Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Colorado Marriages 1858-1939 F
- Marriage records--Colorado; Colorado--Genealogy.
- Central City, 1953
- Several houses along Spring Street in Central City, Colorado, are built above a retaining wall. The house on the far left is a two story wood frame structure with a gabled roof, chimney, covered porch, rectangular windows, and a white-picket...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Victor
- Rear view of three wooden frame residences on hillside, Victor, Colorado: a two-story wooden frame house (with medium gable roof, two chimneys, and outhouse), a one-story wooden frame house (with bellcast mansard roof, stone foundation, and four...
- Victor (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Victor--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Colorado World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- The Colorado registration cards are on 40 rolls of microfilm (v.1 through v.40), Denver Public Library catalog number G973.91, W893co. The draft registration cards are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are...
- 2005
- Evolution of the jail, White Ave.
- View of brick and frame buildings and trees on White Avenue in Grand Junction (Mesa County), Colorado. Shows the second Mesa County Jail building, a two-story brick building with a hipped roof, bars on windows, and a porch. A frame building with a...
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Jails--Colorado--Grand Junction--1880-1900.
- [between 1884 and 1900?]
- Ward, Colo.
- View of frame or log buildings on a hillside in Ward (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the frame Carpenter's Gothic Congregational Church (Community Church), and probably commercial buildings with false fronts and houses with gabled roofs. Tailings...
- Ward (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Ward--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Ward--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Victor, Colo.
- View of frame commercial and mine buildings in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. A Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company freight train is on Colorado Midland Railroad tracks near tailings and the Independence Mine. Portland Mine buildings are...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Warehouses--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1898?]
- At the Iron Springs, Manitou
- View of frame and stone buildings and dirt streets on a hillside in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows the Ute Iron Springs pavilion and souvenir shop with stone pillars, a hipped roof and a widows walk. A person stands in the road...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Roads--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1886 and 1891?]
- Manitou Springs
- People stand in a group near the Navajo Soda Spring gazebo with a conical, faceted roof and tree branch supports in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows frame commercial buildings or houses on Manitou Avenue and the first Manitou...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Gazebos--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [1878?]
- Cripple Creek
- Side view of Water Works Office, (possibly Cripple Creek Water Company) Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes a one-story wooden frame office building with attached back porch and steps and a two-story wooden frame building adjacent to office;...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Office buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896]
- First Bank, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of A. A. Ireland Real Estate and Mining Property, building shared by Bank of Cripple Creek (also called First National Bank), Cripple Creek, Colorado; six men pose on front steps of one-story false front with shed roof wood frame...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Banks--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896]
- Street scene, Cripple Creek
- Row of one and two-story medium gable wood frame and log houses probably on north side of Eaton Avenue or possibly Carr Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one is under final stage of construction; dirt street has light snow and wagon tracks on it;...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dwellings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896]
- Cripple Creek, 1895
- Two-story wooden frame flat-roof commercial buildings on southwest corner of Bennett Avenue and Second (2nd) Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; horse-drawn wagon is tethered to fire hydrant at corner of street; lettering on windows include: "Palace...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Cripple Creek, F. & C. C. R. R.
- Distant view west towards sparsely settled Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes split rail fence, Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad narrow gauge track with box freight cars and hopper cars, outhouses, one-story wooden frame gabled residences,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1894?]
- Cliff House and Soda Spring
- View of the Cliff House Hotel and Soda Spring Pavilion in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northeast. The Cliff House, a four story frame and stone structure with hipped, gabled roof, dormers, open porches, balustraded balconies, towers and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- State Bridge, Colorado
- Panoramic view of Hotel Atchison, State Bridge, Colorado reached via Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway (later Denver & Salt Lake), Moffat Road; men, women & children standing or seated in front of log frame building with sod roof & cabins,...
- State Bridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fishing--Colorado--State Bridge--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--State Bridge--1900-1910.; Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway.
- [1905?]
- Iron Springs Pavilion - Manitou
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Springs Pavilion, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest. The lower level of the west end of this building has a stone arcaded patio, topped by an enclosed, frame second floor with hipped gable roof and a sign...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1900?]
- Iron Springs, 405
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Springs Chateau, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest. The lower level of the west end of this building has a stone arcaded patio, topped by an enclosed, frame second floor with hipped gable roof and a sign...
- Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- A scene in Manitou
- Scene in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north at the Soda Spring Pavilion and the Cliff House. The Pavilion is a frame structure with a cross-gable roof and a cupola with flagpole; the foundation is knee- high rusticated stone. The east half is...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880- 1890.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff...
- [between 1885 and 1887?]
