Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Pennsylvania Mining Accidents 1869 - 1916
- History of mines and mining in Pennsylvania, and an alphabetical index by miner’s name for fatal and non-fatal mine accidents in Pennsylvania for the years 1869, 1871, 1872, 1874 (partial), 1875, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1887, 1888,...
- Mine accidents--Pennsylvania--Indexes.
- 2007
- View of room with men handling rolls of paper
- Shows the reel room of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Rolls of newsprint are hung on the columns of metal reels. Crumpled newsprint is strewn on the concrete floor. Workers stand and watch as others load newsprint rolls onto reels.
- Rocky Mountain News--People--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Newspaper industry--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Printing presses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1902?]
- Rocky Mtn. News printing press
- A printing press from the Goss Printing Press Company of Chicago, IL, fills the printing room of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. A newspaper rolls through the complex system of rolls and cog wheels. To the right is a short flight of...
- Rocky Mountain News--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Newspaper industry--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Printing presses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1902]
- Huntington mill, rolls & crusher
- A Huntington mill with rolls and crusher, inside a mine possibly in Clear Creek County, Colorado.
- Cripple Creek County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Cripple Creek County.--1900-1910.; Milling machines--Colorado--Cripple Creek County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek County--1900-1910.
- [1899?]
- East Denver High School: 1915
- 1915 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1915
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 10, 1909 April 24
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 12, 1909 May 8
- The Valley Queen Mine, Platoro, Colorado
- View of the Valley Queen mine shed and headframe in Platoro (Conejos) County, Colorado; a man sits and rolls a cigarette.
- Conejos County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Valley Queen Mine (Conejos County, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Paonia, Colorado
- View of farms and orchards near the town of Paonia, Delta County, Colorado. Shows rolls of hay, barns, fences, and fruit trees. Mountains are in the distance.
- Paonia (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Farms--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1930.; Orchards--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Hurricane, Utah
- View of Hurricane (Washington County), Utah. Shows barns, rolls of hay, orchards, fields, and houses. A dirt road extends into an expansive valley in the distance.
- Hutticane (Utah)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Utah--Hurricane--1900-1910.
- [between 1906 and 1910?]
- Men at work on printing presses
- Shows employees of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado at work on the printing presses. A printed newspaper rolls through the printing press. An article on the newspaper reads: "Sunday Magazine Section, Feb. 1902 Revival of the Dealth...
- Rocky Mountain News--People--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Newspaper industry--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Printing presses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1902?]
- Men at work on printing presses as paper is printed
- Shows employees of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado at work on the presses as newsprint rolls through the printing press.
- Rocky Mountain News--People--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Newspaper industry--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Printing presses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1902?]
- Basement interior chute from window
- Interior of a basement shows a coal chute that extends from the window to the floor, rolls of insulation, and scraps of paper.
- Coal chutes--1890-1910.; Basements--1890-1910.; Interiors--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Martin Music Store of Loveland, Colorado when organs of the old style were in demand.
- Henry Martin stands inside his music store with another man, Loveland, Colorado. The interior includes: two ornate wood craved parlor organs, pedal music players, music rolls, and a wood burning stove.
- Loveland (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Interiors--Colorado--Loveland--1880-1890.; Music stores--Colorado--Loveland--1880-1890.; Organs--Colorado--Loveland--1880-1890.; Martin, Henry.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Cripple Creek, Pullin Block, Bennett Ave.
- Partial view of N. E. Pullin building, northeast corner of Bennett and Second Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; this rectangular two- story commercial building has double-entry recessed windows, corbel above flat windows, and decorated molding on...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Drugstores--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Law offices--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.
- 1900 or 1901
- #316 Paonia Meat Market Phil Eisenkramer owner
- A butcher stands on a wooden stool next to a row of beef carcases hanging on hooks in Eisenkramer's Meat Market in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. Items in front of the customer counter: a crate of apples, a stool, and a barrel. Items on the...
- Meat--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Paonia (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.; Butchers--Colorado--Paonia--1900-1910.
