Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Brig. Gen. Irving Hale
- Prize Army Division Marksmanship," depicting soldier on horseback with gun; 2. "Skirmishing," depicting crouching figure; 3. illegible with four point shape; 4. "Creedmoor" with 1887 date and illegible lettering; and 5. "Creedmoor" with illegible...
- Military officers--1880-1900.; Businessmen--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Hale, Irving, 1861-1930.
- [between 1887 and 1901]
- Denver from the Union Depot, up 17th St.
- View looking southeast on 17th (Seventeenth) Street from Union Station, Denver, Colorado. Buildings: Arapahoe County Courthouse, First Congregational church, Arapahoe School, Tabor Opera House, St. John's Church in the Wilderness (Episcopal)....
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1892]
- College, 5th & Atwood
- Longmont Presbyterian College, 546 Atwood Street, Longmont, Colorado; first and only wing of a plan by architect Fred A. Hall or Hale; built in 1886; features include: brick construction with rough cut stone foundation, irregular hip and gable...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; Longmont Presbyterian College (Longmont, Colo.)
- [between 1890 and 1895]
- View of Pine and Spruce Streets, Central City streets
- View of Quartz Hill at the left, Gunnell Hill at the right, and Central City, Colorado. From top to bottom, the streets include Spruce Street, Pine Street, and Nevada Street. Mines dot Gunnell Hill. Below the mines are St. Aloysius Academy and...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1899?]
- Jarvis Hall Military Academy - probably rugby football team
- Group portrait of Jarvis Hall Military Academy football team members in Montclair (Denver), Colorado. The men hold knit sweaters and hats; uniforms have letters: "JHMA."
- Jarvis Hall Military Academy (Colo.)--People--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Football players--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Teenagers--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Boulder, Colo.
- View of Boulder (Boulder County) Colorado; shows "The Delano Mining and Milling Company," Boulder Creek, Colorado State University buildings, houses, and the Mount Saint Gertude Academy.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Flood in Boulder, Colorado
- Flood water fills the scene in Boulder, Colorado. The flat roofed extension of a brick house is partly caved in, and trees and fence edge the floodplain. The Mount Saint Gertrude Academy is on high ground further back, with the Flatirons behind it.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897?]
- Boulder
- View of frame houses in Boulder, Colorado. Shows wooden sidewalks and utility poles beside dirt streets. Houses and Mount Saint Gertrude Academy are on University Hill, and the buildings of the University of Colorado, Hale Science Building, Old...
- University of Colorado (Boulder Campus)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900?]
- Central City
- View over Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado, shows: Saint Aloysius Academy, Saint Paul's Episcopal church, Teller House, Clear Creek County Courthouse, Eureka House, Foresters Hall, Ancient Order of Union Workers Lodge No. 16, Saint James...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1890-1910.
- [between 1897 and 1901]
- Central City, Colorado
- Aloysius Academy, a Catholic school, stands on Gunnell Hill in the left background.; The lower portions of Eureka and High streets in Central City, Colorado, run through the right foreground. A railroad track winds around the hillside below the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Churches--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.;...
- [between 1898 and 1900?]
- Central City, Colo. 1900
- has arrived. The Armory Hall (formerly the Belvidere Theatre) stands in the center foreground on Main Street adjacent to "The Shoo Fly," a variety and dance hall. Farther up Main Street in the left midground is the Retallack House, built in 1897...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1899 and 1900?]
- Central City, Colo.
- The St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic boarding school, stands on Gunnell Hill in Central City, Colorado. Dirt roads lead back to a mine shafthouse on the hill in the right midground. Additional mine shafthouses dot the hills surrounding the city....
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1910?]
- Central City, Colo.
- The St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic school, is shown in the center of this view of Central City, Colorado. The steeple tower of St. Mary's Catholic Church stands above the rooftops of the surrounding buildings on Pine Street in the background....
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1910.
- [between 1899 and 1910?]
- Rafael Chacon
- Studio portrait of Major Rafael Chacón (retired). He is dressed in his United States Army uniform. His jackets has two rows of brass buttons, he wears a cap and has a sword at his waist. He stands in front of a painted backdrop.
- Mexican Americans--Colorado--1900-1910.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--1900-1910.; Chacón, Rafael, 1933-1925--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Retired military...