- Sode Spring, Manitou
- View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north. The bridge across Ruxton Creek is in the foreground, and the rustic gazebo over Soda Spring is behind it. The ring around Navajo Spring is in the foreground on the right, and on the left a horse and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [between 1872 and 1873?]
- Ute Iron Spring
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Spring Chateau, Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. A one-story frame structure, the octagonal pavilion with its latticework and projecting bays has a two horse tally-ho parked nearby. Its shingled, faceted...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1883 and 1885?]
- Iron Springs, Manitou 1822
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Springs Pavilion, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest. The lower level of the west end of this building has a stone arcaded patio, topped by an enclosed, frame second floor with hipped gable roof and a sign...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1899?]
- Moving time in Denver
- View of a house moving operation in Denver, Colorado; shows a frame house and men working. Children watch; an automobile is in the background, and the truck has lettering: "Kennicott Patterson Transfer Hauling Placing of Machinery Boilers Safes...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Children--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Moving of structures--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Trailers--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Trucks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- 1927 April 1
- Clear Creek Canon
- View of the pavilion at Beaver Brook in Clear Creek Canyon (Jefferson County) Colorado. The frame polygon shaped building has a roof with cross-braces in front of window openings. Wooden stairs lead up the hillside to the gazebo. A frame water tank...
- Colorado Central Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Beaver Brook (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Pavilions--Colorado--Beaver Brook--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Beaver Brook--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Battle Mountain
- View of a mine identified as the Eaglebird Mine on the Eagle River near Gilman on Battle Mountain (Eagle County), Colorado. Shows a foot bridge, a wood frame aerial tram house, log supports buttressing a tailings pile, and a mine tramway buttressed...
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bridges--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Eaglbird [sic] assay office Battle Mountain
- View of a mine identified as the Eaglebird Mine on the Eagle River near Gilman on Battle Mountain (Eagle County), Colorado. Shows a foot bridge, a wood frame aerial tram house and assay office, log supports buttressing a tailings pile, and a mine...
- Battle Mountain (Eagle County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Eagle Bird Mine Eagle Canon
- View of a mine identified as the Eaglebird Mine on the Eagle River near Gilman on Battle Mountain (Eagle County), Colorado. Shows a foot bridge, a wood frame aerial tram house and assay office, log supports buttressing a tailings pile, and a mine...
- Battle Mountain (Eagle County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Gove Jr. High demolition
- View of the demolition of Gove Junior High School at 14th (Fourteenth) Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. Shows a crane.
- Gove Junior High School (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Demolition--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.
- 1976
- Margaret Bourke-White photographing ski troops
- Margaret Bourk-White, photographer for Life magazine, faces away from the camera in this image of her photographing four Tenth Mountain Division soldiers skiing in Italy. All the skiers wear white camouflage coats, three carry rifles and one wears...
- Mountain warfare--Italy--1940-1950.; Ski troops--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- [1945]
- View of Bear Creek at side of livery stable
- View of rocks, sticks and debris in the dry Bear Creek creek bed near Morrison in Jefferson County, Colorado. Shows a frame barn, covered livestock stalls, and a broken fence washed out by the flood. A clapboard house and a frame building are...
- Bear Creek (Jefferson County and Douglas County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Debris--Colorado--Jefferson County--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Jefferson County--1890-1900.;...
- 1896 September 25
- Ghost town of Gladstone
- Partial view of abandoned Gladstone, Colorado, shows the remains of the Mogul Mill, two automobiles and a pick-up parked near two rows of one-story, gable roof, wood frame residences, two two-story wood frame buildings behind houses, wood frame...
- Gladstone (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Ghost towns--Colorado--Gladstone--1930-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Gladstone--1930-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Gladstone--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Manitou
- veranda. The second Manitou School and the Congregational Church are left of center. On the left is the D. & R. G. Railroad Depot, a rusticated stone building with a high gabled roof and a chimney at each end; the freight and passenger sheds flank...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.
- [betweeen 1895 and 1900?]
- Manitou, Colo. 32
- Gardens, a frame structure with gables, dormers and veranda. The second Manitou School and the Congregational Church are just left of center. On the left is the D. & R.G. (1881) Railroad Depot, a rusticated stone building with a high gabled roof...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Mines of Victor
- View of wooden frame residence & canvas tents with wooden frames on hillside below Portland & Bobtail Mine, Victor, Colorado; includes one- story medium gable wooden frame residence with lean-to, two canvas tents on wooden frames & base,...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1902]
- Residence at 127 West 4th
- Detail of the 127 West Fourth Street residence, on "Millionaires Row," Leadville, Colorado, also known as the "House with the Eye." The wood frame house was built in 1879, designed by architect Eugene Robitaille with clapboard siding and a swept...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Bancroft, Caroline.; Robitaille, Eugene.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Residence at 127 West 4th
- Detail of the 127 West Fourth Street residence on "Millionaires Row," Leadville, Colorado, also known as the "House with the Eye." The wood frame house was built in 1879, designed by architect Eugene Robitaille with clapboard siding and a swept...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Bancroft, Caroline.; Robitaille, Eugene.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Sayer Mckee Drug Co
- Business signs from right to left read "Olde Tyme Portaits, Antiques and Finery," "Baby Doe Fashions," "Sayer McKee Gift Shop" and "Sayer McKee, Bed & Bath Boutique". Pictures, clothing, and t-shirts are displayed in windows. "Open" and "Ski...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1980-1990.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Leadville--1980-1990.
