Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Governors Day at Georgetown
- Participants of the Governors Day festivities gather in front of the Julius Pohle (a German chemist who become manager of the Lebanon Mining Company) house in Georgetown, Colorado. Historic house in process of relocation to make room for the new...
- Pohle, Julius--Homes & haunts.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1960-1970.
- December 15, 1968
- Parlor Restaurant
- Exterior view of the Parlor Restaurant in Georgetown, Colorado. Three men and a girl stand on the worn boardwalk in front of the one-story false front building. The building features a white clapboard top and dark paint from the bracketed cornice...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Restaurants--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Teal Block, Georgetown, Colorado in 1923
- Exterior view of the Teal Block, 401 Rose Street, Georgetown, Colorado, a brick two-story corner structure built in 1875. Features include a corner entrance with arched transom, double hung pane windows with stone sills and brick voussiors, and a...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1920-1930.
- 1978
- Foster home about 1883
- Exterior view the Foster home in Georgetown, Colorado. Two-story wood frame square house with Italianate features. The flat top low pitch hipped roof with two brick chimneys has overhanging eaves supported by brackets, double hung pane windows with...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1890.
- 1978
- Bank of Clear Creek County, Georgetown, Colorado
- View of business in a wood construction building at Sixth (6th, Alpine) and Rose Streets in Georgetown, Colorado, in a Italianate style, with a eaves with brackets, pilasters, and engaged columns. The business, on the corner, is the Bank of Clear...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Banks--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1887?]
- Home of Tom Ellis while mining near Altman, Colo., 1889
- Tom Ellis, withppossibly his wife, a large dog and another miner pose outside their small wood frame home, Altman, Teller County, Colorado. Both men have mustaches, one leans on a stump and wears suspenders. A wooden chair with turned spindles is...
- Ellis, T. (Tom); Altman (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Altman--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Altman--1880-1890.
- 1889
- M. E. parsonage, Altman, Colo.
- Five views of the Methodist parsonages in Altman, Colorado, include; upper left corner image: the first parsonage located between Altman and Independence. A small lean-to shack with an open entry door and a four pane window. Upper right image: a...
- Pingree, H. M.--Homes and haunts--1880-1890.; Altman (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Religious dwellings--Colorado--Altman--1880-1890.
- [between 1884 and 1890?]
- Milk and graham crackers being served to nursery school children in a block recreation hall
- Mrs. Sumi Kashiwagi pours milk from a white enamaled pitcher into a paper cup at a table full of nursery school children in a block recreation hall at Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Young Japanese-American girls wear barrets in...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Children--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1942 December 11
- The Ninomiya family in their barracks room at the Amache Center
- Interior view of the Ninomiya family's barracks at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, southeastern Colorado; shows Tosh Ninomiya at a folding card table reading a newspaper with a pipe in his mouth, Mrs. Ninomiya across the table from him,...
- Ninomiya family--Homes & haunts--1940-1950.; Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention...
- 1942 December 9
- Jewish Synagogue, Leadville
- This exterior view of the side and front of a Jewish Synagogue in Leadville, Colorado, shows a long plain wood frame structure with a front gable, a double panel door entry flanked by smaller pane windows and a larger window above, a side entry...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Synagogues--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.
- [1968]
- Anaconda
- Florissant house in Ananconda, Teller County, Colorado, features the two-story weathered wood frame false front with apex gable roofline and same gable mimicked on second-story drip molds. Raised foundation with wood steps lead to the double door...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Argentine, Colorado
- View of the livery stable in Argentine (formerly Decatur, Rathborne), Summit County, Colorado; includes three men and a dog on a flatbed wagon drawn by four horses; livery features a vertical board false front over a log structure and a wide...
- Argentine (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Argentine--1900-1920.; Stables--Colorado--Argentine--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1915]
- Guadalope [sic] Plaza, Antonito, Colo.
- View of Old Flaya's Fort (Governor Head's Fort, Guadalupe Plaza), Antonito, Conejos County, Colorado; shows the remains of one of the first settlements in the San Luis Valley; man with a beard leans on a fence post; long adobe one-story structure...
- Antonito (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Antonito--1900-1910.; Forts & fortifications--Colorado--Antonito--1900-1910.
- 1910 August 21
- Methodist Church [graphic]
- This street view has a Methodist Church, a small one-story house and a commercial block. The church is a large brick structure with a front gable, a wood shingle roof, Gothic windows, a double door entry with wood- panel doors and a transom above...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Churches--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Methodist churches--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1900]
- Joe Block in front of his meat market, Crested Butte, Colo.
- Townspeople pose in doorways along a false front commercial block, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. Joseph Block wears a white apron and sits in front of his meat market. The long building features four storefronts with large pane windows...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.; Facades--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.
- 1890
- District school
- Miss McDonald, teacher, and her companion, Miss Dora Orcatt are mounted on horses in front of a district school outside of Leadville, Colorado. Miss McDonald, in the center wears dress, a large bow around her neck, leather riding gloves, and a flat...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Teachers--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Orcatt, Dora.
