Charles Turner leans on a roll-top desk where Mrs. Turner sits, in a puff sleeved dress with a bow at the waist. An Italian revival chair is by the hardwood and...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Offices--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Plumbing fixtures--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1898
- Art gallery
- Funded by a grant from local art admirer Frank Lounsberry, the art hall at Chautauqua in Boulder, Colorado, is a frame, twenty-two foot square, cottage-roofed structure with a faceted turret-entry, and transom windows all around. Lettering above...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Art exhibitions--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- 1900
- The dairy and hog barns with the hogback in the background
- Two-story stone barns at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, have a shingle, hipped gable roof, brick chimneys, and adjoining silos with conical roofs and elevators. Iron "S" brackets line the brick wing, and rock walls and wooden gates...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Barns--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1900?
- Chautauqua auditorium, Boulder, Colo
- Square towers topped by flagpoles flank the gable roofed central building of the Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado. Blind arches span the front of the three-story frame building, and round windows are in the gable and fascia. Rail fence...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- 1902
- Hale Science Building, U of C
- Completed in 1894, the Hale Science Building at the University of Colorado at Boulder is a five-story structure of random coursed, local rusticated sandstone, with a high gabled-roof, projecting dormers, and a square tower housing the entry. Trees...
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)--1900-1910.; Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- 1902
- 1903
- Estes Park, Colorado, has a few gable-roofed buildings gathered around an intersection. Fences run along the roads, a horse grazes near a farm, and snow-capped mountains are in the distance.
- Estes Park (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- 1903
- Mountain skating party taken in Park Co., at Chase near Cassells, May Bonnifield on the right and friends
- May Bonnefield, two young women, and a young man stand on frozen Chase Lake in the Platte Canyon, Colorado. The women wear flared skirts; the man wears a pin stripe suit; all wear ice skates. A wood frame structure and a low slope show in...
- Chase (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Chase Lake (Colo.); Ice skating--Colorado--Chase--1900-1910.; Bonnefield, May.
- 1904
- Loucks livery barn
- View of Loucks Livery Barn, Walden, Jackson County, Colorado; shows people identified as: (l to r): Hugh Griff, Alec Hilton, Frank Fitzgerald, Mrs. Loucks, John Hilton, and Harford Loucks, with thoroughbred horses and buggies.
- Walden (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Barns--Colorado--Walden--1900-1910.; Stables--Colorado--Walden--1900-1910.; Loucks, Harford.
- 1906
- Main Street, Frisco, Summit County, Colorado
- A reproduction from Breckenridge Bulletin newspaper shows the main street of Frisco, Colorado. Log buildings with gable roofs are along the dirt road, with telephone poles nearby; Royal, Wichita and Chief mountains are around the town.
- Frisco (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Frisco--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Panoramic view of the mountains at Frisco
- A panorama of Frisco, Colorado, includes the mountains that surround the town. Caption under the image reads: "Panoramic view of the mountains at Frisco. From left to right is Peak One, Victoria, Royal, Wichita, Chief, Little Buffalo and Buffalo...
- Frisco (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- 1909
- AT&SF locomotive, engine number 896, engine type 2-8-2
- Three-quarter view of right side of engine, from front end; tender cropped. Photographed: Denver, Colo., November 1913.
- Locomotives--1910-1920.; Railroads--Trains--Pictorial works--1913.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Denver.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.
- 1913
- Taken of a work train west of Hayden, Colo
- View of a Denver and Salt Lake Railroad construction train near Hayden (Routt County), Colorado. Men crowd a flatcar; women and children stand on new tracks and ties.
- Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Routt County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Railroad employees--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Routt...
- 1913
- R.R. track layer working west of Hayden, Colo
- View of Denver and Salt Lake Railroad construction near Hayden (Routt County), Colorado. Men work with track, ties, and hoists on work cars.
- Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Routt County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction...
- 1913 Autumn
- R.R. days celebration passenger coach came down from Steamboat Springs
- People crowd around a Denver and Salt Lake Railroad passenger car and caboose at a Railroad Days celebration in Hayden (Routt County), Colorado. Flat cars carry railroad ties.
- Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Hayden (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Celebrations--Colorado--Hayden--1910-1920.; Railroad cabooses--Colorado--Hayden--1910-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Hayden--1910-1920.;...
- 1913 Autumn
- A football game, Hayden, Colo, RR days celebration
- People crowd a football field during a Railroad Days celebration in Hayden (Routt County), Colorado; some look at a stage, others look at people atop a hill.
- Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company--Public relations--1910-1920.; Hayden (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Celebrations--Colorado--Hayden--1910-1920.; Football--Colorado--Hayden--1910-1920.; Spectators--Colorado--Hayden--1910-1920.
- 1913 Autumn
- Tracklayer on the Moffat RR extension from Steamboat Springs to Craig, Colo
- View of Denver and Salt Lake Railroad construction near Hayden (Routt County), Colorado. Men work with track, ties, and hoists on a work car.
- Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Routt County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Routt County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction...
- 1913 Summer
- C&S locomotive, engine number 522, engine type 2- 8-0
- Three-quarter view of left side of engine, from front end; tender cropped, tandem compound. Photographed: Denver, Colo., 1914.
- Locomotives--1910-1920.; Railroads--Trains--Pictorial works--1914.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Denver.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- 1914