Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Black Hawk-1937
- View up a dirt street in Black Hawk, Colorado. Two structures built above the street on rock wall foundations are tiered to adjust for the sloping landscape. The structure on the left is two story, white, horizontal clapboard, medium gable. First...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1940.
- 1937
- Denver Public Library 1927 obituary index : Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post.
- Index of all deaths published in the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post for the year 1927.
- Denver (Colo.)--Genealogy--Indexes.; Denver (Colo.)--Vital records.; Denver Post--Indexes.; Rocky Mountain News--Indexes.
- 2011
- F. Bowen Livery Stable
- Exterior view of the F. Bowen Livery Stable in Georgetown, Colorado. A man and woman are on horseback; a couple sits in a horse-drawn carriage on the boardwalk outside the open stable door. A man with a whip stands in center. The stable is a...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.; Stables--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- The first house in Denver after commencement of Official Survey, Nov. 1st, 1858, corner Wynkoop and 12th Sts. Erected by A. H. Barker
- Shows a log cabin built by Anselm H. Barker at 12th (Twelfth) and Wynkoop Streets in Denver, Colorado; a covered wagon, a team of oxen, people, horses, tipis, and trees are to the side. A portrait of a man is in an oval vignette in the corner.
- Barker, Anselm Holcomb, 1822-1895--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Black Hawk - 1942, residence in Chase Gulch
- View of a residence in Blackhawk, Colorado, with mansard roof, single chimney, front gabled dormer, bay window and double hung window on first floor, double hung windows on second floor, and front porch with pilasters. Three children are in front...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Children--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Rock walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Blackhawk - 1957
- View of Carpenter Gothic style residence in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows a steeply gabled roof, pilaster corner boards, horizontal clapboard, finial, gingerbread bargeboard, two double hung two pane windows on the first floor and one on the second....
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Residences--Colorado--Blackhawk--1950-1960.
- 1957
- Shoe shop
- Four men in aprons stand outside on boardwalk in front of Pollman Shoe Shop, 130 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado, a false-front wood frame structure with tall central pane window on upper story, large pane shop windows, and double door...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Businessmen--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1910]
- Black Hawk, 1968
- Front view of two story home in Black Hawk, Colorado. It is square, single-detached, with 3 front bays (center door and double hung windows on either side), horizontal clapboard siding, center gable up front with 3 center pointed windows, sawtooth...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1970.
- 1968
- Denver High School: East Side Annual 1913
- 1913 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1913
- Farmer and Hale Mortuary, William D. Nash Mortuary burial records -- index, 1889 to 1909
- Index to the Farmer and Hale Mortuary Index located in Denver, Colorado from the years 1889 to 1909. The original registers are individually indexed. The name may be that of the deceased or the person responsible for payment of the funeral...
- Funeral homes--Colorado--Denver--Records--Indexes.; Burial--Colorado--Denver--Indexes.; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado--Denver--Records--Indexes.
- 2002
- Another view of Mineral Park showing bolted white goods drying and small garments hung on lines.
- Unrolled bolts of cloth are laid out to dry on the grass in Mineral Palace Park in Pueblo, Colorado, after an Arkansas River flood. In the distance people hang clothing on lines hung between trees.
- Mineral Palace Park (Pueblo, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Floods--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Parks--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Textiles--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.
- [1921 June]
- Rogers and Nash Mortuary Records : 1873-1979
- Index to the records of the Rogers and Nash Mortuary Records located in boxes 1-18 and between the years 1873 and 1979. Index is arranged alphabetically by last name and includes: Last and First Name, Date of Event, Type of Records, Box Number,...
- Rogers Mortuary (Denver, Colo.)--Registers.; Nash-Miller Mortuary (Denver, Colo.)--Registers.; Funeral homes--Colorado--Denver.; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado--Denver.; Denver (Colo.)--Genealogy. Denver (Colo.) -- Vital records.
