Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Stained glass window
- Interior view of stained glass window in a Denver, Colorado Episcopal church. Writing reads: This Window is Placed in Here in Loving and Grateful Memory of Mrs. Ernest Frederick Smith of Oxford, England, Sometime of Denver, Colo. the Donor of the...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Interiors.; Stained glass--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Fort Collins street oiling
- A yardstick is placed in the ground and measures a trench during the oiling of a residential street in Fort Collins, Colorado in Larimer County. A board is placed across the trench.
- Fort Collins (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Road construction--Colorado--Fort Collins--1930-1950.
- [between 1933 and 1945]
- East High spotlight: 21st year no 9
- Newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1943 March 4
- Men from two divisions meet at Resia Pass, Austrian-Italian border
- Patrols from two divisions meet at the Austrian-Italian border taken from the Austrian side. A sign with "HALT! Grenzkontrolle" is placed on the right side of a wide dirt road. A small wooden barrier marks the border. Seven GIs from the Seventh...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company F.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- May 7, 1945
- More About Morey : vol. XIV no. 3
- Newspaper published by the students at Morey Junior High School in Denver, Colorado.
- Morey Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); Morey Junior High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Periodicals.; Junior high schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.
- 1935 December
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 8, 1911 February 18
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 9, 1911 February 25
- Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 12, 1919 December
- Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 8, 1920 August
- Regional Transporation District Newsletter: Volume 7 Number 8
- First Baptist Church Diamond Anniversary
- Book commemorating the Diamond Anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Denver, Colorado. Included in the book is a description of the history of the church, is former locations, photographs and a list of members of the congregation.
- First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)--Directories.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1939
- Dedication Sunday : December 4, 1938
- Booklet created to celebrate the Dedication of the new First Baptist Church in 1938. Booklet covers the construction of the new building.
- First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1938 December 4
- East High spotlight: vol 30 no 10
- Newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1944 March 23
- The Coloradan: Vol. II No. 3
- Article and front cover of The Coloradan, pertaining to First Baptist Church in Denver, Colorado.
- Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1893 May 1
- Argo Mill & Mine
- View of the Argo Mill building at 2517 Riverside Drive in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The five-story building is red, and includes a headframe and ore processing facility. The building has large white letters on the top level that...
- Argo Tunnel Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; MIning.; Mills.; Ore industry.; Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Idaho Springs--Pictorial works.; Factories--Colorado--Idaho Springs--Pictorial...
- 2002
- Colorado Springs City Hall
- View of the front facade of the Colorado Springs City Hall located at 107 North Nevada Avenue at the northeast corner of East Kiowa Street, Colorado Springs, Colo. Constructed of gray granite, the Beaux-Arts, neoclassical styled, three-story...
- City Hall (Colorado Springs, Colo.).--1980-1990.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1980-1990.; City Hall (Colorado Springs, Colo.).--Pictorial works.; City halls--Colorado--Colorado Springs--Pictorial works.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1981
- El Paso County Court House, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- View of the facade of the El Paso County Court House located at 215 South Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Designed by local architect, August j. Smith, the three-story Renaissance Revival structure features a foundation of rough-cut...
- El Paso County Court House (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; El Paso County Court House (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Courthouses--Colorado--Colorado Springs--Pictorial works.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2002
- McAllister House, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- View of the front facade and side elevation of the McAllister House located at 423 North Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The two-story English style cottage adorned with simple Carpenter Gothic wood trim is purported to have been...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Houses--Colorado--Colorado Springs--2000-2010; McAllister House (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; McAllister House (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Dwellings--Colorado--Colorado...
- 2001
- Glen Eyrie, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- View of Glen Eyrie located at 3820 North 30th Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The four-story Tudor Revival castle like structure is wrapped in carefully chosen 24-inch-thick stone quarried from Bear Creek Canyon. A crenelated octagonal tower...
- Glen Eyrie (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Estates--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1990-2000; Glen Eyrie (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Dwellings--Colorado--Colorado Springs--Pictorial works.;...
- 1996
- Homestead Cabin, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- View of the small Homestead Cabin located at the Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, 3202 Chambers Way, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The ca. 1860s, rustic one-story log cabin has small windows, a wood shake roof, and small stone chimney. The structure...
- Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Log cabins--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1990-2000.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Log...
- 1996
- Cliff House, Manitou Springs, Colo.
