Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Colo Trading and Transfer Co. in 1894 in Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Exterior view of Colorado Trading and Transfer Company with several horse-drawn freight wagons parked in front, North Fifth (5th) Street and Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; also included are several other wood frame buildings with saltbox...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Grant Smelter Denver
- View of the Grant Smelter in Denver, Colorado. An Atchison Tokepa and Santa Fe Railway Company train is near the industrial buildings. Smokestacks are nearby.
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Smelters--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Vermillion [sic] Peak
- View of Vermilion Peak and Rio Grande Southern railroad track loop with trestle, San Miguel County, Colorado.
- Rio Grande Southern Railroad--1880-1890.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Vermilion Peak (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1890.; Trestles--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- Baker's Park from Howardsville
- View of Bakers Park (Silverton), the Animas River and the San Juan Mountains, San Juan County, Colorado.
- Animas River (Colo. and N.M.)--1870-1880.; Bakers Park (Colo.)--1870-1880.; San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1870-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Bakers Park--1870-1880.; Rivers--Colorado--Bakers Park--1870-1880.; Valleys--Colorado--Bakers...
- [between 1870 and 1878?]
- Silverton and Sultan Mts., Colorado
- View of Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado. Shows Silverton reservoir, residences and commercial buildings. Sultan Mountain and Grand Turk Peak are in the distance.
- Grand Turk (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Silverton (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Sultan Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silverton--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Uncompagre [sic] Peak
- View of Uncompahgre Peak with tree covered mountainside, Hinsdale County, Colorado.
- Hinsdale County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Uncompahgre Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mountains--Colorado--Hinsdale County--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Indians at the train
- View of group of people who include Native Americans at a frame train depot, possibly Amargo Station in Archuleta County, Colorado. Shows storefronts and buildings.
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1800-1890.; Passengers--Colorado--1800-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--1800-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- Near the head of Po Keepsie Gulch, San Juan Mts.
- View of snow-covered Poughkeepsie Gulch above timberline, with men on horses in the center of the gulch, San Juan Mountains, San Juan County, Colorado.
- Poughkeepsie Gulch (Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Juan County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--San Juan County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Lake Santa Maria, Antelope Park
- View of Lake Santa Maria (Santa Maria Reservoir) and islands in Antelope Park, Mineral County, Colorado.
- Antelope Park (Mineral County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mineral County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Santa Maria Reservoir (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Islands--Colorado--Mineral County--1880-1900.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Mineral County--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Dump Mtn. La Veta Pass
- Men look out from the windows of a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad train on La Veta Pass, Huerfano County, Colorado. Dump Mountain is in the distance.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Dump Mountain (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Huerfano County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Veta Pass (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Huerfano County--1880-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Salvation Army String Band, Silverton, Colo.
- Studio portrait of the Salvation Army String Band in Silverton, Colorado. Eleven young ladies and one little girl with instruments are in front of a painted backdrop of an open, hexagonally parqueted door and window. They are in matching uniforms...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1880-1900.; African Americans--Colorado--Silverton--1880-1900.; Bands--Colorado--Silverton--1880-1900.; Girls--Colorado--Silverton--1880-1900.; Stringed instruments--Colorado--Silverton--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1895?]
- Silverton and Anvil Mt.
- View of Silverton, Colorado, looking west. In the foreground is the floodplain of the Animas River and a frame, four-story stick-style residence with a hipped-gable roof, chimney, and projecting wing with a clipped gable roof. A frame, gable roofed...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1880-1900.
- [between 1884 and 1900?]
- Cor. Tutt and Penrose blk.
- Destroyed corner section of Tutt and Penrose Building caused by second fire on April 29, 1896, Cripple Creek, Colorado; two-story commercial stone and brick building burned with corner demolished to rubble; remaining structure includes cornice with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Exterior view of Colorado Liquor House, Myers Avenue and Third (3rd) Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; two-story frame flat roof building has recessed corner entryway, storeroom windows with transom near double-wide entry, double-sash flat windows...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Colorado Liquor House (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [1895 or 1896]
- J. L. Niebergall store, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of J. L. Niebergall store in a shed-roof round horizontal log cabin, Cripple Creek, Colorado; same store and site that was located in Fremont, 1892, prior to incorporation of Cripple Creek; man with dog stands in doorway while another...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Clothing stores--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; J.L. Niebergall Headquarters.
