Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Colorado Marriages 1858-1939 B
- Marriage records--Colorado; Colorado--Genealogy.
- Colorado World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- The Colorado registration cards are on 40 rolls of microfilm (v.1 through v.40), Denver Public Library catalog number G973.91, W893co. The draft registration cards are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are...
- 2005
- Denver Public Library 1932 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 1932. Included in the index
- Denver (Colo.)--Genealogy--Indexes.; Denver (Colo.)--Vital records.; Denver Post--Indexes.; Rocky Mountain News--Indexes.;
- 2010
- Cup & pin game
- Shows a cup and pin game of the Native American Sioux . The game has a metal pin, small bone cups, rawhide, a loop and pink, red, white and blue beadwork.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1860-1880.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1860-1880.; Games--1860-1880.
- [between 1860 and 1880]
- Ski training: lesson in ski techniques at Camp Hale, Colorado
- Still from the Warner Brothers film: "The Fighting Mountaineers." Fifteen Tenth Mountain Division skitroopers stand at the bottom of a small hill watching as a skier practices what appears to be the side step. According to the caption this is a...
- Ski troops--Colorado--Camp Hale--1940-1950.; Skiing--Colorado--Camp Hale--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--Camp Hale--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; Fighting Mountaineers (Motion picture)
- [1943-1944]
- Fairmount sexton's records, 1891-1953, Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.
- Fairmount Sexton’s Records 1891-1953 list over 85,500 burials or entombments. The Fairmount Sexton Records 1891–1953 were microfilmed in 1959 by the Genealogical Society of Utah. The grave registers were arrange in rough “alphabetical...
- Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colo.)--Indexes.; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado--Denver--Indexes.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Denver.; Colorado--Genealogy.; Colorado--Vital records.
- 2004
- Pennsylvania Mining Accidents 1869 - 1916
- History of mines and mining in Pennsylvania, and an alphabetical index by miner’s name for fatal and non-fatal mine accidents in Pennsylvania for the years 1869, 1871, 1872, 1874 (partial), 1875, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1887, 1888,...
- Mine accidents--Pennsylvania--Indexes.
- 2007
- Mesa Verde, excavations
- A group of men work to excavate a room in the Bone Awl House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric Nusbaum, right, helps them in one of his first excavations under his stepfather Jesse's supervision. Several rooms have been excavated...
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Bone Awl House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- [1926?]
- Mesa Verde, excavations
- Deric Nusbaum, Jesse's stepson, uses a brush to clean the dirt from a pottery water jar found in the ruins of the Bone Awl House, a cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park. Deric wears a large sweater, a wool hat and gloves and a respirator over...
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Pottery--Colorado--1920-1930.; Nusbaum, Deric.; Bone Awl House (Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.)
- [1926?]
- Necklace
- A rawhide and bone necklace made by the Native American Teton Sioux. The necklace had eight bone pieces and black and yellow faceted beads.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1890-1910.; Teton Indians--Arts & crafts--1890-1910.; Necklaces--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Knife
- A Native American (Plains Indian) knife. It has a bone handle and iron blade with a slated end, curved and rounded handle and a fine wire wrapped around the upper part of the blade.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1860-1870.; Knives--1860-1970.
- [between 1860 and 1870]
- Marksman
- A group of spectators watch as a Native American Sioux man stands in position to shot his bow and arrow. He wears a vest made of shell or bone; a decorative garland made of nuts, shell or bone that is around his waist, legs and ankles. Bird...
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1890-1910.; Sioux Indians--Colorado--1890-1910.; Archery--Colorado--1890-1910.; Spectators--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Indian maiden and admirers
- A Native American woman stands between two Native American men in front of a backdrop for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. The woman has a striped blanket wrapped around her shoulders and has a long necklace, possibly made...
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Spears--1890-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- Native American man with two women
- A Native American man stands between two Native American women in front of a backdrop with a landscape scene painted on it for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. The man wears a breastplate, possibly made of bone, and has a...
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1890-1900.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- Sioux women and man
- A Native American man stands between two Native American women in front of a backdrop with a landscape scene painted on it in an arena for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. The man wears a breastplate, possibly made of bone,...
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- Indian and two women
- A Native American man stands between two Native American women in front of a backdrop with a landscape scene painted on it in an arena for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England. The man wears a breastplate, possibly made of bone,...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- Bone Necklace, Ogallala Sioux
- Seated portrait of Bone Necklace, Native American Oglala Sioux man, (Lakota) holding a war club (tomahawk) and wearing a cotton shirt, hair pipe breastplate, neck scarf, long loose hair, and a quilled vest. He holds a bandolier decorated with...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Oglala Indians--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--1890-1900.; Bone Necklace.
