Interior of a grocery store probably in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Items for sale crowd the shelves and counters. The staff, including African Americans, pose in the store.
African Americans Omar Blair, representing the Denver Urban Renewal Authority and the Rev. Cecil W. Howard, of the Shorter Community AME Church, along with Denver Mayor William H. McNichols hold shovels at the ground breaking for the Denver Urban...
Men and women employees of the Denver Mint, who include two African Americans (Blacks), pose on the steps of the entrance to the United States Mint at Cherokee and Colfax Streets in Denver, Colorado. Shows friezes over the arched windows and...
African Americans--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Mints--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; United States Mint (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.
Well dressed men, women, and teenagers identified as: "Judge Pattison, Mr. Pattison, Lucia Pattison, Bayard Taylor, Marie Pratt, Mr. A.W. Risley, Nan McFarland" pose with two African Americans, a cook and a porter, by the rear of a private railroad...
United Farm Workers of America members and supporters hold a rally for the lettuce workers who are on strike against the Finerman Company in Center (Saguache County), Colorado. Men, an African American and a Hispanic American, stand on a stage and...
United Farm Workers of America--People--1970-1980.; Hispanic Americans--1970-1980.; African Americans--1970-1980.; Center (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Demonstrations.; Strikes.; Agricultural laborers.; United Farm Workers of America--Pictorial works.;...
Bruce Randolph, owner of Daddy Bruce's BBQ poses in front of signs on the wall of his business at 1629 East 34th (Thirty-Fourth) Avenue (now Bruce Randolph Avenue) in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. He holds a fork with a rack of...
Daddy Bruce's Bar-B-Q (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; African Americans--1980-1990.; African American business enterprises--1980-1990.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Restaurants.; Randolph, Bruce,...
Members of the Glassys Inn baseball team owned by Gene Goldstone pose for a portrait in Denver, Colorado. Hispanic American, African American and Anglo young men wear uniforms with short sleeved shirts and caps. They are identified : "Top row left...
Members of an unidentified baseball team pose for a portrait in front of an automobile in Denver, Colorado. Shows unidentified teenage boys wearing uniforms with short sleeved shirts and caps. Milt Vasquez, third from right, front row, holds a...
View of Freddy Rodriguez and the Jazz Connection at the El Chapultepec Jazz Club, 1962 Market Street in Union Station neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Saxophonist Freddy Rodriguez, has gray hair and a mustache, a female singer holds a microphone and...
El Chapultepec (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Freddy Rodriguez and the Jazz Connection (Musical group)--1980-1990.; Hispanic Americans--1980-1990.; Interiors.; Jazz musicians.; Jazz singers.; Women.; Rodriguez, Freddy--Pictorial works.; El...
Hispanic American José Benito Córdova and his wife Marina Rivera de Córdova pose with their families at their two story, Territorial style, adobe house in Las Córdovas, near El Moro (Las Animas County), Colorado. The house has a balcony and...
View of 2519 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood (Curtis Park) of Denver, Colorado. Shows a single-story vernacular Queen Anne cottage. The residence has a front -facing L plan and a cross-gabled roof. There are wood shingles in a...
Curtis Park (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Girls.; Historic buildings.; Houses.; Secondhand sales.; African Americans--Children.; African Americans--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial...
Olin T. Ward (left) and Clarence Watkins pose for a studio portrait in Honolulu, Hawaii. The African American men wear uniforms, award ribbons, and garrison caps.
African Americans--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--African Americans.; Soldiers--1940-1950.; Ward, Olin T.; Watkins, Clarence.; United States. Army.--People--1940-1950.
African American Ethel, the owner and cook for Ethel's House of Soul poses outside her restaurant located at 2622 Welton Street in the Five Points neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. The one story brick buff brick building was built in 1949. The...
Ethel's House of Soul (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; African Americans--1990-2000.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Cooks.; Women.; Restaurants.; Ethel's House of Soul (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; African...
View of a community garden on East 22nd Avenue, in Curtis Park in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Two African American women work in a plot in the garden. One woman wears a floral dress and red hat. The other woman is sits next to...
African Americans--1980-1990.; Curtis Park (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Women.; Gardens.; African Americans--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Women--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial...
Interior view of City Park Sundries at 2101 York Street in the City Park West neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Mr. Ferris Cassius, an African American, the proprietor of City Park Sundries, draws a beverage from the soda fountain behind the...
City Park Sundries (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; African Americans--1970-1980.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Ice cream parlors.; Interiors.; Cassius, Ferris--Pictorial works.; City Park Sundries (Denver,...
View of Afro Bill's Barber Shop at 1428 East 22nd (Twenty Second) Avenue in the City Park West neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The one story commercial style building has a white stucco exterior with red, white, and blue barber stripes painted...
