Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- This 1s Conejos County Court House in 1910
- View along main street of the two and half-story stone courthouse, Conejos, Conejos County, San Luis Valley, Colorado; shows a portion of the steep apex roof missing; people line the street with wagons and belongings that include bedframes,...
- Conejos (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Conejos--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Conejos--1910-1920.
- 1910
- Delaney Carriage Company Building
- Morada, San Francisco, Colorado
- View of a morada (Los Hermanos Penitentes) in San Francisco (Costilla County), Colorado. The one story, adobe building is mud plastered, has a pitched tin roof, shuttered windows, a wooden belfry and a narrow porch that runs the length of the...
- Hermanos Penitentes--Buildings--2000-2010.; Hispanic Americans--Structures--2000-2010.; Mexican Americans--Structures--2000-2010.; Moradas--2000-2010.; Costilla County (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Adobe buildings.; Hermanos Penitentes--Buildings--Pictorial...
- [2008 February 1]
- Henry Solano
- Studio portrait of Henry Solano, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Denver, Colorado. He sits beside an American flag in a suit and tie, he has a goatee and mustache and wears a cowboy hat. He had previously served as Director of...
- Hispanic Americans--1990-2000.; Mexican Americans--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Lawyers.; Politicians.; Solano, Henry--Pictorial works.; Hispanic American politicians--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Pictorial...
- [1994?]
- House in Leadville, Colorado
- View of a two story house in Leadville, Colorado shows the original clapboard siding covered with composite siding. There is decorative front gable trim with turned finials, three second-story windows with front gable overhangs, an arched attic...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1962
- Meeker, Colorado after the Meeker flood in May of 1897.
- View from bluff across the White River south of Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, shows high water and muddy streets. Landmark buildings include the Hugus Block, the Meeker Hotel, and St. James Episcopal Church.
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; White River (Colo. and Utah)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Meeker Hotel
- Busy scene in front of Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado, shows a stagecoach parked in front with large group of men on boardwalk and guests out on the second floor balcony.
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [between 1896 and 1900]
- Cripple Creek, biography
- Group view of nine females, Cripple Creek, Colorado; women posed standing with arms around each other's shoulders or waists; partial view of wooden frame residence in the background; women identified on back of photoprint as: June Kennedy, Donna...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Crane, Mary.; Herron, Amelia.; Joyce, Gertrude.; Kennedy, June.; McDonald, Donna.; McDonald, Fay.; Welty, Ruth.
- 1910
- General Merchandise store
- Five men pose outside of "Baker and Kaiser General Merchandise," Springfield, between 9th (Ninth) and 10th (Tenth) on Main Street, Baca County (earlier Las Animas County), Colorado. One man holds a dog; a convertible car is parked in front of the...
- Springfield (Colo.)--1910-1920.; General stores--Colorado--Springfield--1910-1920.
- [1914?]
- The Alta Mine
- View of the shafthouse, buildings, and aerial tramway of the Alta Mine near Alta (San Miguel County), Colorado. A miner's tent is nearby.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Alta--1890-1910.; Alta (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Alta Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Aerial tramways--Colorado--Alta--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Alta--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Lake San Cristoval [sic]
- Partial view of Lake San Cristobal (San Cristopal, San Cristovaal Lake), Hinsdale County, Colorado; reservoir formed from Lake Fork Gunnison River; possibly a copy of an earlier William H. Jackson.
- San Cristobal, Lake (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Hinsdale County--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Alamosa, Colo., S.E.Cor. 6th & Hunt
- The first general store and outfit station along the new Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tracks at South 6th (Sixth) Street in Alamosa, Colorado. Two false fronts have large painted block letter signs: "Field & Hill, Schuttler Wagons" and "Field &...
- Broadwell House (Alamosa, Colo.)--1900-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1900-1950.; General stores--Colorado--Alamosa--1900-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Alamosa--1900-1950.
