Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- St. Mary's Catholic Church
- View of the north side of St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church in Central City, Colorado. Formerly St. Patrick's, the original structure was damaged in the fire of 1874, and for almost twenty years the congregation worshipped in a...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Churches--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Central City, Colo.)
- [between 1893 and 1899]
- Main Street, Happy Valley No 2.
- View west of Main Street in Eldora (Happy Valley), Colorado; men stand by frame buildings. The Continental Divide is in the distance.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Dinner at the Central City Opera House
- Lodge members sit at long dining tables on the floor and the stage of the Central City Opera House, in Central City, Colorado. Empty plates, glasses, and silverware are on the table. The guests look toward the balcony, as if listening to a speech....
- Central City Opera House--1890-1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Audiences--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Dining rooms--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Interiors--1890-1900.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Central City stores
- Butchered beef and other animal carcasses hang over a gravel floor on the perimeter of a meat locker in Central City, Colorado. A marble counter and a wooden counter with decorative carving is in the background. Scales are on either side of the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Meat cutting--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Black Hawk, Colorado
- Panoramic view of tailings piles and mine buildings, smokestacks, houses, and commercial buildings in Blackhawk (Black Hawk, Gilpin County), Colorado. Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf freight cars are on Colorado Central Railroad tracks. Shows the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Blackhawk--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Blackhawk--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Black Hawk Colo., after the flood, July 30, 1895
- View from ground level of a street crowded with people after the flood of 1895 in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows a woman seated with umbrella, one woman standing with umbrella and propped against a leaning pole, and one woman with her left arm behind...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
- 1895
- The Sisters' School, Central City
- View of the facade of St. Alyosius's School in Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County, built on a hillside. Architectural features of three-story brick school: gables, a tower with a Celtic cross on top of it, and porches and balconies with...
- Central City (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1880-1910.; St. Aloysius Convent & School (Central City, Colo.)
- [between 1885 and 1910?]
- Headquarters of the Happy Valley Placer Company, Eldorado camp
- Men and boys stand or sit beside a horse-drawn buggy and a log cabin, possibly the home of John H. Kemp, in Eldora (Eldorado) in the Grand Island Mining District of Boulder County, Colorado. Men beside a wooden fence are identified left to right...
- Happy Valley Placer Company (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log...
- 1895
- Central City
- Men and a girl stand in front of a two-story building with a flat roof and a cornice with dentils and brackets on Main Street in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Men wear suits, coats, and hats. One man holds a cane and stands near a...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Girls--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Men--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Publishing industry--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Mining in Central City
- A group of men pose in the interior of a shaft house at a mine in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Three men stand with their hands on a chain and their feet on a large bucket that lowers into the shaft.
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1901?]
- Nevadaville [graphic]
- View of the town of Nevadaville (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows wood frame commercial buildings and residences, the Methodist Episcopal Church, a school, outhouses, a head frame near a tailings pile, narrow gauge tracks and wagons.
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Nevadaville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Nevadaville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1901]
- The Gilpin Tramway Co.
- Three Gilpin Tramway Company locomotives and gondola cars loaded with frozen ore park on railroad tracks outside the steam shed used to thaw the ore before sent to processing mill in winter. Two men stand on side of locomotive Quartz Hill 3 and a...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ore industry--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Gilpin Tramway Company.
- [1900 or 1901]
- Nevadaville, Bald Mt. Colo.
- People pose in Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, in a buggy, an ore wagon, with horses, near snowbanks and in a merchant's wagon with lettering: "Union Bakery." Log and frame houses and sheds cover Quartz Hill; a bridge spans Nevada Creek.
- Nevada Creek (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Nevadaville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Quartz Hill (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bridges--Colorado--Nevadaville--1880-1890.
- 1889
- Mining camp, west of Eldora
- View of the Happy Valley Placer Co. mining camp in the Grand Island Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado with tents and a buggy. John H. Kemp leans on the fence to the left; Engineer August Mathez stands with a transit instrument and tripod...
