Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
Studio portrait of a Black woman possibly in Colorado. She holds a pair of boots and a washboard. She wears, a dress, straw hat, no shoes, and smokes a corncob pipe.
View west, across the Middle Fork of the South Platte River and mine tailings, to Alma, (elev. 10,353 feet) in South Park, Park County, Colorado, consists of wood frame residences, barns, sheds, painted false front commercial buildings, log cabins,...
Alma (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Buildings--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.; Mountains--Colorado--1880-1890.
A man with a hat unpacks boxes of "Hercules Powder" explosives, probably at the West Portal of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Continental Divide Tunnel) of the Colorado Big Thompson project in Grand County, Colorado. Shows the corrugated powder house...
Alva B. Adams Tunnel (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Grand County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Employees--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Explosives--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Metal buildings--Colorado--Grand County--1940-1950.; Sheds--Colorado--Grand...
Dancers, a male and four females, pose seated on a flat wooden amusement ride called a "Roulette Wheel", probably in Denver, Colorado. The man wears a suit and tie, the women wear two piece suits with tap shoes and berets. A sign reads: "No...
View along a curve in the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks northeast across Ananconda to the treeless rounded Gold Hill, Teller County, Colorado. shows town composed of several camps including Squaw Gulch, Mound City, and Barry nestled in...
An outdoor portrait of a Native American Apache woman wrapped in a blanket with a baby on her back and a portrait of a squatting Apache scout holding a cigarette, wearing a head scarf, vest, trousers with ammunition belt and handgun holster.
Apache Indians--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Infants--1890-1910.; Mothers & children--1890-1910.; Smoking--1890-1910.; Women--1890-1910.
Image of a painting by Herndon Davis, a Denver artist (1901- 1962), interior of the Apex Miners' Hall, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado; shows Don Block looking at the theater stage with painted backdrop, side draped...
Apex (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.; States (Platforms)--Colorado--Apex--1940-1950.; Theaters--Colorado--Apex--1940-1950.
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...
Stereographic view of a man shaving the hair from another man's head in front of a large tent, probably at a camp near the foothills of Denver, Colorado. A third man sits in the right foreground smoking a pipe and watching the hair cut. Two...
Fields surround a residence and four-story institutional buildings in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, with snowy mountains in the background. The Bellevue Sanitarium has a gambrel roof and dormers; the Saint Francis Hospital has spires...
Bellevue Sanitarium (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Saint Francis Hospital (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hospitals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Mountains--Colorado--Colorado...
View is south on Main Street, Blackhawk, Colorado; shows flat railroad cars and a specially-built track to load out the debris washed down through town by heavy flooding. Flooding was common a occurrence as a result of extensive lumber harvests....
Exterior view of the Fick's carriage shop in Blackhawk, Colorado. It is a single, two story, rectangular structure with three bays on the ground floor and three on the second floor. On the first floor, two windows flank the main loading door,...
In this view of the Tonopa machine shop in Breckenridge, Colorado, a four horse team and ore wagon stand in front of the corrugated tin and frame building. A man in the driver's seat holds the reins, and a whip stands lodged next to him. Two other...
Firetrucks, firemen, and hoses are in the street around a smoking commercial building during a fire in Brighton, Colorado. Jets of water are aimed at windows on the second floor, and a crane reaches to the roof; two men are at its upper end. A...
Brighton (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Brighton--1960-1970.; Fires--Colorado--Brighton--1960-1970.
Letter sent to Margaret Brown from Estelle Ballow regarding current events in the lives of the author. Including events and weather in Denver, radio and television, mutual acquaintances, health issues, and societal norms.
Mt. Princeton, part of the Collegiate Range, towers behind Buena Vista, Colorado. A smoking industrial facility, rocks and trees are in the foreground.
Buena Vista (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mountains--Colorado--1900-1910.; Princeton, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1910.