Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- East High spotlight: vol 28 no 13
- Newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1942 March 26
- Centennial Year: History of the University Park United Methodist Church, 1894-1994
- Ex-Servicemen's Club
- View of the Ex-Servicemen's at 2623-2627 Welton Street in the Five Points Neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The two story commercial style building has a brick and stucco exterior. The second story has small square and rectangle windows in a brick...
- Ex Servicemen's Club (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Clubs.; Ex-Servicemen's Club (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; African American...
- 1976
- Ex-Servicemen's Club
- View of the Ex-Servicemen's Club, Pool Room and Casino Ballroom at 2623-2627 Welton Street in the Five Points Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two story commercial style building has a brick and stucco exterior. The second story has small...
- Ex Servicemen's Club (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Clubs.; Billiard parlors.; Dance halls.; Ex-Servicemen's Club (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 1994
- Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 2, 1952 October 20
- Men, mules and ammunition move forward
- Three men from the Tenth Mountain Division, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Company H (wearing combat fatigues and helmets, and carrying rifles) walk down a country road lined with leafless trees. One leads a pack mule bearing supplies. More mules...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Mules--Italy--1940-1950.; Pack animals--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 86th.
- April 14, 1945
- Choosing a route
- View of two Tenth Mountain Division, Mountain Training Group members during five minute break as they choose a route during a trek from Leadville to Aspen Colorado. According to the photographer, during good weather the men would try not go up and...
- Military training--Colorado--1940-1950.; Ski troops--Colorado--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- February 1944
- F. D. Works & Co.
- Governor Peabody's National guardsmen in uniforms with guns and rifles keep order during the labor dispute of 1903-1904, on boardwalk in front of hardware store at Colorado Avenue and South Alder, Telluride, Colorado. Black shopkeeper in apron has...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hardware stores--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Miners' strikes--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1903 and 1904]
- Col. Cody
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody rides a horse in a dirt arena during a performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. Cody rides in front of a small, log cabin, possibly during the "Attack on a Settler's Cabin" act...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- Municipal Facts: Volume 10 Numbers 1 and 2, 1927 January-February
- Radioman during mortar barrage, Della Vetta, Italy
- Two soldiers from the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Regiment, Company K during a mortar barrage on Mount Della Vetta during the Italian Campaign. The soldier standing at the edge of the slope is a radioman who (according to the caption) was...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 3, 1945
- Soldiers wearing "whites" during training at Cooper Hill, Camp Hale, Colorado
- Six Tenth Mountain Division soldiers pose for a group photo in the snow during training on Cooper Hill in Camp Hale (Eagle County), Colorado. They wear white anoraks, khaki pants and red armbands to mark their team during war games. Bobby Lathrop...
- Military training--Colorado--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; Lathrop, Bobby.; Lundby, Gerald.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; Camp Hale (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- [1943-1944]
- East High spotlight: vol 30 no 1
- Newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1943 September 30
- Union Station during strike
- A man in an overcoat and hat holds a box and walks through Union Station in Denver, Colorado. Interior view of the depot during a labor strike shows empty wooden waiting booths, luggage carts in an aisle, metal lockers and paintings of trains.
- Union Station (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1930-1950.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Denver--1930-1950.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Daniels and Fisher's Tower during renovation
- Exterior photograph of the base of the Daniels and Fisher Tower in Denver, Colorado, during renovation. Designed by Frederick J. Sterner and George H. Williamson as part of the 1911 Daniels and Fisher dry goods store building, the 21-story...
- Daniels and Fisher Stores Company.; Central Business District (Denver, Colo.); Clock towers.; Daniels and Fisher Stores Company--Facilities--Pictorial works.; Tower clocks--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Towers--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial...
- Undated
- Man and girl with clown at Juneteenth celebration
- Gallo Wine boycott march
- AFL-CIO United Farm Workers of America members and their supporters march in support of the grape and Gallo Wine boycott through Denver, Colorado. A large group of people carry banners and signs. A banner reads: "The People United Will Never Be...
- United Steelworkers of America--People--1970-1980.; United Farm Workers of America--People--1970-1980.; Mexican Americans--1970-1980.; Hispanic Americans--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Demonstrations.; Boycotts.; United Steelworkers of...
- [1975]
- Cinco de Mayo
- View of the stage at Cinco de Mayo celebration in Denver, Colorado. An unidentified man looks over the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) information table. In the distance Father José Lara addresses the crowd. A sign over the stage reads:...
- United Farm Workers of America--People--1970-1980.; Mexican Americans--1970-1980.; Hispanic Americans--1970-1980.; Cinco de Mayo (Mexican Holiday)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Public speaking.; Priests.; Lara, José, Father--Pictorial...
- [1975]
- Striking lettuce workers
- Striking workers with the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) pray near a Mobil gas station during the Finerman lettuce strike in Center (Saguache County), Colorado. A photographer stands with the men, one man holds a sign that reads: "Farm Labor...
