Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 19, 1910 May 7
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 38, 1910 September 17
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 41, 1910 October 8
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 3, 1911 January 14
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 26, 1911 June 24
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 42, 1911 October 14
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 10, 1912 March 9
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 26, 1909 August 14
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 31, 1909 September 18
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 37, 1909 October 30
- The Good Old Days: Grigsby Family History
- Intensive document covering the Grisby family history starting in the early 1870's in Iowa.
- 2012 June 20
- Fiftyniners' directory : Colorado Argonauts of 1858-1859. A directory of their arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, ranches; with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters.
- A transcription of two volumes originally created by Henrietta Bromwell pertaining to the lives and events surrounding the early settlers of Colorado.
- Pioneers--Colorado.; Colorado--Biography.
- 2004
- Place names of Colorado : a genealogical & historical guide to Colorado sites
- The primary objective of this index is to contain a comprehensive listing of place names or sites in Colorado that would direct the researcher to recent and readily available publications. Included in this publication for each site or place name,...
- Names, Geographical--Colorado.; Colorado--History, Local.
- 1999
- 1907 Ballenger & Richards 35th Annual Denver City Directory
- 1893 Corbett & Ballenger's 21st Annual Denver City Directory
- Colorado portrait and biography index : gathered and arranged from histories, magazines, newspaper files, land records, and many other sources, 1931, 1932, 1933, Denver.
- Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
- Colorado--Biography.
- 1933, 2005
- Antoinette Perry
- Studio portrait of Denver actress Antoinette Perry. She wears a woven straw hat with her hair down, a pinafore with a pleated bodice, and a striped blouse trimmed with lace. She is barefoot. She smiles, and poses on a cast iron table with her legs...
- Actresses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Smiling--1900-1910.; Perry, Antoinette, 1888-1946.
- [between 1905 and 1910?]
- "If I Were White" by Clarence F. Holmes (unofficial title)
- Bachelor
- Men, women, and boys pose in the street near frame commercial buildings in Bachelor (Mineral County), Colorado. A building has a partly constructed roof; some buildings have false fronts. An African American (Black) woman wears a long skirt and...
- Afro-Americans--Women--Colorado--Bachelor--1890-1910.; Bachelor (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bachelor--1890-1910.
- [between 1892 and 1908?]
- Lone Valley schoolhouse, southwest of Akron, Colo.
- The Lone Valley schoolhouse stands on a grassy plain southwest of Akron in Washington County, Colorado. The small, weathered, clapboard, one-room schoolhouse has an entry vestibule, front gables, shingle roof, and brick chimney. A merry-go-round is...
- Akron (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Schools--Colorado--Akron--1950-1960.; Schools--Colorado--Washington County--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Western History Subject Index
- ALDEN, Elisha 3
- Western History Subject Index
- ALLEN, George B
- Troupe of Salim Nassar
- A group of Arab men poses in costume in the foreground in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. They are possibly the Troupe of Salim Nassar. The men wear fez hats, knee-length baggy pants and have sashes tied around their waists. They all...
- Arabs--Clothing & dress.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Entertainers--1880-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Arkansas Valley, Colorado. Biography
- Field artillery observation crew
- Group portrait of eleven members of the field artillery observation crew attached to the Tenth Mountain Division in front of a plane at an airfield in Italy.
- Artillery (Troops)--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- [1945]
- When I first crossed the plains in 1865, Chs. S. Stobie
- Studio portrait (sitting) of Charles S. Stobie, Indian scout and western artist. He wears a wide brimmed hat, short hair and is clean shaven. He wears a coat decorated with piping and a tie and stickpin.
- Artists--American--1860-1870.; Military scouts.; Rifles.; Stobie, Charles S., 1845-1931.
- 1865 June 1
- Gillespie house
- Three men and three girls gather in front of a clapboard house in Aspen, Colorado; features two men crouched on the ground and one leaning against a hitching post; girls sit on a bench wearing plaid dresses with bows in their hair; two girls hold...