- [between 1907 and 1941]
- Early Alamosa, 1875 or 1876
- Townspeople pose in front of tent and simple wood frame front gable structures labelled with signs "Conejos Ave," "post office," and "Ames House," in Alamosa, Colorado. The group is mostly men in suits, hats, and work clothes. Some men have rifles,...
- Alamosa (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Burke, C. (Carolyn); Gerteisen, John.
- [between 1875 and 1876]
- Unidentified church interior
- Interior view of an unidentified church in Denver, Colorado, shows the preparations that have been made for a celebration, including streamers and signs which read "Look Up, Lift Up." Two chairs and a piano occupy the central platform.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Churches--Colorado--Denver--1900-1930.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930?]
- San Ildefonso
- Interior detail of carved wood ceiling beams, in the Native American San Ildefonso Pueblo mission church, New Mexico.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--San Ildefonso--1890-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--New Mexico--San Ildefonso--1890-1900.; Tewa Indians--1890-1900.; San Ildefonso (N.M.)--1890-1900.; Architectural elements--New Mexico--San...
- [between 1890 and 1905?]
- McClellan Hall, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of McClellan Hall, on the south side of Sixth (6th) Street between Taos and Rose Streets, Georgetown, Colorado. The building was a movie theater which was restored as a public gathering place in 1946 and named after an earlier...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Commercial buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Horses--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Motion picture theaters--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.
- 1946
- Leadville mine
- The snowy scene of a large mining operation in Leadville, Colorado, includes surface structures, smelter, shafthouse, mine cart tracks, and power poles.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Leadville railroad depot
- In this snowy scene of loaded flatbed coal cars at the Leadville Depot in Colorado, two horse drawn wagons with men on the top are beside Denver & Rio Grande (D&RG) cars. Smoke rises from a locomotive in the background. Victorian depot buildings...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ore industry--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Railroad cars--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Santa Fe, N. M. Chapel of San Miguel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail
- View of the Chapel of San Miguel, in Santa Fe, New Mexico; shows stone walls, shuttered, arched windows, a woman, and a child.
- Santa Fe (N.M.)--1910-1920.; Catholic churches--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1910-1920.; Children--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1910-1920.; Women--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1910-1920.; Mission San Miguel (Santa Fe, N.M.)--1910-1920.
- 1910
- Columbine Band, Georgetown, Colorado
- The Columbine Band of Georgetown, Colorado, poses, for a group portrait. Members wear uniform jackets with a columbine flower on left side of chest, trousers with side stripe, bow or straight ties and flat top caps. Two men squat down around the...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Marching bands--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.; Musical instruments--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.
- 1978
- Georgetown building
- View of a false front wood frame building in Georgetown, Colorado. Two women in long sleeve blouses and skirts and a dog stand on boardwalk in front of building. The two-story structure has clapboard siding, double door entry, and a side lean-to...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- 1978
- Georgetown, Colorado
- A snowplow pushes deep snow from a street in Georgetown, Colorado. A young boy sits in the cab of the plow and a man in a hat stands on the side. The plow has a tall smokestack and its blade is buried. Wood frame structures and snow covered trees...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Snow removal--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1930.
- 1978
- J. E. Zrieum (?) at front of ladder, left. Rob Weaver, climber
- Townspeople line edge of Alpine Street (6th, Sixth) for a parade, Georgetown, Colorado. Fireman hold up a tall ladder as one of them climbs to top. Climber identified as Rob Weaver; J. E. (Zreium ?) is at front of ladder on left. Spectators hang...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- July 4, Parade
- View of wagon in the July 4th parade, Georgetown, Colorado. Women dressed as Chinese, in heavy make-up and with pinned up hair, sit on a wagon decorated with crepe paper, Chinese lanterns and umbrellas. Driver identified as Charles Fountain, and...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Parade
- View of a parade down Taos Street in Georgetown, Colorado. Two uniformed men on horseback with a American flag lead the event, followed by the Columbine Band (with cornets, horns, drums, and tubas), a canvas top automobile with American flag, and...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Marching bands--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.