- April 28, 1909
- Rosita Post Office
- Men pose with a dog on the boardwalk of a false front frame post office with plate glass windows, Rosita, Custer County, Colorado. They wear suspenders, sack coats, gold chains, and vests; one rolls a cigarette. This Post Office was active between...
- Rosita (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Post offices--Colorado--Rosita--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Tacoma
- Two people stand on the platform under the overhang of the Denver and Rio Grande Western station house at Tacoma, La Plata County, Colorado. A man rolls in on a rail car with a windshield. Sign on side of depot reads: Tacoma, elev. 7313 ft. pop. 17...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1960-1970.; Tacoma (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Railroad cars--Colorado--Tacoma--1960-1970.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Tacoma--1960- 1970.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Tacoma--1960-1970.
- May, 1960
- Baker at oven
- A baker removes baked rolls from a oven with a wooden paddle in the kitchen of the mountain resort, Troutdale-in-the-Pines, Troutdale, Jefferson County, Colorado. He wears white chef's uniform with a baker's hat. Baked bread and pies cool on a...
- Troutdale-in-the-Pines (Troutdale, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Troutdale (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Baking--Colorado--Troutdale--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Ovens--Colorado--Troutdale--1930-1940.; Resorts--Colorado--Troutdale--1930-1940.
- 1937 June 30
- Female at picnic
- A woman in a swimsuit and swim cap kneels in front of a picnic blanket, she holds a basket full of rolls.
- Bathing suits--1920-1940.; Picnics--1920-1940.; Women--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1940]
- Interior, Forbes Drug Store, Georgetown, Colorado
- Interior view of Forbes' Drug Store, in Georgetown, Colorado, on the first floor of the Cushman Block on Sixth (6th) Street. Showcases and shelves display small flat round boxes, a crate of seeds, rolls of wallpaper with an oriental rug hanging...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Drugstores--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.; Interiors.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Utes Building the Tepee
- Native American (Ute) women stretch canvas over erect tepee poles at Garden of the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado. Piles of household materials, including rolls of canvas, stand near the tepee. Other complete and incomplete tepees stand nearby....
- Indians of North America--Colorado--El Paso County--1910-1920.; Ute Indians--Women--Colorado--El Paso County--1910-1920.; Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Indian encampments--Colorado--El Paso County--1910-1920.;...
- 1913 September 1
- Pine Ridge Agency S.D., (hunters with wild game)
- Four hunters pose with rifles and carcasses of antelope, rabbit, and birds on the Native American Lakota Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. The white men have horses and a wagon with bed rolls; a rooftop sign advertises: "Lodging, Meals."
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Teton...
- [1890 or 1891?]
- Bailey, Colorado
- Mr. and Mrs. James Lamping's three children pose with them during their fiftieth anniversary party in Bailey, Colorado. The couple sit in chairs at a large table. Mrs. Lamping wears a dark dress with silver buttons up the front, and her husband...
- Lamping, Edward Posey.; Lamping, James A.--Anniversaries.; Lamping, James A.--Family.; Lamping, Joseph Anthony.; Seeley, Mary E.; Bailey (Colo.)--1930-1940.
- 1938 December 12
- Interior, Will B. Ronaldson & Co.'s Carpet Store
- An interior view of the Will B. Ronaldson and Company's carpet store, located between 1539 and 1541 Champa in Denver, Colorado. Shows a room with rolls of decorative rugs and curtains on display.
- Will B. Ronaldson & Co.--Facilities--1880-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Floor coverings--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Home furnishings stores--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [1889]
- On Sioux campaign Mont
- View of U. S. Army soldiers on General Crook's Native American Sioux campaigns, Montana, with a covered wagon and carrying bed rolls.
- Crook, George, 1829-1890--Journeys--Dakota Territory--1870-1880.; United States. Army.--1870-1880.; Dakota Indians--War--Montana--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--Montana--1870-1880.; Covered wagons--Montana--1870-1880.;...