- [1981]
- Lumber yard at mine
- A man stands near a large wooden frame and a lumber yard at a mine possibly on the Front Range of Colorado. Lumber is stacked near railroad tracks and frame buildings. Shows a large cable spool mounted on a wooden frame on wheel assemblies on the...
- Lumber industry--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--1890-1910.; Sawmills--Colorado--1890-1910.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Nebraska World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards Index, 1917-1918 A-L
- The Nebraska registration cards are on 50 rolls of microfilm, Nebraska State Historical Society library microfilm catalog number RG0544.PR. They are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are listed usually...
- World War, 1914-1918--Nebraska.; Nebraska--Genealogy--Sources.; Nebraska--History, Military.; United States. Selective Service System--Sources.; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918.; United States....
- 2005
- 1893 Corbett & Ballenger's 21st Annual Denver City Directory
- 1907 Ballenger & Richards 35th Annual Denver City Directory
- Head frame
- View of a mine head frame in Colorado. Shows ore cars, tracks, a gabled, wood frame building, a shed and a ladder.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Two story frame house just north of C. & S. eating house at Como, Colo.
- View along snow fence and drift to the railroad superintendent's two-story residence, Como, 9,802 feet, Park County, Colorado, features the wood frame structure with gable trim, bay window and porch. Two outhouses and another two-story frame house...
- Como (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Como--1920-1930.; Snow fences--Colorado--Como--1920-1930.
- January 1929
- Major Marcus A. Reno, in uniform, bust (oval frame)
- Major Marcus Albert Reno, head and shoulders studio portrait in oval frame, wearing military uniform; engaged in Little Bighorn on June 25- 26, 1876, and set up a hospital during the hilltop fight to care for wounded.
- Military officers--United States--1870-1880.; Military uniforms--1880-1890.; Reno, Marcus A. (Marcus Albert), 1835-1889.
- [between 1874 and 1876]
- Indian burial, scaffold in foreground, tepee frame in background
- Dakota Native American burial custom; three wrapped bodies atop scaffold in left foreground including smaller body with bent branches framing body; tepee frame of poles with wrapped body inside tepee frame right foreground; view of edge of ridge...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Timberline Picture Frame
- Two long, bare branches, possibly of a Limber Pine, grow toward each other on a ridge north of Kingston Peak on the border of Gilpin and Clear Creek counties in Colorado. Several tree stumps are in the background. Photographer titled the image...
- Limber pine--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1950.; Timberline--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1950.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Tree limbs--1930-1950.; Tree stumps--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1950.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Original Hartman house just behind stone house, it was first frame house in Gunnison.
- Exterior of the abandoned Dos Rios Ranch house built by Alonzo and Annie Hartman, just west of Gunnison, Colorado; shows the weathered wood frame wood frame structure with varying directions of clapboard siding, a side porch and gingerbread trim.
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Gunnison--1960-1970.; Hartman, Alonzo--Homes & haunts.; Hartman, Annie--Homes & haunts.
- [between 1960 and 1965]
- Robinson House Site Notice
- Barn at Earnest Ranch, Glenwood Springs, Colo.
- View of barn at the Earnest Ranch, located on County Road 117, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. In front of the structure is a vintage flatbed truck and wagon frame. This two-story red frame structure was constructed in 1919. The barn is listed on the...
- Earnest Ranch (Glenwood Springs, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Barns--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--2000-2010.; Earnest Ranch (Glenwood Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Barns--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--Pictorial works.; Ranches--Colorado--Glenwood...
- 2003
- Western Hotel, Ouray, Colo.
- View of the Western Hotel located at 210 7th Avenue, Ouray, Colorado. The three-story large frame hotel has ship lap siding, as well as a full-length front porch with decorative columns and barge board. Above the porch, is a second floor balcony...
- Western Hotel (Ouray, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Hotels--Colorado--Ouray--2010-2020.; Ouray (Colo.)--2010-2020.; Western Hotel (Ouray, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Hotels--Colorado--Ouray--Pictorial works.; Ouray (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2011