- 2008
- Pacific Express Stable/Francis J. Fisher Building, ceiling supports
- 2721 Welton Street, Five Points
- View of 2721 Welton Street in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The one story brick commercial style buildings have decorative corbeling. A hand painted sign for "Young's Soul Food Cafe" is hung on the facade of the building, next...
- Young's Soul Food Cafe (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; 20th Century Barber Shop (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Kapre Lounge (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Commercial facilities.;...
- 1978
- Zang Brewing Co.
- View of the Zang Brewing Co. at 2301 7th Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The white-painted brick Italianate style building has two stories and a recessed main entry, a second entrance is on the facade. The second...
- Zang Brewing Company (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Jefferson Park (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Restaurants.; Zang Brewing Company (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Restaurants--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.;...
- 1977
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal, M.I.
- View of the Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal at 1039 West 13th Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one story Colonial Revival style brick building has hung multi paned windows and a fanlight over the arched entrance. A...
- Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Lincoln Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Protestant churches.; Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Pentecostal...
- 2009
- The Rossonian
- View of the of the Rossonian, formerly the Rossonian Hotel, now an office building, at 2650 Welton Street in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Built in 1912 as the Baxter Hotel, it is a Beaux-Arts style building with a brick exterior...
- Rossonian (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Office buildings.; Commercial facilities.; Rossonian (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Office buildings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial...
- 1999
- Morada, San Francisco, Colo.
- View of the Morada in San Francisco (Costilla County), Colorado. The one story adobe structure has a stucco exterior and a pitched roof covered in tar paper. A white wooden cross is hung near the buildings entrance with the initials F.P.D.N.P.J....
- Hermanos Penitentes--Buildings--2000-2010.; San Francisco (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Churches.; Adobe buildings.; Historic buildings.; Hermanos Penitentes--Buildings--Pictorial works.; Moradas--Colorado--San Francisco--Pictorial works.; Adobe...
- 2001?
- Paul Chavez and Dave Gallegos
- Paul Chavez and Dave Gallegos were Spanish speaking radio broadcast personalities on the Latin Connection on KBDO radio in Denver Colorado beginning in the late 1970s. They pose in a large space decorated with paper cutouts hung on a line from the...
- Hispanic Americans--2000-2010.; Mexican Americans--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Chavez, Paul--Pictorial works.; Gallegos, Dave--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Mexican...
- [2009?]
- Syl's Tavern
- View of Syl's Tavern. The Pueblo Revival style building features shaped parapets and stucco walls. Metal awnings are hung over a window and door on the side of the building. Signs on the building read: "Syl's Tavern," "7up," "Coors" and "Falstaff."
- Syl's Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Baker (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Syl's Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars (Drinking establishments)--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial...
- 1976
- Hunters
- Men pose with deer carcasses hung from aspen trees in western Colorado. The hunters have a dog, canvas tent, and horses. Hills and bluffs are in the distance.
- Camping--Colorado--1900-1910.; Deer hunting--Colorado--1900-1910.; Tents--Colorado--1900-1910.
- 1907 September 9
- San Gabriel Mission
- Interior view of Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel (Los Angeles County), California. Shows the nave, benches, pews, stucco finished walls, the pulpit and decorative alter with sculptured figurines of saints and candle holders. Hung on the...
- Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)--Facilities--1890-1900.; San Gabriel (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Missions--California--San Gabriel--1890-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Garage exterior
- View of a garage used by the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in Greeley (Weld County), Colorado. The building is a one-story brick structure with a flat roof, decorative brick work at the roof line, and two sets of casement hung...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--Buildings--1920-1930.; Greeley (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Garages--Colorado--Greeley--1920-1930.
- 1922 January
- Garage, exterior
- View of a garage used by the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in Greeley (Weld County), Colorado. The building is a one-story brick building with a flat roof, decorative brick work at the roof line, and two sets of double casement...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--Buildings--1920-1930.; Greeley (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Garages--Colorado--Greeley--1920-1930.
