Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- View of Mammiato Alto, Italy
- View of Mammiano Alto, Italy jutting over the valley on the road to La Lima. It was a billet for the Tenth Mountain Division during the winter of 1945.
- Military camps--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- Winter 1945
- View of San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy
- View of San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy, where Tenth Mountain Division soldiers were quartered during the Italian Campaign. It was near their headquarters at Campo Tizzoro.
- Military camps--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- Winter 1945
- Capitol Hill Victorian House Tour
- Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods, Inc. Historic Houses Narratives
- Baby and Navajo woman nearer in center of summer hogan
- View of a Native American (Navajo) woman and child, they sit inside a brush covered summer hogan. The woman holds a large piece of cloth while the child looks on. Sheepskins, a blanket, and fur pelts are on the floor and hang from a wooden pole...
- Indians of North America--Children--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--1900-1910.; Interiors--1900-1910.; Lodges--1900-1910.
- summer, [1908?]
- Baby and Navajo woman interior of summer hogan
- Native American (Navajo) woman and child sit inside a brush-covered summer hogan. The woman holds a large piece of cloth; the child looks at a sheepskin. Sheepskins, a blanket, and other fur pelts lie on the floor. Others hang from a wooden pole...
- Indians of North America--Children--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--1900-1910.; Interiors--1900-1910.; Lodges--1900-1910.
- summer, [1908?]
- Navaho woman standing outside of summer hogan Good view of country
- View of a Native American (Navajo) woman standing outside of a brush shelter, possibly the Navajo Indian Reservation. A pile of rocks stands next to one exterior wall of the shelter. A wooden rail corral stands away from the shelter. Rocky desert...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Lodges--1900-1910.
- summer, [1908?]
- Jeep on Mount Mangart Road, view of mountains north of Caporetto and Plezzo
- Pictured is a jeep on the Mount Mangart road stopped to view the rugged mountains north of Caporetto and Plezzo, Slovenia. The men of the Tenth Mountain Division had a chance to go sight-seeing during the summer after the end of the war.
- Bovec (Slovenia)--1940-1950.; Kobarid, Slovenia--1940-1950.; Military life--Yugoslavia--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- Summer 1945
- And so goodbye to the mountains of Italy....
- An unidentified Tenth Mountain Division soldier with a climbing rope across his bare chest and his back to the camera looks up at the rugged rock face of an unidentified mountain.
- Mountain warfare--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- Summer 1945
- 87th Regiment, Company L
- Group portrait of the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Company L. Taken at Camp Hale, Spring 1944. Left to right top row: 1) Slusark, Stanley, 2) unidentified, 3) Katzman, Heinz, 4) unidentified, 5) unidentified, 6)...
- Military personnel--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company L.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- Spring 1944
- Woman weaving near Butler's Trading Post
- Interior view of a Native American (Navajo) woman and girl who sit on fringed blankets at a loom, and weave near Butler's Trading Post, possibly near Shiprock, New Mexico. The woman and girl are shaded by a dark cloth tied to wooden building...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Looms--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Weaving--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- September, 1908
- Agnes Memorial
- View of cottages at the Agnes Memorial Sanitarium in Denver, Colorado; shows frame and canvas cabanas, and men in folding chairs. Lettering reads: "The Tucker Tent Co."
- Agnes Memorial Sanatorium (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- September 29, 1905
- At Butlers store
- Native American (Navajo) boy poses outdoors near Butler's Trading Post in New Mexico. The boy stands near a wooden building. He wears pants and a shirt and has a large, round stomach.
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Boys--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- September 21, 1908
- Butlers Trading Post
- View of Butler's Trading Post, New Mexico. Two horses and a hitched wagon with cover supports stand near a wood and adobe building. A boy stands near the building; a wagon stands near a utility building.
- Butlers Trading Post (Navajo Indian Reservation)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Commerce--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Commerce--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Trading posts--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- September 21, 1908
- At Four Corners
- Four men pose, one in each state, near the Four Corners boundary stake. The stake stands amidst a rocky desert landscape and consists of a pile of rocks which supports a dark rectangular rock. One man rests a rifle across his lap. One man leans on...
- Four Corners Region--1900-1910.; Historical markers--Four Corners Region--1900-1910.; Monuments & memorials--Four Corners Region--1900-1910.
- September 21, 1908
- The stake at Four Corners Where Colorado- New Mexico- Arizona and Utah come together.
- View, facing southwest from Colorado, of the Four Corners boundary stake. The stake stands amidst a rocky desert landscape and consists of a pile of rocks which supports a dark rectangular rock. Cow Butte, in Arizona, stands in the distance.
- Four Corners Region--1900-1910.; Historical markers--Four Corners Region--1900-1910.; Monuments & memorials--Four Corners Region--1900-1910.
- September 21, 1908
- Peach orchards, Antlers, Co.
- A man, wearing an apron, picks peaches from an orchard in Antlers, Garfield County, Colorado.
- Antlers (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Harvesting--Colorado--Antlers--1900-1910.; Peach orchards--Colorado--Antlers--1900-1910.
- September 15, 1909
- Peach orchard, Antlers, Colo.
