Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Uintah railway pile driver
- A railroad work crew pose with a Uintah Railway pile driver in Colorado or Utah. The pile driver, pushed by a steam locomotive, is on a wooden trestle that crosses a stream or river. Shows a flat car with logs.
- Uintah Railway--1900-1910.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Pile drivers.; Railroad bridges.; Railroad locomotives.; Trestles.
- [between 1905 and 1910?]
- Ward, Colo.
- View of the mining town of Ward (Boulder County), Colorado. Log cabins and buildings and wood houses and commercial buildings line the dirt streets. Privies are located throughout the town. Many houses and buildings have log retaining walls.
- Ward (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.; Dirt roads.; Log buildings.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- King, Hughes, Dowd
- Three men identified as King, Hughes and Dowd sit on a tailings pile near a tipple and shed at the Dew Drop Mine in Ward (Boulder County, Colorado. The three men have mustaches and wear hats and jackets.. King has on a shirt that laces up the...
- Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Ward (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Miners.; MIning.; Tailings embankments.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Dew Drop Mine, Frances, Colo.
- A man, two young girls and a boy pose near the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (also known as Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the shaft house, wood buildings, tailings, a tipple, and a log retaining wall. A man sits in...
- Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Children.; Miners.; MIning.; Tailings embankments.
- [1895?]
- Atchee, Uintah Ry. Colo.
- View of Atchee (Garfield County), Colorado. Shows West Salt Creek, the Uintah Railway shop and yards, coal trestles, a narrow gauge flat car with wooden tanks, a coal tender and passenger cars. A water tank is near the shop buildings. Houses and...
- Uintah Railway--1900-1910.; Atchee (Colo.)--1900-1910.; West Salt Creek (Garfield County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad shops & yards.
- [between 1905 and 1910?]
- Uintah Ry. excursion train
- View of a Uintah Railway narrow gauge excursion train probably in Garfield County, Colorado. The consist is led by a steam locomotive and includes a passenger car and an open observation car with a canvas roof. Lettering on the observation car...
- Uintah Railway--1900-1910.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad observation cars.
- [between 1905 and 1910?]
- Uintah Ry. narrow gauge train
- View of a Uintah Railway narrow gauge steam locomotive with a coal tender, caboose and work car. Four men are on the locomotive and one is on the caboose.
- Uintah Railway--1900-1910.; Cities & towns.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad locomotives.
- [between 1905 and 1910?]
- Vaughn, Ives, Daniels, McKinly
- View of the Dew Drop Mine in Frances (also known as Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado near Ward. Five men pose in front of the tailings pile near a log retaining wall. Four of the men (left to right) are identified as Vaughn, Ives,...
- Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Miners.; MIning.; Tailings embankments.; Tipples.
- 1895 February 28
- 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
- Boulder, Colorado
- Panoramic view of Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows tilled fields and houses. The Boulder County Court House and the business district are in the distance. Shows the three story Mapleton School on Mapleton Hill. The Sternburg Mill, a flour...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- 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?]
- 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
- Dew Drop Mine
- Two girls and six men, identified left to right as Daniels, Mead, Vaughn, Smith, Correl, and General Ives, sit on tailings pile under the tipple at the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. Shows a...
- Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings.; Mining.; Tipples.
- 1894 November 7
- 20,000 tons $20.00 ore
- View of the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. A man identified as Costy stands on tailings between the old and new shaft houses. Shows a tipple, and a log and wood retaining wall. Lumber and...
- Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings.; Mining.; Tipples.
- [1895?]
- Ward, Colorado
- Aerial view of Ward (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the railroad station, the Hotel McClancy, commercial buildings and wood frame houses and privies. An ore mill is situated on a hill overlooking the town. A mine and probably another mill are...
- Ward (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.; Mills.; Mining.; Ore industry.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Dew Drop Mine
- View of the Dew Drop Mine near Ward in Frances (Camp Francis, Dew Drop, Boulder County), Colorado. Shows an ore car on tracks that lead into a wood and log shaft house, a small tipple, wooden mine building.