- 1899
- Bone Necklace, Sioux
- Head and shoulders portrait of Bone Necklace, Native American Sioux (Lakota) wearing a hair pipe breastplate, cotton shirt, quillwork vest, armbands, neck scarf, and feathers and bead strings in his hair.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--1890-1900.; Bone Necklace.
- 1899
- 1923 Corbett & Ballenger's 51st Annual Denver City Directory
- $X-ray fractured bone$
- X-ray fractured bone
- Close-up view of an x-ray of a fractured bone.
- Fractures--1890-1910.; Radiography--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- 300 choice recipes
- Cookbook created by the Ladies of the First Baptist Church in Denver, Colorado. Included in the cookbook are various recipes and household tips provided by the ladies.
- Cooking, American--Colorado.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.); First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)--History.
- 1892
- How we cook in Colorado : choice recipes
- Cookbook created with submissions from the Ladies of First Baptist Church.
- Cooking, American--Colorado.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.); First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)--History.
- 1907
- Marciano, left, and unknown friend
- Studio portrait of a man identified as Marciano, he stands beside an unidentified man who sits on a model pony. A Burlington Route observation car is behind them. Marciano wears a broad brimmed hat, a bandanna and woollies (chaps). He has a pistol...
- Hispanic Americans--1920-1930.; Mexican Americans--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Chaps.; Cowboys.; Cowboys--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Denver...
- ca.1920
- Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Numbers 6 and 7, 1920 June-July
- War club
- Shows a Native American Sioux war club from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. It has a bone head made with petrified vertebrae and a handle (possibly wood). The handle is decorated with green, blue and rust color beadwork; horsehair dyed green, eagle...
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1890-1910.; Clubs (Weapons)--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Band
- Shows a Native American Sioux band (pouch) made of doeskin, bird bone and red cloth; it has brown seed (possibly juniper) decoration.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1860-1870.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1860-1870.; Pouches--1860-1870.
- [between 1860 and 1870]
- War whistle
- Shows a Native American Sioux bone war whistle found or purchased near Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The whistle has an eagle's feather and wing attached to it, a buckskin thong dyed in red ochre and possibly sweet grass.
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1860-1880.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1860-1880.; Whistles--1860-1880.
- [between 1865 and 1880]
- Earring
- Native American of the Southern Plains (Kiowa?) pair of earrings with a silver ear cuff band, attached bone, chain, and brass discs.
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1910.; Earrings--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910]
- Dance roach
- Native American (Osage) turkey beard roach consists of three pieces: antler bone spreader with cut out design painted red and green; red dyed antler hair and porcupine quill roach; feather.
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1830-1880.; Osage Indians--Clothing & dress--1830-1880.; Headdress--1830-1880.
- [between 1830 and 1880]
- Dance roach
- Native American (Osage) antler bone spreader with cut out design painted red and green; feather.
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1830-1880.; Osage Indians--Clothing & dress--1830-1880.; Headdress--1830-1880.
- [between 1830 and 1880]
- Denver Fire Clay Company display
- View of a Denver Fire Clay Company display on a wagon in (probably) Denver, Colorado; shows kiln props, pottery, and crates with letters: "Bone Ash," "Borax Clay." Pinstriping reads: "Denver Fire Clay Co.," and "Photograph Supplies."
- Denver Fire Clay Company--Equipment & supplies--1880-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Merchandise displays--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Snuff box
- Shows a silver snuff box used by William F. Cody to hold his hair pins; it may have been given to him as a snuff box. The lid is engraved, the base is made of bone.
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Associated objects.; Snuff boxes and bottles--1900-1910.
- 1901
- Relics from the Cliff Dwellings
- View of Native American (Anasazi) pottery, stone and bone tools, and a woven mat. Shows a decorated bowl, cups, a ladle and ears of corn.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1890-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--1890-1900.; Antiquities--United States--1890-1900.; Pottery--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Utes, Buckskin Charlie and wife
- Studio portrait of Buckskin Charlie and his wife Emma Naylor Buck (To-Wee), Native Americans (Ute). Buckskin Charlie sits, holds feathers, and wears fur wrapped braids, earrings, a jacket with embroidered sleeve and shoulder details, a bone...
- Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--1880-1900.; Spouses--1880-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1900.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.; To-Wee.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Ute, Buckskin Charlie, subchief
- Close-up studio portrait of Buckskin Charlie, a Native American (Ute) man. Buckskin Charlie poses and wears fur and bead wrapped braids, a bone breastplate with fringe, earrings, a leather shirt with embroidered shoulder details, and a feather hair...
- Indians of North America--Men--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Men--1880-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1900.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Ute Indians, Chief Severo & family
- Studio portrait of a Native American (Ute) family identified as Chief Severo and his family. Women sit and wear shawls (mantas) over dresses and beaded moccasins; one woman holds a leather purse with a chain handle. Babies in cradleboards made with...