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Central City
- The Gilpin County Courthouse with its three-arched entryway faces Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado. The Eureka House stands opposite the courthouse. Several mines stand on the ridge of Winnebago Hill above a residential neighborhood. A man...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Boulder and the Flatirons
- Residences and civic buildings of Boulder Colorado include the Court House, a five-story structure with a cupola, towers with widow's walks, projecting bays, and a portico, and the Masonic Temple, a stone building with arched windows, pediments,...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Colo. Chautauqua, Boulder
- Right side of a panorama view from a grassy hill south of Boulder, Colorado, shows: Mount St. (Saint) Gertude Academy far left, the town landscaped with trees, and University of Colorado buildings including Old Main. Vast open plains are north of...
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)--1900-1910.; Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Colo. Chautauqua, Boulder
- Left side of a panorama view from a grassy hill south of Boulder, Colorado, shows the Colorado Chautauqua (founded 1898) with Auditorium, Dining Hall, cottages and tents, Mount St. (Saint) Gertude Academy is far right, west end of town with...
- Colorado Chautauqua Association--Facilities--1900-1910.; Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Denver Academy of Applied Arts
- View of a school in Denver, Colorado. It is a bungalow style building with half timbering and a sign: "The Denver Academy of Applied Arts."
- Denver Academy of Applied Arts (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Private schools--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1915?]
- Boulder, Colo.
- Bird's-eye view of Boulder, Colorado, in summer including dome of Courthouse; University of Colorado's Old Main, Library, and Hale Science Building (center left); and Mt. St. Gertrude Academy with Chautauqua Park above (center right) to Flatirons;...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1920.; University of Colorado (Boulder campus)
- [between 1900 and 1915]
- Central City, Colorado
- St. Mary's Catholic Church stands on Pine Street in Central City, Colorado, at the base of Gunnell Hill where the St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic boarding school, stands. The steeple of St. Paul's Episcopal Church juts into the left foreground...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- View of the Central City area (Lake #97)
- Mine shafthouse protrudes into the right background at the top of another hill. Two small buildings stand in the foreground. Telegraph or telephone poles stand between the two buildings.; The St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic school, stands in the...
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.; Central City (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Church schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Central City, Colorado
- academy in the right background.; The St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic boarding school, stands in the right background on Gunnell Hill in Central City, Colorado. A large mine shafthouse of the School Hill Mining Company stands on the same hill in...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Church schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Boulder, Colo.
- Bird's eye view of Boulder, Colorado; Courthouse on Pearl Street; University of Colorado's Hale Science Building (center left); Mt. St. Gertrude Academy and Chautauqua Park (center); and Flatirons (right); shows wooden frame residences, picket...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1920.; University of Colorado (Boulder campus)
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- St. Mary's Church, Central City
- St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church is in the foreground on Pine Street in Central City, Colorado. The two story Parish/Penrose House is next to the church, and has a mansard roof, dormer windows, two bay windows, and a porch. Two smaller,...
- St. Aloysius Convent & School (Central City, Colo.)--1900-1940.; St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Central City, Colo.)--1900-1940.; Central City (Colo.)--1900-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1940.
- [between 1900 and 1935?]
- Central City, Colo. 1900-
- St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic school, stands on Gunnell Hill in Central City, Colorado, in the center background. St. Mary's Catholic Church stands below the school on Pine Street. In the right midground is the Teller House, built between 1871...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1910?]
- View of Central City area
- The St. Aloysius Academy, a Catholic boarding school, stands in the center background on Gunnell Hill in Central City, Colorado. Snow lightly covers the ground. St. Mary's Catholic Church stands on Pine Street below the academy. The Teller House is...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Advertisements--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Church schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1901 and 1910?]
- Cardenas Hotel, Trinidad, Colorado
- Exterior view of the Cardenas Hotel, in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. This Fred Harvey hotel is a two story, mission style structure that features an arcaded porch, gabled terra-cotta roof, balcony, square tower with a domed roof, arched...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1910.; Cardenas Hotel (Trinidad, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Purgatoire River (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1910.; Railroad...
- [between 1903 and 1910?]
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- View, looking down East San Francisco Street, of Saint Francis Cathedral and the Loretto Academy for Girls, among other buildings in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Automobiles and people are in the street. Prominent sign reads: "The Coronado Hotel and...
- Cathedral of San Francisco de Asis (Santa Fe, N.M.)--1900-1920.; Loretto Academy--Buildings--1900-1920.; Santa Fe (N.M.)--1900-1920.; Cathedrals--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.; Catholic churches--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.; Church...
- [between 1905 and 1915]
- School bus
- A class of young St. Joseph's Academy students pose with their Franciscan Sister and bus driver, Longmont, Colorado. The bus is a horse- drawn roofed open-sided wagon with painted letters: "St. Joseph School." One boy sits in the wagon holding the...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buses--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.; Nuns--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.; Students--Colorado--Longmont--1900-1910.
