Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Crystal Spring
- View of the entrance to Crystal Spring in Allenspark (Boulder County), Colorado. The entrance is a covered lean-to style entrance structure. A lean-to style spring house is in the distance. A carved wooden sign on the building reads: "Crystal...
- Crystal Spring (Allenspark, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Allenspark (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Springs.; Buildings.; Crystal Spring (Allenspark, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Springs--Colorado--Allenspark--Pictorial works.; Buildings--Colorado--Allenspark--Pictorial...
- 1998
- A summer camp in Colorado
- Camp scene somewhere in Colorado amidst pine & aspen grove; large canvas tent supported by wooden posts open to front with awning extended to include "front porch", lean-to attached to side, stacked rocks framing front wall; three women inside...
- Camping--Colorado--1890-1910.; Tents--Colorado--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Sneffels
- Men pose with skis near a frame building in Sneffels (Ouray County), Colorado. Shows snow covered ground, fir trees, debris and a wood frame lean-to without walls.
- Sneffels (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Sneffels--1880-1900.; Skiers--Colorado--Sneffels--1880-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Sneffels--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Mrs. Garrison's mother's house
- Mrs. Anfenson, Ola Garrison's mother, poses in the doorway of her house possibly in Denver, Colorado. The one-story wood frame house has a lean-to addition.
- Houses--Colorado--1910-1930.; Women--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Mrs. Garrison's mother's home (probably Denver)
- Mrs. Anfenson (Ola Anfenson Garrison's mother) poses in the doorway of her house possibly in Denver, Colorado. The one-story wood frame house has a lean-to addition.
- Houses--Colorado--1910-1930.; Women--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Hotel Colorado pool
- A group of bathers stand on a staircase attached to a slide in front of the Hotel Colorado pool in Glenwood Springs (Garfield County), Colorado. Next to the slide is a lean-to covered with vines, a few men are seated on a bench underneath.
- Hotel Colorado (Glenwood Springs, Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1910.; Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Swimmers--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1910.; Swimming pools--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Coal town
- View of a group of houses and shacks possibly in Colorado. The one-story lean-to houses have slanted and pitch roofs. A mining aerial tramway is in the distance.
- Mining camps--1900-1920.; Coal mining--1900-1920.; Mining--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- The Blacksmith
- View of a blacksmith working in a lean-to, probably in Colorado. Shows a smithy using a hammer and anvil set on a tree stump. A young man, a water barrel, large bellows, and a pickax are in the wooden structure.
- Blacksmithing--Colorado--1890-1900.; Blacksmiths--Colorado--1890-1900.; Forge shops--Colorado--1890-1900.
- 1897
- First view of Chama valley
- Two women in dresses sit on rocks near Denver and Rio Grande Railway narrow gauge tracks at Cumbres Pass probably in Conejos County, Colorado. Shows log buildings with doors and sod roofs, a log lean-to, rock formations and possibly the Rio Chama...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Conejos County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Conejos County--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Conejos County--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Conejos County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1886?]
- Approaching the first tunnel, Canon of the Grand River, Glenwood Extension, D. & R.G.R.R.
- View of Denver & Rio Grande Railroad narrow gauge tracks beside the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon on the "Glenwood extension" (Garfield County), Colorado. Shows a sod-roof lean-to near a telegraph pole, trees, and a railroad tunnel through a...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1880-1900.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Glenwood Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Garfield County--1880-1900.; Lean-tos--Colorado--Garfield...
- [between 1886 and 1900]
- Hecla Castle near Calumet
- Men sit or stand and pose by engine number "410" near a rock pinnacle identified as "Hecla Castle" near Calumet in probably Huerfano County, Colorado. Men wear suits and sit beside a dog on an engine. A caboose reads: "Denver & Rio Grande". Logs...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Huerfano County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Huerfano County--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--Huerfano County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Longmont, Colo.
