Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Monastery at Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church Auraria Higher Education Center
- View of the Friary, at Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic Church (St. Elizabeth's Church), designed by architect Jacques Benedict in 1936 and located at 1060 St. Francis Way, on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus, Denver, Colorado....
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--1990-2000.; St. Elizabeth's Church (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Catholic churches.; Colonnades.; Historic buildings.; Monasteries.; Sculpture.; Auraria Higher...
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 52, 1910 December 24
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 5, 1911 January 28
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 10, 1911 March 4
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 33, 1909 October 2
- Mormon Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah
- View of the Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. Shows the arched and round windows and spires of the Gothic style Temple, the oval dome roof of the...
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Buildings--1900-1910.; Salt Lake Temple--1900-1910.; Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah)--1900-1910.; Mormon temples--Utah--Salt Lake County--1900-1910.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1900-1910.; Temple Square...
- Central City Episcopal Church
- The altar of St. Paul's Episcopal Church is before stained glass windows with gothic, pointed arches. A cross is on the altar, and wooden chairs are in the rear corners. Enclosed areas, with decorative elements around the top, on either side of the...
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Central City, Colo.)--1950-1970.; Central City (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Churches--Colorado--Central City--1950-1970.
- Central City Opera House
- The Central City Opera House, originally opened in 1878, was renovated and reopened in the 1930s. Described as "the finest temple of the Muse west of the Missouri" and designed by Architect Robert S. Roeschlaub, the oldest opera house in Colorado...
- Central City Opera House--1940-1950.; Central City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.
- Central City Opera House
- The Central City Opera House, partially obscured by a tree branch, was renovated and reopened in the 1930s and was described as "the finest temple of the Muse west of the Missouri." Designed by Architect Robert S. Roeschlaub, the oldest opera house...
- Central City Opera House--1960-1970.; Central City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.; Theaters--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.
- Central City, Colorado street scenes, Eureka
- The Central City Opera House was originally opened in 1878 and described as "the finest temple of the Muse west of the Missouri." Designed by Architect Robert S. Roeschlaub, the oldest opera house in Colorado is constructed of Gilpin County...
- Central City Opera House--1920-1930.; Central City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1920-1930.
- Funeral of Ralph L. Carr
- People walk by the body of Ralph L. Carr, former governor of Colorado, lying in state in an open casket at the Colorado State Capitol rotunda, in Denver, Colorado. Murals by Allen True and marble columns flank an arched door; bronze lamps are to...
- Colorado State Capitol (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Capitols--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.; Coffins--Colorado--1950-1960.; Dead persons--Colorado--1950-1960.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.;...
- C & S 610 (2-8-0) switching, Trinidad
- Colorado & Southern steam locomotive # 610 approaches a switch in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man in overalls stands on the cowcatcher. The engineer leans out of the cab. A brick building with arched windows is near the tracks.
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1950-1960.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad employees.; Railroad locomotives.; Railroads.
- Morey Musings
- Booklet of poetry written by students of the Morey Junior High School
- Morey Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); School prose, American--Colorado--Denver.; Schools--Colorado--Denver.
- 1934
- Side entrance to South High School
- An exterior picture of a side entrance to South Denver High School. Entrance includes an arched covered patio, elaborately sculpted friezes and supports, decorative architectural elements, as well as both windows on doors and in arch.
- South High School (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver Public Schools--Buildings--1920-1930.; South High School (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.;
- The Good Old Days: Grigsby Family History
- Intensive document covering the Grisby family history starting in the early 1870's in Iowa.
- 2012 June 20
- Western History Subject Index
- Places. Colorado. Peaks [From: Hart, John Lathrop Jerome: "Fourteen Thousand Feet ...]
- Bliss House
- McNulty House
- Smith House
- Spangler House
- Voorhees House
- Black Hawk, C.T.
- View north from Bobtail Hill, in Black Hawk, Colorado, up four mile Gulch to Dory Hill, where the state's first cemetery was located. Central business district includes: Undertaker, Union House (on Selak Street), Drugs (brick, arched windows and...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Business districts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.
- 1864
- McClelland Bldg & Holliday
- View of the McClelland Building on Holliday (Market) Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. The brick building has arched windows and signs that read: "Flour & Feed," "Storage Commission," and "Whittemore & Co."
- Whittemore & Co. (Denver, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Feed stores--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.