- [1892 or 1893]
- Masonic Temple and [illegible]
- Destruction from second fire on April 29, 1896 on Myers Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; shows Masonic Temple, Second (2nd) Street, and Myers Avenue intact in background, a group of men examining the piles of debris and remains from fire, and a...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1896]
- J.H. Kilday & W. Weld, prop.'s, White-House saloon, Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Interior view of White House Saloon, Cripple Creek, Colorado; J. H. Kilday & W. Weld (proprietors), group of men stand in front of bar, two men wear aprons, one of whom holds a box of open cigars; additional men stand at bar with feet propped on...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Interiors.; White House Saloon (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [1893 or 1894]
- Palace Drug Store, Midland Ticket Office
- Smouldering debris and remains of Palace Drugstore and Midland Ticket Office, Bennett Avenue and Second Street, caused by second fire on April 29, 1896, Cripple Creek, Colorado; water boiler or tank, rubble, pipe, brick school building, and other...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Part of First Street
- Smouldering remains along First Street from second fire on April 29, 1896, Cripple Creek, Colorado; three men inspect debris and destruction which includes the remains of a heating stove and two-story burned-out brick building; untouched one-story...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Rebuilding over the hot ashes
- View of smouldering remains from first fire on April 25th, 1896, Cripple Creek, Colorado; three men look over debris and one man sprays water over building remains; flat roof brick and wooden frame false front buildings and the Tutt & Penrose...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Cabin of S. J. Roberts, Cripple-Creek, Colo.
- Three men pose by a log cabin belonging to S. J. Roberts, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one man with pants tucked into knee-high boots stands near miner's pick, broom, and sledge hammer (possibly S. J. Roberts); men sit holding a flute or fife and a...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Roberts, S. J.
- 1893
- Cripple Creek
- One and two-story commercial brick flat-roof buildings line the west side of South Second (2d) Street prior to 1896 fires, between Bennett and Myers Avenues, Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes horse-drawn wagon filled with gunney sacks, men...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1893]
- My horses and my hired men
- Two firemen, stand inside firehouse door of Central Fire Station, 340 block Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; each man places a yoke over a horse hitched to fire apparatus; men wear uniform and hat; horse on left is named Mandy and horse on...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1898 and 1905]
- Cripple Creek, Apr. 10th 1892
- Bird's eye view of early Cripple Creek, Colorado (Fremont prior to incorporation); scene includes one and two-story log and wooden frame flat and gable roof buildings and numerous canvas tents scattered throughout town and on hillsides; identified...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1892 April 10
- Old time view of Bennett Ave. in 1903 showing trolley car, Cripple Creek, Colo.
- View of Bennett Avenue towards Midland Terminal Railway station with Low Line electric car and tracks, Cripple Creek, Colorado; this thriving business commercial district includes sidewalk sandwich billboards, many signs painted on brick buildings,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.
- [between 1903 and 1908]
- Cripple Creek, Colo. from Anchoria-Leland Mine on Gold Hill looking north-west
- Bird's eye view northwest towards Cripple Creek, Colorado from Anchoria-Leland Mine on Gold Hill; scene includes Moon Anchor Mine surface building, smelter and hoist, Golden and McKinley public school buildings, National Hotel, Saint Nicholas...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897 September 15
- Grand View Rock
- View of hikers at the gazebo on Grand View Rock, near Manitou Springs, Colorado. A rustic gazebo is perched on a rugged boulder, and men in topcoats, Homburg hats, vests and gold chains, and women and children are posed in it. Women in the...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895?]
- Soda Springs & Cliff House, Manitou
- Exterior view of Manitou Springs Pavilion and Cliff House, looking north, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. The pavilion is a shingle roof style building with a waist high rusticated stone foundation, a gabled roof and cupola; one part is enclosed, and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1887 and 1890?]
- This photograph shows what each man does and also shows our camp
- Union Pacific railroad survey crew members pose in their camp along a river (possibly the Colorado, Grand) with transits on tripods, rods, levels, chains, guitar, and axes, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. They include: J. I. Barlow, Lewis...
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1880-1890.; Railroad employees--Colorado--1880-1890.
- [between 1884 and 1890]
- Cliff House
- View in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north, probably from the Barker House. Central in the image is the Cliff House Hotel; its north wing is a three story frame structure with a hipped gable roof, a widow's walk, canvas awnings on the windows...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Ute Iron Spr., Manitou
- View of Ute Iron Spring Chateau in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking west up Ruxton Street. The hipped-gable roof frame structure with ornamental dormers is draped with garlands, and a sign on the roof reads: Ute Iron Spring. Pedestrians are on...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1887 and 1900?]
- Breckenridge
- View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northeast shows frame or log dwellings and commercial buildings, including the Catholic Church, and the Gardner residence. Landmarks include Barney Ford Hill (formerly called "Nigger Hill"), Illinois Gulch,...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1881
- Breckenridge, Colorado, loooking northwest from Nigger Hill
- View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest, from Barney Ford Hill (formerly called "Nigger Hill"). Snow capped Tenmile range towers behind the fledgeling town, whose buildings are in the center. New growth surrounds spindly, burned...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Tenmile Range (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1889?]