- 1922
- Wight Building, eastern division, accounting department
- Men and women work at desks in the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company accounting office in the Wight Building, 1430 Champa Street, Denver, Colorado. Shows office supplies, adding machines, telephones, and file cabinets. Coats and hats...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--People--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Offices--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- 1916
- 1421 Champa, interior offices, general plant, "engineering."
- Men and women sit at desks in a crowded office in the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company building in 1421 Champa Street in Denver, Colorado. The women work on typewriters and adding machines at library tables in the center of the room....
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--People--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Offices--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Telephone...
- 1916 February
- Customs House building
- View of the U.S. Customs House located at 18th (Eighteenth) and Stout streets in Denver, Colorado. The building has triple-hung and rounded arched windows and a decorated cornice. Trees surround the building and automobiles are parked on the...
- United States. Bureau of Customs.--Buildings--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Customhouses--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1935?]
- Customs House building
- View of the U.S. Customs House located at 18th (Eighteenth) and Stout streets in Denver, Colorado. The building has triple-hung and rounded arched windows and a decorated cornice. Trees surround the building and automobiles are parked on the...
- United States. Bureau of Customs.--Buildings--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Customshouses--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1935?]
- Federal Mint building
- View of the Federal Mint building at West Colfax and Delaware Street in Denver, Colorado. The two-story granite building has marble lunettes above arched and rectangular windows and a bracketed cornice. The roof is under construction and a crane is...
- United States Mint (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Civic Center (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Mints--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- [between 1897 and 1900?]
- Cripple Creek school board
- Interior view of an office with men and women, identified as members of the Cripple Creek school board in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows desks, rotating chairs, typewriter, cabinets, a safe, clock, hung portraits, a wall calendar,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Offices--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; School board members--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1905?]
- Display of plates
- View of a plate collection hung on a wall in Colorado. Serving dishes and bowls are also in the display.
- Plates (Tableware)--Colorado--1910-1930.; Tableware--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- View of room with men handling rolls of paper
- Shows the reel room of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Rolls of newsprint are hung on the columns of metal reels. Crumpled newsprint is strewn on the concrete floor. Workers stand and watch as others load newsprint rolls onto reels.
- Rocky Mountain News--People--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Newspaper industry--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Printing presses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1902?]
- Main Street looking west
- View of Main Street in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Nearby buildings include the Union Block. A group of pedestrians are on the sidewalk nearby. Electric lights are hung over the street.
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Trinidad--1880-1890.
- [1889 May 2]
- Mission San Gabriel Arcangel
- View of the bells at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel (Los Angeles County), California. Each of the six bells is hung in an arched opening set high on a plaster covered brick wall. This mission style building has a curvilinear gable or...
- Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)--1870-1900.; San Gabriel (Calif.)--1870-1900.; Bell towers--California--San Gabriel--1870-1900.; Bells--California--San Gabriel--1870-1900.; Missions--California--San Gabriel--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- San Gabriel Mission, Calif.
- View of the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel (Los Angeles County), California. Six bells are hung in arched openings set high on a plaster covered brick wall. This mission has a curvilinear gable or roof line along the tower. A crucifix...
- Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)--1870-1900.; San Gabriel (Calif.)--1870-1900.; Missions--California--San Gabriel--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Mission San Gabriel
- View of Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel (Los Angeles County), California. Six bells are hung in arched openings set high on a plaster-covered brick wall. The Spanish-Moorish style mission has a curvilinear gable or roof line along the...
- Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)--1890-1900.; San Gabriel (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Missions--California--San Gabriel--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Jesse McDonald's home on W. 7th St.
- This view of Jesse McDonald's home on West Seventh Street in Leadville, Colorado shows a large two-story clapboard structure with multi- gabled roofs, decorative fish-scale shingles, a front porch, brick chimneys, several large one sash and transom...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1968
- Soda Spring, Manitou Colo.
- View of the Soda Spring Pavilion in Manitou, Colorado; a 48-star flag is hung on pavilion at left; men, women and children stand near pavilion; some sit on bench in shade; stone footbridge crosses creek.
- Soda Spring Pavilion (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Pavilions--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1910-1920.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1920.; Springs--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1920.
