The primary objective of this index is to contain a comprehensive listing of place names or sites in Colorado that would direct the researcher
to recent and readily available publications. Included in this publication for each site or place name,...
Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
View of Sipapu Bridge (formerly called Augusta), Natural Bridges National Monument, San Juan County, Utah; 48 miles west of Blanding, Utah; originally named Augusta after wife of Horace J. Long, Long published an illustrated article in 1904...
Natural bridges--Utah--1900-1910.; Natural Bridges National Monument (Utah)--1900-1910.; San Juan County (Utah)--1900-1910.; Sipapu Bridge (Utah)--1900-1910.; Rock formations--Utah--1900-1910.
View of the two-story stone "Trinidad Opera House" on the 100 block of West Main Street in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. An arched stairway leads to the opera house. The building has pediments on the cornice, carved pilaster strips and...
Trinidad Opera House (Trinidad, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.; Theaters--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.
View of the brick, three-tiered West Theater at 423 West Main Street in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. The theater has an arched entrance with ionic capitals, and a balustrade along the cornice. The second and third tiers of the building...
View of Main Street in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows horse-drawn wagons in the road, people on sidewalks, utility poles, and signs on commercial buildings that read: "Hay, Grain & Feed" and "The Gerardi Mercantile Co." on a...
Men pose beside a metal water pipe over a bridge and possibly the Purgatoire River, probably near Trinidad Water Works in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows a frame house and a barn or garage.
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stands in the left midground in front of a large group of people gathered for a group portrait while touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, possibly in Rome, Italy. Cody wears a wide-brimmed hat, possibly a...
Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Rocky Bear.; Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
View of Como Lake in Park County, Colorado. Shows grassy plains around the lake in South Park, the grade for Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad tracks; houses or tents in King (Como) are in the distance.
Como Lake--1880-1890.; King (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Park County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Park County--1880-1890.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Park County--1880-1890.; Valleys--Colorado--Park County--1880-1890.
Nate Salsbury, at about age 30, poses for a half-length portrait wearing a pirate costume. His costume includes a tattered hat, a full beard and moustache and shaggy hair. Salsbury was an actor and managed the Salsbury Troubadours before taking...
Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Actors--1870-1880.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Nate Salsbury poses for a side-angle, bust portrait. Salsbury was an actor and managed the Salsbury Troubadours before taking over as manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1883. Born in Freeport, Illinois in 1846, Salsbury first met William...
Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Actors--1860-1870.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Nate Salsbury poses for a side-angle, studio bust portrait. He is wearing a dark coat and has a graying beard and moustache. A round pin is on his left lapel. Salsbury was an actor and managed the Salsbury Troubadours before taking over as manager...
Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Actors--1890-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Denver & Rio Grande Western Locomotive 453, leased to Rio Grande Southern (Baldwin type 2-8-2; with twelve cars; Civilian Conservation Corps excursion); northbound down Dallas Divide towards Ridgway, Ouray County, Colorado; engineer and passengers...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Rio Grande Southern Railroad--1940-1950.; Ouray County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Passengers--Colorado--Ouray County--1940-1950.; Railroad employees--Colorado--Ouray County--1940-1950.; Railroad...
Interior view of the Buddecke & Diehl Opera House in Montrose (Montrose County), Colorado. The building has paper-covered light shades, kerosene lanterns, and pine garlands on the ceiling and on brick walls. Painted scenes decorate the front of the...
Buddecke & Diehl Outfitters Opera House (Montrose, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Montrose (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Chairs--Colorado--Montrose--1880-1890.; Interiors--Colorado--Montrose--1880-1890.; Light fixtures--Colorado--Montrose--1880-1890.; Opera...
Copy of an H. S. Poley photograph shows an Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Locomotive as it speeds along with two freight cars and one passenger car south of Denver, Colorado.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1930.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--1900-1930.; Railroads--Colorado--1900-1930.
Night view of Indian Scout (On the War Trail), an A. Phimister Proctor bronze sculpture, Civic Center, Denver, Colorado; sunset highlights clouds directly behind the silhouette of the indian scout with spear mounted on horseback; A. Phimister...
Proctor, Alexander Phimister, 1862-1950.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.; Civic Center (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Night--Colorado--Denver--1920-1940.;...