- 1866
- Engine House & workshops of U.P.R.R. at Omaha
- View of Union Pacific Railroad locomotives parked inside the arched openings of the brick engine house and workshops of the Union Pacific in Omaha (Douglas County), Nebraska. Shows lumber and railroad ties piled beside railroad tracks.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--Buildings--1860-1870.; Omaha (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Railroad shops & yards--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.
- 1866 October
- S. end E. front U.P. Railroad works at Omaha
- View of the brick buildings of the Union Pacific Railroad works at Omaha (Douglas County), Nebraska. Shows arched windows, gabled roofs, a brick smokestack, warehouse and engine house buildings. Stacks of lumber are nearby.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--Buildings--1860-1870.; Omaha (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Railroad facilities--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.
- 1866 October
- Central Block, Omaha in 1868
- People and a horse-drawn stagecoach are outside the Central Block, a three-story brick commercial building on Farnam Street between 13th (Thirteenth) and 14th (Fourteenth) Streets in Omaha (Douglas County), Nebraska. Shows sidewalks and telegraph...
- Omaha (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Commercial facilities--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.
- 1868
- Ware's Block, Omaha in 1868
- Men stand and pose in second story windows or outside the Ware Block, a two-story brick commercial building in Omaha (Douglas County), Nebraska. Shows arched windows with tracery, a flat roof with bracketed eaves and signs on businesses that read:...
- Omaha (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Banks--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.; Barrels--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.; Carts & wagons--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.; Commercial facilities--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.; Dry goods stores--Nebraska--Omaha--1860-1870.;...
- 1868
- Third and Main Streets, taken in 1868 the buildings were erected in 1860
- Men in top hats ride donkeys on Main Street in Canon City, Colorado. Scene includes frame and brick commercial buildings with arched windows and signs: [illegible]. Low hills are in the background, and ruts in the dirt are in the foreground.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Donkeys--Colorado--Canon City--1860-1870.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1860-1870.
- 1868
- Central City Masonic building
- The Central City Masonic building is a three story, brick structure with gabled roof, chimneys, arched windows with open shutters and arched entryways in Central City, Colorado. The words over the doors read "Sessler-Sauer" and "WW Tiffany."...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- 1868
- Main Street looking west from the corner of 3rd, in 1868.
- Stone and brick buildings line dirt street in Canon City, Colorado. Two have arched windows, others have bracketed or stone cornices. Men and horses loiter; lumber and barrels are on boardwalk fronting a business with a sign reading: "Webb &...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1860-1870.
- 1869
- Wolfe Hall
- People pose at Wolfe Hall, a women's seminary school at 17th (Seventeenth) and Champa Streets in Denver, Colorado. The building has a mansard roof with dormer windows, Roman arched windows, a widow's walk, and a frame cupola. Girls, women, and men...
- Wolfe Hall (Denver, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Church schools--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1870
- Boulder Pearl St. North side 1200 block
- View of a commercial block in Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County. Buildings along the street include: one and two-story commercial, brick storefronts. Architectural elements: bracketed cornices, arched windows with keystones, and awnings over...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Boulder--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1870-1880.
- 1870
- Woodie Fisher Hose Co. No. 1
- Firemen, in uniform, pose in front of the Hughes Block, a brick building with windows set in an arched facade, an outside staircase, and a covered porch, on Lawrence Street between 14th (Fourteenth) and 15th (Fifteenth) Streets, in Denver,...
- Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1872
- Bishop's house
- View of the Bishop George Maxwell Randall house at 17th (Seventeenth) and Champa Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. The two-story Second Empire style house has a Mansard roof, dormers, belt course, and arched doorway and windows.
- Randall, George M. (George Maxwell), 1810-1873--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1873
- The waterworks
- View of the Denver Waterworks building located at 15th (Fifteenth) and Bassett Streets in the Union Station Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The building, built by the Denver City Water Company, is a one story brick structure with arched windows....
- Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Union Station (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1870-1880.; Pumping stations--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Waterworks--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1874
- Expedition of 1874 1st Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers Commanding
- Men stand in the cemetery in front of the Catholic Church on the Plaza of Guadaloupe, Colorado, in Conejos County. The small church is constructed in Spanish style of adobe. An adobe wall with an arched entrance surrounds the grave yard. Two...
- Guadalupe (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Adobe buildings--Colorado--Guadalupe--1870-1880.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Guadalupe--1870-1880.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Guadalupe--1870-1880.