- View of the facade of the Cliff House located at 306 Canon Avenue, Manitou Springs, Colorado. The four-story Queen Anne style clap board structure has steep red shingled roofs with a large first floor porch. Originally built in 1873 as a 20 room...
- Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--2000-2010.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--Pictorial works.;...
- 2002
- Miramont Castle Museum, Manitou Springs, Colo.
- View of the facade of the Miramont Castle located at 9 Capitol Hill Avenue, Manitou Springs, Colorado. The four story, 14,000 square-foot Romanesque Revival castle also contains castellated battlements, Flemish stepped gables, Queen Anne shingled...
- Miramont Castle (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--2000-2010; Miramont Castle (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Museums--Colorado--Manitou Springs--Pictorial...
- 2000
- Nolan House, Manitou Springs, Colo.
- View of the Nolan House located at 2 Grand Avenue, Manitou Springs, Colorado. The ca.1888 three-story Queen Anne style house is constructed of sandstone with wood decoration and includes extensive balconies, porches, and a prominent corner tower...
- Manitou Springs Historic District (Colo.)--2000-2010; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--2000-2010; Manitou Springs Historic District (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Dwellings--Colorado--Colorado Springs--Pictorial...
- 2000
- El Colorado Lodge, Manitou Springs, Colo.
- View of the El Colorado Lodge located at 23 Manitou Avenue, Manitou Springs, Colorado. The two-story Pueblo Revival style structure was built in the late 1920s and has pink stucco walls trimmed in red with a decorative stair step pattern at the...
- El Colorado Lodge (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; El Colorado Lodge (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Motels--Colorado--Colorado Springs--Pictorial works.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--Pictorial...
- 2000
- Eureka Masonic Lodge #66, Coal Creek, Colo.
- View of the Eureka Masonic Lodge #66 located at 216 Main Street, Coal Creek, Colorado. The simple, two-story sandstone structure was constructed in 1908 for the local lodge of the International Order of Odd Fellows. Since that time, the structure...
- Freemasons. Eureka Lodge No. 66 (Coal Creek, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Coal Creek (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Freemasons. Eureka Lodge No. 66 (Coal Creek, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Coal Creek Lodge (Coal Creek,...
- 2009
- Rock Ledge House, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- View of the Rock Ledge House located at the Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, 3202 Chambers Way, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The one and a half-story simple Queen Anne style structure is characterized by a squared bay window on the side of the house...
- Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Houses--Coloado--Colorado Springs--2000-2010; Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Ranch...
- 2001
- Iliff monument, Fairmount cemetery
- View of the Iliff monument located in Fairmount Cemetery, 430 S. Quebec Street in the Windsor neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. This sculpture depicts a classically dressed weeper with wreath in one hand. The statue is mounted on a pillar. On the...
- Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Windsor (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Cemeteries.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments.; Iliff, John Wesley, 1831-1878--Tomb.; Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 2000
- Weaving tools
- View of a spindle and bowl made by Alberto Lobato and two hand carders used by weaver María Salomé Córdova, his mother. The spindle and bowl were used to spin the wool.
- Córdova, María Salomé, 1867-1960--Associated objects.; Lobato, Alberto, 1895-1976--Associated objects.; Hispanic Americans--1940-1950.; Mexican Americans--1940-1950.; Tools.; Córdova, María Salomé, 1867-1960--Pictorial works.; Lobato,...
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Miners Eloy Cruz and Leandro Vigil
- Coal miners Eloy Cruz (left) and his brother-in-law Leandro Vigil pose near the entrance to the Frederick Mine in Valdez (Las Animas County), Colorado. Eloy wears a jacket, a cap with a battery operated lantern, safety boots and holds a bucket and...
- Hispanic Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Frederick Mine (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Las Animas County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Coal miners.; Cruz, Eloy--Pictorial works.; Vigil, Leandro--Pictorial...
- [1920?]
- Telephone pole maiden of Washington Park
- View of the Telephone Pole Maiden in Grasmere Lake in the Washington Park neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Shows a painted, articulated wooden sculpture of a woman, nude from the waist up with long hair. Artist Willie Meade with Breck Grover and Tom...
- Grasmere Lake (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Washington Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Wood carvings.; Wood-carving--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Grasmere Lake (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Washington Park...
