Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- The City of Denver: Volume 2 Number 16, 1914 May 23
- Cokedale Mine marshals Crecencio Vigil and Melitón Barela
- Crecencio Vigil and Melitón Barela, marshals at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Cokedale Mines in Cokedale (Las Animas County), Colorado. They pose near a dugout structure with a roof made from pine boughs. Crecencio (left) wears a hat, coat and...
- Hispanic Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cokedale (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Private police.; Barela, Melitón--Pictorial works.; Vigil,, Crecencio--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial...
- [1913?]
- "Home of Mrs. American Horse" visiting at Mrs. A's home in hostile camp
- View of American Horse's wife with other Native American Sioux (Lakota) women and children sitting around a cooking pot on an iron tripod inside a pole tepee framework with the canvas lowered. Other tepees, cooking pots, wagons, show in the camp.
- American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908--Family.; Dakota Indians--Women--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Women--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--Children--1890-1900.; Indian encampments--1890-1900.; Tipis--1890-1900.
- 1891
- A cowboy camp
- Cowboy camp somewhere in Colorado; man standing by campfire with numerous cooking pots hanging over it and dutch ovens nearby; canvas tents, wagon and saddled horses in background; larger group of men standing around another campfire, center...
- Campfires--Colorado--1900-1920.; Camping--Colorado--1900-1920.; Cowboys--Colorado--1900-1920.; Horses--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Back from the hunt, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View of two outdoorsmen in camp near Norrie, Colorado reached via Colorado Midland Railway; two men seated in camp, one man with knee-high gaiters holding rifle in one hand and one dead grouse or pheasant in other; second man holding one dead...
- Norrie (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Camping--Colorado--Norrie--1900-1920.; Fishing--Colorado--Norrie--1900-1920.; Hunting--Colorado--Norrie--1900-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway Company.
- [between 1900 and 1919]
- Campsites among the foothills
- Stereographic view of five men, one woman, and a small boy posing in front of a campsite near the Garden of the Gods in the foothills near Colorado Springs, Colorado. One man sits at a low table near the remains of a fire in the foreground; others...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Camps--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1870-1900.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1870-1900.; Men--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1870-1900.; Women--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1870-1900.
- [between 1875 and 1900?]
- Lincoln School - Jan Class 1921
- Boys, girls, and teenagers pose at Lincoln School in Denver, Colorado. Identified students and teachers include: (L to R) Lincoln Fisher, Dorothy Jones, Guinn Huffsmith, Florence Fulton, Lester Johnson, Esther Curtis, Chelsea York, Harry Baker,...
- Lincoln School (Denver, Colo.)--People--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Girls--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; School children--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.;...
- 1921
- Home economics
- Girls prepare food in a home economics class at the Sopris School in Sopris (Las Animas County), Colorado. The girls wear aprons and bonnets. One girl reads a book titled "Cooking Book One."
- Sopris (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Children cooking--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.; Girls--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.; Home economics--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.
- [1915]
- Indian woman cooking noon meal
- A Native American Flathead (Salish) woman sits on the ground in front of a tepee and tends cooking pots on an open fire. She holds an infant in her lap, another child sits next to her.
- Indians of North America--Children--1900-1910.; Salish Indians--Women--1900-1910.; Outdoor cookery--1900-1910.
- 1907
- Sioux Indians cooking a dog
- A Native American (Sioux) man and woman stand over a fire pit ostensibly cooking a dog. The dog is on it's back with the man holding it's forepaws and the woman it's hind paws. Tents are in the background.
- Dakota Indians--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--1910-1920.; Barbecues--1910-1920.; Dogs--1910-1920.; Home food processing--1910-1920.; Outdoor cookery--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Cooking Club, fifteen years later
- Studio portrait shows nine female members of a cooking club posing, Denver, Colorado. Each wears a decorative hat, blouse, and skirt.
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Maria Mitchell, cooking class
- Girls in smocks and caps stir food and peel apples in a cooking class at Mitchell School in Denver, Colorado. Shows a coffered ceiling, long wooden tables with 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?]