- Happy Valley Placer Company (Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1900.; Mining camps--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1900.; Kemp, John H.;...
- Summer 1892
- Iron City, stamp mill
- A group of men, with horses, wagons, and a Union Pacific railroad car, pose in front of the Iron City Stamp mill in Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado.
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Ore industry--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Railroad cars--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.
- 1900
- High School, Central City
- The Central City High School, completed in 1870, was one of the oldest permanent High Schools in Colorado. The granite, Italianate building has a flat roof, double-bracketed cornice, tall, narrow windows, a cupola with a bell, wide overhanging...
- Central City (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Central City Teller House parlor
- A parlor in the Teller House in Central City, Colorado, has an assortment of furniture, including two parlor chairs, a sofa, ottomans, a round table, a coffee table, and a piano. A stove and its stovepipe are in the corner. A chandelier hangs from...
- Teller House (Central City, Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Interiors--1890-1900.; Parlors--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Main Street after the flood of 1893
- Workmen with shovels and picks on Main Street around 3:45 p.m. as pedestrians watch them clear the street after the flood. The men are wearing hats and workclothes; the onlookers are wearing suits and dresses, two are carrying umbrellas. Main...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- 1893
- Central City parade
- A parade marches past Armory Hall, which has "Central City Fire Department" painted above the door, and City Hall in Central City, Colorado. The House Guards carry rifles and an American flag. They follow another column that marches down Main...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Soldiers--American--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897]
- Engine room, Buell mine
- Engine room of the Buell Mine with water heater tanks, a side crank, steam engine, and a cable hoist in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Mining machinery--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Engine rooms--Central City--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.
- [1900 or 1901?]
- Vertical engine and switchgear
- View of an electrical switchbox and vertical engine in the interior of a mine building probably in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Engines--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Machinery--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.;...
- [1900 or 1901]
- Motor and cars of Bobtail Tunnel Central City, Colo
- A miner poses in an electric engine of the Bobtail Tunnel tramway near Black Hawk, Gilpin County, Colorado. The engine, which has "The Jeffrey MFG Co. Columbus, O. U. S. A." embossed on the side, pulls mine cars on the tracks.
- Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Blackhawk (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bobtail Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.;...
- [1900 or 1901]
- Underground in a mine
- A miner drills an upward hole with a compressed air, percussion-type rock drill called a stoper in an unidentified mine in Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Gilpin County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Drilling & boring machinery--Colorado--Gilpin County--1870-1890.; Interiors--Colorado--Gilpin County--1870-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Gilpin County--1870-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Miner prepares to drill
- A miner prepares to use a pneumatic drill on the roof a mine tunnel in Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Gilpin County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Drilling & boring machinery--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.
- 1900 or 1901
- Gilpin county mine
- A group of men with a hose, saw, and tools stand on pipes in front of an unidentified mine and mill building in Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Gilpin County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1901]
- Looking south toward Pewabic mountain
- View of several mines with tailings and head frames at the foot of Pewabic Mountain, (Gilpin County) Colorado; includes the Pewabic Mine in center.
- Pewabic Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Pewabic Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1901]
- City Park Denver, Colorado
- A woman and a girl feed ducks at City Park (Ferril) Lake in City Park, Denver, Colorado. A swan is nearby.
- City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ferril Lake (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Animal feeding--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Ducks--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1902 and 1910?]
- City Park Denver, Colorado
- View of City Park (Ferril) Lake in City Park, Denver, Colorado. Ducks are in the water.
- City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ferril Lake (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1910?]
- Eldora pioneers, 1895
- Men and boys (early settlers) and their dogs pose in front of a log cabin in Eldora, Colorado. A two-horse team stands nearby.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Pioneers--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Happy Valley middle Boulder
- Log cabins and snow fill the valley (Happy Valley) at Eldora, Colorado.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Valleys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Main Street Happy Valley No 2
- The view looking west, shows five men, surrounded by wooden buildings, standing on Main Street in Eldora (Happy Valley), Colorado. The snow capped Continental Divide is in the distance.
