Mechanized buckets scoop up soil on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows rock filled alluvial soil, cables, iron beams, and buckets.
View of Pike's Stockade and cottonwood trees near Sanford (Conejos County), Colorado. This replica, a thirty-six square-foot log stockade, was reconstructed in 1952 by the Colorado Historical Society. The original stockade was built in 1807 by...
Conejos County (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Forts & fortifications.; Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works.; Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813--Homes & haunts--2000-2010.; Fortification--Colorado--Conejos...
Buckets scoop soil from the Middle Fork South Platte River bed to be processed on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows iron beam framework, pulleys, and cables.
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company workers position a pole near a field probably in Colorado. Three men steady the pole with wood braces. Other men shovel soil back into the hole. Open fields and a house are in the distance.
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--People--1910-1920.; Construction--Colorado--1910-1920.; Linemen--Colorado--1910-1920.; Utility poles--Colorado--1910-1920.
View of a dust storm over rooftops of wood frame buildings, including a Conoco station, possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A "Quaker State Motor Oil" sign is on the gas station. The devasting dust bowl...
Holly (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Walsh (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Automobile service stations--Colorado--Holly--1930-1940.; Automobile service stations--Colorado--Walsh--1930-1940.; Dust storms--Colorado--Holly--1930-1940.; Dust...
View of a huge cloud of dust over residences and a grain elevator, possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
View of a huge cloud of dust possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
Several automobiles and utility poles are shrouded in a dust storm, possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
View of a huge cloud of dust approaching Jake & Babes cafe and other businesses in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
Houses and trees are barely visible beneath a huge cloud of dust, possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The devastating dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
People stand in a yard on a farm between a house and out buildings looking at an approaching dust storm, possibly near Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The devastating dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
View of a huge cloud of dust over agricultural land, possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, in southeastern Colorado. A gambrel roof barn and trees show in foreground. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
View of a huge dark cloud of dust possibly in Walsh, Baca County, or Holly, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A house and line of trees is barely visible. The devasting dust bowl carried top soil for miles.
Children in Central City, Colorado, stand next to a rocky stream. The three boys and two girls are dressed in summer clothes and are wearing hats. The terrain around them is rocky and the soil seems to have been eroded away by water. Above them...
Central City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Children--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.; Floods--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.
View of a wooden sidewalk and railing that span Eureka Gulch and Creek outside of Central City, Colorado. The railing and sidewalk are alongside a dirt road. Two wood-frame houses sit on the hill on the other side of the gulch, where much of the...
Central City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Eureka Gulch (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Wooden sidewalks--Colorado--Central City--1920-1930.
View of a gravestone in the cemetery at Georgetown, Colorado, on the north end of the town. A sculpture of a sitting lamb sits on top of the stone. The inscription on the stone reads: Waldemar Son of A.J. & Augusta Youngstrom Died Nov. (??), ASSS...
Hydraulic gold placer mining in Mineral County, Colorado, consists of monitors washing soil into a sluice. The tailings were used by the Traveler's Insurance Company for construction of a dam augmenting Santa Maria Lake.
Sluices--Colorado--Mineral County--1910-1920.; Mineral County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Santa Maria Lake Dam (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gold mining--Colorado--Mineral County--1910-1920.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Mineral County--1910-1920.;...
View of human bones in an area with disturbed soil and brush, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.
Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.;...
K. Itow clears soil from an irrigation ditch amid rows of young lettuce on the project farm, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. He wears a straw hat and has gloves in his back pocket. Other Japanese...
Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Farming--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
Men wearing overalls and hats ready wooden forms for concrete foundations at Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Shovels lie on freshly dug piles of soil; wooden sawhorses, tool boxes and stacks of lumber...
Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
View of Gate Rock at the entrance of Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows a dirt road, soil erosion, brush and rock formations.
Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gate Rock (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
View of flowers planted in rows at City Park in Denver, Colorado. Furrows are plowed in loose sandy soil.
City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Flowers--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Gardens--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.