- Dew Drop Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Frances (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mine buildings.; Mining.; Tipples.
- [1894?]
- Black Hawk, Colorado
- Aerial view of Gregory Gulch and Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows "The Gilpin Hotel" and "Stroehle Sheet Iron Works" on Main Street, houses, the Presbyterian Church and the school house on Bates Hill, and commercial buildings on Gregory...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts.; Cities & towns.; Hotels.; Presbyterian churches.; Schools.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- State University campus, Boulder, Colo.
- View of the University of Colorado campus in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows unidentified houses, the Hale Scientific building (science), the president's house, Old Main and Woodbury Hall.
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses.; Universities & Colleges.
- [between 1897 and 1900?]
- Colorado Midland passenger train
- Passengers and crew pose by and on a Colorado Midland passenger train. The train is led by steam locomotive 28, (Schenectady Locomotive Works, 1887).
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1890-1900.; Passengers.; Railroads.
- [between 1897 and 1900?]
- Lyons, Colorado
- Aerial view of probably Lyons (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows commercial buildings in the center of the town, the North St. Vrain Creek and houses and cabins.
- Lyons (Colo.)--1910-1920.; North Saint Vrain Creek (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Cities & towns.; Streams.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Unidentified mine, San Miguel County, Colorado
- View of an unidentified mine in San Miguel County, Colorado. Shows a mine tunnel opening, an ore mill, boarding houses, cabins, and houses.
- San Juan County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Lodging houses.; Mills.; Mining.; Ore industry.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Silver Plume
- View of Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows houses and buildings, Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, barns and out buildings. The Diamond Tunnel, Pelican, Dives, Baxter, Baxter Dunkirk and Payrock mines are on Republican Mountain in...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.; Mining.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Picture writing Yellow Jacket Canyon, Colo.
- View of a rock face with carved North American Indian (Ancestral Puebloan) pictographs in Yellow Jacket Canyon, probably in Montezuma County, Colorado. Includes anthropomorphic figures, animals and designs.
- Indians of North American--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1900-1910.; Montezuma County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Rock art.
- [1900?]
- Picture writing Yellow Jacket Canyon, Colo.
- View of a rock face with carved North American Indian (Ancestral Puebloan) pictographs of anthropomorphic figures in Yellow Jacket Canyon, probably in Montezuma County, Colorado.
- Indians of North American--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1900-1910.; Montezuma County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Rock art.
- [1900?]
- Gilpin Tramway shay locomotive no. 1
- View of Gilpin Tramway shay locomotive no. 1 parked in a railroad yard in Gilpin County, Colorado. The locomotive has a steam dome near the cab and a sand dome further forward, a smokestack and a large headlamp affixed to a bracket.
- Gilpin Tramway Company--1880-1890.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad locomotives.
- [between 1887 and 1890]
- Gilpin Tramway work train
- View of a Gilpin Tramway Company work train led by locomotive no. 4. Lettering on the locomotive reads: "G. 4 T." and "4." The engineer and fireman stand in the door and window of the locomotive. A well dressed man in a suit, tie and hat, sits on...
- Gilpin Tramway Company--1900-1910.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad cars.; Railroad employees.; Railroad locomotives.
- 1908
- Two horse sleigh
- A man poses in a two horse sleigh probably in northern Colorado. The horses are in harness and have strings of sleigh bells hanging from the harness. The man wears a heavy coat and hat, and a throw or blanket is in the sleigh. False front wood...
- Colorado--1880-1900.; Commercial facilities.; Sleds & Sleighs.
- [between 1885 and 1895?]
- Climax Mine
- View of the Climax Mine and of the company mining town of Climax, (11,320 feet) on Fremont Pass, (the Continental Divide), Lake County, Colorado. Shows the open pit molybdenum mine, mine buildings, a crusher plant, mill buildings, tramway, covered...