- [between 1908 and 1910]
- Boulder panorama
- View of Boulder, Colorado; shows the sandstone courthouse, Masonic Temple, and Methodist Church, with cupolas, towers, and pediments. Letters on the side of the Boulder Milling Company read: "Lily White Flour." University Avenue is a dirt street,...
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)--1900-1910.; Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- Midnight Central City - lithograph
- Reproduction of a Boardman Robinson lithograph; shows Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado, with St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church and St. Aloysius's Academy.
- Central City (Colo.)--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- University Building
- Rooftop view of the A. C. Foster (University) Building at 16th (Sixteenth) and Champa Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. Pedestrians, automobiles, and a streetcar are nearby. Signs read: "Dancing Academy," "Shoe Repairing," "Simpson Seed [...]"...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; City & town life--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Uni Bldg 16th & Champa
- Rooftop view of the A. C. Foster (University) Building at 16th (Sixteenth) and Champa Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. Automobiles and a truck are parked nearby. Signs read: "M. B. Garrett," "Men's Furnishings," "Forsythe Waists," and "Dancing...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Central City, Colorado
- View of Central City, Colorado, taken from the northeast. A large boulder and vegetation are in the foreground, as well as the roofs of several houses. The back of St. James' Methodist Church is to the right. The roof of the Central City Opera...
- Central City (Colo.)--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1935?]
- Central City
- View of Saint Aloysius Academy, mining buildings, dwellings and boardwalk in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1930-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1930-1960.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1930-1960.
- [between 1933 and 1945]
- Knight Elementary School
- View of Knight Elementary School (later Knight Fundamental Academy) at 3245 East Exposition Avenue in the Belcaro neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a brick building with tall windows and overhangs. A concrete driveway runs in front of the...
- Knight Elementary School (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1970-1990.; Belcaro (Denver, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1990.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1970-1990.
- [between 1970 and 1982?]
- Columbia College Building, Denver
- View of the Columbia College Building, the former St. Mary's Academy, at 1370 Pennsylvania Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The brick, four-story school building has stone courses, arches, and pillars on either side of...
- Columbia College (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Saint Mary's Academy (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1970-1980.; Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.; Universities &...
- [between 1978 and 1979]
- Hangar Number 2, Lowry
- View of Hangar Number two at 7581 Academy Boulevard in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a large building with corrugated steel walls and a barrel roof. There is a visor over twelve large doors (250' x 37') that roll open on...
- Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Lowry Field neighborhood (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Hangars.; Hangars--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Denver (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Lowry Field neighborhood (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- [between 2002 and 2008?]
- 1909-1922 Index to the Denver Municipal Facts
- Central City, Colorado streets
- View down St. James Street. Vegetation and trees line both sides of the dirt road, as well as two stone walls that are mid-way down the road. The roof of the Central City Opera House is visible in the center of the photograph. Quartz Hill is in...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- between 1930 and 1940
- Boulder
- Panoramic view of Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado; shows houses, University of Colorado buildings, the St. Gertrude Academy, Boulder Creek, and the Boulder Sanitarium. Letters on (Yount) flour mill tank read: "10 cents a week, the Denver Times...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- c1908
- History of the public schools of Denver : a brief history (1859-1989) and complete building survey of the Denver Public Schools
- Book outlining the history of Denver Public Schools. Included are pictures of buildings, timelines of construction, and listing of schools.
- School buildings--Colorado--Denver--History.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--History.
- 1989
- Reverend Murphy C. Williams
- The Reverend Murphy C. Williams Pastor Preached in Europe in Goodwill Tour of World Council of Churches, 1953; Co-Founder of International Opportunity Life Insurance Company in 1957; first Black appointed as Chaplain for the Colorado House of...
- undated
- Syl Morgan-Smith
- Syl Morgan-Smith Communicator and Community Leader Mrs. Syl Morgan-Smith was one of the first African American television news anchorwomen in Colorado. She was a weather forecaster, sportscaster, television talk show host, newspaper editor, and...
- undated
- Victoria "Vikki" Denise Buckley
- Victoria "Vikki" Denise Buckley 1949-1999 Colorado Secretary of State First African-American female and Republican elected to a Colorado statewide constitutional office (November, '94). Mrs. Buckley was the highest ranking female African-American...
- undated
- Loretto Heights Academy
- Exterior photograph of the Loretto Heights Academy located in Denver, Colorado. Founded by the Sisters of Loretto, under the direction of Mother Pancratia Bonfils, the college began as Loretto Heights Academy, a Catholic boarding school for girls....
- Loretto Heights College.; Universities and Colleges--Colorado--Denver.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
- Undated