- View of the two-story brick public school, Longmont, Colorado, shows small children beside a small wood lean-to basement entry. The school features an F-shape plan with gabled projecting wings flanking the simple columned entry and two long metal...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Children--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- November 30, 1926
- John & Ann Pitts' home on 225 W. 8th St.
- This exterior view of John and Ann Pitts' home on 225 West Eighth Street in Leadville, Colorado, captures the house after a snow. Ann stands in front the small one story house with front gable, awning roofs over three sash front windows, an entry...
- Pitts, Ann--Homes & haunts--1960-1970.; Pitts, John--Homes & haunts--1960-1970.; Leadville (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.
- 1968
- View of fire, Cripple Creek
- Bird's eye view of April, 1896, fire sweeping through commercial business district of Cripple Creek, Colorado; one and two-story gabled and lean-to residences in foreground.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1896]
- Residence of D. H. Mackey
- A man sits on the railing with an American flag on the second- story balcony of the Mackey home, Palmer Lake, El Paso County, Colorado. The residence features front and side gables, fish-scale and clapboard siding, covered porch, yard enclosed with...
- Mackey, D. H.--Homes & haunts.; Palmer Lake (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1890-1900.
- 1893
- Cripple Creek
- View of residence in foreground and distant view of Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is built into rocky hillside and is a one-story with wooden frame, gable roof, horizontal slats, shingles, center brick chimney, and stovepipe in center of lean-to...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1900]
- Strontia Springs, one of the most popular summer resorts in Platte Canon
- View over snowcovered Strontia Springs, (Deansbury) a summer resort at milepost 26.80 of the Denver, South Park and Pacific line of the Colorado and Southern railroad, Platte Canyon, Douglas County, Colorado. The two story 1884 brick hotel shows...
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1920-1930.; Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company--1920-1930.; Strontia Springs Hotel (Strontia, Colo.)--1920-1930.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1920-1930.; Strontia Springs (Colo.)--1920-1930.;...
- 1929
- Surveying party laying out the Fountain Colony which became Colorado Springs in 1871, the nearer figure is said to be General Cameron, behind him General Palmer
- Generals Cameron, William J. Palmer and another man survey the Fountain Colony (named for Fountain Creek, or Fontaine qui Bouille), as a communal enterprise, that later became Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, A few lean-to sheds show...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Surveying--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1870-1880.; Cameron, General.; Palmer, William Jackson 1836-1909.
- 1871?
- Climbing Continental Divide from Tolland, Boulder Park, Moffat Road
- Left side of panorama shows Tolland (formerly Mammoth) in Boulder Park, Gilpin County, Colorado; shows a frame false front with an American flag, barrels, burro-drawn wagons, tent, lean-to structures and a train making its way over trestles and up...
- Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway--1900-1920.; Boulder Park (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Tolland (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Tolland--1900-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Tolland--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1904 and 1913]
- Picking strawberries, Steamboat Spgs., Moffat Road
- View of large strawberry field with numerous men, women and children picking strawberries, Steamboat Springs, Colorado reached via Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (formerly Denver, Northwestern & Pacific), Moffat Road; lean-to or open shed with stacked...
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Fruit industry--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1920.; Harvesting--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1920.; Strawberries--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1920.; Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company.
- [between 1908 and 1915]
- Mining camp
- Miners pose outside a log cabin with wood lean-to and canvas tents with two carcasses and rifles, Prays Coal bank, near Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado.
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining camps--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1888?]
- Prays Coal Bank
- Miners pose outside the entrance to Prays Coal bank and at their camp consisting of a log cabin with frame lean-to and canvas tents, near Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado.
- Mining camps--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.; Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1888?]
- Harry Rhoads
- Harry M. Rhoads sits at a campsite in the woods of Colorado. A lean-to tent is propped against his Kissel automobile.
- Automobiles--Colorado--1920-1930.; Camping--Colorado--1920-1930.; Tents--Colorado--1920-1930.; Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 81-1975.
- [1920?]