- 1998
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 17, 1911 April 22
- The City of Denver: Volume 2 Number 14, 1914 April 25
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 16, 1909 June 5
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 29, 1909 September 4
- Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 4, 1919 April
- Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Numbers 9 and 10, 1919 September-October
- Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 3, 1921 March
- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 9, 1913 February 8
- Clear Creek, loading Pioneer
- Men work in a tunnel excavated for Highway 6 in Jefferson or Clear Creek County, Colorado. They wear work clothes, hard hats, and electric mine lamps. Ankle deep water fills the cavern. Explosives are placed in holes that are drilled in the rock...
- Construction workers--Colorado--1940-1950.; Explosives--Colorado--1940-1950.; Highway construction--Colorado--1940-1950.; Road construction--Colorado--1940-1950.; Tunnels--Colorado--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Mill at Leadville
- View of an unidentified mining mill in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The building is on a hillside and has tar paper siding, a slanted roof, gable dormers and randomly placed windows.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mills--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Ore industry--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Masonic plaque
- Plaque reads: "In Commemoration Of The Services Of Brothers Julius A. Myers, Cromwell Tucker, Frederick A. Williams, Who, As Trustees Of The Masonic Temple Association, By Their Able And Untiring Efforts In The Conduct Of Its Financial Affairs, And...
- Freemasons--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Plaques--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1900]
- X-ray at St. Luke's hospital
- Harry H. Buckwalter and Dr. C. E. Tennant prepare to x-ray Central City Marshal Mike Kehler at Saint Luke's hospital in Denver, Colorado. Equipment that includes batteries is placed throughout the room.
- Kehler, Mike.; Tennant, C. E.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hospitals--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Radiography--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Buckwalter, Harry H.
- [1896]
- Creamery
- Men, women, and children pose outdoors near a dairy store in Denver, Colorado. A sign on the building reads: "[?]wood Creamery Orders Placed [?]".
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Children--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Dairy stores--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Portrait of a woman and girl
- Studio portrait of a woman, possibly E.A. Vickers, and her daughter. Both wear white summer dresses and pose near a stone fence. The young girl has short bangs and wears her hair straight and down. Her dress has lace flounces at the shoulder, and...
- Families--1890-1900.; Girls--1890-1900.; Women--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Mount of the Holy Cross and flower
- A photograph of a primrose flower overlies a photograph of Mount of the Holy Cross in Colorado. Objects are placed on a white background.
- Primroses--1890-1910.; Holy Cross, Mount of the (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Photographic prints--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Cheyenne Falls with flowers
- A live primrose is positioned around the edges of a photograph of Cheyenne Falls on South Cheyenne Creek in South Cheyenne Canyon (El Paso County), Colorado. Objects are placed on a black cloth background with a frame.
- Primroses--1890-1910.; El Paso County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; South Cheyenne Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1910.; South Cheyenne Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Photographic prints--1890-1910.; Waterfalls--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Mount of the Holy Cross with flowers
- Wildflowers are positioned around the edge of a photograph of Mount of the Holy Cross in Colorado. Objects are placed on a leather background.
- Holy Cross, Mount of the (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Photographic prints--1890-1910.; Wildflowers--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Drying raisins in Kings County
- Men stand in rows of grape plants, probably in Kings County, California. Wooden flats placed side-by-side cover the dirt row between the grape plants; grapes to be dried in the sun cover the flats. Other flats stand stacked in the rows. A small...
- Kings County (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Cabinet photographs--1900-1910.; Food drying--California--Kings County--1900-1910.; Grapes--California--Kings County--1900-1910.; Grapevines--California--Kings County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Mission San Juan Capistrano, Cala.
- View of the interior of an abandoned chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano (Orange County), California. Water stains extend down the walls from the roof beams. Large chunks of plaster are eroded from the walls. A stairway...
- Mission San Juan Capistrano--1880-1900.; San Juan Capistrano (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Abandoned buildings--California--San Juan Capistrano--1880-1900.; Catholic churches--California--San Juan Capistrano--1880-1900.; Chapels--California--San Juan...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- College, 5th & Atwood
- Longmont Presbyterian College, 546 Atwood Street, Longmont, Colorado; first and only wing of a plan by architect Fred A. Hall or Hale; built in 1886; features include: brick construction with rough cut stone foundation, irregular hip and gable...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Longmont Presbyterian College (Longmont, Colo.)
- [between 1890 and 1895]