Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Ski training: standing at attention, a platoon of "G" Company, 87th Regiment.
- Still from the Warner Brothers film: "The Fighting Mountaineers." A Platoon of approximately fifty soldiers from the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Regiment, Company G stand at attention with their skis balanced on their ski poles. All the men are...
- Ski troops--Colorado--Camp Hale--1940-1950.; Skiing--Colorado--Camp Hale--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--Camp Hale--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; Fighting Mountaineers (Motion picture)
- [1943-1944]
- A "Stork" Party at Gates
- Members of the Gates and Rhoads family gather for a "stork" party at the Gates'. Front row of table: John Gates, second from left; Mrs. Addie Rhoads, fifth from right (holding a Gates or Rhoads child); and possibly Mrs. Sadie Rhoads, second from...
- Showers (Parties)--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Gates, Charles Cassius, 1877-1961.; Gates, Hazel LaDora Rhoads.; Rhoads, Addie Mellon.; Rhoads, Sade.
- [between 1920 and 1940?]
- Group photo at a Gates Rubber Company employee party
- A large group of Gates Rubber Company employees at a formal dinner. Addie Mellon and Harry F. Rhoads (Harry M. Rhoads' parents) are seated in the center, Charles C. and Hazel Rhoads Gates stand directly behind the Rhoads. The room is decorated with...
- Gates Rubber Company--People--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1940.; Dinner parties--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.; Gates, Charles Cassius, 1877-1961.; Gates, Hazel LaDora Rhoads.; Rhoads, Addie Mellon.; Rhoads, Harry Fisher.
- [between 1910 and 1940?]
- Special event for Gates Rubber Company employees
- A large group of Gates Rubber Company employees pose for a photo at a formal dinner. Harry M. Rhoads sits in the center of the first row. Directly behind him his mother Addie and his father Harry F. Rhoads are seated on chairs in the second row....
- Gates Rubber Company--People--1910-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1940.; Dinner parties--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.; Gates, Charles Cassius, 1877-1961.; Gates, Hazel LaDora Rhoads.; Rhoads, Addie Mellon.; Rhoads, Harry Fisher.; Rhoads, Harry Mellon,...
- [between 1910 and 1940?]
- Breckenridge
- View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northeast shows frame or log dwellings and commercial buildings, including the Catholic Church, and the Gardner residence. Landmarks include Barney Ford Hill (formerly called "Nigger Hill"), Illinois Gulch,...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1881
- Star Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, Georgetown, Colo.
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, showing the Star Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, outside the fire house on Sixth (6th, Alpine) Street. The firemen appear to be preparing to take part in a parade; a cart is decorated with American flags. A uniformed man...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.; Fire stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.
- [between 1874 and 1881?]
- Panoramic view of the mountains at Frisco
- A panorama of Frisco, Colorado, includes the mountains that surround the town. Caption under the image reads: "Panoramic view of the mountains at Frisco. From left to right is Peak One, Victoria, Royal, Wichita, Chief, Little Buffalo and Buffalo...
- Frisco (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- 1909
- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 11, 1913 March 8
- Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 9, 1918 November
- Municipal Facts: Volume 7 Numbers 9 and 10, 1924 September-October
- Trinidad, Colo.
- Panoramic view of frame and brick houses and commercial buildings in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Trees are near the Purgatoire River. Shows the one-story adobe square enclosure of the Felipe Baca residence. The flat summit of Fishers...
- Fishers Peak (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Trinidad--1880-1890.
- 1881?
- Yellowstone, Old Faithful Inn
- View of the Old Faithful Inn designed by Robert C. Reamer at Yellowstone National Park. The log and wood frame structure is seven stories high. The porte-cochere is recessed under the large gable roof of the central section of the building along...
- Old Faithful Inn (Wyo.)--1900-1910.; Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910.; Hotels.; National parks & reserves.
- [1905]
- Leggings
- A pair of buckskin leggings that belonged to Chipeta. They are decorated with geometric designs in multicolored beadwork.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1875-1915.; Leggings--1875-1915.; Ute Indians--Arts & crafts--1875-1915.; Chipeta--Associated objects.
