Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Lone Valley schoolhouse, southwest of Akron, Colo.
- The Lone Valley schoolhouse stands on a grassy plain southwest of Akron in Washington County, Colorado. The small, weathered, clapboard, one-room schoolhouse has an entry vestibule, front gables, shingle roof, and brick chimney. A merry-go-round is...
- Akron (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Schools--Colorado--Akron--1950-1960.; Schools--Colorado--Washington County--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Coal Creek School
- View of the Coal Creek School House at 800 Telluride Street, Aurora (Adams County), Colorado. The one room school has white wood-siding building with a gray slate roof. The entrance is protected by a portico. A post-and-rail wood fence surrounds...
- Coal Creek School (Aurora, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Aurora (Colo.)--1990-2000.; One-room schools.; Windmills.; Coal Creek School (Aurora, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Rural schools--Colorado--Aurora--Pictorial works.; Windmills--Colorado--Aurora--Pictorial...
- 1994
- The proposed new church edifice : of the First Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado.
- Proposed architectural floor plans to the new building to be built by the First Baptist Church of Denver, Colorado.
- First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1935
- Wagon Wheel Gap school house
- View of the Wagon Wheel Gap school in Wagon Wheel Gap, Colorado. The one-room school house was constructed around 1927. The building has a balustraded entry porch with a hip roof and an open bell tower with a pyramidal cap.
- Wagon Wheel Gap (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Schools.; Abandoned buildings.; School buildings--Colorado--Wagon Wheel Gap--Pictorial works.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Wagon Wheel Gap--Pictorial works.; Wagon Wheel Gap (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2009
- Danielson School
- View of the Danielson School at the Plains Conservation Center, located at 21901 East Hampden Avenue, Aurora, Colorado. The one-room sod building has a tar paper roof with a small copula over the entrance. The facade has a single window with wood...
- Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Danielson School (Aurora, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Aurora (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Schools.; Sod buildings.; Plains Conservation Center (Aurora, Colo.)--Buildings--Pictorial works.;...
- 1993
- Masonic Lodge / Springfield Schoolhouse
- View of the facade of Masonic Lodge No. 158, at 281 West 7th Street in Springfield (Baca County), Colorado. The one story front-gabled building is constructed of dark stone. It has rectangular windows and a rounded arch above the entrance. The...
- Springfield Schoolhouse (Springfield, Colo.)--Buildings--1980-1990.; Freemasons. Lodge #158 (Springfield, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Springfield (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Historic buildings.; Masonic buildings.; Springfield Schoolhouse (Springfield,...
- 1988
- Visitor's Center, Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, Lakewood, Colo.
- View of the Deer Creek School on the grounds of the Denver Botanic Garden at Chatfield located at 8500 Deer Creek Canyon Road, Lakewood, Colo. The one-room schoolhouse built in 1885, was relocated to its present site to serve as the facility's...
- Denver Botanic Gardens--2000-2010.; Visitors' centers--Colorado--Lakewood--2000-2010.; Lakewood (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver Botanic Gardens--Pictorial works.; Visitors' centers--Colorado--Lakewood--Pictorial works.; Lakewood (Colo.)--Pictorial...
- c. 2000
- First school house, Steamboat Springs
- A teacher and students stand beside a one-story log school house in Steamboat Springs (Routt County), Colorado. The one-room school has a low-pitched timber and sod roof. The teacher, identified as "Mrs. Pritchett (Lulie Crawford Pritchett)," wears...
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; Teachers--Colorado--Steamboat...
- 1886
- Cabin at Rugby, Colo.
- A woman stands near her one-room house at the coal camp of Rugby (Las Animas County), Colorado. The woman wears a blouse with a ruffle and a skirt. A tin, jar, and sugar bowl sit on a shelf near a window. A barrel sits outside the door and a coal...
- Rugby (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cabins--Colorado--Rugby--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Rugby--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Rugby--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Rugby--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- High School, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Golden School constructed in 1894, corner of Golden Avenue and Fourth (4th), Cripple Creek, Colorado; school children (boys and girls) play in school yard while teachers and other students stand underneath covered porch and on...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900]
- Stout schoolhouse, teacher Nora Wathen, Larimer County, Colo.
- Schoolchildren and their teacher, Nora Wathen, stand outside their one-room native stone schoolhouse, Stout (also known as Petra), Colorado in Larimer County.
- Stout (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Stout--1880-1910.; Students--Colorado--Stout--1880-1910.; Teachers--Colorado--Stout--1880-1910.; Women--Colorado--Stout--1880-1910.; Wathen, Nora.
- [between 1882 and 1908?]
