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    • Mt. Index region

    • Mt. Index region

    • Men wear suits and stand near parked cars and on a steep hillside beside a tramway of possibly the Index Oil Shale Company near De Beque in Garfield County, Colorado. Shows probably oil shale processing buildings, holding tanks, dirt road grades,...

    • Oil-shale industry--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Aerial tramways--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.; Refineries--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.; Valleys--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.

    • [between 1900 and 1920?]
    • Rifle, Colorado

    • Rifle, Colorado

    • Aerial view of the town of Rifle in Garfield County, Colorado. Shows agricultural fields and ditches. The Colorado River meanders past the town and the Grand Hogback is in the distance.

    • Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1940-1970.; Grand Hogback (Colo.) 1890-1920.; Rifle (Colo.)--1940-1970.; Cites & towns--Colorado--Rifle--1940-1970.; Rivers--Colorado--Rifle--1940-1970.

    • [between 1940 and 1970?]
    • Denver

    • Denver

    • Rooftop view of commercial district, Denver, Colorado, shows brick two, three, and four story buildings and a few wood false fronts. A delivery wagon and carriage park along boardwalk. Signs include: "Confectionery," Denver Athenaeum," "C. T....

    • Denver (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1860-1880.

    • [between 1864 and 1877]
    • Larimer Street

    • Larimer Street

    • Rooftop view of Larimer Street, Denver, Colorado, shows a busy business district with brick, two and three story buildings and a few wood false fronts. Delivery wagons and carriages park along boardwalk. Signs include: "Market," "Frank Winfield...

    • Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.

    • [between 1871 and 1878]
    • Breckenridge

    • Breckenridge

    • View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking southeast, includes tents, frame and log dwellings and commercial buildings dotting the flats next to the Blue River which winds up to and through town. The foothills of Boreas Mountain are in the left, and...

    • Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.

    • 1881
    • Valley & mtns

    • Valley & mtns

    • Irrigation ditches edge hay fields, probably in Colorado or Utah; haystacks, fields, fog and mountains are in the background.

    • Farms--1920-1940.; Irrigation--1920-1940.

    • [between 1922 and 1935?]
    • Placer mining, Umcompahgre [sic] Creek, Colorado

    • Placer mining, Umcompahgre [sic] Creek, Colorado

    • View of hydraulic gold placer mining in Mesa County, Colorado; shows jets of water, hills, and Uncompahgre Creek.

    • Mesa County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Mesa County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Mesa County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Mesa County--1880-1900.

    • [between 1880 and 1900?]
    • Rock work at pen. ranch

    • Rock work at pen. ranch

    • The gated arch at the State Penitentiary ranch in Canon City, Colorado, is made of random stone masonry. Curved walls and gable topped pillars flank the dirt road, and stone lined ditches are to the side. More stone walls and the stucco dairy...

    • Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.

    • 1935
    • City Park

    • City Park

    • Men dig ditches in City Park, Denver, Colorado; houses and billboards are in the background.

    • United States. Work Projects Administration. Colorado.--1940-1950.; City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Digging--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Laborers--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.

    • 1941, February
    • Mesa Verde, excavations

    • Mesa Verde, excavations

    • Men work to excavate the pithouses of Step House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. Several men squat down in one of the round ditches. Digging tools lie scattered on the ground near them. The dwelling is at the bottom of a large, rock...

    • Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Step House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Pit dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.

    • [1926?]
    • Mesa Verde, excavations

    • Mesa Verde, excavations

    • Men stand down in the pithouses excavations at Step House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. The circular ditches appear to be lined with slabs of sandstone. Digging tools, including a pick ax and a shovel, lie on the ledge above where...

    • Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Step House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Pit dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.

    • [1926?]
    • Railroad being constructed

    • Railroad being constructed

    • Men in overalls push a handcar on tracks under construction by the Work Projects Administration at Lowry Army Air Force Base in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Construction workers are on tracks in the distance. Shows a railroad...

    • Union Pacific Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Lowry Air Force Base (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Military facilities--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Railroad...

    • 1941 May 27
    • Lake City from Crooke view

    • Lake City from Crooke view

    • View northwest to Lake City from Crooke Hill, Colorado. Foreground includes tailing diversion ditches of the Golden Fleece mine mill. Pines fill middleground; Lake City and bluffs in background.

    • Lake City (Colo.)--1877-1879.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Lake City--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--Lake City--1870-1880.

    • [between 1877 and 1879?]
    • Cerro completed before flood

    • Cerro completed before flood

    • View of the Cerro Ditch in an arroyo or river bed in Costilla County, Colorado. A headgate, trees and hills are in the distance.

    • Costilla County (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Cerro Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Irrigation canals and flumes--Colorado--Costilla County--Pictorial works.; Costilla County (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Cerro Ditch (Colo.)--Pictorial...

    • 1960?
    • Vallejos Ditch before improvements

    • Vallejos Ditch before improvements

    • Hispanic American George G. Romero kneels beside the Vallejos Ditch near an old headgate, prior to the USDA Ditch no. 5 Special Improvement Project for the Vallejos Ditch System, in San Pablo (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows graded earth beside...

    • San Pablo (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Construction.; Romero, George G.--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.;...

    • 1965?
    • One of Colorado's irrigation ditches

    • One of Colorado's irrigation ditches

    • View of water running through sluice of an irrigation ditch somewhere in Colorado; field in background with low vegetation, flat horizon.

    • Irrigation--Colorado--1890-1920.

    • [between 1890 and 1920]

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