Afro Joe's Barber Shop (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; African Americans--1980-1990.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Barbershops.; Afro Joe's Barber Shop (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; African...
Hispanic American José Gaspar Manzanares and two unidentified railroad workers pose on the front of Union Pacific Locomotive 3978 in Rawlins (Carbon County, Wyoming. Jose sits, an African American and another man stand. They wear coveralls and...
Union Pacific Railroad Company--People--1940-1950.; African Americans--1940-1950.; Hispanic Americans--1940-1950.; Mexican Americans--1940-1950.; Railroad employees.; Manzanares, José Gaspar--Pictorial works.; Union Pacific Railroad...
View of the adobe newspaper office for El Heraldo del Valle, a Spanish Language, Republican newspaper in San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. The two story adobe house next to El Heraldo belongs to José Ramos Valdéz, (8th from left), a school...
Heraldo del Valle (San Luis, Colo.)--Buildings--1900-1910.; African Americans--1900-1910.; Hispanic Americans--1900-1910.; Mexican Americans--1900-1910.; San Luis (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Adobe buildings.; Musicians.; Newspapers.; Heraldo del Valle...
Richard Castro, civil rights leader and Colorado legislator, and Michael Simmons perform as the "Blues Brothers" at a fund raiser for Federico Peña, candidate for Mayor of Denver, at the Denver Hilton Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Both men sing in...
Brothers José Filiberto Martinez, far left with violin and Gaspar Martinez, 2nd left with guitar, play with a rural folk band in San Luis Valley, Colorado. Other musicians include a second man with a violin, a man with a washtub, and two men...
African Americans--1910-1920.; Hispanic Americans--1910-1920.; Musicians.; Martinez, Gaspar--Pictorial works.; Martinez, Jose Filiberto--Pictorial works.; African Americans--San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.)--Pictorial works.; Folk musicians--San...
View of African American Otis Taylor sitting next to his shoe string ball at a shoe shine shop probably in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. A sign over the door reads: "1655." The ball was started in 1926 by shoe shine, Jack Hughes....
A long rectangular brick apartment building is jacked up on stacks of timbers and iron beams ready to be moved to make room for the development of Civic Center, Denver, Colorado. A Black child sits on one of the footings by a surveyor's level and...
Men are roped together, possibly in a reenactment of a Black slave auction, under a "Welcome" arch decorated with American flags at the intersection of Main (Third, 3rd) Street and Third Avunue, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado.
African-American (Black) girls and boys eat at small tables in a room at the Denver Orphans' Home (later the Denver Children's Home) at 1501 Albion Street in the South Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. One boy wears a suitcoat and tie. An...
Denver Orphans' Home (Denver, Colo.)--People--1910-1920.; African Americans--Children--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; African Americans--Women--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Children eating &...
View of the Samuel J. Gilmore House (1889; John J. Huddart, architect) at 2401 Emerson Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a two-story, brick, Queen Anne-style single family residence with rusticated stone trim, a...
Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Houses.; Gilmore, Samuel J.--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works.; Gilmore, Samuel J.--Homes & haunts.; African Americans--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.;...
View of the Martin Luther King Memorial (1976; Sculptor-Ed Rose) in City Park, Denver, Colorado. Shows a bronze and sheet metal statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King with his hand on the shoulder of Emmitt Till. Till was murdered in...
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Monuments.; Till, Emmett, 1941-1955--Monuments.; City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Monuments & memorials.; Parks.; Pavilions.; Sculpture.; King, Martin Luther, Jr.,...
View of the Justina Ford House (1890) located at 3091 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood (Curtis Park) of Denver, Colorado. The two-story red brick structure served as Dr. Justina Ford's home and office from 1912 until her death in...
Ford, Justina, 1871-1952--Homes & haunts.; Black American West Museum and Heritage Center (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; African Americans--Structures.; Curtis Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Five Points (Denver,...
View of Gospel Mission Church, 2501 California Street (California and 25th Streets), in the Five Points Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The Gothic Revival-style church was built in 1887 as the First German Methodist Episcopal Church, and from...
Gospel Mission Church (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Churches.; Gospel Mission Church (Denver, Colo.)--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; African American...
View of the Walsen Colored Club, a miners' club building for African-American miners at the mining camp of Walsen, in Huerfano County, Colorado. Shows a wood frame building with clapboard siding and a false front. Clerestory windows sit on top of a...
Men and women in blackface pose in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado; costume includes dresses of print or brocade fabrics, and hats with flowers. Some of the men are dressed as women. A man points at a cake.
Men and women in blackface pose in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado; costume includes dresses of print or brocade fabrics, and hats with flowers. Some of the men are dressed as women. A man points at a cake.
