Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Miners
- A group of miners pose near a mine entrance at either the Berwind Mine in Las Animas County or the Rugby Mine in Huerfano County, Colorado. The men wear overalls and work boots. Some of the men have electric mine lamps attached to their caps, and...
- Coal mining--Colorado--1910-1930.; Miners--Colorado--1910-1930.; Mining--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1925?]
- Coal miners
- Three miners pose outside a mine at either the Berwind Mine in Las Animas County or the Rugby Mine in Huerfano County, Colorado. The men wear overalls and work boots. Electric mine lamps are attached to their caps and battery packs are at their...
- Coal mining--Colorado--1910-1930.; Miners--Colorado--1910-1930.; Mining--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1925?]
- Sioux Commission - Gen. Crook, Gov. Foster, Sen. Warner, all seated, full length
- Sioux Commission of 1889 (left to right) General George Crook, Governor Charles Foster of Ohio, and Senator William Warner of Missouri - all seated, full length; Crook and Foster in straw hats with canes, Warner with felt hat; sent by United States...
- Crook, George, 1829-1890.; Foster, Charles, 1828-1904.; Warner, William, 1840-1916.; United States. Sioux Commission (1889)
- [1889]
- Bonfils Memorial Theater (Tattered Cover)
- Exterior photograph of the Bonfils Memorial Theater, current the Tattered Cover Bookstore, located in Denver, Colorado. Marguee on building reads "Lowenstein Theatre". The primary mover in the development, funding, and creative direction of the...
- Bonfils Memorial Theatre (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings.; Theaters--Colorado--Denver.; Tattered Cover (Denver, Colo.) Bookstores.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.;...
- Undated
- Bonfils Memorial Theater (Tattered Cover)
- Exterior photograph of the Bonfils Memorial Theater, current the Tattered Cover Bookstore, located in Denver, Colorado. Marguee on building reads "Lowenstein Theatre". The primary mover in the development, funding, and creative direction of the...
- Bonfils Memorial Theatre (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings.; Theaters--Colorado--Denver.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
- Undated
- Bonfils Memorial Theater (Tattered Cover)
- Exterior photograph of the Bonfils Memorial Theater, current the Tattered Cover Bookstore, located in Denver, Colorado. Marguee on building reads "Lowenstein Theatre". The primary mover in the development, funding, and creative direction of the...
- Bonfils Memorial Theatre (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings.; Theaters--Colorado--Denver.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
- Undated
- Bonfils Memorial Theater (Tattered Cover)
- Exterior photograph of the Bonfils Memorial Theater, current the Tattered Cover Bookstore, located in Denver, Colorado. Marguee on building reads "Lowenstein Theatre". The primary mover in the development, funding, and creative direction of the...
- Bonfils Memorial Theatre (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings.; Theaters--Colorado--Denver.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
- Undated
- Ladies Relief Society of Denver : Index To Residents of the Old Ladies Home 1897-1980
- Index to the residents of the the Old Ladies Home in Denver, Colorado. Index includes name of individual, birth date, when they entered the home and death date for residents between 1897 and 1980.
- Old Ladies' Home (Denver, Colorado)--Registers.; Older women--Colorado-- Denver--Registers.
- 2004
- Municipal Facts: Volume 11 Numbers 1 and 2, 1928 January-February
- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 13, 1913 April 12
- Western History Subject Index
- Alter, Chester M
- Western History Subject Index
- Judges
- Western History Subject Index
- Sheriffs
- Western History Subject Index
- Afro-Americans
- World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing ; State of Colorado
- Index to the World War II dead and missing from the State of Colorado prepared by the War Department in 1946. Index includes: statistics of each Colorado county and an alphabetical listing of the dead and missing by county,
- World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--United States--Colorado.
- 2006
- Nebraska World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards Index, 1917-1918 A-L
- The Nebraska registration cards are on 50 rolls of microfilm, Nebraska State Historical Society library microfilm catalog number RG0544.PR. They are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are listed usually...
- World War, 1914-1918--Nebraska.; Nebraska--Genealogy--Sources.; Nebraska--History, Military.; United States. Selective Service System--Sources.; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918.; United States....
- 2005
- Nebraska World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards Index, 1917-1918 M-Z
- The Nebraska registration cards are on 50 rolls of microfilm, Nebraska State Historical Society library microfilm catalog number RG0544.PR. They are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are listed usually...