- Lake City Episcopal church
- Episcopal church in Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colorado, is a one-room frame building with a cross on the gable, shaded by cottonwood trees.
- Lake City (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Lake City--1930-1970.
- [between 1933 and 1969]
- Dexter School House now on C Lazy-U Ranch Granby
- The Dexter schoolhouse in Dexter, Colorado, in Grand County is a narrow one-room, log schoolhouse with a narrow gable and two entry doors. Weeds and brush grow around the building, and rolling hills are in the background.
- Dexter (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Schools--Colorado--Dexter--1950-1970.
- [between 1950 and 1970]
- Barclay Apartments
- View of the side of the Barclay Apartments in the Barclay Block at 17th (Seventeenth) and Larimer Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows a five-story Italianate style building with pediments and arched windows. Sign painted on the side of the...
- Barclay Apartments (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.
- 1950 Jun. 20
- John Graf 1939
- Eldora resident John Graf stands with a dog on a step in front of a house, probably in Eldora. He reportedly moved to the small mining town in Boulder County, Colorado, in 1919 and made his living selling and delivering fireplace wood to other...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Dogs--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1940.; Window boxes--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1940.; Graf, John.
- [1939?]
- Cabin near Gillett
- View of make-shift one-room cabin with sod roof, Gillett, Colorado. The small cabin is constructed of vertical logs, and a tar paper door and window. Two posts appear to support the gable roof. Materials around the cabin include: pile of scrap...
- Gillett (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Gillett--1890-1900.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Gillett--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900?]
- Gillett
- View of early Gillett, Colorado, with Colorado Midland railroad freight box cars and passenger cars on three sidings, and an engine steaming into view, includes several canvas tents and a railroad station. Several one-room, log cabins and a larger...
- Gillett (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Gillett--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Gillett--1890-1900.
- [1894]
- Town Co's Office, Grand Junction
- View of Grand Junction Town & Development Company's first office, on 2nd (Second) and Ute Streets, in Grand Junction, Colorado, with R.D. Mobley and Mrs. Jackson posed in front of the small one-room log cabin with sod roof. A "dress making" sign is...
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Grand Junction--1880-1890.
- 1882
- Swansea School one room school re-enactment
- Photograph of a re-enactment by Swansea Elementary School student of a one-room school house in Denver, Colorado. Four rows of students sit on benches looking at a boy standing at a podium. he wars a fake mustache and sideburns. Off to the side,...
- Swansea School (Denver, Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- 1935
- Coal Creek Schoolhouse
- Coal Creek Schoolhouse is an excellent example of a one-room prairie schoolhouse. The original school was located along Coal Creek, but it burned to the ground in the late 1920s. The current building replaced it in 1926. The schoolhouse was donated...
- Circa 2010
- Western History Subject Index
- Rural schools. Colorado
- Aroya school house
- View of the abandoned school house in Aroya (Cheyenne County), Colorado. The building is a clapboard building with a hipped roof. The paint on the sides of the building is peeling and windows are boarded up.. A small cupola is in the center of the...
- Aroya (Colo.)--1980-1990.; One-room schools.; Abandoned buildings.; Rural schools--Colorado--Aroya--Pictorial works.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Aroya--Pictorial works.; Aroya (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1981
- School District no. 33 May '03
- View of the Orodell School house in Orodell (Boulder), Colorado. The one room school has a gable roof, a brick chimney, white clapboard and a porch with turned columns and a low railing. A sign above the porch roof reads: "School District No. 33...
- Orodell School (Orodell, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Orodell (Colo.)--1990-2000.; One-room schools.; Orodell School (Orodell, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Rural schools--Colorado--Orodell--Pictorial works.; Orodell (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1999
- Old Black Forest schoolhouse
- View of the old Black Forest schoolhouse located at 6770 Shoup Road, Black Forest (El Paso County), Colorado. The school closed in 1945 and became a county maintenance facility. The chinked log cabin with white shutters is on a new cement...
- Black Forest School (Black Forest, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Black Forest (Colo.)--1990-2000.; One-room schools.; Black Forest School (Black Forest, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Rural schools--Colorado--Black Forest--Pictorial works.; Historic...
- 1995
- Canyon Creek School, Glenwood Springs, Colo.
- View of Canyon Creek School District No. 32 school house located at 655 County Road 137, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This single story framed red school house includes the writing "District No. 32" on the facade with an enclosed roof-top bell tower...
- Canyon Creek School District No. 32--Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; One-room schools; Canyon Creek School District No. 32--Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Rural schools--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--Pictorial works.; Rural...
- 2008
- School House, Tolland, Colo.