- A man, woman, and girl stand in a peach orchard in Antlers, Garfield County, Colorado.
- Antlers (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Girls--Colorado--Antlers--1900-1910.; Peach orchards--Colorado--Antlers--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Antlers--1900-1910.
- September 15, 1909
- The Grand River [i.e. Colorado] over beyond Glenwood Springs near Antlers
- The Colorado (Grand) River between Glenwood Springs and Antlers, Garfield County, Colorado.
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1900-1910.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Rivers--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.
- September 15, 1909
- J. W. Busard, peach orchard, Antlers, Colo.
- Two men; one in a suit (probably J. W. Busard), stand in a peach orchard in Antlers, Garfield County, Colorado.
- Antlers (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Peach orchards--Colorado--Antlers--1900-1910.; Busard, J. W.
- September 15, 1909
- Utes Making of a tepee
- Native American (Ute) women erect a set of tepee poles near a sandstone rock formation at Garden of the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado. Two women hold onto the poles while a third stands near the rolled tepee cover. A group of men sit and stand...
- 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.;...
- September 1, 1913
- Utes Making of a tepee
- Native American (Ute) woman stands near the entrance to a tepee in Garden of the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado. The entrance of the tepee is closed with a large flap. A sandstone rock formation stands in the distance.
- 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.; Tipis--Colorado--El Paso County--1910-1920.
- September 1, 1913
- Utes Making of a tepee
- Native American (Ute) girl walks away from a tepee in Garden of the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado. The tepee entrance is covered with a blanket. The girl wears a dress and carries a doll. A sandstone rock formation stands in the distance.
- 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.; Girls--Colorado--El Paso County--1910-1920.; Tipis--Colorado--El...
- September 1, 1913
- Utes Making of a tepee
- Native American (Ute) women tie canvas to a wooden pole underneath four erect tepee poles at Garden of the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado. Three tepees stand nearby. Groups of men and women sit and stand near one tepee as well as on a sandstone...
- 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.;...
- September 1, 1913
- Utes Building the Tepee
- Native American (Ute) women stand near the entrance to a tepee in Garden of the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado. One women holds the entrance flap open while another looks on. Another tepee and a group of bushes stands 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.; Tipis--Colorado--El Paso County--1910-1920.
- September 1, 1913
- Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer near an igloo, at Camp Hale, Colorado
- Arctic explorer, Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson stands beside an igloo in a snowfield at Camp Hale, Colorado. He taught lessons in snow-craft to the Tenth Mountain Division.
- Igloos--Colorado--Camp Hale--1940-1950.; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company F.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- Septembeer, 1943
- Placerville, Colorado
- View of Placerville, settlement's 1881 location, before the flood of 1909, San Miguel County, Colorado; shows sheds, dwellings, businesses, people posing on dirt street, laundry lines, a sign "Capitol Hotel," and a man lying on a loaded wagon by...
- Placerville (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- October 1887
- Playing in the Yugoslav clover
- After the end of the war the Tenth Mountain Division was posted in Yugoslavia to defend U.S. interests over the partition of the Italian- Autrian-Yugoslavian border. This duty left the men with ample time to relax. Pictured is a man wearing only...
- Yugoslavia--1940-1950.; Military life--Yugoslavia--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Yugoslavia.
- May-June 1945
- Men from two divisions meet at Resia Pass, Austrian-Italian border
- Patrols from two divisions meet at the Austrian-Italian border taken from the Austrian side. A sign with "HALT! Grenzkontrolle" is placed on the right side of a wide dirt road. A small wooden barrier marks the border. Seven GIs from the Seventh...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company F.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- May 7, 1945
- Memorial Day, 1945
- The 87th Regiment's 1st Battalion stands silent in the spring rain in a square in Plezzo, Italy, to honor its dead on Memorial Day.
- Plezzo (Italy)--1940-1950.; Holidays--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- May 30, 1945
- Troops learn of Final Victory, Torbole, Italy
- Standing in a plaza in Torbole, Italy, Tenth Mountain Division troops learn of the final victory from General George P. Hays. The top officers use a DUWK (an amphibious army boat-truck) as a stage. Crossing behind them is an Italian man with a...
- Military officers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Hays, George P.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- May 3, 1945
- Gen. Hays VI day, Lake Garda
- General George P. Hays, commander of the Tenth Mountain Division in Italy speaks into a microphone at the shores of Lake Garda to annonouce the Victory in Italy over the German Army. Eight other staff members stand near. In background the mountains...
- Military officers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Hays, George P.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- May 2, 1945
- Gen. Hays questions captured German general
- General George P. Hays (left) questions Lt. General Hildebrandt of the Marco Polo Division of the German Army at Tenth Mountain Division headquarters on Lake Garda, Italy, May 1945. They sit in Gen. Hays' office; four soldiers look on, including...
- Military officers--1940-1950.; Hays, George J.; Hays, George P.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- May 1945
- View of Robic, Slovenia
- Robic, Slovenia, on the road to Caporetto became headquarters for the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company, while the negotations over the Italian-Austrian-Yugoslavian border took place. The 10th was stationed...