- Denver Orphans' Home
- Girls in aprons and caps and their teacher stand before tables with cooking implements at the Denver Orphans' Home (later the Denver Children's Home) at 1501 Albion Street in the South Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows metal tables...
- Denver Orphans' Home (Denver, Colo.)--People--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Children cooking--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Girls--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- Cooking Club
- Well dressed women members of the Cooking Club pose in (probably) Denver, Colorado; they are identified as (L to R bottom) Florence Holland, Mrs. Frank Whipple, (L to R top) Isabel Heil Knoll, and Mrs. Caroline Pearce Dunbar (feathered hat).
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Dunbar, Caroline Pearce.; Holland, Florence Ward.; Knoll, Isabel Heil.
- 1884
- A camp in the wilds - Pike National Forest
- View of a campsite in Pike National Forest, Colorado; cast iron cooking pots are by a log bench and a canvas shelter. Frying pans and a kerosene lamp hang from a tree. Shows a barrel and a wood table.
- Pike National Forest (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Camping--Colorado--1900-1920.; Cooking utensils--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1908 and 1920?]
- Camp scene, man cooking
- Two couples pose at a campsite in Colorado. A man prepares food over a campfire. Another man and two women sit or stand under an open sided canvas tent suspended by ropes attached to trees. The women hold cooking utensils.
- Camping--Colorado--1920-1930.; Couples--Colorado--1920-1930.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--1920-1930.; Tents--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- East Denver High School Annual: Class of 1918
- 1918 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1918
- Ashland Elementary School boys cooking class
- Photograph of several boys wearing aprons and hats in a cooking class at Ashland Elementary School in Denver, Colorado.
- Ashland School (Denver, Colo.); Jefferson Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood); Denver Public Schools.; Denver (Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- circa 1935
- The University Park News, Volume 2, Number 8
- Main Street, Lyons
- View of storefronts on the north side of Main Street in Lyons (Boulder County), Colorado. Cars are parked along the street in front of the stores. Buildings include "Loyd's Barber Shop" with a barbers pole on the wall outside the door, "Lyon's...
- Lyons (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Cities & towns; Commercial streets.; Cities and towns--Colorado--Lyons--Pictorial works.; Central business districts--Colorado--Lyons--Pictorial works.; Lyons (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1991
- Colcha, San Luis scene
- View of a colcha by Hispanic American Teresa Vigil of San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. The embroidery of a rural scene in the San Luis Valley depicts men fishing in a stream, a woman cooking a fish and a man in a horse-drawn wagon.
- Hispanic Americans--Arts & crafts--Colorado--2000-2010.; San Luis (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Colchas; Hispanic American art--Colorado--San Luis--Pictorial works.; Folk art--Colorado--San Luis--Pictorial works.; Embroidery--Colorado--San Luis--Pictorial...
- [between 2000 and 2010?]
- Municipal Facts: Volume 8 Numbers 3 and 4, 1925 March-April
- Fishing
- Men pose at a camp in probably western Colorado. Trout are strung on a fishing pole beside a wooden table. Plates, silverware, mugs and a cooking pot are on the table. A canvas tent is behind the men.
- Camping--Colorado--1900-1910.; Fishing--Colorado--1900-1910.; Tents--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Mrs. Huntington in kitchen
- A woman identified as "Mrs. Huntington" works at counter with a mixing bowl. Cooking supplies include dishes, rolled oats, "Chicken of The Sea," and "Maxwell House Coffee."
- Cookery--1940-1950.; Interiors--1940-1950.; Kitchens--1940-1950.; Women--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Clear Creek Highway - cooks
- Interior view of a kitchen in (probably) Clear Creek County of Jefferson County, Colorado; men pose in cook hats and aprons by trays and cooking utensils.
- Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cooks--Colorado--1940-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--1940-1950.; Kitchens--Colorado--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- People at cafe counter
- Men sit and eat at a counter in a cafe in Denver, Colorado. Shelves with cooking utensils and pots are behind the bar. Menus are posted on the wall.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Counters--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Restaurants--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1915]
- Navajo dinner on the desert
- Portrait of Native American Navajo man (cooking food) and children; the man stirs a pot and holds a bottle. A coffee pot is in the fire; wagons are in the background.
- Indians of North America--Men--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--1900-1910.; Children--1900-1910.; Outdoor cookery--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1906?]
- Windy Gap
- View of Harry and Katherine Buckwalter cooking at a camp fire at Windy Gap (Grand County), Colorado. A coffee pot is by a bucket.
- Grand County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Windy Gap (Grand County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Campfires--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Buckwalter, Harry H.;...
- 1922
- Windy Gap
- View of Harry Buckwalter cooking at a camp fire at Windy Gap (Grand County), Colorado, with a frying pan, coffee pot, and bucket.
- Grand County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Windy Gap (Grand County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Campfires--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Buckwalter, Harry H.
- 1922
- Katherine Buckwalter
- Katherine Buckwalter poses during a camping trip in (probably) Colorado; a canvas tent, an automobile, and cooking equipment are by her chair.
- Camping--Colorado--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--1920-1930.; Buckwalter, Katherine, 1882-1969.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Windy Gap
- View of Harry Buckwalter cooking at a camp fire at Windy Gap (Grand County), Colorado.
- Windy Gap (Grand County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Men--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Buckwalter, Harry H.
- 1922 August 19-27
- Puget Sound Indians at home
- A Native American (tribe unknown) woman and man sit in a canvas tent in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. The woman works making baskets and is surrounded by reeds, baskets, a kerosene lamp, a cooking pot, and stoneware jug.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Washington (State)--1890-1900.; Tents--Washington (State)--1890-1900.; Women--Washington (State)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- The camp near the Tetons
- Cowboys stand and sit in a camp near the Teton Range in Wyoming. Shows a campfire, cooking equipment, and preparations for a meal. Trout hang from the branches of a fireside smoker; horses stand saddled with gear. A man pours coffee in his cup, and...
- Camping--Wyoming--1870-1890.; Cowboys--Wyoming--1870-1890.; Horses--Wyoming--1870-1890.; Meadows--Wyoming--1870-1890.; Outdoor cookery--Wyoming--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Meal time, Rocky Mountain Rifles
- A group of the Rocky Mountain Rifles, Leadville Division of the Colorado National Guard, pose in a camp during meal time in Colorado. Most of the men wear various types of uniforms, boots and different types of hats, including flat military caps...
- Colorado. National Guard. Leadville Division--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Eating & drinking--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1887]
- Ute camp
- Two Ute Indians pose outside their teepee constructed over a tree and poles, Colorado. Firewood and cooking pots are on ground; two more teepees and saddled horses are in background.
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1880-1900.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--1880-1900.; Tipis--Colorado--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1895]
- One end of the Stark Bros Mercantile Company and Post Office and "Home Comfort Hotel" St Elmo Colo
- Stark Brothers Mercantile Company, Saint Elmo, Chaffee County, Colorado, interior shelves hold shoeboxes, coffee pots, and cooking utensils. A hand-operated washing machine is topped by a Rand-Mcnally map of Colorado, tack, and a January 1957...
- Saint Elmo (Colo.)--1960-1970.; General stores--Colorado--Saint Elmo--1960-1970.; Interiors--Colorado--Saint Elmo--1960-1970.; Washing machines--Colorado--Saint Elmo--1960-1970.
- 1965
- Happy campers
- View of a campsite along a stream and stone roadbase, somewhere in the Colorado Rockies, shows ladies in jackets, ties, kneepants, and boots raising a toast, a man playing with a dog, a canvas tent, cooking utensils, campfire, and a thermos; pines...
- Colorado--1920-1930.; Campfires--Colorado--1920-1930.; Camping--Colorado--1920-1930.; Streams--Colorado--1920-1930.; Tents--Colorado--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Ward
- A man looks down into a cooking pot between his legs three other people look on, he wears jodhpers and riding boots, Ward, Boulder County, Colorado.