- View of the Tolland School House located on Tolland Road, a.k.a. East Portal Road, in the town of Tolland, Gilpin County, Colorado. Built in 1902, the single-story, vernacular, clapboard sided structure sits upon a stone foundation and has a blue...
- Rural schools--Coloado--Tolland--2000-2010.; Tolland (Colo.)--2000-2010.; One-room schools; Rural schools--Colorado--Tolland--Pictorial works.; Tolland (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2006
- Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Numbers 4 and 5, 1921 April-May
- History of Denver
- Schoohouse
- View of a school in Colorado. The one-story wood frame building has a covered porch and belfry. A woodstove is on the porch.
- One-room schools--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Schoolhouse
- View of a school in Colorado. The one-story wood frame building has a covered porch and a belfry.
- One-room schools--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- School near Placerville
- View of a one room schoolhouse with a flagpole and a bell in San Miguel County, Colorado.
- San Miguel County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1940-1950.; One-room schools--Colorado--San Miguel County--1940-1950.
- [1940?]
- Miss Engle and her school
- Native American (Tewa) children and a white woman pose outdoors at the Santa Clara day school, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. The teacher, Miss Anna Engle, stands facing a group of children. The boys wear suits and the girls wear dresses and...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1900-1910.; Tewa Indians--Education--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1900-1910.; Santa Clara Pueblo (N.M.)--1900-1910.; One-room schools--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1900-1910.; School...
- [between 1908 and 1910]
- Miss Anna Engle and her school
- Native American (Pueblo, Tewa) children and a white woman pose outdoors at the Santa Clara day school, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. The teacher, Miss Anna Engle, stands behind the group of children. The boys wear suits and the girls wear dresses...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1900-1910.; Tewa Indians--Education--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1900-1910.; Santa Clara Pueblo (N.M.)--1900-1910.; One-room schools--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1900-1910.; School...
- [between 1908 and 1910]
- "East End" schoolhouse on our lands
- View of East End School, near Brighton (Adams County) Colorado, a frame salt box structure with sign: "East End, 1906, Dist. No. 27," and a water pump.
- Brighton (Colo.)--1900-1910.; One-room schools--Colorado--Brighton--1900-1910.
- October 11, 1908
- School house, Grand Junction
- A woman teacher and her students (boys and girls) stand in front of a one room adobe schoolhouse in Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado. The school house has log ridge pole that supports a flat front gabled roof with stove pipe.
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1880-1890.; One-room schools--Colorado--Grand Junction--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Grand Junction--1880-1890.; Teachers--Colorado--Grand Junction--1880-1890.
- 1882
- One-room Water Valley schoolhouse located northwest of Brandon
- Five people stand outside the Brandon Schoolhouse in Brandon, Colorado (Kiowa County). The one-story, wood-frame structure has a gable and chimney. Weeds and other vegetation grow around the building. The three women, man, and boy stand in front of...
- Brandon (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Merry-go-rounds--Colorado--Brandon--1930-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Brandon--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Blackhawk, Colorado 1860-1869
- and built in 1863. The Blackhawk schoolhouse was built in the lot next to the church in 1870. Mine shafthouses line the hill in the background and above the church.; The Commission House, a wholesale and retail grocery store, stands adjacent to a...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Bakeries--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1920.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1920.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1899 and 1920?]
- Brief histories of the Denver Public Schools
- Compiled for the administrative offices of the Denver Public Schools, this book contains brief histories for the majority of the Public Schools in Denver, Colorado up to they year 1952.
- Denver Public Schools--History.
- 1952
- History of the public schools of Denver : a brief history (1859-1989) and complete building survey of the Denver Public Schools
- Book outlining the history of Denver Public Schools. Included are pictures of buildings, timelines of construction, and listing of schools.
- School buildings--Colorado--Denver--History.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--History.
- 1989
- The Story of All Saint's Episcopal Parish
- A brief history of the All Saint's Episcopal Parish from 1874 to 1864. Included is a list of all priests who served within the parish for those years.
- All Saint's Episcopal Parish (Denver, Colo.)
- 1964
- Western History Subject Index
- Buena Vista, Colorado
- Western History Subject Index
- CACHE LA POUDRE CANYON
- Western History Subject Index
- Chatfield arboretum
- Western History Subject Index
- Forts. Fort Carson (Colorado)
- Western History Subject Index
- Gas creek, Colorado
- Western History Subject Index
- Pend Orville valley, Idaho
- Western History Subject Index
- Gleneyre, Colorado. Schools
- Western History Subject Index
- Education. Colorado
- Western History Subject Index
- Education
- Western History Subject Index
- EDUCATION. TEACHERS