- 1978
- Railroad station, Georgetown, Colorado
- Colorado and Southern locomotive number 8 pauses smoking in front of the Georgetown depot, 1106 Rose Street, Colorado. Scene includes men wearing suits and straw hats, women in light colored dresses, boys in caps, a boy on a bicycle leaning...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1930.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1930.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- 1978
- Red Cross unit
- View of a parade on Taos Street in Georgetown, Colorado, including a Red Cross nurses in uniforms with caps and veils (one nurse carries a parasol), marching units (one with two American flags), and automobiles. Deciduous trees, small wood frame...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Summer 1940, "Sandiago"
- View of a two door automobile in front of a large two-story weathered horizontal board building in Georgetown, Colorado. The car door is open, a bucket seat leans forward and a person shows in the back seat. The building has tin roof, a screen door...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- 1978
- Canon of Grand River
- A man stands on Denver & Rio Grande Railway tracks by the entrance to a railroad tunnel in Glenwood Canyon, probably Garfield County, Colorado. Shows the Colorado River, high striated rock canyon walls, and mist.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1880-1890.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Glenwood Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--Garfield County--1880-1890.; Railroad...
- [between 1881 and 1888?]
- Fifteenth Street, Denver
- View of 15th (Fifteenth) Street in Denver, Colorado; shows businesses, homes, storefronts, and a horse and buggy. Sign reads: "Sign Painting."
- Denver (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1870-1890.; Dwellings--Colorado--Denver--1870-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1870-1890.
- [between 1879 and 1889?]
- Chief Sitting Bull Sioux
- Studio portrait (sitting) of Sitting Bull, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man. He wears a quill-work bandolier, vest, and feathers in his hair.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Hunkpapa Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1890-1900.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [between 1895 and 1900]
- The Loop above Georgetown, Colo.
- Photograph of a drawing depicting the Georgetown Loop, above Georgetown (Clear Creek County) Colorado; shows Colorado and Southern train on a trestle and Clear Creek.
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1900-1920.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Warren C. Bogue family
- Portrait of the Bogue family at 1460 Fillmore Street, in Denver, Colorado; the man, woman, and girls pose on the covered porch.
- Bogue, Mary.; Bogue, Warren C.; Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Families--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Ghost house
- Evening view of the dilapidated, snow-covered Henry Gillespie house in Aspen, Colorado; features a wood frame structure with towers with triangular dormers, pediments, numerous gables, finials, gingerbread ornamentation, and clapboard siding; panes...
- Gillespie, Henry B.--Homes & haunts.; Aspen (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Aspen--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1950-1960.
- 1951
- Cherrelyn horse car
- Three-quarter rear view of the Cherrelyn Gravity and Broncho Street Railway car, shows the horse riding on the back platform and passengers looking out the windows, Cherrelyn, (district incorporated into Englewood) Arapahoe County, Colorado. The...
- Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Horse railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Cardinal between Nederland and Caribou
- View of New Cardinal (Cardinal) Boulder County, Colorado, with the Caribou railway branch terminal halfway between Caribou and Nederland includes scattered wood frame residences and sheds built along an eroding slope with a group of wagons parked...
- Cardinal (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Cardinal--1870-1890.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Cardinal, Colorado
- View of Cardinal, (Cardinal City, Old Cardinal) Boulder County, Colorado, includes covered horse-drawn carriages, tents, log and wood frame structures, tree stumps, and cut timber. The town later relocated and became New Cardinal, a site closer to...
- Cardinal (Colo.)--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1883]
- Caribou, Colo.
- View of Caribou (9800 feet), a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado, includes log, board and batten, wood frame false fronts, gabled and lean-to structures. Many have external timber braces propped against them for protection against the wind...