- Mining camps--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [1895]
- Happy Valley middle Boulder
- Log cabins, false front commercial buildings, and snow fill the valley (Happy Valley) at Eldora, Colorado.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Valleys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Black Hawk, Colorado
- Panoramic view of commercial buildings, mine buildings, and houses in Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows the brick Gilpin Hotel, stone and frame buildings, and stores on Gregory Street with signs that read: "Black Hawk Bakery," "Golden...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1893?]
- View of Bobtail Hill, Gilpin Co., Colo.
- View of Bobtail Hill in Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. Wood frame residences are in the gulch below mines. Shows mining shafthouses and tailing dumps. Signs read: "The Americus Gold M & M Co." and "Fisk."
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1901?]
- [K]emp Falls, Happy Valley Placer - No.5
- Water cascades around large rocks in a waterfall identified as Kemp's Falls west of Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. The falls were named for photographer Donald C. Kemp's father, John H. Kemp, who staked a claim on the Happy Valley Placer.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1901]
- Kemp's Falls
- A woman, man and a dog stand above a waterfall identified as Kemp's Falls as it cascades around large rocks in Boulder County, Colorado. The falls were named for photographer Donald C. Kemp's father, John H. Kemp. The man wears boots, hat, and vest...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Kemp Falls
- View of probably Kemp's Falls as it cascades around large rocks in Boulder County, Colorado. The falls were named for photographer Donald C. Kemp's father, John H. Kemp.
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Boulder County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- 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?]
- Banta ranch
- View of the Daniel Banta ranch in Gilpin County, Colorado; shows houses, tailings, a man, a dog, and the George W. Hill mine processing building with sign: "Banta Hill Consolidated Mines Co."
- Banta, Daniel--Homes & haunts.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1880-1900.; Ranches--Colorado--Gilpin County--1880-1900.
- [between 1889 and 1895?]
- Miners
- Men surround an injured man (in shock?) in a mine in (possibly), Colorado. One holds a pitcher and a spoon, another has his eyes opened wide and holds a candle.
- Accidents--Colorado--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1901?]
- Black Hawk, Colo. Flood
- View west on Gregory Street in Black Hawk, Colorado, after the flood of 1895; shows flood debris such as planks, posts, rocks, dirt and silt. Three men are holding shovels and working on clearing the street as water continues to pour past them in a...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Black Hawk, Colorado
- View northwest, of downtown Black Hawk, Colorado. Numbers on photo indicate: 1) Schoolhouse, 2) Presbyterian church, 3) mill, 4) steam plant, 5) machine shop of the Fifty Gold Mines Corp. Colorado Central tracks are the lower near foreground. On...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Eldorado Camp
- View of the mining settlement of Eldorado Camp (Happy Valley, Eldora), in the Grand Island Mining District in Boulder County, Colorado. Shows log houses, a storefront, pine trees and snow.
- Happy Valley Placer Company (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Settlements--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Valleys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Central City residence of Judge Henry Allyn Hicks
- View of the facade of the residence of Judge Henry Allyn Hicks in Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County. House built above a stone retaining wall; wood-plank fence around yard. Architectural features: front gable, covered porch, clapboard...
- Hicks, Henry Allyn--Homes & haunts.; Central City (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1870-1900.
- [between 1875 and 1900?]
- Central City
- Panoramic view of Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County overlooking the tracks of the Colorady & Southern Railroad.
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [between 1892 and 1900?]
- Opera House interior
- Two men sit in chairs on the stage in the interior of Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County. The orchestra sits holding instruments (including violins, trumpets, a bass, a drum, a clarinet, and a trombone) in the pit...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Musical instruments--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Orchestras--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Teller House
- Men loiter along the boardwalk in front of the Teller House in Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County. The "Cyclops Assay Office" is next door to the four-story, brick hotel.
- Central City (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Boardwalks--Colorado--Central City--1870-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Central City--1870-1900.; Teller House (Central City, Colo.)
- [between 1871 and 1895?]