Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- 16th. Stree[t] Denver
- View of Sixteenth Street, Denver, Colorado; shows pedestrians, streetlights, clocks, automobiles, streetcars, bicycle, and United States flags. Signs read: "Graysons - Good Clothes," "Shraiberg's Flowers," "Perini's," "Denver Daily," "Sun," and...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.
- [between 1925 and 1932]
- 3 weeks ago, opposite is my store, hotel before ocupation [sic] [graphic]
- Exterior view of the two-story Hotel Windsor in Leadville, Colorado shows a false front with bracketed cornice, clapboard siding, four storefronts with double door entries and multi-pane windows and three second-story sash windows above each store....
- Hotel Windsor (Leadville, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [between 1879 and 1880]
- 50th anniversary of incorporation of Arrow
- Reverend Edward T. Bollinger stands with his briefcase, hat and plaid jacket in deep snow on terminus of the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad (later the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad) near Corona or Rollins Pass. His son George and a group...
- Arrow (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- [1954]
- A distribution of goods to the Gros Ventres
- Reproduction of a drawing shows a large group of Gros Ventre (Atsina) Native Americas seated in a circle near a distribution camp with a United States flag, covered wagons, and walled tents.
- Atsina Indians--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--Government relations--1870-1890.; Food relief--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- A mountain water cart
- A man poses with burros that carry wooden casks in the mountains of Colorado.
- Donkeys--Colorado--1880-1900.; Pack animals--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Abandoned mine
- View of an abandoned mine and tailings in Colorado.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--1880-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Adams State College
- Exterior view Adams State Normal School, Alamosa, Alamosa County, Colorado. Built in 1925, named after William H. Adams, senator and three term governor of Colorado. Two-story brick building features: a classical entry with ionic columns, and...
- Adams State Normal School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Schools--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
- [1947]
- Adams State, 5/18/47 Roto
- The Casa Bonita Lounge of the Adams State Normal School in Alamosa, Colorado has Spanish style carved wood sofas, a table with a woven blanket on top, and a tile fireplace with a wooden mantle and decorative flower arrangements. There are sconces...
- Adams State Normal School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.--1940-1950.; Lounges--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Pianos--1940-1950.
- 1947
- Adams State, 5/18/47 Roto
- Exterior view of a back of a two-story stucco building, Adams State Normal School, Alamosa, Alamosa County, Colorado. Built in 1925, named after William H. Adams, senator and three term governor of Colorado. Spanish style building features a tile...
- Adams State Normal School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Schools--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
- 1947
- Alice, Colorado, 1904, Mrs. Harper's cabin
- A long log cabin with a corrugated sheet metal roof on Fall River in Alice, Colorado was a post office in Clear Creek County. Once one of the largest mining camps in the valley below Saint (St.) Mary's Glacier, Alice was settled in the early 1880s....
- Alice (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Post offices--Colorado--Alice--1900-1910.
- [1904]
- Alma
- View northwest along upper Main Street in Alma, (10,353 feet) in Park County, Colorado, includes wood frame and false front commercial buildings. Signs include "Groceries" painted on a false front, "Capital Hotel" and "R. Oppenheim Dry Goods,...
- Alma (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Buildings--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.; Bross,Mount (Colo.)
- [between 1880 and 1886]
- Alma Colorado, where Hilma Hanson was born in 1877
- This view west of Alma, (elevation, 10,353 feet) in Park County, Colorado, includes wood frame barns, sheds, false front commercial buildings, log cabins, smelting works with long wood piles, and a church. Lettering painted on commercial buildings...
- Alma (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mountains--Colorado--1870-1880.
- [between 1875 and 1880]
- Alma, Colo. July 4, 1887
- View of a Fourth of July parade along Main Street in Alma, (10,353 feet) in Park County, Colorado, includes a man mounted on horseback leading a band with horns and bass drum, followed by horse drawn carriages and groups of uniformed men. A long...
- Fourth of July--1880-1890.; Alma (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Marching bands--1880-1890.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.
- 1887
- 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?]
- Altman street scene
- View down a busy main street in Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor, on a saddle between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, Teller County, includes men, boys, a few girls in dresses and horse-drawn wagons. Wood frame false fronts, front...
- Altman (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Altman, Colo., highest incorporated town in the world, elevation 11,200 ft., Pikes Peak in distance, 14,147 ft.
- View of Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor, on a saddle between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, Teller County, includes wood frame residences, sheds, false front businesses, smelters, and mines, and tailing dumps. Business signs...
- Altman (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.; Mountains--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1898]
- American Nettie Mine Ouray
- Miners sit on a log pulled by a horse-drawn two-wheel wagon near the shafthouse of a mine in Ouray County, Colorado.
- Ouray County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Logs--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Pulling--Colorado--Ouray...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Apex, Colo. recreation hall interior, piano on stage
- Interior of the Apex Miners' Hall, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado; includes theater stage with square piano and painted backdrop of trees; flanked by arched doorways with steps leading onto stage; wood paneling in...