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--1890-1900.; Cradleboards--1890-1900.; Families--1890-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1890-1900.; Severo, Chief.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Utes, group of chil[dren]
- Studio portrait of Native American (Ute) children, probably near Ignacio (La Plata County), Colorado. Boys wear wrapped braids, earrings, leather pants, beaded moccasins, and chokers or necklaces with medallions. A boy wears a bone breastplate, a...
- Indians of North America--Children--Colorado--La Plata County--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Children--Colorado--La Plata County--1880-1900.; La Plata County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Boys--Colorado--La Plata County--1880-1900.; Girls--Colorado--La Plata...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Pee Viggi and squaw, Utes
- Native Americans (Ute), one identified as Pee Viggi, sit and pose for a studio portrait. They wear braids, earrings, choker necklaces, cotton shirts, leather leggings, beaded moccasins and hold woven blankets. The woman wears a bone breastplate and...
- Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--1880-1900.; Men--1880-1900.; Women--1880-1900.; Pee Viggi.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Buckskin Charlie
- Close-up studio portrait of Buckskin Charlie, a Native American (Ute) man. Buckskin Charlie poses and wears fur and bead wrapped braids, a bone breastplate with fringe, earrings, a leather shirt with embroidered shoulder details, and a feather hair...
- Indians of North America--Men--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Men--1880-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1900.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Ute children
- Studio portrait of Native American (Ute) children. The boys wear wrapped braids, earrings, leather pants, beaded moccasins, and chokers or necklaces with medallions. A boy wears a bone breastplate, a long-sleeved shirt with a serpentine pattern,...
- Indians of North America--Children--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--1890-1900.; Boys--1890-1900.; Girls--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Unidentified white woman with group of Sioux
- Group portrait, possibly in Colorado, shows a White woman, holding hands with Dakota woman. Two bare chested Native American Indian men with body paint, and a Dakota Chief with a headdress, bone breastplate and polka-dot shirt,a stand behind them.
- Dakota Indians--Colorado--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--Colorado--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Stone basin, woman washing clothes Moki Indians, Wolpi Pueblo, Arizona
- Native American (Hopi) woman kneels on a stone wash basin and washes clothes while a naked boy looks on, Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; boy stands on wash basin, holding small woven blanket; next to the basin are two metal cans, a pottery water...
- Hopi Indians--Children--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Women--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Laundry--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Probably in Denver
- Portrait of women in Denver, Colorado; costume includes satin, brocade fabric, a brooch, a bone belt buckle, pearls, and fancy hats with feathers and ribbons.
- Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Ind-San Juan, biog., groups (unident)
- Studio portrait of a group of unidentified Native Americans from San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico. The girls wear woven dresses and shawls with bead necklaces, moccasins and leggings. The men and a boy wear a combination of traditional and Euro-American...
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1890.; Pueblo Indians--Children--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1900.; Tewa Indians--Women--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1900.; San Juan Pueblo...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Ind-San Juan, biog., groups (unident)
- Studio portrait of an unidentified group of the San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, with two white boys, wearing collars and cuffs with ruffles, propping up a Native American baby between them. A women and a girl wear woven dresses and shawls with...
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1890.; Pueblo Indians--Children--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1900.; Tewa Indians--Women--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1900.; San Juan Pueblo...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Native American Utes
- Studio portrait of two Native American Ute men posed with a flute, bow and arrows; one wears a headdress, bone pipe breastplate, leggings and a shirt; the other has on leggings, a shirt and choker.
- Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Ute Indians--1880-1890.
- [between 1888 and 1890?]
- Ute family
- Full-length studio portrait of a Native American Ute family in front of a painted backdrop; the mother holds a baby; the father's dress includes a vest with painted American flags, bone pipe choker, armbands and moccasins; the young boy wears a...
- Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--1880-1900.; Families--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Utes-Julian and family-oldest son of Buckskin Charlie
- Native American (Ute) family; man, woman and child, pose on blanket in front of house. Father (Julian) wears a headdress, hair and pipe bone breastplate, medals, shirt, breechcloth, and holds a pelt. His wife wears medals and a beaded necklace....
- Indians of North America--Women--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--Children--1890-1900.; Buck, Julian.
- 1896
- Moquette and Polonegro, Utes
- Two Native American (Ute) men, Moquette and Polonegro, stand on blankets in front of a house. One wears a hair and pipe bone breastplate, long striped shirt, fur cap, feathers and holds a straw hat. The other wears a hat, vest, tie and medal.
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--1890-1900.; Moquette.; Polonegro.
- 1896
- Ute group Sevaro
- Native American (Ute) men, women and children pose on a lawn. Severo (Aaron Bear) is on the left with his wife, Natz-chi-ve-rat. Their daughter Cerette (Isareta) holds what is probably a doll. Several of the men are wearing hair and pipe bone...
- Indians of North America--Children--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--Women--1890-1900.; Isareta.; Natz-chi-ve-rat.; Severo, Chief.
- 1894