- United Farm Workers of America--People--1970-1980.; Mexican Americans--1970-1980.; Hispanic Americans--1970-1980.; Center (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Strikes.; Agricultural laborers.; Prayer.; United Farm Workers of America--Pictorial works.; Mexican...
- [1972]
- Tivoli Student Union, formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery Auraria Higher Education Center.
- View of paint removal from the Tivoli Student Union (formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery) during exterior restoration, the building is located at 900 Auraria Parkway on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus in Denver, Colorado. The brewery was...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--2000-2010.; Tivoli Student Union (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Conservation & restoration.; Historic buildings.; Student unions.; Universities & colleges.;...
- 2004
- Major Rafael Chacón and Juanita Páiz
- Studio portrait of Hispanic American Major Rafael Chacón and his wife Juanita Páiz de Chacón. Major Chacón served in the U.S. Army in New Mexico during the Civil War. He wears a uniform and has a mustache, his wife wears a long dress with a...
- Hispanic Americans--1860-1870.; Mexican Americans--1860-1870.; Spouses.; Chacón, Juanita Páiz de--Pictorial works.; Chacón, Rafael, 1833-1925--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Pictorial works.;...
- ca. 1858
- Luis Canela and Boyd Polhamus
- Boyd Polhamus, rodeo announcer, poses with Luis Canela, the master of ceremonies for the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza during the 100th anniversary of the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. Boyd wears a denim shirt, jeans and a cowboy...
- National Western Stock Show--2000-2010.; Hispanic Americans--2000-2010.; Masters of ceremonies--2000-2010.; Mexican Americans--2000-2010.; Rodeo announcers--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Rodeos.; Canela, Luis--Pictorial works.; Polhamus,...
- [2006 January 1]
- Pancake race, Alamosa, Colo.
- Women participants in the annual Alamosa Colorado pancake race pose with frying pans and numbers pinned to their aprons in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. A woman dressed as Aunt Jemima, in black face, a checkered dress, headscarf and an apron,...
- Hispanic Americans--1950-1960.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Blackface entertainers.; Women.; Jemima, Aunt--Pictorial works.; Zamora, Elizabeth--Pictorial works.; Blackface entertainers--Colorado--Alamosa--Pictorial works.; Hispanic...
- 1958
- The City of Denver: Volume 2 Number 1, 1913 October 11
- Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 4, 1918 June
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 26, 1909 August 14
- Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 8, 1921 August
- Municipal Facts: Volume 7 Numbers 1 and 2, 1924 January-February
- Water fights, between fights, private bank party, 2:30 PM.
- Spectators and participants stand in the intersection of Main Street and 6th (Sixth) Avenue, Ouray, Colorado, during a break in water fights during the 4th of July, Independence Day celebration. People watch from the narrow balcony of the Citizens...
- Ouray (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Ouray--1970-1980.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1970-1980.
- 1979 July 4
- William Jennings Bryan
- William Jennings Bryan, three time Democratic Party presidential nominee, leaves the Denver Democratic Party Club building. This photo may have been taken during the 1908 Democratic National Convention held at Denver in 1908.
- Pearce, Richard, Denver resident--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Political conventions--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Politicians--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Bryan, William Jennings, ...
- 1908?
- People escaping from the Indian massacre, at dinner on a prairie
- A Group of men, women, and children rest and eat during their flight from Fort Ridgely, Minnesota during the Native American Sioux uprising. Stephen R. Riggs sits near a woman who stands by a wagon.
- Dakota Indians--War--1860-1870.; Indians of North America--War--1860-1870.; Great Plains--1860-1870.; Children--1860-1870.; Women--1860-1870.
- [1862 August 21]
- Winema Toby Riddle
- Head and shoulders studio portrait of Native American (Modoc) woman Winema Toby Riddle. She wears a dark dress with a white collar, buttons, and ruffled cuffs. Mrs. Riddle and her husband were interpreters during the Modoc War.
- Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Modoc Indians--1870-1880.; Winema, Modoc Chieftainess, 1842-1932.
- 1875 or 1876
- Military camp near Stratton's Independence mine
- Camp Goldfield, Cripple Creek, Colorado, headquarters of the Colorado National Guard during the Western Federation of Miners labor strike. Shows: tents, mining buildings, and smokestacks.
- Colorado. National Guard--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Military camps--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Militia--Colorado--Cripple...
- 1903
- C. C. Hamlin of Mine Owner's Association addressing crowd
- People crowd Fourth and Victor Avenues and a vacant lot in Victor, Teller County, Colorado, during a Western Federation of Miners labor strike, by houses and mining processing sheds. Clarence C. Hamlin, of the Mine Owner's Association, provoked a...
- Audiences--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Miners' strikes--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Public speaking--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.;...