- Apex (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Interiors.; Stages (Platforms)--Colorado--Apex--1950-1960.
- [May 1957]
- Apex, Colorado recreation hall for miners, interior
- Interior of the Apex Miners' Hall, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado shows the theater stage with painted backdrop of a smoking volcano. Stage is flanked by arched doorways with steps leading onto stage. The hall has...
- Apex (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Interiors.; Stages (Platforms)--Colorado--Apex--1950-1960.
- [1957]
- Apex, Colorado, after the forest fire
- Group of children pose in the remains of forest of burned trees, Apex, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. The girls wear dresses, dark stockings, shoe boots and hats consisting of tams with pompons, wide brim, and...
- Apex (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Children--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Apex--1890-1900.
- [August 1990]
- Arch under Citadel Rock Colorado Divide
- View of the arch under Citadel Rock near the Colorado (possibly Continental) Divide in Colorado.
- Rock formations--Colorado--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- Arrow 50 anniversay
- View of a group of young men erecting a sign marker at site of Arrow (Arrowhead), to celebrate the town's fiftieth anniversary in Grand County, Colorado. Arrow was founded in 1904.
- Arrow (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- [1954]
- Arrow, Colorado fiftieth anniversary
- Reverend Edward T. Bollinger reads from a diary to a group of young men from his parish who stand on a snowy hill. The group erected a sign marker on a pole at site of where Aspen Street once was in Arrow, Grand County, Colorado. Marker reads:...
- Arrow (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Bollinger, Edward T.
- [1954]
- Arrow, Colorado fiftieth anniversary
- Reverend Edward T. Bollinger stands with his briefcase, hat and plaid jacket in deep snow on terminus of the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad (later the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad) near Corona or Rollins Pass, Colorado. A group of young...
- Arrow (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Bollinger, Edward T.
- [1954]
- Arrow, Colorado fiftieth anniversary
- Reverend Edward T. Bollinger stands with his briefcase, hat and plaid jacket in deep snow on terminus of the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railroad (later the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad) near Corona or Rollins Pass. A group of young men from...
- Arrow (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Bollinger, Edward T.
- [1954]
- Arvada grade school
- Exterior of the Arvada grade school, Jefferson County, Colorado, features the two-story rectangular brick building with flat roof and sash windows on each side of the front entry. Lanterns flank the entry and "Arvada Grade School" is above entryway.
- Arvada (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Arvada--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- Arvada school
- Exterior of the early Arvada brick school, 5650 Wadsworth Boulevard, Jefferson County, Colorado, includes students and teacher on entry stairs in front of the brick building. Shown are: Miss Nettie E. Stilling, teacher; Clara Swadley, Mary Juchem....
- Arvada (Colo.)--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Arvada--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Arvada--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1880]
- Ascending Mancos La Plata Divide
- View of probably a Rio Grande Southern Railroad locomotive on broad and narrow gauge railroad tracks in either Montezuma or La Plata County, Colorado. Men sit on the end of a passenger car. A water tower with ice is nearby. Light snow covers the...
- Rio Grande Southern Railroad--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--1890-1900.; Water towers--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Assaying
- Assayers work in a lab probably in Colorado. A stove, mortars, pestles, tongs, and other equipment are in the room.
- Assayers--Colorado--1890-1900.; Assaying--Colorado--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Badger Hotel, Alpine, Colorado, 1881, Captain Ford and John T. Swain, owners
- A group of men pose in front of wood frame and log businesses in Alpine, Chaffee County, Colorado. Four men sit on the boardwalk by the two- story false front Badger Hotel, named for the Badger State of Wisconsin, where owners Captain Ford and John...
- Badger Hotel (Alpine, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Alpine (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Alpine--1880-1890.; Ford, Captain.; Swain, John.
- 1881
- Baltimore Tunnel Silver Plume
- View of the power plant and the entrance to the Baltimore Tunnel near Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A sign over the tunnel entrance reads: "Hazleton Consolidated M & T Co. Baltimore Tunnel".
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Silver Plume--1880-1900.; Baltimore Mine (Silver Plume, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Baseball players
- Portrait of a baseball team in Georgetown, Colorado, wearing hats, shirts with an appliqued bat and ball, and white knee breeches with ruffles. Several hold bats, and one man holds a catcher's mask. Two children, Will Shipley and Jack Hayden, stand...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Baseball players--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1920.
- [between 1870 and 1920?]
- Bear Foot Chief
- Studio portrait (standing) of Bear Foot, a Native American (Brulé Sioux) man. He holds a shield and a spear. He wears a hair pipe breast plate, bead bandolier and feathers in his hair.
- Brulé Indians--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Clothing & dress--1890-1900.; Shields--1890-1900.; Spears--1890-1900.; Bear Foot.
- 1899
- Bonnie McCarrol thrown from Silver, Bonnie knows they let'er buck
- Action shot of cowgirl Bonnie McCarrol, popular bronc-riding champion, being thrown off bucking bronco, Silver, at the Round Up, Pendleton, Oregon. She rides "slick" like male rodeo circuit riders with stirrups hanging loose. Riding "hobbled" with...
