Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Boulder Falls
- View of Boulder Falls, in Boulder Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado.
- Boulder Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; South Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Boulder Canyon--1890-1900.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Boulder Canyon--1890-1900.
- [1898?]
- Boulder Falls
- View of Boulder Falls, in Boulder Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado.
- Boulder Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; South Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Boulder Canyon--1890-1900.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Boulder Canyon--1890-1900.
- 1898 January 6
- Boulder Canon Maxwell's Rocks
- Colorado and Northwestern Railway tracks follow North Boulder Creek by Maxwell's Rocks, in North Boulder Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado. A bridge spans the water below rock cliffs.
- Colorado and Northwestern Railway Company--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; North Boulder Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; North Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Boulder...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Maxwell's Rock - Boulder Canon, Colorado
- Colorado and Northwestern Railway tracks follow North Boulder Creek by Maxwell Rocks, in North Boulder Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado. A bridge spans the water below rock cliffs.
- Colorado and Northwestern Railway Company--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; North Boulder Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; North Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Near Ward, Colo.
- Two miners stand near a mine dump and an unidentified mill near Ward, Boulder County, Colorado.
- Spoil banks--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.;...
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Near Ward, Colo.
- View of a sluice constructed on a mine dump and an unidentified mill building near Ward, Boulder County, Colorado.
- Sluices--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Spoil banks--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Miners and sluice
- Miners with rakes and shovels attend a sluice system at an unidentified mine, possibly in Boulder County, Colorado.
- Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Sluices--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- A scene in Boulder county, mine near Eldora camp
- Two men stand in a snow covered landscape near an abandoned boiler and mine site in Boulder County, Colorado.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- 1890
- Maxwell's Rock Boulder Canon
- View of Maxwell Pitch (Windy Point) in North Boulder Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado. A man stands near a bridge over North Boulder Creek. Colorado and Northwestern Railway narrow gauge railroad tracks are nearby.
- Colorado and Northwestern Railway Company--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; North Boulder Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; North Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Boulder...
- [between 1898 and 1900?]
- Colorado and Northwestern excursion
- View of tourists on a Colorado and Northwestern Railway excursion, probably in Boulder County, Colorado; they stand in groups on a snow bank and on the caboose. The men wear suits and the women wear dresses and fancy hats.
- Colorado and Northwestern Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Passengers--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- 1899 April 16th
- Lee Hill Stage Station
- An unidentified man sits on the ground in front of a fence on Lee Hill Road in Boulder County, Colorado. The man is possibly waiting for a stagecoach. He holds binoculars in his right hand and wears a hat. The dirt road leads back to two large...
- Roads--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fences--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Stagecoaches--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Slide mine, Gold Hill, Colo.
- View of the first Slide mill on the south side of Left Hand Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado. It is perched on the side of a steep hill with a large tailings pile above it and to the side. In the 1930s, the sixty foot timber wall of the mine's...
- Tailings embankments--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Left Hand Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- 1890?
- Eldora, Colorado 1890-99 (prints)
- Snow is piled up in front of the Assay Office of Welch and Bancroft on Eldorado Avenue in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. An unidentified man sts on a log in the left midground at the base of a mound of snow where two young boys...
- Assayers--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Children playing in snow--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Sleds & sleighs--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Sphinx [sic] Rock - group of people in front
- View of a Colorado Midland railroad excursion at Sphynx Rock near Wild Horse in Chaffee County, Colorado. Passengers pose by the granite rock formation.
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Passengers--Colorado--Chaffee County--1890-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--Chaffee County--1890-1900.; Sightseers--Colorado--Chaffee County--1890-1900.; Colorado...
- 1898, 13 June
- Nederland, Colo. 1899
- The town of Nederland stands in the background along the base of a hill in Boulder County, Colorado. The Breed and Cutter Reduction Works Mill stands in the far left of the town. The Hetzer House Hotel is in the center of the town. The tops of...
- Ore-dressing plants--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nederland (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Sawmill - lumber transportation 1899
- A group of people sits on a stack of logs on a tram car pulled by a horse at a sawmill in Woodland Flats west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Among those in the group are Mrs. J. H. Kemp (seated on the logs with a younger son) and...
- Lumber--Transportation--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Sawmills--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Logs--1890-1900.; Kemp, Donald Campbell,...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Kemp Cabin - Happy Valley 1894
- A group of men, women and children gathers in front of the Kemp family cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Two hammocks hang on the front porch of the log cabin. A log rail fence is in front of the group. John Kemp (father of the...
- Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fences--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Hammocks--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Kemp Cabin just completed 1893
- The Kemp family log cabin is framed by a circle in this image taken when the cabin was first completed in 1893 near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp was a mine operator in Central City in Gilpin...
- Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Chittenden Falls near head of Boulder Canon on U.P. Ry.
- View of a waterfall identified as Chittenden Falls probably on Middle Boulder Creek in Boulder County, Colorado; the creek spills over boulders.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Middle Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- Kemp Cabin - Happy Valley 1894
- A group of men, women and children poses in front of the Kemp family log cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp sits with young Don and his brother Robert on the steps to the cabin. Kemp was...
- Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Collins, Edgar.; Collins, Margie Becker.; Kemp,...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Kemp Cabin - Happy Valley 1894
- A woman, possibly John H. Kemp's wife, stands next to a mule with two small children, possibly Donald and Robert Kemp, on its back. The group is near a log rail fence in front of the Kemp family cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. A...
- Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fences--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Mothers &...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Kemp Cabin - Happy Valley 1894
- A group of men, women and children poses in front of the Kemp family log cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp sits with young Don and his brother Robert on the steps to the cabin. Kemp was...
- Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Becker, Margie.; Collins, Edgar.; Kemp, John H.;...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Eldorado Colo 1896
- View of Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. Log cabins, houses, businesses, and corrals dot the valley floor by alpine slopes.
- Gilfillan, John A.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Post...
- [1896?]
- Boulder Canyon the cascade
- A man sits in a horse-drawn buggy in Boulder Canyon (Boulder County), Colorado. South Boulder Creek is nearby.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [1898, January 5]
- Head of Middle Boulder Valley
- View of upper Middle Boulder Valley in Boulder County, Colorado; shows mountains, and trees.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Valleys--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Boulder County, log cabin
- Men and women on a picnic pose near a log cabin in the hills in Boulder County, Colorado. The women wear long dresses and the men wear suits. One of the women sits on a burro. Picnic baskets, a watermelon and an axe are on the ground.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Riding--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Eldora, Colo. 1899
- A fence stands in the foreground in front of large mounds of snow near a log cabin in Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, after the "Great Snowstorm" of 1899. The cabin is almost buried in snow except for the door, which has been cleared....
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Eldora, Colo. 1899
- deposit more than 100 feet thick and was soon determined to be an unsuitable site and the plan was relocated to where the present Barker Dam sits east of Nederland. Several log cabins stand at the base of the hill in the background as well as in...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nederland (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.; Tree limbs--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Eldora, Colo. Snowstorm 1899
- A fence stands in the foreground in front of large mounds of snow near a log cabin in Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, after the "Great Snowstorm" of 1899. The cabin is almost buried in snow.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Eldora - Snow Feb. 1899
- Deep piles of snow line the area in front of several cabins in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado, after a large snowstorm in 1899. Two large trees with bare branches stand in the foreground near the porch of one cabin.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Nederland, Colorado. Hotels and Motels. The Antlers (first)
- A group of men, women and children stands on the front porch and in front of The Antlers Hotel in Nederland in Boulder County, Colorado, probably in the 1890s. A man stands next to a woman holding a baby on the right side of the front porch. The...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nederland (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.; Porches--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Unidentified mine, Boulder County
- View of an unidentified mine on the side of a steep hill in Boulder County, Colorado. Men stand on and near a headframe, tailings and a stone retaining wall. A horse used to power a large winch used for the mine stands on the headframe. Men pose...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins.; Headframes (Mining); Miners.; MIning.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Mine in Boulder County
- Men stand beside a wheelbarrow, an open mine shaft and a wood and log tipple at an unidentified mine in Boulder County, Colorado. Piles of lumber and a wood frame building are on the hill above them.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining.; Tipples.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Mine in Boulder County, ore wagon, two men
- Two men pose in front of a wooden wagon loaded with ore at an unidentified mine in Boulder County, Colorado. One man wears a soft felt hat and a straight cut jacket, the other wears a suit and a hat. Both men have goatees. Snow covers the ground.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons.; Miners.; Mining.; Winter.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Mine in Boulder County, miners, equipment, mule, sun rays
- Miners and well dressed men pose in front of a log shaft house with a tin roof at an unidentified mine in Boulder County, Colorado. They stand near hose and a pneumatic drill, an ore car laden with ore, and a mule with a canvas blanket and leather...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Light.; Mine buildings.; Miners.; Mining equipment.; Mining.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Unidentified mine, Boulder County
- View of an unidentified mine in Boulder County, Colorado. Men work near piles of lumber and on a retaining wall. Shows stone retaining walls, a log retaining wall, piles of sand, a long log building with a ventilator on the roof and a stove pipe,...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Construction.; Houses.; Log buildings.; MIning.; Retaining walls.
- 1895 July 25
- Mill site
- View of an unidentified mill under construction in Boulder County, Colorado. Men pose on a steep hillside near piles of lumber and stand on a dirt embankment.. Shows the beginnings of a masonry foundation, a wood frame building on a log retaining...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction.; Buildings.; Foundations.; Mills.; Ore industry.
- 1894 November 7
- Eldora, Colorado 1900
- Several buildings stand along dirt roads, probably including Eldorado Avenue, in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. The town experienced its mining boom for about two years starting in 1897, when gold tellurides and sulphides were...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Eldora, Colorado water supply
- Court, four of the nine men were released for lack of evidence. The remaining men were found not guilty. The Bailey Mill was never operated for any extended periods of time after Bailey's death. Several different owners tried varying ore treatment...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dams--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Kemp, John H.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Eldorado Camp 1895
- An unidentified man walks across a dirt street in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. The town was originally named Eldorado but its name was changed to avoid its being confused with Eldorado, California. Two children walk behind the...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Pedestrians--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Caribou, Colorado
- A horse and empty buggy are stopped on a rocky, dirt road in Caribou, a mining district in Boulder County, Colorado. Caribou saw its boom in the 1870s when it was reportedly one of the most important silver producers in Colorado. Several log cabins...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Caribou (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Caribou--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Caribou--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Caribou, Colorado, 1870-1899 circa (originals)
- The mining town of Caribou stands at the base of a hill, possibly Boulder County Hill, in Boulder County, Colorado. A mine shafthouse stands near a pile of tailings in the right background.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Caribou (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Caribou--1890-1900.
- [1899?]