The Harding ardware store, in Canon City, Colorado, has rakes, hoes, wheelbarrows, milk cans, washtubs, and a handtruck on the boardwalk in front. Birdcages and lamps are displayed in the window, and men pose around the entry. Barefoot children are...
Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hardware stores--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
Water gushes out of the fountain in the middle of the Natatorium in the hot springs spa in the town of Glenwood Springs (formerly known as Defiance), Colorado, in Garfield County. The Stone Bath House and the Wooden Bath House are next to the...
Men, probably a construction crew, sit and stand among canvas tents between the narrow gauge tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Glenwood Extension and the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon, Garfield County, Colorado. Shows a railroad trestle, cook...
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1880-1890.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Glenwood Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Laborers--Colorado--Garfield County--1880-1890.; Railroad...
Construction workers stand in a deep trench and shovel dirt over a large concrete pipe at a work site in Clear Creek valley in Jefferson County, Colorado. The pipe is forty-two inch diameter reinforced concrete pipe coated with coal tar enamel. The...
Excavating machinery--Colorado--Jefferson County--1930-1940.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Pipes (Conduits)--Colorado--Jefferson County--1930-1940.; Construction workers--Colorado--Jefferson County--1930-1940.;...
Rock walls at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, enclose this facility. The backside is an earth embankment with an arch cut into it. Men sit on random drystacked wall, with a ladder below; others work in the enclosure behind them....
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Kilns--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Men work at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Plank walls and roof surround an opening fronted by a channel in the foreground. With bags, shovels, and wheelbarrows, inmates are watched by men sitting on barrels in a mule drawn wagon....
Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Prison laborers--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Black inmates at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, wear pinstriped golf hats and numbered shirts. They pose with a two-wheeled wagon carrying a 55 gallon drum on its side. A spigot and pipe with holes emits streams of water....
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; African Americans--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
View of a row of shanties at 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue and Clay Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Men stand near buildings made of brick, corrugated metal and tar paper. Shingle roofs are patched with metal or weighted...
Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Jefferson Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1930-1940.; Huts--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
A sign reads "M. A. Masters General Contractor Paving District No. 1 Montrose, Colorado" near the site of paving operations along Main Street in Montrose, Colorado. A work crew is leveling cement which is being poured from a mixer, while others...
Construction workers are beside Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company tracks (later Denver and Rio Grande tracks) in Royal Gorge (Fremont County), Colorado. Shows timber, wheelbarrows and men with tools on the approach to Royal Gorge.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company--1870-1880.; Fremont County (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Royal Gorge (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Canyons--Colorado--Fremont County--1870-1880.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Fremont...
Men stand outside frame processing buildings at Professor Nathaniel P. Hill's Black Hawk Smelter in Black Hawk (Blackhawk, Gilpin County), Colorado. Vented buildings have smokestacks. Men use shovels and wheelbarrows to move ore piles.
Hill, N. P. (Nathaniel Peter), 1832-1900--Homes & haunts.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Ore industry--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.; Smelters--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.
Men work among piled rock and wood frames at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Wheelbarrows, a big wood toolbox, a tent and a rock embankment dot the area. The prison wall, East gate, guard tower and bare trees are in the background.
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Construction--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Rocky hills in the background provide stone for the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. A stone shed in the foreground has frame doors, windows, and a stovepipe. A half-buried bunker is under construction, and men work on a road base with...
Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Construction--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Black men in dresses and straw hats at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, push wheelbarrows; each contains a large rock. A black man in a golf hat lifts the hat of one of the prisoners. Rock canyon and dirt road are in the background.
Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; African Americans--Punishment & torture--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Gays--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Plank bridges cross trenches at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Lumber, sections of pipe, concrete forms and wheelbarrows dot the area; some men work, others look on. A stone, three-story cell block with barred windows, walls, chain...
Canon City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Construction--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Convicts of the State Penitentiary in Canon City Colorado, wear striped prison uniforms and pose with shovels. They stand behind a rock wall among wheelbarrows and boards. Men in suits oversee; a shed, trees, and hills are in the background.
Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Prison laborers--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Partial view of American Smelting and Refining Company, Pueblo, Colorado, a smelter and refinery; shows warehouse style buildings, smokestacks, water tank, ore cart tracks, pile of coal, stacked rails, wheelbarrows, and scrap materials.
Pueblo (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Pueblo--1890-1910.; American Smelting and Refining Company.
View of American Smelting and Refining Company, Pueblo, Colorado, a smelter and refinery; shows an industrial plant complex with warehouse style buildings, smokestacks, water tank, slag ladles on tracks in workyard, ore cart tracks leading to...
Pueblo (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Pueblo--1890-1910.; American Smelting and Refining Company.
View over the Adolph Coors Sr. residence, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, shows the house with a wraparound porch, palladian and bay windows and landscaped yard with fountain. Wheelbarrows, cement machinery, and an early automobile are in the...
Coors, Adolph--Homes & haunts.; Golden (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Golden--1930-1940.
The post office in Englewood, Colorado, is a one-story flat- roofed brick building with a stone pediment containing an eagle with a wreath over the door. Square columns and double-hung windows flank the entrance, and carved into the frieze is:...
Englewood (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Post offices--Colorado--Englewood--1930-1940.
This early view of booming Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado shows Pap Wyman's and another log cabin in the middle of the street with new commercial buildings built around them. Wood frame false fronts and bank construction rubble, including...
Mexican Americans Tommy and Juanita Solano (now Ramos) play with a toy wheelbarrow in their backyard at 1109 8th (Eighth) Street in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Juanita sits in the wheelbarrow and her brother stands behind her. Shows...
Prospectors with wheelbarrels dump rocks off a ramp onto tailings in a Cripple Creek mining camp, Teller County, Colorado. Part of a tent in foreground, hills in background.
Tailings embankments--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Wheelbarrows--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.