- Pikes Peak from Fountain Creek
- View of Fountain Creek near Colorado City and snow covered Pikes Peak, El Paso County, Colorado. Trees are nearby.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Fountain Creek (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Streams--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Ute Iron Springs, Manitou
- View of the Ute Iron Spring pavilion/souvenir shop and Iron Spring Co. Office in Manitou, Colorado; horse-drawn carriage parked in front of pavilion; Iron Springs Hotel visible in center background.
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Pavilions--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Iron Springs Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1886 and 1901]
- Silverton
- View of Silverton, Colorado, looking southwest, directly along the path of Greene St; shows scrub and small trees opening into the plain of the townsite, wagon wheel ruts, Cement Creek, the Greene and Company Smelter, and a few saltbox dwellings...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Silverton--1870-1880.
- [between and 1876 and 1880?]
- Silverton
- View of Silverton, Colorado, looking southwest; shows aspen trees, the Silverton reservoir, the plain of the townsite, boardwalks along Reese and Greene Streets, and the old school. A wagon and large team approach the bridge across Cement Creek in...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1884 and 1890?]
- Silverton, Colo.
- View of Silverton, Colorado, looking north towards Anvil Mountain and Cement Creek valley. In the foreground, past the flood plain of the Animas River, are the Depot, tracks and spurs of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Among the many buildings...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Streets--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1902 and 1911]
- Silverton, Colorado
- View of Silverton, Colorado, looking northeast, from the slopes of Sultan Mountain along the road to Durango. On the rocky bluff in the foreground, a man is taking a photograph; a 50's sedan heads down the 'Million Dollar Highway' into town....
- Silverton (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Photographers--Colorado--Silverton--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1955?]
- Silverton, From the Cascades
- View of Silverton, Colorado, looking southeast, taken from the Cascades, a few miles up the Mineral Creek valley; shows rocky escarpments, brush and a pine growing from a crack in the granite, a trestle of the Silverton Railway crossing the...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1910?]
- After the fire
- View of desolation caused by second fire on April 29, 1896, Cripple Creek, Colorado; stark remains, twisted sheet metal and debris cover the ground and smoke still rises from ashes; residence or building with hipped roof are in background.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1896]
- Holyoke Flour Mill
- Grain silos in Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado, are topped by a flat roofed mill housing. Freight cars are to the side, by a shed. A sign reads: "Railroad Crossing;" trees flank the foreground.
- Holyoke (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Mills--Colorado--Holyoke--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Phillips Court House built 1900, razed in 1935
- The Phillips County courthouse, in Holyoke, Colorado, is a two- story frame building with a hipped gable roof, double hung windows, and an open, wrap around porch with corner stairs. A bulletin board, bench and chair are on the veranda by a...
- Holyoke (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Courthouses--Colorado--Holyoke--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Street scene
- Commercial buildings in Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado, include a two-story mission style structure with an open porch, pediments. Signs read: "The New Sears," "Hotel," and "Holmes Motor Company." A man stands on the sidewalk, by early...
- Holyoke (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Holyoke Farmer's Co-op
- This one-story brick commercial building in Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado, has a pedimented false front, and a sign over a garage door reading: "Fire department." Gargoyles are mounted over the entry, and a sign on a power pole reads: "Fire...
- Holyoke (Colo.)--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Interior Brown mercantile company, 1409 Pearl
- Hardwood shelves of crockery and tins line interior walls of this mercantile in Boulder, Colorado. Stacked, wood tables are crowded with canning jars, dinnerware, and cooking utensils. Tin buckets and lamps hang from the ceiling; crates in the...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Men--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895?]
- Horace Capes and his shoe repair shop
- Lace-up boots and shoes clutter a table at this cobbler's business in Boulder, Colorado. The interior wall is hung with posters, calendars, coats, and a paper clock reading: "no tick here." Tools hang from shelves full of boxes and a jug; a steamer...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Shoemaking--Colorado--Boulder--1910-1920.
- 1912
- Interior James Kelley Grocery in the '80's
- Wallpaper and cabinets full of tins, boxes, dishes and soap comprise the interior of this business in Boulder, Colorado. Glass display cases top both counters; a cloth reads: "Marguerite;" posters are on the back wall. Posing from left to right are...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Interior of Fonda drug store
- Hardwood cabinets filled with apothecary bottles, jars, tins, and cannisters line the interior walls of Fonda's Pioneer Drug Store in Boulder, Colorado. Men pose in the store. Eben G. Fine pours liquid from a glass beaker into a glass container....
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Fine, Eben G.; Fonda's Pioneer Drug Store.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Interior Brown mercantile store, 1409 Pearl
- Buckets, birdcages, and a hammock hang from the ceiling of this mercantile in Boulder, Colorado. Wall shelves are filled with lamps and china; tables are stacked with dinnerware. A.S. Brown sits on a cast iron stove, Charles Rittmaster wears a...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]