- Climax Mine (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Fremont Pass (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Mills.; Ore industry.; Settling basins.; Strip mining.
- 1952 October 21
- Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
- Men walk on Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad tracks near Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. Single and multi-storied adobe buildings are in the pueblo. Shows wood and wire and coyote fences and a house with a long portal (open porch). Vigas extend...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Structures.; Laguna Indians--Structures.; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico--1880-1900.; Adobe buildings.; Ovens.; Pueblos.; Railroad tracks.
- [between 1885 and 1895?]
- Harrison, Ave. Leadville, Colo.
- Pedestrians cross a street near Harrison Avenue in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. A man holds the hand of a young girl in a wide brimmed hat and dress. A building on the corner has signs that read: "Prussian National Insurance Company of...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; City & town life.; Commercial streets.; Pedestrians.
- [between 1885 and 1895?]
- Ninth Street School. Leadville, Colo.
- Boys, girls, young men and women stand, sit or play in front of the Ninth Street School, located between Poplar and Hemlock streets, in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The two story brick building has an arched door with voussoirs and a...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; School children.; Schools.; Students.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Colorado Midland RR depot, Leadville, Colo..
- View of the two story Colorado Midland railroad depot which consists of four attached buildings. A man walks down the tracks and two other men sit on a curb nearby. The main building has Victorian style half timbering, shingle imbrication, brick...
- Colorado Midland Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad stations.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- 15th Street at night, Knights Templar Convention
- View of 15th (Fifteenth) Street, decorated for the Knights Templar 1913 Conclave, Central Business District, Denver, Colorado. Garlands of electric star shaped lights hang over the street, each garland has a lighted cross that hangs from its center...
- Knights Templar (Masonic Order)--Commemoration--1910-1920.; Central Business District (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Commercial streets.; Electric lighting.; Festive decorations.; Fraternal organizations.; Public utility...
- 1913 August 16
- 16th Street at night, Knights Templar Convention
- View of 16th (Sixteenth) Street, decorated for the Knights Templar 1913 Conclave, Central Business District, Denver, Colorado. Garlands of electric lights hang over the street and American flags hang from the lamp posts that support the garlands....
- Daniels and Fisher Stores Company--1910-1920.; Knights Templar (Masonic Order)--Commemoration--1910-1920.; Central Business District (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Clock towers.; Commercial streets.; Electric lighting.;...
- 1913 August 16
- Bathhouse, Glenwood Springs
- View of the rusticated sandstone Stone Bath House in Glenwood Springs (Garfield County), Colorado. The buildings has a hipped roof, dormer windows, and a rounded turret. Young trees hide the Natatorium (pool).
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bathhouses.; Stone buildings.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Telluride and Pandora
- Panoramic view of the San Miguel River valley, and the towns of Telluride and Pandora (San Miguel County), Colorado. Shows the Pandora Mill (Smuggler Union Mine), and the Rio Grande Southern railroad spur for the mill.
- Rio Grande Southern Railroad--1890-1900.; Smuggler Union Mine (San Miguel County, Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1900.; Pandora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pandora Mill (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.; Mills.; Ore industry.;...
- [between 1891 and 1895?]
- 17th Street at night, Knights Templar Convention
- View of 17th (Seventeenth) Street, decorated for the Knights Templar 1913 Conclave, Central Business District, Denver, Colorado. Garlands of electric lights hang over the street and American flags hang from the lamp posts that support the garlands....
- Knights Templar (Masonic Order)--Commemoration--1910-1920.; Central Business District (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Commercial streets.; Electric lighting.; Festive decorations.; Fraternal organizations.; Utility...
- 1913 August 15
- Colorado & Southern train stopped under high bridge Georgetown loop.
- Passengers and crew pose on and near Colorado & Southern Railway passenger train number 7 stopped beneath the high bridge (Devil's Gate Viaduct) on the Georgetown loop near Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Well dressed men, women,...