- 1876
- Dalgleish Studio
- Interior view of George Dalgleish's photography studio in Georgetown, Colorado. Front room has ornate Victorian wall papers, floral linoleum floor, framed pictures and paintings hang on wall, an upholstered lounge sofa, portrait photographs in a...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Photographic studios--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.
- [between 1892 and 1901]
- Denver from the Union Depot, up 17th St.
- View looking southeast on 17th (Seventeenth) Street from Union Station, Denver, Colorado. Buildings: Arapahoe County Courthouse, First Congregational church, Arapahoe School, Tabor Opera House, St. John's Church in the Wilderness (Episcopal)....
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1892]
- Daniels & Fisher store
- Interior view of the Daniels and Fisher store in Denver, Colorado; shows men at a counter and rolls of fabric.
- Daniels and Fisher Stores Company--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Department stores--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Merchandise displays--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Sales...
- [1902?]
- Fort Logan World War I
- Uniformed army men gather their gear including rifles, bed rolls and canteens, Fort Logan, Colorado, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers. Their post camp consists of four-sided pyramidial canvas tents. St. Mary's, Loretto Heights shows...
- World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Fort Logan (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Soldiers--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st.
- [1917 or 1918]
- Fort Logan World War I
- Soldiers assemble around one of the post's Quartermaster warehouses, Fort Logan, Colorado, a World War I assembly point for young soldiers. They wear uniforms and carry bed rolls.
- Transportation, Military--Colorado--Fort Logan--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Fort Logan.; Soldiers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st.; Fort Logan (Colo.)--1910-1920.
- [1917 or 1918]
- Native American women cook outdoors
- Native American (Plains) women cook outdoors over a fire. One woman sits on a blanket and rolls a piece of dough with a jar. Another woman stands nearby. The woman, who sits, wears a knit hat and a dress; the other woman wears beaded moccasins, a...
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Great Plains--1880-1910.; Clothing & dress--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Outdoor cookery--Great Plains--1880-1910.; Women--Great Plains--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Mentone Apartment house 18th & Sherman
- View of the Mentone apartments (under construction) at 125 East 11th (Eleventh) Avenue in Denver, Colorado; the Mission Revival style building has corbeled brick, an occulus window, towers with eyebrow roofs, balconies, and leaded glass. Rolls of...
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Building construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Duneweg hardware store
- This hardware store interior in Brush, Morgan County, Colorado, includes cooking stoves, nail kegs, kerosene lamps and rolls of paper. A case in the center displays scissors, and a framed poster above has an illustration of moose surrounded by a...
- Brush (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hardware stores--Colorado--Brush--1900-1910.; Interiors--1900-1910.
- 1900
- Eldorado
- South Boulder Creek rolls down the gorge of Eldorado Canyon near Eldorado Springs, Colorado. Bushes, trees, and sheer cliffs line the shores of the creek.
- Eldorado Springs (Colo.)--1920-1960.; Canyons--Colorado--Eldorado Springs--1920-1960.
- [between 1920? and 1960?]
- Interior of C. H. Whitmore & Co. store
- The interior of the C. H. Whitmore & Co. store in Canon City, Colorado, is filled with hardwood dressers, desks, mirrors, china, glass, dinnerware, kerosene lamps, coathooks, rolls of paper, framed pictures, and a manual carpet sweeper display...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Home furnishings stores--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Interiors.
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Breaking camp, Rocky Mt. Lake auto camp
- Two families break camp at Rocky Mountain Lake motor camp in the Berkeley neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A woman stands near a rolled up mattress holding a length of rope. Jars, boards, papers, tires, and boxes litter the ground. A banner on a...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Rocky Mountain Lake Park (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Camping--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Families--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.;...
- 1918, August
- Arlington Park, between Downing & Clarkson south of Cherry Creek
- Men work in an open field making improvements to Arlington Park in the Byers Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Rolls of sod lay by the side of a dirt path and Cherry Creek is nearby. Shows houses in the distance.