- [between 1875 and 1915]
- Cradleboard
- Show a Native American (Ute) toy cradleboard with a doll. The cradleboard is buckskin wrapped around a board and is decorated with fringe, multi-color beadwork sewn on with lazy stitch. The doll's head is possibly made of wood painted a medium...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Cradleboards--1880-1900.; Dolls--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- The Loop
- View of the Georgetown Loop and High Bridge of the Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Shows locomotive and cars on the High Bridge, locomotive and cars directly underneath the bridge beside Clear Creek,...
- Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company--1880-1900.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad bridges--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Clear Creek...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Silverton and Sultan Mountain
- View of Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado, looking directly along the path of Greene St. Shows scrub and small trees opening into the plain of the townsite, wagon wheel ruts, Cement Creek, the Greene and Company Smelter, and a few saltbox...
- Grand Turk (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Silverton (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Sultan Mountain (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silverton--1870-1890.
- [between 1876 and 1881]
- Leadville, Officers of Rocky Mountain Rifles, 1887
- A group of the Rocky Mountain Rifles, Leadville Division of the Colorado National Guard, pose in a camp in Colorado. Two seated officers include Colonel R.S. Morrison and Jake Kahn. Most of the men wear uniforms and various types of hats. Some have...
- Colorado. National Guard. Leadville Division--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- 1887
- New depot construction, South Arkansas, Colo.
- Men pose with tools and lumber during construction of the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad depot, Poncha Springs, Chaffee County, Colorado; comercial buildings are in the background.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Poncha Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Poncha Springs--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Poncha Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1883?]
- Ouray
- View east over Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, towards the craggy Amphitheater with eroded vegetated slopes directly above the town. The Beamont Hotel and Elks Club show on Main (Third, 3rd) Street; other landmarks include the City Hall, County...
- Ouray (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Amphitheaters--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.
- 1906?
- Ouray and the Amphitheater
- View east along 4th (Fourth) and 5th (Fifth) Avenues in Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, towards the craggy Amphitheater with vegetated eroded slopes directly above town. The Beamont Hotel and Elks Club show on Main Street.
- Amphitheater, The (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Ouray (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- Cripple Creek Colo. looking east
- Bird's eye view of Cripple Creek, Colorado east from Mount Pisgah area; view is directly across Bennett Avenue with flagpole in center of street and Midland Terminal Railway station at end of Avenue; commercial and residential wooden and brick...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 or 1896]
- West side of Main Street Springfield, Colorado newspaper office, two story Jones Hotel, Abstract Office and old Court House facing corner
- View west on Main Street, Springfield, Baca County (now Las Animas County), Colorado, shows men on the deserted street with commercial storefronts; "The Springfield Herald," newspaper office, two story Jones Hotel, Abstract Office and old Court...
- Springfield (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Springfield--1910-1920.
- 1913
- Scene at South Arkansas from train with crest the river showing Lookout Mountain above the depot
- View from the Denver and Rio Grande train of South Arkansas (later Salida ), Chaffee County, Colorado; shows the Arkansas River, tents, hotel, depot and sign: "Hay & Grain."
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Arkansas River--1880-1890.; Salida (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Rivers--Colorado--Salida--1880-1890.
- 1882
- Saloons were social centers of the early mining camps
- Patrons gather around the bar inside of a saloon in the mining town of Turret, Chaffee County, Colorado. "Whiskered man (left end of bar) old man H. M. Zook. C. W. Franzce is man holding beer glass which appears directly over cap of card player...
- Turret (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bars--Colorado--Turret--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Franzce, C. W.; Zook, H. M.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Dick Cochran in "whites" and on skis
- Tenth Mountain Division Corporal, Richard Cochran bends over his skis as though adjusting his bindings. He is wearing winter camouflage of "whites" as well as a knapsack and his rifle. Almost obscured behind him is another soldier in the same...
- Military officers--American--1940-1950.; Cochran, Richard.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- [1941 or 1944]
- Spring Creek party at Great Divide barbecue
- Women, men and children, most in hats, gather around a picnic blanket at Great Divide (Moffat County), Colorado. Shows young children and a baby in a baby carriage, wagons and sagebrush. John A. Breach kneels, he holds his cup upside down. He wears...
- Great Divide (Colo.)--1910-1920.; People--Colorado--Great Divide--1910-1920.; Picnics--Colorado--Great Divide--1910-1920.; Breach, Glen T.; Breach, John A.; Breach, Susannah.