- 1894
- Group portrait
- A group of seven men, wearing suits, ties, watch chains and hats, stands outside a commercial front with large pane windows and panel doors.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Men--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- In this interior view of the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, there is a wooden rocker with scroll handles, an open writing desk and a fluffy dog in front of a sunlit pane...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- Exterior detail of an addition on the north side of the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. The one-story wood frame addition to the 1878 three-story August Meyer house...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Hyman's Club, Leadville saloon
- Four men pose in front of the two double door entry doors of the Hyman's Club at 316 Harrison Street in Leadville, Colorado. The wood frame false front building has large pane windows. Three of the men wear suits, vests and hats and the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bars--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Leadville Drum Corp, 1895-6
- The Leadville Drum Corp poses in front of a brick building with large pane windows in Leadville, Colorado. Boys and young men wear short toreador jackets with zigzag embroidery and gaiters over balloon pants. One man holds the Corp banner in the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drums--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Marching bands--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1896]
- Leadville High School
- Leadville High School, on Spruce Street between Chestnut and West Second, in Colorado is also known as the Second Ward and Central School. The two story brick building has central pedimented pavilions, three- segment central pane windows, an...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1885]
- Leadville High School
- The Leadville High School exterior, on Spruce Street between Chestnut and West Second in Colorado is also known as the Second Ward and Central School. The two-story brick building has central pedimented pavilions, three-segment central pane...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Leadville--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- Police force
- The Leadville, Colorado, Police Force poses on wooden stairs. J.A. Kelly was Marshal and J.W. Frazer, Captain. Policemen include W.W. Butler, C. Dwyer, J. Dwyer, O. Heller, R. Monteith, Thomas McCulloch, George O'Connor, Cliff Perkins, Thomas...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Police--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [between 1878 and 1879]
- Stained glass windows at Healy House
- In this interior close-up of a corner of the Healy House Museum, on the corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, there is a stained glass window behind a pedestal table. The window, a large pane with smaller side...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- [between 1960 and 1970]
- Blackhawk - 1957
- View of Carpenter Gothic style residence in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows a steeply gabled roof, pilaster corner boards, horizontal clapboard, finial, gingerbread bargeboard, two double hung two pane windows on the first floor and one on the second....
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Residences--Colorado--Blackhawk--1950-1960.
- 1957
- Black Hawk, Colo., residences
- Front exterior view of a house at Gregory point, Black Hawk, Colorado; formerly owned by the Frederich Kruse family. Shows the Carpenter Gothic style of construction including decorative jigsawed bargeboard along the steep gable roof line, three...
- Kruse, Frederich--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1940.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1940.
- 1938
- Golden Burro Cafe, Leadville
- This view is of the exterior of the Golden Burro Cafe and the Blosfeld building on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado. The Golden Burro Cafe is in a one-story brick structure with a bracketed cornice, built in 1898 by E.H. Dimick. It has a...
- Golden Burro Cafe (Leadville, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Leadville (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1980-1990.
- 1981
- Golden Burro Cafe, Leadville
- Exterior view of the Golden Burro Cafe and the Blosfeld building on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado. The Golden Burro Cafe is in a one-story brick structure with a bracketed cornice, built in 1898 by E.H. Dimick. It has a remodeled facade...
- Golden Burro Cafe (Leadville, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Leadville (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1980-1990.
- [1981]
- Goldfield
- A woman holds a child's hand at the side of a log cabin, Goldfield, Teller County, Colorado. The front gable house is constructed of logs and hewn lumber and has one glass pane window, a mud and sod roof with a stove pipe. Several wooden boxes and...
- Goldfield (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Goldfield--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900]
- Home at Goldfield, Cripple Creek or bust
- A woman and a child stand at the side of a log cabin, Goldfield, Teller County, Colorado. The front gable house is made of logs and hewn lumber and has a glass pane window, a mud and sod roof with a stovepipe. View includes a wagon loaded with...
- Goldfield (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Goldfield--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900]
- Town hall, saloon, Town Improvement Co., etc, Ben H. Jorgensen in doorway
- Ben H. Jorgensen stands in the doorway of a weathered two-story wood frame false front with pane windows and side timber supports, in Gothic, Gunnison County, Colorado. Sign in window reads: Office Of Gothic Town & Improvement Co. The building is...
- Gothic (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Offices--Colorado--Gothic--1920-1930.; Jorgensen, Ben H.
- 1920
- 85th Regiment, Company K
- Group portrait of Tenth Mountain Division, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Company K. Taken at Camp Hale, June 5, 1944. Left to right top row: 1) Pietsch, 2) Newton, 3) Elliot, 4) Fairfield, 5) Brusse, 6) Samuelson, 7) Turck, 8) Easley, 9) Teague,...
- Military personnel--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th. Company K.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- 1944 June 5
- Office of County Clerk, S. B. Harvey County Clerk and also Register of Deeds
- Possibly County Clerk S. B. Harvey stands in the doorway of his office, in Gunnison, Colorado. Six women pose in front of the administration building, with potted plants and wooden chairs. The small wood frame structure features one story, a hipped...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1870-1880.; County clerks--Colorado--Gunnison--1870-1880.; Harvey, S. B.
