Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Loveland, Colorado, Business, G. W. Sugar
- View of the Great Western Sugar Company in Loveland (Larimer County) Colorado; a truck bed is hoisted by sugar beet processing conveyor machines; a man looks on; water tower, smokestack, and processing plant in background.
- Great Western Sugar Company--Buildings--1900-1930.; Loveland (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Beets--Colorado--Loveland--1900-1930.; Conveying systems--Colorado--Loveland--1900-1930.; Sugar industry--Colorado--Loveland--1900-1930.;...
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Riverside Cemetery, Denver
- View of a building in Riverside Cemetery, Denver (Denver and unincorporated Adams County), Colorado; shows a Mission style brick building with a porte cochere, balustrades, urns, and landscaping.
- Riverside Cemetery (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1900-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1940.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Denver--1900-1940.; Crematoriums--Colorado--Denver--1900-1940.
- [between 1900 and 1935]
- Denver, hospitals & sanatoriums, Bethesda Sanatorium
- View of water tower and incinerator at Bethesda Sanatorium, Denver, Colorado.
- Bethesda Sanatorium (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Incinerators--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Water towers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Denver, societies & clubs, Freemasons, temples, Highland
- View of the Highlands Masonic Temple at 3220 Federal Boulevard in Denver, Colorado.
- Freemasons.--Buildings--1920-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.
- [between 1927 and 1935?]
- Globewille [sic] School
- View of Globeville Public School, East 51st (fifty-first) and Washington Streets, Denver, Colorado; shows a brick building with a United States flag on flagpole, tile roof, triangular parapet with "Globeville" sign, and a chimney.
- Denver Public Schools--Buildings--1920-1930.; Globeville School (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [1925?]
- Brighton, Colo. business, canning & preserving
- Women handle glass bottles in the Kuner Pickle Company factory in Brighton (Adams County) Colorado; carts are by (possibly) bottle-washing machinery.
- Kuner Pickle Company--1900-1930.; Brighton (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Canneries--Colorado--Brighton--1900-1930.; Food industry--Colorado--Brighton--1900-1930.; Women--Colorado--Brighton--1900-1930.
- [between 1902 and 1930?]
- Denver education, schools, public, South
- View of South High School, a Denver Public School, 1700 East Louisiana Street in Denver, Colorado; shows building under construction, incomplete clock tower, scaffolding, and construction materials; sign on shed advertises Dunn & Gibson...
- Denver Public Schools--Buildings--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Denver--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1926]
- Denver theaters, Orpheum
- Interior view of the Orpheum Theatre at 1537 Welton Street, Denver, Colorado.
- Orpheum Theatre (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Interiors.; Theaters--Colorado--Denver--1900-1930.
- [between 1903 and 1930]
- Denver theaters, Orpheum
- View of the Orpheum Theatre at 1515 Welton Street, Denver, Colorado; billboards advertise "The Count of Ten"; businesses include U.S. Optical Co., Art Nook, William E. Russell Coal, Second Industrial Bank, S.E. Arscott & Son Jewelers, Aladdin...
- Orpheum Theatre (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Theaters--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1927 and 1930]
- Denver business, clothing, men's clothing & furnishings
- Nighttime view of the window display at the Gano-Downs Clothing Company, 721-739 16th (Sixteenth) Street, Denver, Colorado; lighted window shows Arrow brand shirts and Berkeley brand ties for sale during August clearance sale.
- Gano-Downs Clothing Company (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Clothing stores--Colorado--Denver--1900-1930.; Window displays--Colorado--Denver--1900-1930.
- [between 1905 and 1930?]
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train
- Three-quarter view of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Engine Number 3516 with six passenger cars and two freight cars. Another railroad track and ten arm telephone poles show in foreground; large warehouse or factory buildings and a tall crane are...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1920-1930.; Railroad locomotives--1920-1930.; Railroads--1920-1930.
- [1925]
- Baltimore Resort, Tolland, Colo.
- View of the Baltimore Resort in Tolland, Gilpin County, Colorado; shows rustic log buildings, parked automobiles, and children (some riding mules).
- Baltimore Resort (Tolland, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Tolland (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Children--Colorado--Tolland--1910-1930.; Log buildings--Colorado--Tolland--1910-1930.; Mules--Colorado--Tolland--1910-1930.; Resorts--Colorado--Tolland--1910-1930.;...
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Colo. School of Mines, Golden
- Aerial view of the Colorado School of Mines "M" emblem on the face of Mount Zion, Golden, Jefferson County, also shows Lariat Loop Trail Road winding along slope and foothills to the Continental Divide in the background. Every year since its...
- Golden (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Golden--1910-1930.; Colorado School of Mines.
- [between 1917 and 1925?]
- Alvord House
- View of the Alvord (Golden) House Hotel, 13th (Thirteenth) Street, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado; shows the four-story brick hotel with flat roof, stone window lintels, people on balconies with decorative balustrades over entrance. A...
- Golden (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Golden--1870-1890.; Alvord House Hotel (Golden, Colo.)