- 1874
- Best's Pharmacy in Central City, Colorado
- The Harley B. Morse block on Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado, houses Best's Pharmacy. The two story commercial storefront has arched windows with lintels and a cornice with brackets on each end. "Drugs & Chemicals" is painted below the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Drugstores--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.
- 1875
- Main Street between 3rd and 4th, showing oxen teams and covered wagons
- Covered wagons and teams of oxen crowd Main Street in Canon City, Colorado. Men in vests pose on the dirt; two-story brick and stone commercial buildings have chimneys and arched windows. The 1872 Clelland block has an open porch and a bracketed...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Ox teams--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- 1878
- Main Street between third and fourth north side
- Commercial buildings on Main Street in Canon City, Colorado, have striped, canvas awnings, bracketed cornices, open porches, arched windows, balconies, and are fronted by boardwalk, crates, a barber pole, bare trees, and horse drawn wagons,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- 1878
- Main Street north side, looking east from the corner of third
- Commercial buildings on Main Street in Canon City, Colorado, have striped, canvas awnings, bracketed cornices, open porches, arched windows, and balconies. Boardwalk with crates, a barber pole, bare trees, and power poles edge the dirt street, busy...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- 1878
- Gregory Gulch
- View of businesses, frame mine buildings and head frames on a hillside in Gregory Gulch in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. People are in the arched doorway of the Gregory Store beside a horse-drawn wagon. Shows tailings piles on a treeless...
- Central City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Gregory Gulch (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.
- 1879
- Cowboys preparing for a roundup : taken on the corner of 5th and Main Street
- Horses crowd the dirt street in Canon City, Colorado; some have men riding them. Frame and brick commercial buildings behind them have gabled metal roofs, false fronts, arched windows, and signs. Signs read: "Lathop [?]," "A.W. Dennis...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Cowboys--Colorado--Canon City--1860-1870.; Horses--Colorado--Canon City--1860-1870.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1860-1870.
- 1879
- Central City Opera House
- View of the Central City Opera House, a stone building with a central shingled mansard style roof with an oculus and two smaller pyramidal, hipped roofs in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. The opera house has arched windows, a balcony, and...
- Central City Opera House--1870-1880.; Central City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Educational facilities--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Religious education--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.
- 1879?
- Dr. M. Beshoar's brick yard
- Men pose with their equipment and materials in a brickyard in Trinidad, Colorado. One stands with a shovel by a sifting machine with a large geared wheel. Other men sit on a machine that has a short, baffled smokestack. A kiln with arched openings...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bricklaying--Colorado--Trinidad--1880-1890.
- 1880
- Main Street between 5th and 6th on the south side showing prospectors starting for the Gunnison Country at the time of the big mining excitement
- Men, women, children, horses, a wagon and a dog are in the street in Canon City, Colorado. Brick, two-story commercial buildings feature corbeled cornices, arched windows with stone keystones, and storefronts. Trees edge the dirt street; a hewn log...
- Horse-drawn vehicles--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1880
- The Greeley Tribune
- Men pose in front of brick commercial buildings in Greeley, Colorado. The two-story structures have a bracketed cornice and gauge arched windows. Wooden livery doors serve the fire department; the hose drying tower rises from the roof. A sign...
- Greeley (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1880
- Union Depot, Denver
- View of the stone Union Station Building on Wynkoop Street in Denver, Colorado. The Richardson Romanesque style, rusticated stone railroad station has arched doorways, dormers and a square clock tower with finials. Shows a brick smokestack,...
- Union Station (Denver, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- 1880?
- Gov. Rudd's later day home built in 1881 and standing in rear of building
- This two-story ashlar stone house in Canon City, Colorado, has chimneys, extruded joints, sash windows, and a gable roof with a dormer and arched window over the portico. The latter is topped with an openworked wood balcony. Men and women pose on...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1881
- Black Hawk Fire Department, 1881
- Firemen, members of the Black Hawk Fire Department, pose in uniform in front of the fire station, near a hose cart, in Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. The men wear fire hats and jackets with oversized stitched lapels and cuffs. Some of the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Firefighters--Colorado--Blackhawk--1880-1890.
- 1881
- Taken at Gunnison Court House
- Posing on the entry steps of Gunnison County Courthouse, shortly after construction, Gunnison, Colorado, are (front row left to right): Annie Haigler (later Mrs. Alonzo Hartman), Charlie Harper, Louise Haigler (later Mrs. George Williams), Sidney...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Courthouses--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Jails--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.
- 1881