- World War, 1914-1918--Nebraska.; Nebraska--Genealogy--Sources.; Nebraska--History, Military.; United States. Selective Service System--Sources.; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918.; United States....
- 2005
- Colorado World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- The Colorado registration cards are on 40 rolls of microfilm (v.1 through v.40), Denver Public Library catalog number G973.91, W893co. The draft registration cards are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are...
- 2005
- WWI Colorado Draft Registration Cards
- Index to the World War I Draft Registration Cards for Colorado between the years of 1917-1918. During World War I there were three registrations. The first, on June 5, 1917, was for all men between the ages of 21 and 31. These men were born...
- World War, 1914-1918--Colorado.; Colorado--Genealogy--Sources.; Denver (Colo.)--History, Military.; United States. Selective Service System--Sources.; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918.; United States....
- 2005
- Lafayette Place
- View of Lafayette Place (c. 1885), 1225-1237 East Eighteenth (18th) Avenue, in the City Park West neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows three (1333-1337) of the seven units in a terraced-style building constructed in the Queen Anne style. The...
- Lafayette Place (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Apartment houses.; Lafayette Place (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; City...
- 1991
- Juan Antonio Córdova family
- View of a commercial certificate entitled: "God Bless Our Family" and filled in by Emelia Elíz Gutierrez Córdoba. Individual photos are cut out and applied to the certificate, and handwritten entries are in a section entitled "Family Record." ...
- Hispanic Americans--1890-1900.; Mexican Americans--1890-1900.; Families.; Family trees.; Córdova family--Pictorial works.; Hispanic American families--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Denver & Rio Grande roundhouse in Gunnison, Colorado
- A railroad engine is parked just inside of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company ten stall roundhouse in Gunnison (Gunnison County), Colorado. The roundhouse is a single story brick building with smoke stacks and railroad tracks that lead out...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Gunnison (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.; Railroad roundhouses--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Denver exchange equipment, York office, operating room
- Rows of operators sit at switchboards that line two walls of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company exchange building on York Street in Denver, Colorado. The women wear headsets and sit in tall chairs that face the switchboard....
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--People--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Telephone operators--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.;...
- 1916
- Attorneys of the Cripple Creek district
- Composite photograph of twenty individual studio portraits of various attorneys of the Cripple Creek district, Cripple Creek, Colorado; group of male lawyers identified on front of print from left to right, top row: Daniel A. Ferguson, James L....
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Lawyers--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Blackmer, Chauncey W.; Brinson, J. M.; Butler, James C.; Clark, Henry H.; Cole, J. C.; Consaul, Charles F.; Crump, S. D.; Emberson, A. L.; Ferguson, Daniel A.; Hangs,...
- [1901?]
- Inside of the community church
- Two women and a man stand at the back of a church in Bailey, Colorado. Individual chairs are lined up in rows to face the chancel. Sunlight streams through a large cross on the wall above the altar, which is between two, large, glass windows. One...
- Bailey (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Churches--Colorado--Bailey--1950-1960.; Interiors--1950-1960.; Taft, Russell L.; Thompson, Roy, Mrs.; Tripp, Gordon, Mrs.
- 1958 December 15
- Harmony Ranch, Estes Park
- Six cars are parked near the dining hall at the Harmony Guest Ranch, known also by its Swahili translation, Amani Mgeni Uwanda. Small individual cabins are behind the parking area, facing the mountain at the valley's edge; tall pines are by the...
- Estes Park (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Dining rooms--Colorado--Estes Park--1960-1970.; Motels--Colorado--Estes Park--1960-1970.
- [1967?]
- Longs Peak
- The sheer face of the Diamond on Longs Peak, and Chasm Lake, are the backdrop for an individual hiker who stands on a rock on the shore of the lake. The area was used by youth staying at the Byers Peak Ranch for Boys near Fraser, Colorado.
- Chasm Lake (Colo.)--1920-1950.; Fraser (Colo.)--1920-1950.; Longs Peak (Colo.)--1920-1950.; Hiking--Colorado--Fraser--1920-1950.
- [between 1920 and 1950]
- Bill's Modern Court
- View down the driveway into a motel and mobile home court, Granby, Grand County, Colorado, shows an entrance with neon sign: Bill's Modern Court, Motel, Vacancy. A gravel drive leads to a long stucco motel, and individual trailer home residences....