- [between 1873 and 1880]
- Denver churches, Episcopal, St. John's Church in the Wilderness
- Interior view of the Episcopal St. John's Cathedral (also known as Saint John's Church in the Wilderness and Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist, 13th (Thirteenth) Avenue and Clarkson, Denver, Colorado. (construction began 1905; first public...
- Saint John's Cathedral (Denver, Colo.); Cathedrals--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1911 and 1930]
- Sugar factory form the east, Loveland, Colo.
- Looking east along a gravel path lined with young trees to the Great Western Sugar factory, Loveland, Colorado, shows the multi-building sugar beet processing plant.
- Loveland (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Sugar industry--Colorado--Loveland--1900-1910.
- 1902
- Kubler
- View of Kubler Mine structures, Gunnison County, Colorado, shows railroad tracks and a tall smokestack.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- [between 1920 and 1936]
- Denver, theaters, America
- View of a publicity stunt for opening of motion picture at America Theatre, 16th and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colorado; marquee reads "The Still Alarm - a Thrilling Melodrama;" crowd of people watch firemen and firetrucks. Signs read: "Greater...
- America Theatre (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Motion picture theaters--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.;...
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- J. D. Miller Meat Market
- Tom Higby, Louis Miller, Jacob D. Miller stand on boardwalk under the J. D Miller and Bro. Meat Market corrugated metal awning. Frank Kalb sits on a two-horse delivery wagon, while little Joe J. Miller sits in a pony cart pulled by a Shetland...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Meat industry--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Ophir Loop, Colo.
- The small town of Ophir and the Ophir Loop of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad shown from a distance. A line of burros is being loaded onto a train in the background.
- Ophir (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--1880-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--1880-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--1880-1900.; Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
- [between 1887 and 1900?]
- Alma, Park County, Colorado and its smelting works from the Dolly Varden Mine
- A copy of a lithograph in a circle shape shows the view from the Dolly Varden Mine down on Alma, (10,353 feet) Park County, Colorado, shows wood frame buildings, smelters, patches of evergreens, cleared areas and a creek.
- Alma (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--Alma--1870-1880.
- [between 1960-1980?]
- R. E. Latimer & Allen
- A man poses southwest corner of Main and Virginia, with the remains of a burned section of the business district behind him, Gunnison, Colorado; standing brick commercial blocks show in background; remains are possibly from the 1902 Easter Morning...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fires--Colorado--Gunnison--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Gunnison--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1902]
- Manitou Springs, Colorado, 583
- are just left of center. On the left is the D. & R. G. Railroad Depot, a rusticated stone building with a high gabled roof and a chimney at each end; the freight and passenger sheds are also visible. Above left is the Midland Terminal Depot,...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900?]
- Depot at Jaroso, in use but in ruins on San Luis Southern line.
- View of the dilapidated train depot building in Jaroso, Colorado, in Costilla County shows gables, shingles, chimney, and board-and-baten siding. Weeds are around the building, which has broken window panes. Signs include "Jaroso" and "Railway...
- Jaroso (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Jaroso.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Morrison, Colo
- Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado. The two-story stone school with belfry is in the foreground; frame and stone commercial buildings and dwellings line Bear Creek Avenue. Freight cars and an engine of the Morrison Branch of the Colorado and...
- Morrison (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Morrison--1870-1880.
- 1875?
- Pig pens
- Plank fence surrounds hog pens at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Sheds on one side have hay piled on their roofs; rocks, dirt road, and a wagon wheel are in the foreground. Outbuildings are in back, and the quarried hill in the...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Swine--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Manitou, Williams Canon and Ute Pass in the distance
- View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest from Iron Mountain. The Manitou Spring Pavilion, Cliff House, and Manitou Bath House are in the center, numerous other residences surround. William's Canyon and Ute pass are in the background,...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [1885?]
- Street in Gregory's Gulch, Pike's Peak from sketch made on the spot, expressly for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, by Col. D. H. Huyett.
- Reproduction of a sketch of Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County; shows a miner with a mule in the middle of the street, ox-drawn and burro-drawn carts in the middle of the street, and log cabins on both sides of the street.
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Denver, City & County Administration, City Hall
- View of Denver City Hall in Denver, Colorado (Market and 14th Street corner wing); also shows entrance to Fire Department headquarters and a parked car.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Buildings--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Municipal government--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 to 1930?]
- Denver streets, Market
- View of businesses on the corner of 15th (Fifteenth) and Market Streets in Denver, Colorado; businesses include Jack Scott Saw Mandrels, Cordwood, Saws and Shovels, Hotel Royal, IXL Buy & Sell, Sitterle and Roesch Delicatessen, Hope Rooms, Midwest...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [betwen 1925 and 1930?]
- Golden, School of Mines
- Shows buildings on campus of Colorado School of Mines on right, grassy area and trees on left; Golden, Colorado.
- Golden (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Educational facilities--Colorado--Golden--1900-1920.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Golden--1900-1920.; Colorado School of Mines.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Pumpkin Pie Day, Longmont, Colo.
