Jesse Nusbaum's stepson, Deric, far right, dances in a line with four Navajo men in front of a winter hogan at Mesa Verde National Park. Dressed in work clothes, the men all wear scarfs tied around their heads; each holds clusters of grass. The top...
Navajo Indians--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Hogans --1920-1930.; Indians of North America--Dance--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Jesse Nusbaum's stepson, Deric, far right, dances in a line with four Navajo men in front of a winter hogan at Mesa Verde National Park. Dressed in work clothes, the men all wear scarfs tied around their heads; each holds clusters of grass. The top...
Navajo Indians--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Hogans--1920-1930.; Indians of North America--Dance--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., second from the left, sits with his legs dangling from a wall among the ruins of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park. Five other men, including Dr. R.W. Corbin, second from right, and Bert Mattison, right, sit with...
Cliff Palace (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--1920-1930.; Corwin, R. W.; Mattison, Bert.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. sits on a rock wall among the ruins of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park. Five other men, including Dr. R.W. Corwin, second from right, and Bert Mattison, right, sit with Rockefeller on the wall. Rockefeller's three...
Cliff Palace (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--1920-1930.; Corwin, R. W.; Mattison, Bert.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960.
A group of unidentified men, some standing, some sitting, gathers on the ledge of Nordenskiold's Ruin No. 12 in Mesa Verde National Park. Jesse Nusbaum's stepson, Deric, stands second from the right. Portions of the cliff dwelling remain standing...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Nordenskiold House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Rock formations--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse Nusbaum's stepson, stands with two younger boys on top of a portion of the excavated Aztec Ruins near the Animas River in northern New Mexico. A car, possibly a Model T Ford, and a truck are parked near the ruins where the...
Excavations (Archaeology)--New Mexico--1920-1930.; Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites-- New Mexico-- 1920-1930.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1920-1930.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1920-1930.; Aztec Ruins...
Jesse Nusbaum's stepson, Deric, sits on an exterior wall among the Aztec Ruins near the Animas River in northern New Mexico. The ruins are in a square formation in front of a grove of trees in the background. Small clusters of grass dot the...
Excavations (Archaeology)--New Mexico--1920-1930.; Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1920-1930.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1920-1930.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1920-1930.; Aztec Ruins...
A group of men rides horses down a snowy road in Mesa Verde National Park. The road is built into a steep hillside. The rider on the far right is probably Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson. Pine trees line the rocky hillside.
Roads, Earth--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mountain roads--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Knife Edge Road (Colo.)
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, wearing shorts and a Boy Scouts of America shirt, leans out of a window opening at Spruce Tree House, one of the largest cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. The top of the opening is framed with a piece of...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Spruce Tree House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Rock formations--Colorado--1920-1930.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, sits with his legs dangling over a ledge near Nordenskiold's Ruin No. 12, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. He leans with his back against one of the remaining walls. The cliff dwelling is built into the...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Nordenskiold House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands at a distance leaning against one of the remaining walls of Nordenskiold's Ruin No. 12 at Mesa Verde National Park. The cliff dwelling is built into the side of a sheer cliff.
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Nordenskiold House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands between two pack horses in Navajo Canyon. Three men stand with Deric. The man on the far left holds a large pot in his hand, possibly an antiquity excavated from a ruin for the Mesa Verde National Park...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Navajo Canyon (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Pack animals--Colorado--1920-1930.; Pottery--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, rappels down a rope over the thick ledge of a cliff, possibly Knife Edge, in Mesa Verde National Park. Two men, including Jim Corn, hold the rope from the top ledge.
Climbing--Colorado--History--1920-1930.; Knife Edge, The (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--1920-1930.; Corn, Jim.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, wearing shorts and a Boy Scouts of America shirt, climbs up a wood ladder from one of the kivas of Spruce Tree House, one of the largest cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. The remains of several walls with...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Spruce Tree House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Kivas--Colorado--1920-1930.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, and his horse "Peggy" stand on a cliff ledge above the Inaccessible House, a cliff dwelling in Navajo Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric wears chaps, a hat, gloves and a thick sweater. He holds Peggy's reins...