- Arlington Park (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Gardening--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- 1925, November, December
- D and F dressmakers
- View of Daniels and Fisher Department Store dressmakers in Denver, Colorado. Among the women are Dora and Lida Merryman, Lida probably ran the department. All the women wear conservative round, high-collared dresses either closed or decorated with...
- Daniels and Fisher Stores Company--People--1880-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Clothing & dress--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Seamstresses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Prisoner activity fingerprinting
- Interior view of a convict being fingerprinted at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. An inmate in a pinstriped shirt holds the pad while a guard wearing a tie rolls the prisoner's finger. A book has a mugshot on its cover.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Fingerprints--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1937
- Louis Charlemain
- Louis Charlemain, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, stands with a young girl and a young child in front of a teepee on the reservation. Charlemain, also known as Louie Molman, holds a long knife in his...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Children--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Indians of North...
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Louis Charlemain
- Louis Charlemain, a Native American man on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, poses for a formal, side-angle, bust portrait. He wears a fur roach on the top of his head. Strips of fur are wrapped around his long braids. He has an...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Montana--1900- 1910.; Charlemain, Louis.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Hedgcock & Jones
- Interior view of the Hedgcock & Jones Store on 16th (Sixteenth) Street in Denver, Colorado. Shows display cases filled with gloves, lace lappets, and women's hosiery. Boxes are stacked on shelves behind the cases. Rolls of wrapping paper are on the...
- Hedgcock & Jones Specialty Store Co. (Denver, Colo.) 1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Clothing stores--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Department stores--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Merchandise...
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Ollie Burns Baker & Restaurant
- Two men and two women pose inside the Ollie Burns Bakery and Restaurant. A man in a cap and coveralls stands by the counter with his hand on a coffee cup, near a glass with napkins; a woman with a broad dark hat sits on one of the iron stools next...
- Fruita (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Bakeries--Colorado--Fruita--1910-1920.
- 1918
- U.P. pack train
- Union Pacific surveryors pose with their burro pack train loaded with furniture, bed rolls, stove pipes, and boxes and sacks of supplies, near Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad employees--Colorado--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1888?]
- Red Cross boys filling Christmas stockings at Wyman School
- Three boys, who include an African American and a Mexican American, pose with Mesh Christmas stockings at Wyman School, 1630 Williams Street in the City Park West neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. They sit at a table with a stack of Christmas...
- African Americans--Children--1960-1970.; Mexican Americans--Children--1960-1970.; Denver (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Boys.; Christmas stockings.
- [between 1960 and 1970?]
- Parade, Estes Park, Colorado
- People watch a parade in Estes Park, Colorado. A stagecoach marked "Elkhorn Lodge and Stable," with two guitar players on top, pulled by two horses, and followed by a man with a sombrero on horseback, rolls down the street past the Hupp Hotel....
- Estes Park (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Estes Park--1970-1980.
- July 14, 1970
- First day of operation of car no. 21 on the Fort Collins Municipal Railway
- A crowd watches as newly restored trolley number 21 rolls out of the car barn in Fort Collins, Colorado in Larimer County. A photographer squats in front of the trolley to take a photo.
- Fort Collins (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Railroad shops & yards--Colorado--Fort Collins--1980- 1990.; Street railroads--Colorado--Fort Collins--1980-1990.; Fort Collins Municipal Railway (Fort Collins, Colo.)
- December 29, 1984
- Howard Colo. Calcite in distance.
- A Denver & Rio Grande train rolls through the railroad station at Howard (Fremont County), Colorado. A water tower, and buildings are near the tracks; nearby on a hill are the charcoal kilns constructed in 1882 by the Taylor Company. In the...
- Howard (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1910-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Howard--1910-1920.; Valleys--Colorado--Howard--1910-1920.
- [ca. 1915]
- West High School baking activity
- Photograph of three female students during a baking at West High School in Denver, Colorado. All three of the girls wear white aprons and white paper hats. One girls rolls out dough while another girl holds a biscuit cutter in one hand and looks...
- West High School (Denver, Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- circa 1930