- Large group of fashionably attired men, women, and children gather under shade trees for Pumpkin Pie Day, Longmont, Colorado; view includes baby stroller and pram, and canvas tent in center background.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Baby carriages--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Celebrations--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- 16th Stree [sic], Denver
- Overview looking southeast on Sixteenth Street of downtown Denver, Colorado; shows a busy time of day with many automobiles parked on the streets, pedestrians on sidewalk, street railway cars and cables, lamp posts, and buildings including the Post...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1940.; City & town life--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1935]
- Soda Springs and Cliff House
- View of Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado; shows the Soda Spring Pavilion, an ornate frame structure with a sunburst motif and cupola. The Cliff House (with faceted tower), the Jerome B. Wheeler residence (later Hotel Wildemere), and the...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Landscape pavilions--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1887 and 1890?]
- The ordeal in the Sun Dance among the Blackfeet Indians
- Reproduction of a lithograph by Frederick Remington, shows a Blackfoot (Siksika) Native American man enduring a portion of the Sun Dance that includes a piercing of both nipples with thongs that are attached to ropes drawn tight. The man wears a...
- Indians of North America--Spiritual life--Montana--1890-1900.; Siksika Indians--Dance--Montana--1890-1900.; Ceremonial dancers--Montana--1890-1900.; Sun dance--Montana--1890-1900.; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Blackfeet...
- [between 1940 and 1970?]
- Cathedral Rocks - Garden of the Gods
- View of the Cathedral Spires rock formations at Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. A horse-drawn surrey is in the foreground.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1890.; Parks--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--Colorado...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Castle and Crested Spring
- View of the Crested Pool hot spring and the Castle Geyser in Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Steam rises from the white silica crater of the hot spring and the sinter cone of the geyser.
- Castle Geyser (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Crested Pool (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Upper Geyser Basin (Wyo.)--1870-1880.; Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.; Geysers--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.; Springs--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.
- [between 1871-1878?]
- Mammoth Hot Springs, Cleopatra and Jupiter Terraces
- View of Cleopatra Spring and a feature identified as Jupiter Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Shows a hill of terraced calcareous hot spring deposits and basins filled with mineral water.
- Cleopatra Spring (Wyo.)--1870-1890.; Mammoth Hot Springs (Wyo.)--1870-1890.; Yellowstone National Park--1870-1890.; Springs--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Mammoth Hot Springs, Jupiter Terrace
- View of a mound of calcareous mineral deposits identified as Jupiter Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Shows natural terraces and basins filled with water.
- Mammoth Hot Springs (Wyo.)--1870-1890.; Yellowstone National Park--1870-1890.; Springs--Yellowstone National Park--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Manitou Springs, 582
- second Manitou School and the Congregational Church are just left of center. On the left is the D. & R. G. Railroad Depot, a rusticated stone building with a high gabled roof and a chimney at each end; it is flanked by its freight and passenger...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900?]
- Juvenile Court in session
- Interior view of a Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado; shows lamps and people in chairs.
- Juvenile courts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courtrooms--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Juvenile delinquents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Log Cabin post office
- Log Cabin, in Larimer County, Colorado, is a complex of frame outbuildings, a one-story residence, and a saltbox with a false front. Tilled fields, a ditch, and a fence are in the foreground; scrub dotted hills are behind.
- Log Cabin (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- 1908
- Interior Meeker Hotel
- View of the Meeker Hotel lobby, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. Interior includes: taxidermied elk, antelope deer, big horn sheep and birds, antler chairs and plant stands with potted plants, front desk with safe and framed pictures.
- Meeker (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Lobbies--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- 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?]
- Alpine
- View of Alpine Coal Mine structures, Gunnison County, Colorado, shows headframe, gondola cars full of coal, smokestacks, and a sign: "Baldwin." Renamed Baldwin in 1910.
- Alpine Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- [1910]
- Kubler
- A miner uses a pick ax and shovel to fill an ore cart with the shiny bituminous coal, inside the Kubler Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado. Timber uprights brace the ceiling.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Ore industry--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1913
- Kubler
- A young Black girl stands next to a storage box outside of the neatly constructed company log houses with shingle roofs, near the Kubler Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado. Wash tubs, laundry line and a broom show around the cabins.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; African Americans--Children--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Mining camps--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1913
- Kubler
- View over the company log houses with shingle roofs, near the Kubler Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado; shows wash tubs, laundry lines and outhouses around the cabins and mountain peaks in distance.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining camps--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Labor housing--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1913
- Rosebud and Sioux Indian war dance Pine Ridge, S. D.
- Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, dance wearing feathers, beads, and headdresses. They carry spears and medicine poles.
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Ceremonial dancers--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Dances--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--1890-1900.
- December 25, 1890
- Naturalizing Chief American Horse
- Chief American Horse, in a beaded, fringed jacket, striped pants, moccasins, and a feather headdress, sits at a table covered by a woven blanket. Men in suit jackets and slouch hats sit with him; one writes in a ledger book, recording the Native...
- Dakota Indians--1900-1910.; Naturalization--1900-1910.; American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908.
- 1907