Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- 1st office of Rocky Mt. News
- Five men stand in front of the Rocky Mountain News building near 1301 Walnut Street in the Auraria neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a single story wood frame building with brick chimney. Four men wear dark suits and straw boaters or bowlers....
- Rocky Mountain News--Buildings--1850-1860.; Auraria (Denver, Colo.)--1850-1860.; Denver (Colo.)--1850-1860.; Men--Colorado--Denver--1850-1860.; Newspaper industry--Colorado--Denver--1850-1860.
- 1859
- [A]rizona, the Grand Canyon, looking up from Bissell's Point
- View from what is identified as Bissell's Point at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, in a reproduction of a cabinet card displayed probably on a wall. Shows a cliff called The Alligator and the Colorado River.
- Alligator, The (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1890-1900.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Cabinet photographs--1890-1900.; Canyons--Arizona--Grand Canyon National Park--1890-1900.; Cliffs--Arizona--Grand Canyon...
- [1899 or 1900?]
- [C]raters of the Grand and Turban Geysers
- View of the globular sinter in the basin of the Turban Geyser and the shallow pool of the Grand Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
- Grand Geyser (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Turban Geyser (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Upper Geyser Basin (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.; Geysers--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.
- [between 1871 and 1878?]
- [Green Ri]ver and the Book Cliffs
- View of the Green River in Utah. Shows a ferry, a dock and the Book Cliffs in the distance.
- Book Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1880-1900.; Green River (Wyo.-Utah)--1880-1900.; Ferries--American--Utah--1880-1900.; Rivers--Utah--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- A busy day, Vernon, Colo.
- View of a gable roof church with pointed arch windows and a commercial building in Vernon (Yuma County), Colorado. A group of women in dresses stand on the porch of a building with a sign that reads: "Kirkendall Shoes." Parked around the buildings...
- Vernon (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Churches--Colorado--Vernon--1910-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Vernon--1910-1920.
- 1911?
- A mirage on the desert. H. Betts
- Photograph of a painting by Harold Harrington Betts. Against the backdrop of a jagged mountain range, a Native American (tribe unknown) gestures as he speaks to a white man who holds a rifle. Another man sits on a rock and listens, as does a Native...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Covered wagons--1900-1910.; Deserts--1900-1910.; Paintings--1900-1910.; Pioneers--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- A Mountain of oil shale near Grand Valley, Colorado
- View of a layered shale mesa in probably Mesa County or Garfield County, Colorado. Shows steep slopes, shale cliffs, and trees beside the Colorado River.
- Oil-shales--Colorado--1900-1920.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1900-1920.; Cliffs--Colorado--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1917?]
- A temple of the desert
- View of a butte in possibly Colorado or Utah.
- Buttes--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- A. B. Cooker, White Pine
- Women and men (including A. B. Cooker, owner) pose by a hewn log hotel, built around 1885, in Waunita Hot Springs, Gunnison County, Colorado.
- Waunita Hot Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Waunita Hot Springs--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Waunita Hot Springs--1880-1890.; Cooker, A. B.
- 1889
- After a college game
- Colorado College faculty members ride an omnibus in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. They are: President and Mrs. Slocum, Professors Cajori, Parsons, Cragin and Stearns, Reverends Philip Washburn and Manly Ormes, Misses Nina and Regina...
- Colorado College--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; College presidents--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Teachers--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.;...
- [1896]
- Alcatraz and Angel Islands
- View of Alcatraz and Angel Islands in San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California with several three-masted sailing schooners and sail boats. The Embarcadero warehouse is visible on the wharf.
- Alcatraz Island (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Angel Island (Calif.)--1880-1910.; San Francisco (Calif.)--1880-1910.; San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Bays (Bodies of water)--California--San Francisco--1880-1910.; Harbors--California--San...
- [between 1880 and 1902]
- Alex Cobsky
- Alex Cobsky has a beard, wears a cap and overalls, holds a rifle and poses beside two burros in probably La Veta (Huerfano County), Colorado. Burros carry packs and stand beside a frame building.
- La Veta (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Donkeys--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Men--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Pack animals--Colorado--La Veta--1930-1940.; Cobsky, Alex.
- 1937 March 1
- Alfalfa
- Colorado Front Range alfalfa field, possibly in the South Platte Valley; shows large hay stacks in field of cut alfalfa in piles and frame gable house with tree windbreak.