- Aspen (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Girls--Colorado--Aspen--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1910-1920.
- 1911
- D&RGW Pueblo - Salida Main Line view looking east, west of Swallows, Colorado (mp. 134.6), AT&SF grade and bridge in background, bridge wrecked by floods?, between Swallows and Hobson, Colorado where AT&SF crossed over D&RGW
- View of Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks, Pueblo - Salida Main Line, milepost 134.6, between Swallows and Hobson, Pueblo County, Colorado; shows Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad grade and flood damaged (?) bridge pylons.
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1920-1930.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1920-1930.; Pueblo County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Disasters--Colorado--Pueblo County--1920-1930.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Pueblo...
- 1928
- D&RGW, Pueblo-Salida Main Line view looking east, west of Swallows, Colorado (mp. 134.6), AT&SF grade and bridge in background, bridge wrecked by floods ?, between Swallows and Hobson, Colorado where AT&SF crossed over D&RGW
- View of Denver & Rio Grande tracks, Pueblo - Salida Main Line, milepost 134.6, between Swallows and Hobson, Pueblo County, Colorado; shows Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad grade and flood damaged (?) bridge pylons.
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1920-1930.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1920-1930.; Pueblo County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Disasters--Colorado--Pueblo County--1920-1930.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Pueblo...
- June 1928
- Santa Fe baggage car in foreground Rio Grande passenger coaches beyond, Nuckolls' Pac[k]ing Plant, note the fallen water tank.
- Work men stand near the axles of a Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe baggage car that was swept away and overturned in a flood in Pueblo, Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande Western passenger cars rest on on their sides behind the baggage car. The...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--Disasters--1920-1930.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Disasters--1920-1930.; Nuckolls Packing Company (Pueblo, Colo.)--Disasters--1920-1930.; Arkansas River--1920-1930.; Pueblo...
- [1921]
- Monastery at Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church Auraria Higher Education Center.
- View of the Friary, at Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic Church (St. Elizabeth's Church), designed by architect Jacques Benedict in 1936 and located at 1060 St. Francis Way, on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus, Denver, Colorado....
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--2000-2010.; St. Elizabeth's Church (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Apses.; Catholic churches.; Doors & doorways.; Historic buildings.; Monasteries.; Statues.;...
- 2009
- Pike's Peak, Col.
- View of Pikes Peak from Austin Bluffs, El Paso County, Colorado. Shows a gulch and creek. A frame farmhouse is in the distance.
- Austin Bluffs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; El Paso County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountains--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Avalon Bay, Catalina Island
- View of Avalon and Avalon Bay on Santa Catalina Island (Los Angeles County), California. Shows a pier, boats in the harbor, hotels, and commercial buildings.
- Avalon (Calif.)--1870-1900.; Avalon Bay (Calif.)--1870-1900.; Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)--1870-1900.; Bays (Bodies of water)--California--Avalon--1870-1900.; Cities & towns--California--Avalon--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Baldwin, Ivy
- Nederland Park
- A horse and buggy makes its way along Middle Boulder Creek, Barker Meadows with Nederland, Boulder County, Colorado in the distance and mountains beyond.
- Barker Meadow (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Middle Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Nederland (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Meadows--Colorado--Boulder County--1870-1890.; Streams--Colorado--Boulder County--1870-1890.
- [between 1873 and 1892?]
- David B. Allen in "whites"
- Portrait of David B. Allen in his "whites" or winter uniform posed in the same postion as the "Ski Trooper" cover of the Saturday Evening Post. He is crouching close to the ground and carrying a knapsack with a white cover, a rifle and is holding...
- Barracks--Colorado--1940-1950.; Military camps--Colorado--1940-1950.; Photographers--Colorado--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; Camp Hale (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- [1943-1944]
- Castel D'Aiano, Italy
- A leafless tree frames a view of Castel D'Aiano, Italy, scene of a major Tenth Mountain Division battle. The village lies in hilly country with larger mountains in the distance.