- Ward (Colo.)--1930-1970.
- [between 1933 and 1970]
- Wild West Show cooks
- Cooks for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show pour water into iron kettles over cooking fires using buckets at the ends of poles. Also shows a canvas tent and piled logs. The Wild West Show reportedly employed seven cooks, two pastry chefs and two...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Chefs--1900-1910.; Cookery--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- Picnic party in Denver Mtn. Park
- View of a picnic in Denver Mountain Park, west of Denver, Colorado; shows women around a small picnic table and a man fishing in creek (probably Bear Creek); men, a picnic basket, and cooking pans are on ground.
- Parks--Colorado--1910-1920.; Picnics--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [1917]
- Campers?
- Men gather in a campsite with mud dwelling and wood shed, possibly in Colorado; scene includes furniture, tables, stools, standing shelves with dishes, cookware, kettles, coffee pots, and cooking pots.
- Camps--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Home of Antero living in the U-in-ta Valley, on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains, [?]
- View of a Native American (Ute) settlement; shows people, a teepee, a stilt-shelter with notched log steps, a cooking tripod, a saddle, and a bottle.
- Indians of North America--Structures--Utah--1860-1870.; Uinta Indians--Structures--Utah--1860-1870.; Ute Indians--Structures--Utah--1860-1870.; Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho)--1860-1870.; Tipis--Utah--1860-1870.; Antero--Homes & haunts.
- [between 1860 and 1870?]
- Man at table
- A bald man sits at a table; dinnerware is on the tablecloth, shows cooking ingredients are on a shelf.
- Interiors--1920-1930.; Men--1920-1930.; Tables--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Typical Indian scene, Crow Indian Reservation, Montana
- Five Native Americans (Crow) pose outside a tepee on the Crow Reservation in Montana. Two women are wrapped in decoratively woven blankets, two girls wear dresses and moccasins, a boy wears leggings, a shirt, and moccasins. A covered cooking area...
- Crow Indians--Children--Montana--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--Women--Montana--1870-1890.; Crow Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1870-1890.; Tipis--Montana--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Limon - Ft. Morgan trip
- View of men camping in eastern Colorado, with a camp wagon, horse, and cooking fire.
- Camping--Colorado--1910-1920.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--1910-1920.; Plains--Colorado--1910-1920.; Transportation--Colorado--1910-1920.
- 1911, May/June
- Men in camp
- Men sit near a fire in a camp. They hold rifles and sit near cooking utensils and a stagecoach.
- Camping--1860-1870.
- [between 1861 and 1870]
- Towee making biscuits in summer house
- A Native American Ute woman, identified as Towee, wife of Buckskin Charlie, sits making biscuits near a frame building. Her cooking fire, utensils, and two dogs are around her.
- Indians of North America--1900-1920.; Ute Indians--Women--1900-1920.; Outdoor cookery--1900-1920.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.; Towee.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Ute indians
- A Native American (Ute) sits and holds a baby wrapped in decorative blankets, one covered with sea shells. Cooking implements and a tepee are behind them.
- Indians of North America--Women--Colorado--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Children--Colorado--1880-1900.; Cradleboards--Colorado--1880-1900.; Infants--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Pine Ridge Agency, S.D.
- View of the First Infantry of the United States Army in camp on the Native American Lakota Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, includes the soldiers with cooking pots, an axe, pile of timber firewood, a tomato can, and round walled tents...
- United States. Army. Infantry.--People--1890-1900.; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Government...
- 1891
- Soldiers at scrap kitchen P.R. Ag. 1st Inf.
- View of the First Infantry camp outdoor kitchen at the Native American Lakota Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, includes soldiers around a cooking fire, stacks of wood, boxes labeled "McClug Cracker Co. Crackers, Omaha & Council Bluffs,"...
- United States. Army. Infantry.--People--1890-1900.; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--Government relations--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Government...
- 1891