- [between 1980 and 1995]
- Lake Shore Inn
- View of side facade of Lake Shore Inn, on Lake San Cristobal, Lake City, Colorado, a two-story side gable structure; shows front porch along front facade, wood frame with clapboard siding in need of paint, and side entry door flanked by pairs of...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; San Cristobal, Lake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Lake Shore Inn
- View down drive to Lake Shore Inn and cabins, on Lake San Cristobal, Lake City, Colorado; shows the two-story side gable structure with a porch along front facade, the clapboard siding in need of paint, and a side entry door flanked by pairs of...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; San Cristobal, Lake (Colo.)--1920-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Lake Shore Inn
- View of side facade of Lake Shore Inn, on Lake San Cristobal, Lake City, Colorado, a two-story side gable structure with front porch along front facade; shows wood frame with clapboard siding, wooden outside stairway to second floor entry door...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; San Cristobal, Lake (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Post Office
- View of Post Office adjacent to the First National Block at the corner of Third and Silver Streets, Lake City, Colorado. Building has wood frame, false front storefront with bracketed cornice, and central double door entry flanked by large pane...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Business districts--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.; Post offices--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.
- 1946
- Storefronts on Silver Street
- Tops of three storefronts mid-block between Third and Fourth Streets on Silver Street, Lake City, Colorado. Left two buildings are wood frame with false fronts; Kostitch & Kohler drug building (1876) has an unusual front with a colored rondelle...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Buildings--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Storefronts on Silver Street
- shows a pane window with arched lintel and decorative brick corbeling.; View of three storefronts mid-block between Third and Fourth Streets on Silver Street, Lake City, Colorado. Two buildings on the left are wood frame with false fronts; Kostitch...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Buildings--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Lake City--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Drug store
- View of false front of Drug store (1876) adjacent to the First National Block at the corner of Third and Silver Streets, Lake City, Colorado. Wood frame storefront has simple cornice with scrolled trusses, central double door entry, and large pane...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Business districts--Colorado--Lake City--1950-1960.; Drugstores--Colorado--Lake City--1950-1960.
- 1959
- County Court House
- View of east facade of Hinsdale County Courthouse, Henson Street, Lake City, Colorado. Built in 1877, the simple two-story wood frame structure has a front gable, double hung pane windows with lintels, double door entry with transom window,...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Courthouses--Colorado--Lake City--1960-1970.
- [1966]
- New Sheridan, Telluride, Colo
- Townspeople line boardwalk in front of the New Sheridan and adjacent two-story Sheridan commercial block on Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado, possibly for a funeral procession. A casket is in a decorative horse-drawn coach in front of hotel....
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1910?]
- San Miguel Examiner
- Exterior view of San Miguel Examiner Printing, Telluride, Colorado, one of Tellride's early newspaper and printing offices (the newspaper was published weekly from 1897 to 1929). The false-front building has double-door entry flanked by large four...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.; Newspapers--Colorado--Telluride--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1924?]
- Sheridan Hotel
- Exterior view of Sheridan Hotel, 231 West Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. W.S. Segerberg, commissioned Gus Brickson and Max Hippler in 1895 to build the two-story structure; a third story was added in 1899. Features include: large pane...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Historic sites--Colorado--Telluride--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Telluride--1960-1970.; Sheridan Hotel (Telluride, Colo.)
- [between 1960 and 1970]
- School near Telluride fifty years ago
- Exterior view of a one room schoolhouse outside of Telluride, Colorado. Group of schoolchildren pose outside front door; a small boy on burro is next to two men. The school is a front gable structure with board and batten construction, two sash...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Children--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1895]
- The Gilpin Hotel, exterior
- Exterior view of The Gilpin Hotel, Black Hawk, Colorado. The building is a square, single detached structure with three stories and a flat roof. The walls are brick with a common bond type of brickwork on the facade. There are seven bays on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Gilpin Hotel (Blackhawk, Colo.)
- [between 1896 and 1910]
- The Gilpin Hotel, exterior
- Exterior view of The Gilpin Hotel in Black Hawk, Colorado. The building is a square, single detached structure with three stories and a flat roof. The walls are brick with a common bond type of brickwork on the facade. There are seven bays on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1970.; Gilpin Hotel (Blackhawk, Colo.)
- 1965
- The Gilpin Hotel, exterior
- Exterior view of The Gilpin Hotel, Blackhawk, Colorado. The building is a square, single detached structure with three stories and a flat roof. The walls are brick with a common bond type of brickwork on the facade. There are seven bays on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1970.; Gilpin Hotel (Blackhawk, Colo.)
- [1965?]
- Residence in Leadville, Colorado in 1941
- This view of the exterior of a large clapboard two-story residence in Leadville, Colorado shows a wood frame building with a front gable with porch and upper balustrade, an attached two-story side gable, double-hung pane windows, four brick...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1941