- Caribou (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Arvada Baptist Church
- View of the Baptist Church, Arvada, Colorado, at corner of West 2nd (Second) and Adelaide Streets (Yarrow Street and West Fifty-seventh Avenue), Jefferson County, Colorado; features a stone building built in 1909 with a front gable, decorative...
- Arvada (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Baptist churches--Colorado--Arvada--1900-1920.
- [between 1909 and 1920]
- Arrowhead depot, Moffat line
- View of the new side gable log depot at Arrow (Arrowhead), Colorado; features a projecting front entry and horizontal logs with a decorative triangular pattern under apex; sacks of chinking material stacked at end of depot; several men standing on...
- Arrow (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Arrow--1900-1910.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Arvada Chamber of Commerce tank parade
- Two military tanks parade on a Arvada street, Jefferson County, Colorado. The lead tank's cannon smokes; drivers can be seen through small front hatch doors. Arvada Chamber of Commerce sponsors the parade during the third Annual Harvest Festival....
- Arvada (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Festivals--Colorado--Arvada--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Arvada--1920-1930.; Tanks (Military science)--Colorado--Arvada--1920-1930.
- 1927 September 17
- Arvada, Colorado
- Two horses pull a float with ladies in long dresses, during a parade in Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado. The float has a tent roof and banners that read: "Arvada Air is Fragrant with Roses." and "Arvada the Beautiful." Another banner on one of...
- Arvada (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Arvada--1900-1910.
- 1910
- Home of town founder, Benjamin Franklin Wadsworth on Grandview Ave.
- Benjamin F. Wadsworth's house on Grandview Avenue, Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado, features a one-story brick house with a hipped roof, iron cresting, dormers, front porch, side bay windows, picket fence, garage, and tree filled yard. A woman...
- Wadsworth, Benjamin Franklin.--Homes & haunts.; Arvada (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Arvada--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Margaret Thomas
- Margaret Thomas poses next to the bell she donated for the Arvada Methodist Church, at corner of Park and Avon Streets (Webster Street and Fifty-seventh Avenue), Arvada, Jefferson County Colorado.
- Arvada (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bells--Colorado--Arvada--1900-1910.
- 1901
- On the ranch at 51st & Kipling
- Several women stand in a garden of tall flowers with a shoulder high picket fence and cottonwood trees behind them, Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado. They include Anna Juchem, Flora Wagner, Anna Juchem (mother of Henry J.), Mrs. Mae Juchem...
- Arvada (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Arvada--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Richard Russell first mayor of Arvada
- Head and shoulders portrait of Dr. Richard Russell, Arvada, Colorado's first mayor, elected 1904, and served for several terms; organizer of the First National Bank of Arvada (1905) and president of District No. 2 School Board; wearing a wool suit...
- Arvada (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Russell, Richard.
- 1928
- Strawberry on Grandview Avenue
- View from rooftop, of Strawbery Day on Grandview Avenue, June 17, 1911, Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado; includes rows of spectators watching two men race down center of the street; street decorated with American flags, bunting and a banner:...
- Arvada (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Festivals--Colorado--Arvada--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Arvada--1910-1920.
- [1911]
- Apex, Colorado
- View across Apex, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado, shows log and wood frame structures, false fronts, front gables and hipped roofs. One two-story building has sign: "Apex Hotel." Small white front gable church with a...
- Apex (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.
- [August 1990]
- Apex, Colorado, after the forest fire
- Group of children pose in the remains of forest of burned trees, Apex, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. The girls wear dresses, dark stockings, shoe boots and hats consisting of tams with pompons, wide brim, and...
- Apex (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Children--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.
- [August 1990]
- Apex, Colorado, school and church
- Men and women in their finest clothes walk along a path to the Apex school and church, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. The church is a wood frame front gable with a belltower; a ladder and chimneys are on roof. Apex...
- Apex (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Churches--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.
- [August 1990]