- 1917
- Ute horsemen trailing
- View of Native American (Ute) scout party on horseback; they look on as one man on foot, with rifle drawn, looks directly at the ground in front of him; men wear leggings, ammunition belts, shirts, and feathers in their hair; horses have saddles,...
- Indian scouts--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--1890-1900.; Guides & scouts--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Trailing
- Posed Native American (Ute) scout party, a man on horseback with second horse; a second man stands and cradles a rifle while he looks at the ground directly in front of him; both wear leggings, shirts, belts, armbands, braided hair covered with...
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--1890-1900.; Guides & scouts--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Mesa Verde - group overlooking cliff dwellings
- Four men are on a Chapin Mesa overlooking Cliff Palace, the largest of the cliff dwellings, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Two people stand on mesa directly above the dwelling.
- Indians of North America--Structures--Colorado--1920-1930.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff Palace (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff...
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- Looking up the river from Lower Bridge South Arkansas
- View of the Purgatoire River, in early Trinidad, Colorado. A man standing in the foreground looks towards the wooden suspension bridge that crosses the river. The town scene in the background includes clapboard buildings, tents and covered wagons.
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Suspension bridges--Colorado--Trinidad.
- [between 1880 and 1885?]
- Main Street South Arkansas, Colo
- View of Main Street, Trinidad, Colorado with false fronted buildings flanking the dirt street. A sign at the top of a clapboard front reads: "Restaurant." A projecting sign reads: "Harness Shop," where men stand in front of the door. Other signs...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1880-1890.; False fronts--Colorado--Trinidad--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Trinidad--1880-1890.
- [between 1884 and 1889?]
- Pergola Civic Center
- Interior view of the Voorhies Memorial pergola, west toward the capitol, in Denver Colorado's Civic Center (Fisher and Fisher, architects); Denver artist, Allen True painted silhouette buffaloes directly on concrete, high on lunette of arch; people...
- Civic Center (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Pergolas--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; True, Allen.
- [between 1922 and 1925]
- Pergola Civic Center
- Interior view of the Voorhies Memorial pergola, looking east, in Denver Colorado's Civic Center (designed by Fisher and Fisher); Denver artist, Allen True painted silhouette elk directly on concrete, high on lunette of arch; shows people seated on...
- Civic Center (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Pergolas--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; True, Allen.
- [between 1922 and 1925]
- Patriotic Navajo Child Pioneer Day, Fruitland
- Native American (Navajo) woman and children pose outside near a wagon wheel, Fruitland, New Mexico.. A boy sits and holds an American flag on his lap. A woman sits and holds a baby in her lap, directly behind the boy. A wagon with cover supports...
- Indians of North America--Children--New Mexico--Fruitland--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--New Mexico--Fruitland--1900-1910.; Fruitland (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Boys--New Mexico--Fruitland--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1908]
- Maxwell Residence, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of the Maxwell House, Georgetown, Colorado, at 409 Fourth (4th) Street. Construction began in 1870; house was acquired by B.F. Potter in 1891, who added the tower and decorative elements to the facade. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maxwell...
- Maxwell, Frank--Homes & haunts.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1950-1960.
- 1951
- Star Hook and Ladder Fire House, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of the Star Hook and Ladder Fire House at the east end of Sixth (6th or Alpine) Street, Georgetown, Colorado, built in 1886. The company was founded in 1874, the first in the Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department. The building has a...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Fire stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1950-1960.
- 1951
- Washington Hall's Bell, Central City
- The Washington Hall Bell on Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado. The view looks directly up into the bell tower, and shows a silhouette of the wood frame that encases the bell, as well as the brass bell. The leaves of a tree are visible in the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Bell towers--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Bells--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Soda Springs
- View in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north at the Navajo Soda Spring and Cliff House Hotel. Men and women are gathered around the Navajo Spring stone ring. The Fountain Creek bridge is to the right, and directly behind the group is the...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [between 1878 and 1880?]
- Chief Red Cloud (at age 72)
- Seated portrait of Chief Red Cloud, (Makhpia-sha, or Maqpeya-luta) Native American Sioux (Lakota or Teton group, Oglala band) shows the war leader and peace negotiator seated wearing a buckskin with fringe, hair pipe breastplate, a feather in his...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Oglala Indians--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--1890-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1890-1900.; Red Cloud, 1822-1909.