Studio portrait of an African-American (Black) man. He wears a suit, vest, and patterned neck tie. His hair is cut close to his head and he has a thin moustache.
Studio portrait of an African American (Black) man who wears a double-breasted jacket. A patterned scarf is wrapped around his neck and held in place with a pin shaped like a crescent moon.
Studio portrait of an African American (Black) woman. She wears a corset under a fitted basque with buttons and flared sleeves, drop earrings, a ribbon tied around her neck with a bow to the side, a full skirt, and fingerless gloves. She stands...
African Americans--1890-1910.; Studio props--1890-1910.; Women--1890-1910.
Group portrait of members of the Colorado National Guard in front of tents in the Cripple Creek mining district in Teller County, Colorado, during the Western Federation of Miners labor strike. Men sit or stand in uniforms, hats, tall boots, swords...
Colorado. National Guard.--People--Colorado--1900-1910.; African Americans--Colorado--Teller County--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Teller County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Military camps--Colorado--Teller...
Miners pose with a pack train of burros near a lake or pond in the Red Mountain Mining District in Ouray or San Juan County, Colorado. Two of the men are African American. The men wear hats, and two smoke pipes. The burros carry split wooden logs....
African Americans--Colorado--Red Mountain Mining District--1890-1900.; Red Mountain Mining District (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Red Mountain Mining District--1890-1900.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Red Mountain Mining District--1890-1900.;...
Studio portrait of a North American Indian (Ute) family.. A person, probably a man, holds an infant. He wears beaded moccasins, plaid pants and has a woven fabric on his lap. The infant wears a dress and beaded moccasins. A woman stand near the...
African Americans--Colorado--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Colorado--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--Colorado--1890-1900.; Families--Colorado--1890-1900.; Girls--Colorado--1890-1900.; Infants--Colorado--1890-1900.
Studio portrait of the Salvation Army String Band in Silverton, Colorado. Eleven young ladies and one little girl with instruments are in front of a painted backdrop of an open, hexagonally parqueted door and window. They are in matching uniforms...
Standing portrait of Nat Love, in front of a painted studio backdrop. A Black cowboy, also known as Dead Wood Dick for his shooting abilities, later became a Pullman porter. He wears long hair, a wide brim hat, leather chaps, bullet (ammo) belt and...
Standing portrait of Kate Lee, a Black woman, daughter of Jeremiah Lee; she props a book up on a tall table beside her; her dark dress is tightly belted high on her waist; she wears a bow in her hair and drop earings.
A young Black girl stands next to a storage box outside of the neatly constructed company log houses with shingle roofs, near the Kubler Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado. Wash tubs, laundry line and a broom show around the cabins.
Fire Department Hose Company #3 in Denver, Colorado, is a two- story brick building with arched doors and windows. Uniformed firemen (some Black) pose with their horse-drawn wagon. A fire hydrant is in lawn edging 26th (Twenty-sixth) Street....
Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; African Americans--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Fire stations--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.;...
Members of a lynch mob gather around the charred body of victim, John Preston Porter, Jr., a Black man, near Limon, Colorado, in Lincoln County. Never tried for his crime and linked to the death of a young girl only circumstantially, the mob tied...
Limon (Colo.)--1900-1910.; African Americans--Colorado--Limon--1900-1910.; Lynchings--Colorado--Limon--1900-1910.
"Aunt" Clara Brown, at about age 70, poses in a dark dress and crocheted cap. Born a slave, this businesswoman was the first Black inductee into the Society of Colorado Pioneers.
Three Black Colorado State University football players run on grass in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado. They wear uniforms and carry footballs. Dormitories are in the background.
Colorado State University--1960-1970.; Fort Collins (Colo.)--1960-1970.; African Americans--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.; Football players--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.; Students--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.
At Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, the Mexican-American Committee for Equality and the Black Student Alliance meet with university officials. Four Black men stand behind Paul Chambers and other student...
Colorado State University--1960-1970.; Fort Collins (Colo.)--1960-1970.; African Americans--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.; Interiors.; Students--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.
Paul Chambers, a Black man, is at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado. This spokesperson for the Black Student Alliance wears a shirt, sweater, leather jacket, and dark glasses.
Colorado State University--1960-1970.; Fort Collins (Colo.)--1960-1970.; African Americans--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.; Interiors.; Students--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Fort Collins--1960-1970.;...
Horse-drawn wagons approach on "F" Street during a Fourth of July Parade in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. They are draped with bunting; one is driven by a Black man. Spectators include a woman holding a baby; bunting and United States flags...
Salida (Colo.)--1900-1910.; African Americans--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Festive decorations--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.;...