- Battlefields--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- April, 1945
- Proposed alterations to Briarhurst manor
- Architectural rendering shows proposed alterations to Briarhurst Manor, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. The Tudor style stone residence features crossed gables, dormers, stone chimneys, bay windows, and bargeboard. The addition is a flat roofed...
- Bell, William Abraham--Homes & haunts.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1940-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1940-1970.
- [between 1940 and 1970?]
- Blackhawk trestle, church and school in background
- View of two men sitting on the train trestle over Gregory Street in Black Hawk, Colorado. Near man has legs crossed, hands together, mustache and beard, black hat. Other man is rounder in stature, one leg up, hands together, white shirt, tie, black...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Trestles--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.
- [between 1898 and 1910]
- Black Hawk, Colorado
- View of Bates Hill from Gregory Street in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows Church Street, residences on both streets, a sign "Parking for Black Forrest Inn," mules and horses, and an old carriage. Church Street wraps around and fronts the schoolhouse...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1970-1980.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1970-1980.
- March 20, 1971
- Western History Subject Index
- Blore, William R
- Adair Cabin, West of Eldora
- A log cabin stands in the right foreground west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Patches of snow cover the ground near the cabin and on the ridge of mountains in the background. Tall pine trees stand behind the cabin.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1940-1950.
- [1946 or 1948?]
- Byers Boston, grandson of Frank Byers
- Studio portrait of Byers Boston, grandson of Frank Byers; shows the young boy on a stool with his legs crossed, he smiles.
- Boys--1890-1900.; Smiling--1890-1900.; Boston, Byers.; Byers, Frank S.--Family.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Masons
- Nine young Masons in sack suits, ties and hats pose on a snowy street in Breckenridge, Colorado, in front of frame, gable roofed and false fronted buildings. The two-story building has a glass storefront with a mitred, inset entry and a Masonic...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Report of Henry A. Buchtel Pastor Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church Denver, Colorado
- This is a report submitted to the Quarterly Conference at the close of Henry A. Buchtel's term as pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church. During his tenor the church raised money to build a new building at 1820 Broadway in Denver, Colo. The...
- Buchtel, Henry Augustus, 1847-1924.; Trinity United Methodist Church (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Methodist churches--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- 1891 March 30
- The black mystery [art original].
- Buffalo Bill, in a cave, overhears plotters.
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Pictorial works.; Dime novels--Illustrations.; Painting, American.; Cowboys--Pictorial works.; Cowboys in art.; Watercolors (Paintings)
- 1911
- Pine Ridge Agency, S.D.
- Native American Lakota Sioux including Red Cloud Oglala chief, wearing sunglasses, pose with Major John Burke, general manager of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show, and possibly John Y. Nelson, with beard, in front of a log cabin, Pine Ridge...
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--People--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Oglala Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--South...
- [1890]
- D. C. Oakes
- Studio portrait (seated) of Daniel C. Oakes, Colorado lumber merchant, Ute Indian Agent, and U.S. Land Surveyor. Oakes wears a sack jacket with wide lapels, and a striped vest. He has a full beard, mustache and his hair is parted with a wave in...
- Business people--1860-1870.; Indian agents--Colorado--1860-1870.; Oakes, D. C. (Daniel C.)
- [between 1860 and 1865?]
- By Indian River, near Sitka
- A calf stands on a narrow dirt road near Indian River in Sitka County, Alaska. Shows dense fir trees on the sides of the road.
- Calves--Alaska--Sitka County--1880-1890.; Sitka County (Alaska)--1880-1890.; Cattle--Alaska--Sitka County--1880-1890.; Dirt roads--Alaska--Sitka County--1880-1890.; Forests--Alaska--Sitka County--1880-1890.
- 1887
- Favorite Quotations form the Cameron Methodist's Women's Foreign Missionary Society and Friends
- Book of quotations complied by the Cameron Methodist's Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Denver, Colorado.
- Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1901