- [1894?]
- Students at High School
- Schoolchildren pose in two rows in front of the Basalt schoolhouse in Basalt, Colorado. Ten boys and girls sit on a bench; older boys and girls stand in a back row. A man in a dark suit and a bow tie stands in the background. The girls wear...
- Basalt (Colo.)--1900-1910.; School children--Colorado--Basalt--1900-1910.
- [1904]
- The Hotel Midland 17th & Arapahoe
- View of the Midland Hotel at 17th (Seventeenth) and Arapahoe Streets in Denver, Colorado; signs read: "Midland," "United Army & Sportswear," and "Cut Rate Liquors." Pedestrians walk by parked automobiles.
- Midland Hotel (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- 1939 December 19
- Hagerman Pass, C.M.RY.
- Hagerman Pass, Lake County, Colorado. Shows Colorado Midland Railway Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel under construction (1891); Midland trains climb mountainside, back and forth to Hagerman Tunnel far above, Douglas City is behind snow shed directly above...
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1890-1900.; Railroad tunnels--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Hagerman Pass (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Lake County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Lake County--1890-1900.; Railroad construction &...
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Georgetown
- Southeast view of Georgetown, Colorado toward, the road to Green Lake, to the left of Leavenworth Mountain. Visible landmarks include the Clear Creek County Courthouse, a white wood construction building with a false front with "Clear Creek Court...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1930-1980.
- [between 1930 and 1976?]
- Hardware store
- View of a storefront in Georgetown, Colorado, probably on Sixth (6th, Alpine) Street. The tall wood false front building has a smaller wood building next to it on the left, and its side is slightly visible on the right. "Hardware" is written the...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Hardware stores--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.; Window displays--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.; Curtis, A. F.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Fourteenth & Curtis site of Telegraph Building
- View of the intersection of 14th (Fourteenth) and Curtis Streets in Denver, Colorado; also shows storefronts, cars, trucks, the Vasso L. Chenovitch residence (with mansard roof), and signs: "Shoe Repairing," "City Elite Laundry," "Auditorium...
- Chenovitch, Vasso L.--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1919?]
- Maj. Holbrook in charge of Federal troops
- Major Willard A. Holbrook, commander of the 11th U.S. Cavalry, poses near a railroad car in either Trinidad or Ludlow, Las Animas County, Colorado. The 11th Cavalry was called in at the request of Colorado Governor Ammons, to restore order in the...
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Strikes--1910-1920.; United Mine Workers of America--Strikes--1910-1920.; Coal Strike, Colo., 1913-1914.; Ludlow (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Cavalry--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Miners'...
- April 29, 1914
- Control of the amount of rock fed into the mill circuit at Urad Mine was controlled by four slusher drifts such as the one shown here
- A man runs a slusher through mine drift in a tunnel of the Urad mine, Clear Creek County, Colorado. The huge scoop would drag the debris to a shaft in the floor, where it would fall onto a waiting conveyor belt and be transported out of the mine.
- Mining machinery--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1960-1980.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Urad Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1960-1980.; Interiors--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1960-1980.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek...
- [between 1963 and 1974]
- Inoculation, Camp Swift
- Tenth Mountain Division soldier winces as he is innoculated. Five men look on with smiles on their faces; the man at the far right is laughing; the man in the center points directly at the syringe. The patient wears a white tee-shirt while the rest...
- Medicine, Military--1940-1950.; Camp Swift (Tex.)--1940-1950.; Medical aspects of war--1940-1950.; Military personnel--1940-1950.; Soldiers--United States.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Regimental...
- [1944]
- Telluride, Colo.
- Bird's eye view of Telluride, Colorado; brick public school building, San Miguel County courthouse, Sheridan Hotel, First National Bank, L.L. Nunn residence two-story wooden frame house to right of school building, Community Church, Methodist...
- Ballard Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Wasatch Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1907 and 1910]
- Colorado City, 1860
- View of Colorado City, (capitol of Colorado Territory in 1861) El Paso County, Colorado; shows wood frame and stone false fronts and a two- story hotel (known as the El Paso House, Holmes House, Baird & Smith Hotel) with hip roof and dormer; Pikes...
- Colorado City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- 1860