- Pendleton (Or.)--1910-1920.; Broncos--Oregon--Pendleton--1910-1920.; Cowgirls--Oregon--Pendleton--1910-1920.; Rodeos--Oregon--Pendleton--1910-1920.; McCarrol, Bonnie.
- [1915]
- Boss Mine at Breckenridge Colo.
- A woman and miners, with picks and gold pans, pose by the entrance to the Boss mine near Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. Shows a horse.
- Boss Mine (Summit County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1888]
- Broken Arm Chief
- Studio portrait (profile) of Broken Arm, a Native American (Sioux) man. He wears a shirt with quillwork, hair pipe breast plate, scarves over his braids, and a fur pelt cap.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Clothing & dress--1890-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1890-1900.; Broken Arm.
- 1899
- Cabin at Dobbins mill Argentine district.
- View of a cabin at the Dobbins Mill in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Light snow covers the ground.
- Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Carbonate Hill and Leadville Colo.
- Left side of panorama from Carbonate Hill over Leadville mining district, Colorado; shows rocky hills, frame structures, smokestacks, mine shafts, headframes, railroad tracks, ore cart trestles and tailing piles.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Carbonate Hill and Leadville Colo.
- Center of panorama view from Carbonate Hill over Leadville mining district to the Continental Divide, Colorado; shows rocky hills, frame structures, smokestacks, mine shafts, headframes, railroad and ore car tracks and tailing piles.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Carbonate Hill and Leadville Colo.
- Right side of panorama view from Carbonate Hill over Leadville mining district to the Continental Divide, Colorado; shows rocky hills, frame structures, smokestacks, mine shafts, headframes, railroad and ore car tracks, and tailing piles.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Cascade Colo., 1900?
- Exterior facade view of the Ramona Hotel a popular Ute Pass resort, located in Cascade, (Cascade Canon) at the foot of Pikes Peak on the Midland Terminal Railroad and on the Pikes Peak Highway, El Paso County, Colorado, includes the three-story...
- Cascade (El Paso county, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Cascade--1900-1910.; Ramona Hotel (Cascade, Colo.)
- 1900
- Castle Rock, Col., natural formation of rocks, Jan. 1894
- View north beside the standard and narrow gauge railroad tracks of Denver and Rio Grande Western and Colorado and Southern towards Castle Rock, a rhyolite lava rock formation, in Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colorado, includes gabled wood frame...
- Castle Rock (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Castle Rock (Douglas County, Colo. : Rock Formation)--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Castle Rock--1890-1900.; Colorado and Southern Railway.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway Company.
- 1894
- Cathedral Peaks. Plate [sic] Canon
- View of Cathedral Peaks (Spires), the Platte Canyon, the South Platte River, and possibly Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company tracks, Jefferson County, Colorado.
- Cathedral Spires (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Platte Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1890.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--Jefferson County--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Jefferson...
- [between 1881 and 1885]
- Centennel [i. e. Centennial] miners Georgetown Colo
- Miners David Kennedy, Vern Thomas, Walter Johnson, John Wash, (Italian), Ed Seyler, Sim Dingle, Wm. Cooper, Foxie, Dide Thomas, Joe Raymond, John Cavanaugh, and Chas Schwaga pose near the shaft house of the Centennial Mine near Georgetown, Clear...
- Centennial Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1910.
- [1904]
- Chaffee, near Monarch Pass
- View into a narrow gulch with the mining camp of Chaffee, (Chaffee City, Camp Monarch, and after 1884, Monarch) Chaffee County, Colorado, includes log cabins and structures, tents and slopes with burned or cut timber surrounded by high mountains....
- Chaffee (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Chaffee--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1884]
- Cherrelyn horse car
- John Bogue (conductor, driver and lessee) and his passengers pose on the Cherrelyn horse car with the harnessed horse, on the back platform, Cherrelyn, (district incorporated into Englewood) Arapahoe County, Colorado. The women wearing decorated...
- Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Cherrelyn horse car
- Young boys pose inside and next to the weathered wooden Cherrelyn Gravity and Broncho Street Railway horse car with the horse on the back platform, Cherrelyn, (district incorporated into Englewood) Arapahoe County, Colorado. They wear suits with...
- Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.; Horse railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.
- August 1905
- Chinese-American men
- Studio portrait of Chinese-American men who include Wa Chin and Tang Ya-Shun in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Wa Chin wears a long shirt and wide-brimmed hat. Tang Ya-Shun wears a suit and watch chain with a charm.
- Chinese--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.; Chinese-Americans--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Men--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.; Chin, Wa.; Ya-Shun, Tang.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Claymore Lake
- Right side of panorama over Claymore Lake, Larimer County, Colorado; shows a small boat on shore and gentle slopes around the reservoir.
- Claymore Lake (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Clayton College
- View of buildings at Clayton College at 32nd (Thirty-second) Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. One of the brick buildings has a cupola.
- George W. Clayton College (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Orphanages--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1911 and 1920?]