- Mines on Gold Hill above Cripple Creek
- View of mine buildings, Gold Hill, near Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado; a large smokestack stands near two buildings, one two story, with pitched roofs and wooden vertical slats; two men stand on one of three wooden rail bridges, one holds...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.
- [between 1892 and 1901?]
- American Reduction Company's Works Florence, Fremont County
- View of the American Reduction Company's works near Florence, Fremont County, Colorado (probably abandoned); a one story sloping metal building with a lean-to roof, built into the side of a hill, has anchored smokestacks, sliding windows, a shaft...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1910.; Florence (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Florence--1890-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Florence--1890-1910.
- [between 1892 and 1901?]
- Shiprock Agency from mesa
- View, facing southwest, of Shiprock, New Mexico; two brick three story buildings with hip roofs, single dormers, two chimneys and two large balconies each, sit among cottonwood trees; four utility buildings, two with pitched roofs and two with...
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shiprock Agency--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--Shiprock--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--Shiprock--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Shiprock (N.M.)--1900-1910.;...
- 1908 September 22
- Shiprock Agency from mesa
- View, facing southwest, of Shiprock, New Mexico; two brick three story buildings with hip roofs, single dormers, two chimneys and two large balconies each, sit among cottonwood trees; four utility buildings, two with pitched roofs and two with...
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shiprock Agency--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--Shiprock--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--Shiprock--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Shiprock (N.M.)--1900-1910.;...
- 1908 September 22
- Large hogan, for medicine sing
- View of a large Navajo hogan, possibly a medicine lodge, at Shiprock, New Mexico. The hogan door frame is draped with a blanket on either side. Two wooden handled hoes are propped up on either side of the doorway. Piles of wood are on either side...
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shiprock Agency--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--Shiprock--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--Shiprock--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Shiprock (N.M.)--1900-1910.;...
- [1908?]
- Halfway House on the Pikes Peak Cog Road.
- View of the Halfway House on the Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway, El Paso County, Colorado. The tracks of the cog road stand near the log building. A table covered with a tablecloth sits underneath a lean-to near the building.
- Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Company--Facilities--1890-1920.; El Paso County (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Log buildings--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1920.; Mountain railroads--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1920.;...
- [betweenm1890 and 1915]
- Garage 2215 Stuart
- View of a garage at a Sloans Lake Park caretaker's residence, 2215 Stuart Street in Denver, Colorado. The building faces the alley and has dark trim and a lean-to extension.
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Sloans Lake Park (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Garages--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [1939]
- Residence Breenlow Park
- View of a house near Breenlow Park in Denver, Colorado. The wooden house has a lean-to addition.
- Breenlow Park (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Goose shelter & pens
- Geese walk in front of a lean-to wood shelter at the Denver County Farm (Denver Farm) in Henderson, Colorado. Shows a dilapidated wood and wire fence and trees. The Denver County Farm (Denver Farm) began in the late 1800's to aid the elderly and...
- Denver Farm--1930-1940.; Henderson (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Almshouses--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.; Farms--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.; Geese--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.; Poultry houses--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Pig sheds & pen
- Pigs walk past the pig shed and pen at the Denver County Farm (Denver Farm) in Henderson, Colorado. The shed is a wood lean-to with multiple doors that lead to the pens. The Denver Farm began in the late 1800's to aid the elderly and indigent, it...
- Denver Farm--1930-1940.; Henderson (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Almshouses--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.; Farms--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.; Pig houses--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.; Swine--Colorado--Henderson--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Main asphalt plant
- A rear view of the main asphalt plant located on 3600 Fox Street in Denver, Colorado. Shows a large wooden building with smoke stacks and a ventilator on the roof, stairs and industrial style windows. Two lean-to's and machinery are in front of the...