- Alfalfa--Colorado--1920-1930.; Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1930]
- Alice Maud Woods
- Studio bust portrait of Alice Maud Woods, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Woods' bangs are curled and layered and her hair is pulled back. Her dress bodice has a front closure of pearl buttons, and brocade fabric on lapel panels...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Woods, Alice Maud.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Allan W. Wright
- Studio bust portrait of Allan Wicks Wright, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Portrait in profile shows Wright's short hair brushed neatly back. He wears a wool coat with a handkerchief, a shirt with an upright collar, and a...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Wright, Allan Wicks.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Alpine tunnel, Pacific slope
- Men sit and pose on a Denver, South Park & Pacific railroad Engine, labeled "42", and passenger car on a stone embankment at the west portal of the tunnel near Alpine Station in the Sawatch Mountains (Gunnison County), Colorado. View shows a...
- Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Alpine Tunnel (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Gunnison County--1880-1890.; Tunnels--Colorado--Gunnison County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1889?]
- Anasazi pueblo ruins
- View of Native American (Anasazi) stone pueblo ruins in New Mexico.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Anasazi ruins
- View of Native American (Anasazi) stone pueblo ruins in New Mexico.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Angeel [sic] island from Saucelito
- View of the yacht club wharf in San Francisco Bay, Sausalito (Marin County), California. Angel Island is in the distance.
- Angel Island (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Sausalito (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Bays (Bodies of water)--California--Sausalito--1880-1910.; Islands--California--Sausalito--1880-1910.; Piers & wharves--California--Sausalito--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1902]
- Anna M. Ballard
- Studio bust portrait of Anna Margarita Ballard, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Ballard has curled bangs and she wears her hair in a coronet twist. Her fitted wool dress bodice has a front closure with a tight row of buttons.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Anna May Hoag
- Studio bust portrait of Anna May Hoag, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Hoag has curled bangs, and her hair is pinned in a coronet twist. Her dress bodice has velvet lapels over a v-shaped gathered and puffed fabric panel, and a...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Hoag, Anna May.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Anna Scovill
- Studio bust portrait of Anna Eliza Scovill, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Scovill's bangs are layered and curled and she wears her hair in a bun. Her dress bodice has striped velvet on the vest lapels, and on the band collar....
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Scovill, Anna Eliza.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Apache baby
- Studio portrait of a Native American Apache baby in a cradleboard, with medicine amulets attached to the hood, propped on a chair covered with a woven blanket.
- Apache Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Cradleboards--1880-1890.; Infants--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Approaching Hell Gate, Col. Mid. Ry.
- View of a Colorado Midland Railway Company train near Hell Gap (Hell Gate) in Pitkin County, Colorado. The engineer and a worker pose in the locomotive. Shows boxcar #11050 of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company. A man sits on top of...
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1880-1900.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Pitkin County--1880-1900.
- [1888]
- 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, Garfield County, Colorado. A tunnel is in the distance.
- 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.; Railroad...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Arch Rock from below, Mackinac Island, Mich.
- This reproduction of a cabinet card tacked to corkboard shows the Arch Rock formation on the east side of Mackinac Island (Mackinac County), Michigan.
- Arch Rock (Mich.)--1900-1910.; Mackinac Island (Mich. : Island)--1900-1910.; Cabinet photographs--1900-1910.; Rock formations--Michigan--Mackinac Island (Island)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Art design column
- Close-up view of an illustration that depicts a log, shovel, and pile of dirt.
- Logs--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Art etching ancient city
- View of an ancient city.
- Cities & towns--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Arthur H. Buck
- Studio bust portrait of Arthur Herrick Buck, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. His hair is parted in the middle and brushed back. Buck poses in a wool coat and a silk bow tie.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Buck, Arthur H. (Arthur Herrick); Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1887
- At the timber line. Pike's Peak trail
- View of Pikes Peak trail at timberline with a group of men and women on horseback, El Paso County, Colorado.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.; Trails & paths--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.; Women--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Avalon, California
- Partial view of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island (Los Angeles County), California. Shows commercial buildings, houses, possibly part of Silver Canyon, and hills.