Denver and Rio Grande Locomotive Number 99 "Kokomo" and Number 46 "Badito" eastbound special excursion train (narrow gauge; type 4-4-0 Baldwin construction 5425 in 1880 and type 2-8-0 Baldwin construction 4981 in 1880) with diamond stack on La Veta...
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1910.; Dump Mountain (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Huerfano County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Veta Pass (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Huerfano County--1890-1910.; Railroads--Colorado--Huerfano...
View of Main Street from the corner of Ammons Street in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. The post office is housed in a rusticated stone structure with arched windows. Shows commercial buildings and horse-drawn wagons.
Trinidad (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Trinidad--1890-1900.; Post offices--Colorado--Trinidad--1890-1900.
View of layered shale cliffs, trees, and fallen logs on Parachute Creek (Garfield County), Colorado. A wire fence is across the creek, and a road grade is on the Roan Cliffs.
Oil-shales--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Parachute Creek (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cliffs--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.; Streams--Colorado--Garfield...
View of the oil shale demonstration plant beside the Colorado River near Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado. Smoke rises from smokestacks of the multi-story building, probably an oil shale retort. Denver and Rio Grande tracks are beside the river,...
Oil-shale industry--Colorado--Garfield County--1910-1930.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1910-1930.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1910-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--Garfield County--1910-1930.;...
View of Main Street in Vernal (Uintah County), Utah. Men, women, and children pose near brick or frame commercial buildings. Shows automobiles, buggies, a bicycle, an electric street lamp, and brick businesses with signs or awnings that read: "W.H....
Snow is on Hyman Avenue at the intersection of Galena Street and on brick and stone commercial buildings in Aspen (Pitkin County), Colorado. Shows the sandstone Elks building with an American flag on the rooftop cupola, the Aspen Block building,...
A man leans against a car at the side of a dirt road identified as Pine Drive in Beulah (Pueblo County), Colorado. A residential driveway has a stone and masonry gateway and an iron fence. A sign near a bridge reads "Camp Burch." Trees and...
Beulah (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Automobiles--Colorado--Beulah--1920-1930.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Beulah--1920-1930.; Gates--Colorado--Beulah--1920-1930.
People stand and pose outside a Colorado Supply Company store probably in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. The Colorado Supply Company building has a low-pitched roof, shingle siding, a stone front porch and a central finial.
Colorado Supply Company--Buildings--1900-1920.; Company stores--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Employees--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1920.
Firemen pose with a fire wagon drawn by three horses in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Uniforms include ties, jackets with metal buttons and caps with hat pins. Shows a ladder and a dog on the wagon.
Trinidad (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Trinidad--1910-1920.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Trinidad--1910-1920.; Horse teams--Colorado--Trinidad--1910-1920.
View of a Trinidad, Sopris and Starkville passenger streetcar on the Trinidad Electric Railroad in Las Animas County, Colorado. A woman stands and poses in the doorway of streetcar number "2."
Las Animas County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Electric railroads--Colorado--Las Animas County--1900-1920.
View of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot and tracks after a flood in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. The mission-style stucco building has arcades, a ceramic tiled roof, and curvilinear gables. Horses, a wagon, and debris are...
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--Buildings--1900-1910.; Purgatoire River (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Floods--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1910.;...
View of Trinidad, Colorado, looking northwest. Adobe buildings and walls near the foreground have vigas and hipped, gable roofs. Scene includes the Catholic School, a square building with a cottage roof. A false fronted commercial structure has...
Panoramic view of the central business district of Denver, Colorado from the Daniels & Fisher Tower. Buildings include the Colorado State Capitol Building, Arapahoe County Courthouse, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Trinity Methodist...
Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
Panoramic view of Denver Colorado from the dome of the State Capitol Building. Shows the Arapahoe County Courthouse, Voorhies Memorial, Mountain States Bell Telephone and Telegraph building, the Republic Building, Majestic and Metropolitan...
Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
Men and women crowd the boardwalk fronting Main Street in Trinidad, Colorado. Gable roofed adobe buildings line the dirt thoroughfare, where a man sits on a horse. Signs read: "Davis & Barraclough," "Colorado Hotel," and "Exchange."