- Denver (Colo.). Paving and Oiling Divisions.--Buildings--1930-1940.; Asphalt plants--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Bedrock - 1950
- View of a commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado, showing a two story structure that includes rough cut rock siding (first floor), horizontal clapboard siding (second floor), rectangular bays, open front porch with ceiling and support posts...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1950
- Bedrock - 1959
- View of a two story commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado; features rough cut rock siding (first floor), horizontal clapboard siding (second floor), rectangular bays, open front porch with ceiling and corner posts (first floor), second floor...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.; Gasoline pumps--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Bedrock - 1959
- View of a two story commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado; features vertical board and batten siding (first floor), horizontal clapboard siding (second floor), rectangular bays, open front porch with ceiling, second floor balcony with...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Bedrock - 1959
- View of two cars and a two story commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado; features vertical board and batten siding (first floor), rectangular window bays, and horizontal clapboard siding (second floor); lean-to roof covers the first floor porch...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Bonanza 1942
- View of a large two story structure with an "L" shaped floor plan on the second story, and a square floor plan on the first floor; features a hipped roof, rectangular bays, covered porch (first floor), crawl space, lean-to roof, and vertical board...
- Bonanza (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Bonanza--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Eureka 1942
- View of many dilapidated structures in Eureka, Colorado including Eureka Creek surrounded by a fence; features a large building with vertical plank siding, medium gable, and staircase leading up the outside of the gabeled facade; shed with a...
- Eureka (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Eureka--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Eureka--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Eureka 1950
- View of three large structures bordering a large dump of discarded machinery and lumber parts, Eureka, Colorado; features hipped, lean-to, and stepped gable roof; discards include large boiler, lumber, large used piping, discarded cable spools, and...
- Eureka (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Refuse--Colorado--Eureka--1950-1960.
- 1950
- Eureka, Colorado 1942
- View of a two story false fronted structure in Eureka, Colorado; shows double hung windows, single leaf doors with four panels, and double door with transom and entabulature; lean-to roofs ascending to a flat roof on either end of building; false...
- Eureka (Colo.)--1940-1950.; False fronts--Colorado--Eureka--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Eureka, Colorado 1942
- View of a wooden bridge with no side rails spanning Eureka Creek, Eureka, Colorado; shows discarded fifty-five gallon drum among other wood and metal scraps, shed with a lightly colored lean-to roof, and rocky banks of the creek; valley with...
- Eureka (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bridges--Colorado--Eureka--1940-1950.
- 1942
- 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 residence
- View east towards the facade of a Georgetown, Colorado residence. Wood frame clapboard house with intersecting front and side gables and lean-to add-on. A woman wearing a long and white apron stands on the porch with ornate brackets on supporting...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- [between 1875 and 1900]
- W. Halls office, Georgetown, Col, J. H. H. A. D. 10/26/92
- Exterior view of W. Hall's office in Georgetown, Colorado. Three men and a dog stand outside a lean-to section of a larger vertical board side gable barn with a wood shingle roof topped and monitor roof.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of the Presbyterian Church in Georgetown, Colorado, which was dedicated in 1874. Made of native stone, the building is gable- roofed, with a large square tower on the left side of the facade. Windows on the side, front, and both...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Presbyterian churches--Colorado--Georgetown--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Alma, Colo.
- Colorado and Southern Railroad boxcars pause at the station in Alma, (10,353 feet) in Park County, Colorado. Log cabins and wood frame structures show beyond the station. A man walks near a small lean-to in the foreground and evergreens are on the...
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1930-1940.; Alma (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Alma--1930- 1940.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Alma--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Altman, Colo., highest incorporated town in the world, elevation 11,146 feet. Pike's Peak in background.
- View of Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor, on a saddle between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, Teller County, includes wood frame residences, log cabins, sheds, false front businesses, smelters, and mines, and tailing dumps. Business...
- Altman (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1884
- Altman, Colorado, street scene, July 4th (1900-01-02)
- View of snow covered street in Altman, Teller County, Colorado; shows frame businesses, front gable and lean-to structures, telegraph and telephone poles. A flagpole for a Fourth of July celebration and a man are in the street.
- Fourth of July--1900-1910.; Altman (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Snow--Colorado--Altman--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1902]