Inaccessible House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Navajo Canyon (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Horses--Colorado--1920-1930.
Two men hoist Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, over the ledge of a steep cliff, possibly Knife Edge, in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric has a rope tied around him under his arms. The massive cliff continues up from where the men are pulling....
Mountain roads--Colorado--History--1920-1930.; Roads, Earth--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Knife Edge Road (Colo.)
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands underneath the huge rock overhang at the site of Step House, a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. He holds his left arm straight up to touch the rock overhang. The site has not been excavated. A man...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Step House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Pit dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Step House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park, lies under a massive rock wall. Shown before excavation, piles of rocks and mounds of dirt cover the location of the pithouses. The remains of a rock wall lie at the base of the rock...
Step House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Pit dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.
Jesse Nusbaum, far right, stands with his excavation team, including his stepson Deric, third from left, at their camp above Step House in Mesa Verde National Park. Standing at Deric's left is the park's future superintendent Marshall Finnan. Four...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Camps--Colorado--1920-1930.; Finnan, Marshall.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands on a rock ledge in front of Nordenskiold's Ruin No. 12, a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park. Portions of the stone wall remain intact behind Deric. The massive cliff continues above and below where he...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Nordenskiold House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Rock formations--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse Nusbaum's stepson, walks through the deep snow along a road in Mesa Verde National Park. He wears a hat and snowshoes and turns his head back toward the camera. Snow-covered trees line the road.
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Snow--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, pulls on the tail of a ring- tailed cat that clings to a broom he holds in the air. In his book "Deric in Mesa Verde," Deric describes taking "dandy photographs" of a ring- tailed cat, possibly this one, that made...
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse Nusbaum's stepson, sits in the background and watches four Native American men who sit in a circle in a wooden shelter, possibly a hogan, in Mesa Verde National Park. One of the men squats and is using a stick to scratch in the...
Indians of North America--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Hogans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
A ring-tail cat clings to the end of a broom that is held in the air. In his book "Deric in Mesa Verde," Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, tells of taking some "dandy photographs" of a ring-tail cat, possibly the one shown here, that made its way...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cats--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, is lowered on a rope over the edge of a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park. A man sits on the ledge above where Deric dangles and helps lower him with the rope. The rope continues up the cliff behind the man. A road,...
Knife Edge Road (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mountain roads--Colorado--History--1920-1930.; Roads, Earth--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, uses a brush to clean the dirt from a pottery water jar found in the ruins of the Bone Awl House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric wears a large sweater, a wool hat and gloves and a respirator over...
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Pottery--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Bone Awl House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, dangles on a rope over the side of a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park. A man sits on the top ledge of the cliff and lowers Deric down with the rope. The rope continues up the ledge behind the man. A road, possibly...
Mountain roads--Colorado--History--1920-1930.; Roads, Earth--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Knife Edge Road (Colo.)
Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, stands among the ruins of Spruce Tree House, one of the largest cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. Wearing shorts and a Boy Scouts of America shirt, he holds a copy of an atlatl in his left hand. An atlatl...
Throwing-sticks--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Spruce Tree House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Rock formations--Colorado--1920-1930.;...
Painting possibility done by Wink's stepson, Jessie Dubois. Winks Lodge in Lincoln Hills (Gilpin County). Built in 1925 by architect Wendall Hamlet, the lodge was a place for African Americans to escape the city for rest and relaxation in the...
Index of the American Woodmen Insurance Ledger from 1901-1907. Index pertains to insurance policies bought by African Americans during that time frame. The index contains the following information: Name of the Insured, "Camp and State" of...
American Woodmen's Life Insurance Company.; Life insurance agents--Colorado--Denver.; Life insurance--Colorado--Denver.; African Americans--Colorado--Denver.