- Granby (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Motels--Colorado--Granby--1980-1990.
- 1980
- Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado
- Reproduction of a lithograph printed in the Spring 1888, Illustrated Supplement of the Bent County Democrat, includes a map of Las Animas and individual drawings of some of the landmark buildings, ranches and farms by Ricker & Murphy, Del. Eastern...
- Las Animas (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1960 and 1970]
- Montana-the Nez Perce War incidents in the defeat and capture of Chief Joseph by General Nelson A. Miles
- Photographic reproduction of five sketches by G. M. Holland depicting the Nez Perce War incidents; titles read: "General Miles charging the Indian camp-the dash into the ravine," "Squaws coddling Lieutenant Jerome in a rifle pit, while held as...
- Joseph, Nez Percé Chief, 1840-1904--Capture & imprisonment--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--1870-1880.; Nez Percé Indians--War--1870-1880.; Surrenders--1870-1880.; Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925.
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- Store houses & sheds
- Shows the store houses and sheds of the Overland Cotton Mill located at Evans Avenue and South Mariposa in Denver, Colorado. The brick store house building features a cut roof with an attic or storage space on top. The brick and wood stables are...
- Overland Cotton Mill (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Storehouses--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Lumber storage sheds city shops
- A view of the lumber storage shed at the city shops in Denver, Colorado. Shows a long wood stable with a slope roof. Machinery and tools are stored in the individual stalls.
- Denver (Colo.). Highway Department.--Buildings--1930-1940.; Lumber sheds--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Sheds--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Storage facilities--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Issuing rations
- A Native American (Sioux) man holding a pipe squats in front of a tepee camp, probably the Dakota Territory. Shows U.S. officers and their families with Sioux sitting and standing behind them waiting for the distribution of rations.
- Dakota Indians--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Food relief--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Indian encampments--Dakota Territory--1880-1890.; Military...
- 1882?
- Underground mining - views by flash light
- View is a montage of small images depicting miners performing various tasks, Leadville Lake County, Colorado. Titles on individual images: "Air drilling," "Hand drilling," "Electric drilling," "On the cage going up," "Anglebracing," and,...
- Mine timbering--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boring--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Machine shop interior
- Interior view of a machine shop in Denver, Colorado. Men work at machines that include saws and drill presses. Belts connect central driveshafts in the rafters to individual machines on the shop floor.
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Machine shops--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Machinery--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Nadowaqua
- Native Americans (Algonquin) walk down a trail toward a large body of water. Most carry belongings or drag them on a travois; one person carries an elderly individual on his back.
- Algonquin Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Lifting & carrying--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Dakota groups, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, Gall, Dakota Chiefs
- Head and shoulders portraits of Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, and Gall, Dakota Chiefs. Three individual portraits have been combined to make this group portrait.
- Indians of North America--Portraits.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Gall, ca. 1840-1894.; Rain in the Face, ca. 1835-1905.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Dakota Indians.
- [188-?]
- Dakota groups, Sitting Bull, Gall, Rain-in-the-Face, Dakota Chiefs, busts
- Head and shoulders portraits of Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, and Gall, Dakota Chiefs. Three individual portraits have been combined to make this group portrait.
- Indians of North America--Portraits.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Gall, ca. 1840-1894.; Rain in the Face, ca. 1835-1905.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Dakota Indians.
- [188-?]
- Maria Mitchell cooking class
- Girls in smocks and white caps stand and cook at long wooden tables at Mitchell School in Denver, Colorado. Shows individual burners and recipes on the blackboard.
- Mitchell School (Denver, Colo.)--People--1890-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cookery--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Girls--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1905?]
- The Phipps Sanatorium, Denver, Colo.
- View of several Spanish Colonial style institutional buildings that make up the Phipps (Agnes Memorial) Sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in Denver, Colorado. Rows of individual tents for patients are near the large buildings.
- Agnes Memorial Sanatorium (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1940.; Sanatoriums--Colorado--Denver--1900-1940.; Tents--Colorado--Denver--1900-1940.
- [between 1904 and 1932?]
- Ranger Meeting, U.S. Forest Service, Berkeley, Cal.
- Panoramic view of United States Forest Rangers who pose on a road in Berkeley, California. The men wear wool ranger uniforms. Houses are in the distance.