- Avalon (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--California--Avalon--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Baby
- Portrait of a baby boy in Denver, Colorado. He wears a gown.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Infants--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915]
- Bandelier National Monument
- View of Long House Ruin, Native American (Anasazi) talus cliff dwelling, at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Ladders lean against the tuff dwellings which have holes for vigas.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1880-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1880-1900.; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1880-1900.; Archaeological sites--New...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Bandelier National Monument
- View of Ceremonial Cave, a Native American (Anasazi) cliff dwelling near Frijoles Canyon in Bandelier National Monument.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Archaeological sites--New...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Bandelier National Monument
- View of Native American (Anasazi) talus cliff dwellings in Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Wooden ladders lead to the entrance of the dwellings.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Archaeological sites--New...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Bandelier National Monument
- A man stands near Long House Ruin, Native American (Anasazi) pueblo and tuff cliff dwellings in Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. The tuff dwellings have holes for vigas.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1890-1910.; Archaeological sites--New...
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Bandelier National Monument
- A man poses on a trail at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1890-1910.; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1890-1910.; Archaeological sites--New...
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Banks interior
- Interior view of a bank in Denver, Colorado. A marble counter with a metal grate behind which tellers stand is in the large room. Teller signs read: "Receiving Teller," "Count Your Cash Before You Leave," and "Paying Teller."
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Banks--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Banks interior
- Interior view of a bank in Denver, Colorado. Desks are behind a marble counter and a painting hangs on a nearby wall.
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Banks--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Basaltic Canon, Yellowstone
- Tower Creek runs through the pentagonal basaltic bluff walls near Tower Falls in what is identified as Basaltic Canyon in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
- Tower Creek (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.; Canyons--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.; Streams--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.
- [between 1871 and 1878?]
- Belle Phipps
- Studio bust portrait of Isabel Phipps, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Phipps' bangs are layered and curled and she wears her hair in a coronet twist. Her dress bodice has plaid lapels over a v-shaped gathered and puffed fabric...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Phipps, Isabel.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Bessie Simmons
- Studio bust portrait of Bessie Ottilia Simmons, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Simmons' hair is swept back in a bun. Her wool dress bodice has a front enclosure flanked on either side by a black, loop patterned passementerie.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Simmons, Bessie Ottilia.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Big trees, Fallen Giant
- A man stands atop the Fallen Goliath (Fallen Giant), a giant Sequoia, as two ladders lean against it in the General Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, California.
- Fallen Goliath (Calif. : Giant sequoia)--1870-1900.; General Grant Grove (Calif.)--1870-1900.; General Grant Tree (Calif. : Giant sequoia)--1870-1900.; Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.)--1870-1900.; Giant sequoias--California--Kings Canyon...
- [between 1870 and 1900]
- Bishop Machebeuf
- Portrait of the Right Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf in an interior room next to a decorative carved chair with embroidered cushions. Bishop Machebeuf wears a biretta, spectacles, a stole with floral details and fringe, and a pectoral cross around...
- Bishops--1880-1890.; Machebeuf, Joseph Projectus, 1812-1889.
- [between 1880 and 1889?]
- Black Canon, bridge "B"
- View of a Denver & Rio Grande train and a trestle over the Gunnison River in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison (Gunnison County), Colorado. Shows steep schist and gneiss canyon walls, boulders, and telegraph poles beside tracks.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Black Canyon of the Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gunnison River (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Gunnison County--1880-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Bob Richardson [and] Carl Helfin
- Bob Richardson and Carl Helfin wear fake moustaches and pose in front of a "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" sign on a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad freight car in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. Shows locomotive number "346" and a...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Christmas decorations--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Railroad cabooses--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.;...
- [1951]
- Boiling Spring in Queen's Laundry
- View of the Queens Laundry hot spring in the Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Shows Sentinel Creek.
- Lower Geyser Basin (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Queens Laundry (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Sentinel Creek (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.; Springs--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.; Streams--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.
- [between 1871 and 1878?]
- Book Cliffs
- View of layered shale cliffs and hills in Mesa County, Colorado. A wire fence with timber posts and a haystack are in Grand Valley. Sparse trees and shrubs are on the Book Cliffs.
- Oil-shales--Colorado--Mesa County--1900-1920.; Book Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1900-1920.; Mesa County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cliffs--Colorado--Mesa County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1917?]
- Boulder Canon
- View of a wooden bridge over probably South Boulder Creek near a rock formation in South Boulder Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; South Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bridges--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.; Rock formations--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.; Streams--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.
- 1902
- Boulder Falls
- View of Boulder Falls, a waterfall on North Boulder Creek (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows rock outcroppings, trees and cliffs in the distance.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boulder Falls (Colo.)--1900-1910.; North Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Streams--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.
- 1902