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1890-1900.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Passengers.; Railroad bridges.; Railroad employees.; Streams.; Tourists.
- [between 1898 and 1900?]
- Telluride
- Panoramic view of Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. Shows wooden and brick houses and commercial buildings, the two story brick courthouse with a clock tower, the two story brick school house, the Rio Grande Southern water tank and railroad...
- Rio Grande Southern Railroad--1890-1900.; Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Aetna Mine, Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colorado
- View of the Aetna Mine on Carbonate Hill in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows a shafthouse, a mill, mine buildings and a tipple. Mines and Leadville are in the distance. Snow covered Mount Elbert and Mount Massive are across the valley.
- Aetna Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Elbert, Mount (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Massive, Mount (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mills.; Mine buildings.; Mining.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf railroad train, Georgetown, Colo.
- Boys stand near the tracks as a Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf railroad train travels past Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The consist includes a baggage car, passenger cars and an observation car,...
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (Georgetown, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company--1890-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Catholic churches.; Railroad locomotives.; Railroads.
- [between 1890 and 1898?]
- Colorado Midland rotary plow, on Hagerman Pass Colorado
- View of a Colorado Midland rotary plow on Hagerman Pass in Pitkin County, Colorado. A man walks in front of the plow. Boulders and tree stumps are on a nearby hillside.
- Hagerman Pass (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Blizzards.; Railroads.; Snow removal.
- 1900 April 26
- Leadville, Colo.
- View of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows smelters, which include the Arkansas Valley Smelter with large square brick smokestacks, the old High School (West 9th (Ninth) Street), commercial buildings and houses. Mount Massive is in the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns.; Mining.; Schools.; Smelters.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Denver, Colo.
- Panoramic view of downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows the Arapahoe County Court House, the Majestic Building, the Hotel Metropole, the Brown Palace Hotel and pedestrians, horse-drawn wagons and carriages and street cars are on 16th (Sixteenth) Street...
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Telluride and San Miguel River Valley
- Panoramic view of the San Miguel River valley, and the town of Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. Shows the San Miguel River, houses and businesses.
- San Miguel River (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns.; Valleys.
- [between 1891 and 1895?]
- 6 A.M. snow storm
- View of Main Street after an early July snowstorm in Ouray (Ouray County), Colorado. A striped arch, probably for the Fourth of July, spans the snow covered street, a street light hangs from the center of the arch. Shows the Jeffers Building, with...
- Ouray (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Arches.; Commercial streets.; Snow.
- 1897 July 3
- Picnic in Clear Creek Canyon
- A woman and a teenage girl sit on the ground and have a picnic beside Clear Creek, probably in Jefferson County, Colorado. The woman wears a dark wool double-breasted jacket and a long skirt. She sits beside a leather case and a large straw sun...
- Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Girls.; Picnics.; Streams.; Teenagers.; Women.
- [between 1900 and 1915?]
- Picnic in Clear Creek Canyon
- An elderly man, a woman and a young girl sit on the ground and have a picnic in Clear Creek Canyon, probably in Jefferson County, Colorado. The man wears a jacket, vest and a hat; he holds a sandwich. The woman wears a wool suit with a...
- Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Girls.; Older people.; Picnics.; Women.
- [between 1900 and 1915?]
- Colorado & Southern railroad, Clear Creek Canyon
- A Colorado and Southern Railway train is stopped beside Clear Creek in probably Jefferson County, Colorado. Passengers and crew stand beside the train or walk towards a handcar that is stopped on the tracks. Locomotive number "7" leads the consist...
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1900-1910.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Railroad passenger cars.; Railroad section cars.; Railroads.; Streams.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- St. Louis House, Leadville, Colorado
- A small dog sits on a wooden crate near a carved wooden picket fence in front of the St. Louis House in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The building has a false front, decorated with a cornice, dentals and spindles. The three story building has...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings.; Dogs.; Fences.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]