- [between 1912 and 1920]
- Leadville residence
- This view of a carpenter gothic two story house in Leadville, Colorado features a side gable with a one story addition on the back, a wood shingle roof, a brick chimney, a stone foundation and two second story window dormers cut into the roofline....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895]
- Grain elevator and storage, Mosca, Colorado
- Frame grain elevator in Mosca, Alamosa County, Colorado, is five- stories high with stepped gables and double hung sash windows. A man stands on the dock by the projecting office; an engine, coal and freight cars of the Denver and Rio Grande...
- Mosca (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Grain elevators--Colorado--Mosca--1910-1920.; Grain industry--Colorado--Mosca--1910-1920.
- 1912
- Montgomery, Colorado
- Well dressed men and women in Montgomery, Park County, Colorado, pose on the deck of a long, one-story log cabin. A birdcage [?] is by the double hung window. Lumber, a fence, and horses are in the foreground; dwellings and mountain slopes are in...
- Montgomery (Colo.)--1850-1870.
- [between 1859 and 1868?]
- Myer's cabin - Montgomery, Colo.
- Well dressed men and women in Montgomery, Park County, Colorado, pose on the deck of a long, one-story log cabin. A birdcage [?] is by the double hung window. Lumber, a fence, and horses are in the foreground; dwellings and mountain slopes are in...
- Montgomery (Colo.)--1850-1870.; Log cabins--Colorado--Montgomery--1850-1870.
- [between 1859 and 1868?]
- Bartholf Hose No. 1, Loveland, Colorado
- Bartholf Hose Team Number 1, poses in front of the Larimer County Bank building. They wear uniforms with breast bibs with: "B H 1", caps, white gloves and belts, two men hold horns. American flags hung on bank help celebrate Decoration Day.
- Loveland (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Loveland--1890-1910.
- May 30, 1896
- Post Office, Louisville Postmaster George Longmore, Lela Biella Zurick.
- Postmaster George Longmore stands behind the service window, and Lela Biella Zurick stands in front of the postal mail boxes beside the window, Louisville Post Office, Colorado. Signs hung on the wall of mailboxes include: "Buy War Savings Stamps...
- Louisville (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Post offices--Colorado--Louisville--1910-1920.; Longmore, George.; Zurick, Lela Biella.
- 1916
- Meeker, Colorado
- Looking north on the westerly part of Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The brick building above the town is the school house, white church to left is the Methodist Church, brick store building to extreme right is the Coltharp Merchantile Co. A...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nudes--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Swimmers--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Meeker, Colorado
- The second J. W. Hugus and Company Building, Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, (originally built in the 1890s, destroyed by fire in the 1910 or 1911, then rebuilt.) Several men and a boy pose on boardwalk in front of the Meeker Bank and Hugus...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Crippe [sic] Creek
- Exterior view of Pikes Peak Block building, 2nd and Warren (or Myers?), Cripple Creek, Colorado; two-story flat-roof single detached brick commercial building includes Hotel Portland, The Rocky Mountain Liquor House (S. Lang, proprietor) and Wines...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Minturn, Colo
- These one-story frame residences in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado, have covered porches, bay windows, and double hung windows. Picket fence encloses the yard of the smaller house; slopes are in the background.
- Minturn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Minturn--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Oberlin and Government Land Office, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Oberlin Land Office (Calvert & Stephens) and Government Land Office, Cripple Creek, Colorado; J. R. McCoun, Atty-at-Law sign attached to government building and J. R. McCoun Land Office lettered on window; ten men pose in front of...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Government facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896?]
- Squires Hotel Minturn, Colo
- Men and women pose in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado, by a two- story building with a covered balcony/porch and paired, double hung windows. Lathe turned piers and jigsawn balustrade finish the verandah; the stucco building has a flat roof and...
- Squires Hotel (Minturn, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Minturn (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Artificial limbs--Colorado--Minturn--1900-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Minturn--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--Minturn--1900-1920.
- [between 1909 and 1915?]