- United States. Forest Service.--People--1910-1920.; Berkeley (Calif.)--1910-1920.; Rangers--California--Berkeley--1910-1920.
- 1917 January 3-12
- Colorado Senate
- Composite of studio portraits of twenty-nine members of the Colorado Senate of 1885. Identification: 13. Governor B.H. Eaton; 12. Liet.-Gov. Peter W. Breene, President of Senate; R. 18. Jas. Moynahan, President Pro Tem; 7. Geo. T. Clark; R. 1 Jas...
- Colorado. General Assembly. Senate.--People--1880-1890.; Legislators--Colorado--1880-1890.
- 1885
- 1927 Senate, 26th General Assembly, State of Colorado
- Composite of studio portraits of members of the 26th General Assembly of the Colorado State Senate. Identifications, center row, top to bottom: E.C. Abbey, G.M. Corlett, President, R.J. Weaver. Top row, left to right: A.E. Headlee, T.M. Hudson,...
- Colorado. General Assembly. Senate.--People--1920-1930.; Legislators--Colorado--1920-1930.
- 1927
- Colorado College of Dental Surgery
- Composite photographs of individual photographs of dental surgeons from the Colorado College of Dental Surgery. Identifications, top row, left to right: L.A. Walker, G. Seeley. Second row: R.N. Culver, D.A. Richardson, Howard Chinn, H.W....
- Colorado College of Dental Surgery--People--1900-1910.; Dentists--Colorado--1900-1910.; Dentistry--Colorado--1900-1910.
- 1900 April
- Colonel Cody, by his tent on the show
- Colonel W.F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) stands in front of his tent. He wears a light colored vest, shirt and pants with a dark tie and a cowboy hat.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--1900-1910.; Celebrities--1900-1910.; Entertainers--1900-1910.; Tents--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.
- 1908
- Lincoln Hills
- Text and annotations on album page read: "[ARL-1] Irene Johnson and Vivian Rose, [ARL-2] Lincoln Hills 1928, [ARL-3] Mrs. Mason, [ARL-4] Mr. Mason, [ARL-5] Camp Nizhoni, Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A." The photographic prints on the album page show: two...
- Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--People--1920-1930.; African Americans--Colorado--Lincoln Hills--1920-1930.; Lincoln Hills (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Camps--Colorado--Lincoln...
- [1928]
- The gang
- Text and annotations on album page read: "[ARL-7] Two happy weeks at camp, [ARL-8] Waiting for the train, [ARL-9] First year at camp! Boy, oh, boy!, [ARL-10] A trip to the old mine, [ARL-11] Are we happy?." The photographic prints on the album page...
- Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--People--1920-1930.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--People--1920-1930.; African Americans--Colorado--Lincoln Hills--1920-1930.; Lincoln Hills (Colo.)--1920-1930.;...
- 1928
- Camp Nizhoni '29-30
- Text and annotations on album page read: "[ARL-13] Come on in, the water's swell!!!, [ARL-14] Oh, how we loved our morning wash!, [ARL-15] Look what we have! ???Beauties???, [ARL-16] Camp Staff and Visitors. White shorts! Why, Woody!!, [ARL-17]...
- Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--People--1920-1930.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--People--1920-1930.; African Americans--Colorado--Lincoln Hills--1920-1930.; Lincoln Hills (Colo.)--1920-1930.; South Boulder...
- [between 1929 and 1930]
- Camp 1929-1930 (cont'd)
- Text and annotations on album page read: "[ARL-20] My, my, what a scare!! But the porcupine is buried now, [ARL-21] What! washing again? Well, after all it has been a year!, [ARL-22] Ain't nature grand?!?, [ARL-23] Zudora Blakey, Jean Moore, Annie...
- Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--People--1920-1930.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--People--1920-1930.; African Americans--Colorado--Lincoln Hills--1920-1930.; Lincoln Hills (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Rocky Mountain...
- [between 1929 and 1930]
- Rocky Mountain Lake, Memorial Day
- Text and annotations on album page read: "[ARL-26] Come on down the pole, Margie, [ARL-27] What's the matter Evelyn? It can't be that bad, Margie. Is Edna Mae happy?, [ARL-28] I'll bet you still like to do it, too, [ARL-29] West High's perfect...
- African Americans--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Memorial Day--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Rocky Mountain Lake Park (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Girls--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.;...
- 1930 [May 26]