- Garda, Lake (Italy)--1940-1950.; Military camps--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- May 1945
- No-man's-land between Sassomolare and Montese, Italy
- Shows the area that was no-man's-land for the Tenth Mountain Division during March and early April, 1945. On the left, the rocky spine of Sassomolare which was captured on March 4; Montese, in the distance on the right, was held by the Germans...
- Montese (Italy)--1940-1950.; Sassomolare (Italy)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March-April 1945
- "Punchboard Hill" and La Serra, Italy
- View of an assembly area above Malandrone, which was named "Punchboard Hill" by Tenth Mountain Division troops because it suffered heavily from artillery barages. The village of La Serra was also shelled.
- United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March, 1945
- GIs dug in near Sassomolare, Italy
- Men from the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Company K, dig in on a ridge north of Sassomolare. According to the caption, they are protecting the left flank of the main column moving up the Porretta-Moderna Highway, a few...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company F.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 4, 1945
- Engineers rest behind a tank destroyer during an assult, Castel D'Aiano, Italy
- Ten Tenth Mountain Division 126th Mountain Enginers rest behind a tank destroyer on a mountain road while taking cover from German sniper fire. Those closest to the tank destroyer stand and sit upright while those farther from cover lie flat on the...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Tanks (Military science)--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 3, 1945
- Radioman during mortar barrage, Della Vetta, Italy
- Two soldiers from the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Regiment, Company K during a mortar barrage on Mount Della Vetta during the Italian Campaign. The soldier standing at the edge of the slope is a radioman who (according to the caption) was...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 3, 1945
- Tank destroyer advances along a mountain road, Italy
- Three soldiers of the 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion advance a tank destroyer mounted with three inch guns along a mountain road located, according to the caption, in the Mount Terminale area. The 701st was attached to the Tenth Mountain Division...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Tanks (Military science)--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 3, 1945
- John W. Haines, III at Pietra Colora, Italy
- John W. Haines, III, of Company I, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Tenth Mountain Division, faces the camera and smiles with a cigarette in his mouth and a rifle on his back. Behind him are the ruins and rubble of Pietra Colora. Haines was later...
- Pietra Colora (Italy)--1940-1950.; Military personnel--1940-1950.; Haines, John W.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company I.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United...
- March 1945
- Shrapnel Alley, Italy
- Shows a trench-like gully littered with debris including a metal gas can and fallen branches; taken near the staging area of the 3rd Battalion of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Tenth Mountain Division, at Malandrone, Italy. The so called...
- Military personnel--1940-1950.; Trench warfare--Italy--Malandrone.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
- March 1945
- Showers behind the front
- During a lull in the fighting, the Tenth Mountain Division's 85th Regiment, second battalion, established this shower bath in a shell-torn building as part of a larger rest center close to the front lines. Shows naked men showering, their clothes...
- Ski troops--1940-1950.; Military camps--1940-1950.; Nudes--1940-1950.; Soldiers--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- "Punchboard Hill" and the road to Abetaia, Italy
- Small sector of "Punchboard Hill" site of a heavy German artillery barage. From here troops of the Tenth Mountain Division launched an attack on German positions in the towns of Monte Della Piella, Della Vedetta, and Pietra Colora. The road in the...
- United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- "Residential District" Castel D'Aiano, Italy
- View of the artillery damage to houses in Castel D'Aiano, Italy, the Tenth Mountain Division captured the town on March 5, 1945.
- War damage--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--Italy.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- Bible amid the ruins of the church, Castel D'Aiano, Italy
- Shows a Bible amid the ruins of the church at Castel D'Aiano, Italy. In the background other shattered buildings are visible. The Tenth Mountain Division captured the town on March 5, 1945.
- Churches--Italy--1940-1950.; War damage--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--Italy.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- "In reserve" in Pietra Colora, Italy
- During the lull between March and April attacks, various battalions took turns being "in reserve" in Pietra Colora. Four Tenth Mountain Division soldiers are pictured sitting amid the rubble: Dick Car- Skaden, Ed McDonald, Dan Powers, Carl Bathelt....
- Pietra Colora (Italy)--1940-1950.; Military life--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Italy--1940-1950.; Bathelt, Carl.; McDonald, Ed.; Powers, Dan.; Car-Skaden, Dick.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- Trees on "Punchboard Hill"
- In the foreground is a tree located on "Puchboard Hill", which was battered by German artillery from March 1 to March 3, 1945, as were the Tenth Mountain Division troops of the 87th Regiment, 3rd Battalion who occupied positions there. In the...
- United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- View of Castel D'Aiano
- View of Castel D'Aiano, Italy, was located at the juncture of two roads and had strategic importance during the Italian Campaign. It was captured by the Tenth Mountain Division on March 5, 1945. This view shows the artillery damage inflicted upon...
- War damage--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--Italy.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- Picking strawberries on Westlake Ranch
- View of men and women picking strawberries on the Westlake Ranch (possibly in Adams County, Colorado); pickers wear hats and carry baskets.
- Harvesting--Colorado--1910-1920.; Ranches--Colorado--1910-1920.; Strawberries--Colorado--1910-1920.
- June 28, 1910