- June 6, 1904
- Harbor at Malcensine on Lake Garda
- Members of the 10th Mountain Division 2nd Battalion 85th Regiment Headquarters stand near a boat used to carry "Long Toms" across Lake Garda in Italy during the Italian campaign of World War II. Buildings, trucks, and tanks are near the water.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Italy--1940-1950.; Garda, Lake (Italy)--1940-1950.; Harbors--Italy--1940-1950.; Infantry--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Military personnel--Italy--1940-1950.; Sailboats--Italy--1940-1950.; United States....
- [1945]
- Eldora Colo 1896
- Wooden residential and commercial buildings line a dirt road during the early days in Eldora (Eldorado), Colorado.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Roads--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Colorado Penitentiary interior buildings
- Convicts work at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, in a hole near buildings destroyed during the riots of 1929. Rubble, a wheelbarrow, and lumber are in the area. The stone walled City Ditch is in the foreground.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Prison laborers--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1930
- Custer Battlefield, skirmish line west side of hill, 1886
- Reenactment of Battle at Little Bighorn during Tenth Anniversary and Reunion of battle on June 25, 1886; skirmish line on west side of ridge where Custer and his men dismounted and fought as told by Chief Gall during the Anniversary; reenactment...
- Battlefields--Montana--1886.; Historical reenactments--1880-1890.; Soldiers--1880-1890.; Baldwin, Frank D.; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
- 1886
- Greeley, Colorado people
- Photoprint of five photos depict the early history of the town of Greeley, Colorado in Weld County.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1950-1980.
- [between 1950 and 1980]
- Evacuation by litter basket
- Pfc. Robert Schutte is lowered to the ground over leafless trees in a litter basket during a rock climbing school for Tenth Mountain Division medics held during the Italian Campaign under the direction of Captain John Weaver, Jr. Three soldiers...
- Rock climbing--Training--1940-1950.; Medical aspects of war--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- April 1945
- Sgt. Kennedy's mortar sight
- Mortar sight, the invention of Tenth Mountain Division artillery Sergeant William "Bill" Kennedy as an improvement over those issued by the Army. It was used independently during the Italian Campaign by a few units in the Division. But Kennedy was...
- Artillery (Weaponry)--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Kennedy, William.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- [April 1945]
- "Pop" Haus, Co I right after Pietra Colora and Monte Della Croce
- According to the photographer, this Tenth Mountain Division Soldier from the 87th Regiment Company I, "Pop" Haus had just been relieved after five days and nights of combat duty during the battles of Pietra Colora and Monte Della Croce during the...
- Pietra Colora (Italy)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Italy--1940-1950.; Haus, Pop.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- 1945
- Two skitroopers in "whites" at Cooper Hill, Camp Hale, Colorado
- Two Tenth Mountain Division skitroopers on skis coming out of the snowy woods. The man on the left is wearing a red armband, which marks his team during war games. Taken during training at Cooper Hill.
- Military training--Colorado--1940-1950.; Ski troops--Colorado--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; Camp Hale (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- [1943-1944]
- White, John
- John C. White, a stage driver during the mining boom in Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, poses for a studio bust portrait. Eldora experienced its boom near the end of the 19th century. White drove the stage route between Eldora and Boulder...
- Driving of horse-drawn vehicles--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Stagecoaches--Colorado--Boulder County--1930-1950.; White, John C.
- [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?]
- Eldora, Colorado 1890-1899
- Two panoramic prints mounted together show the town of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado, during its mining boom. The town is at the base of a hill lined with pine trees. Part of a pine tree trunk stands in the left foreground.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hills--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Pines--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Sketches in Utah
- Mormon men bow their heads, across the table from Brigham Young and the elders, during communion. Shows a Book of Mormon and a metal container on the table. The men wear suits with scarves or bow ties. Brigham Young stands at the pulpit inside the...
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--People--1870-1880.; Mormons--Utah--Salt Lake City--1870-1880.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1870-1880.; Communion--Utah--Salt Lake City--1870-1880.; Families--Utah--Salt Lake City--1870-1880.; Mothers &...
- 1874 September 26
- Monarch Br. diesel & rail train.
- Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company standard gauge diesel #111 stops with idler cars filled with rails, and a caboose, during the conversion of the Monarch Branch from narrow to standard gauge, near Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Equipment & supplies--1950-1960.; Salida (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Salida--1950-1960.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Salida--1950-1960.; Railroads--Colorado--Salida--1950-1960.
- 1956 September 29
- Nate Salsbury with group
- Nate Salsbury, owner and manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, stands third from the left among a large group of men. Salsbury wears a silk top hat and a suit. He holds a cigar in his left hand. Standing fourth from left is John Higby, a...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Entertainers--1880-1900.; Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Bucking horse
- A group of cowboys works to settle a bucking horse in a dirt arena during a performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody is on a white horse in the right background watching the...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Broncos--1890-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]