Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Grand View Rock
- View of hikers at the gazebo on Grand View Rock, near Manitou Springs, Colorado. A rustic gazebo is perched on a rugged boulder, and men in topcoats, Homburg hats, vests and gold chains, and women and children are posed in it. Women in the...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895?]
- Luby family
- The Luby family in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado, poses in suits, bodices, a high collar, and poke bonnets. One of the children holds a straw hat.
- Luby family--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Minturn (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bonnets--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Children--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Families--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Hats--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Two unidentified Indians, Crows, wearing war bonnets, full length
- Full length studio portrait of two unidentified Crow males, both wearing war bonnets, necklaces and holding peace pipes, standing in front of painted backdrop; one holding a spear.
- Indians of North America--Portraits--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Crow Indians.
- [188-?]
- Western History Subject Index
- War bonnets
- Western History Subject Index
- War bonnets
- Old town Grand Lake, Colo.
- View of people in a street in Grand Lake (Grand County), Colorado. A woman with a straw, flat-brimmed hat and a long dress stands beside girls who wear plaid dresses and bonnets. Men sit on a burro-drawn cart, they wear suspenders and hats. A...
- Grand Lake (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.; Donkeys--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.; Mothers & children--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.
- [between 1879 and 1885?]
- Old town Grand Lake, Colo.
- View of people in a street in Grand Lake (Grand County), Colorado. A woman with a straw, flat-brimmed hat and a long dress stands beside girls who wear plaid dresses and bonnets. Men sit on a burro-drawn cart, they wear suspenders and hats. A...
- Grand Lake (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.; Donkeys--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.; Mothers & children--Colorado--Grand Lake--1870-1890.
- [between 1879 and 1885?]
- Rifle area picnic
- Women, men, boys, and girls pose near Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado; outfits include dresses with ruffles. Straw hats and printed fabric bonnets hang on a fence; food includes fruit, cake, bread, and a pie.
- Rifle (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Families--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1910.; Picnics--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- First Christian Church
- People pose by the First Christian Church in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado; women, men, teenage girls, boys, babies, and toddlers wear winter clothes including bonnets, fur or feather hats, dusters, and fedoras. Sign reads: "First Christian...
- First Christian Church (Rifle, Colo.)--People--1900-1920.; Rifle (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Children--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1920.; Churches--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1920.; Teenagers--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1920.
- [between 1906 and 1915?]
- Julesburg, Colo., all aboard for the picnic
- Children and men sit and pose in a horse-drawn wagon on a dirt road in Julesburg (Sedgwick County), Colorado. Girls wear ruffled bonnets; boys wear felt hats. A foal is beside the team of horses.
- Julesburg (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Julesburg--1890-1900.; Children--Colorado--Julesburg--1890-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Julesburg--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Julesburg--1890-1900.
- 1893 August 13
- Children at Ula School
- Group portrait of well dressed students, boys and girls, at the school in Ula (Custer County), Colorado; the girls wear bonnets, dresses, and straw hats.
- Ula (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Ula--1890-1900.; Clothing & dress--Colorado--Ula--1890-1900.; Girls--Colorado--Ula--1890-1900.; School children--Colorado--Ula--1890-1900.
- 1899 May 3
- Sightseers, alpine lake
- Well dressed men and women sit on donkeys, burros and horses near an unidentified alpine lake probably in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. The women ride sidesaddle, they wear long dresses and hats or bonnets. The men are dressed in suits, one...
- Cirques (Glacial landforms)--Colorado--1890-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--1890-1900.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--1890-1900.; Riding--Colorado--1890-1900.; Sidesaddle riding--Colorado--1890-1900.;...
- [ca. 1890]
- Women near their house
- Women pose near a well by their house near Parker (Parkers) (Douglas County), Colorado. They wear dresses and bonnets.
- Parker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Parker--1890-1900.; Wells--Colorado--Parker--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Parker--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Canning
- Girls can fruits and vegetables at a school probably in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. They wear dresses, aprons, and bonnets.
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Canning & preserving--Colorado--Trinidad--1890-1910.; Classrooms--Colorado--Trinidad--1890-1910.; School children--Colorado--Trinidad--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Home economics
- Girls prepare food in a home economics class at the Sopris School in Sopris (Las Animas County), Colorado. The girls wear aprons and bonnets. One girl reads a book titled "Cooking Book One."
- Sopris (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Children cooking--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.; Girls--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.; Home economics--Colorado--Sopris--1910-1920.
- [1915]
- John Brown's sons at home
- A group of visitors gathers around an old man on a hill identified as Brown's Peak near Altadena (Los Angeles County), California. The women wear bonnets and their skirts have bustles. The wood frame house is propped up with poles and belongs to...
- Brown, Jason, California resident--Homes & haunts.; Brown, Owen--Homes & haunts.; Los Angeles County (Calif.)--1870-1900.; Guests--California--Los Angeles County--1870-1900.; Houses--California--Los Angeles County--1870-1900.; Men--California--Los...
- [between 1870 and 1889?]
- Brookings, S.D. harvesting on the Oleson farm
- Men and women are in a wheat field on what is identified as the Oleson farm in Brookings (Brookings County), South Dakota. Women wear cotton bonnets and dresses and hold bundles of wheat. A man with a beard wears suspenders and a hat without a...
- Brookings (S.D.)--1880-1900.; Agricultural laborers--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.; Croplands--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.; Harvesting machinery--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.; Harvesting--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Harvesting on the Oleson farm, Brookings, S.D.
- Men and women pose in a wheat field on what is identified as the Oleson farm in Brookings (Brookings County), South Dakota. Women wear cotton bonnets and dresses and stand beside bundles of wheat. A man wears a suit and hat and stands beside a man...
- Brookings (S.D.)--1880-1900.; Agricultural laborers--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.; Croplands--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.; Harvesting machinery--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.; Harvesting--South Dakota--Brookings--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Laying of corner stone, new City Hall, Longmont, Colo.
- A large crowd gathers around a platform with tripod supporting the cornerstone for the new Longmont City Hall, Fourth (4th) Avenue and Kimbark Street, Colorado, June 1921. Several officials sit nearby on the platform and band members are at the far...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; City & town halls--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Cornerstone laying--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- June 1921
- Longmont Pres. Church
- Interior of the First Presbyterian Church, Fourth Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont, Colorado; shows the minister preaching to the congregation seated in wooden pews curved around the lectern with the open scripture book, a vase of daisies and a...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Interiors.; Presbyterian churches--Colorado--Longmont--1890-1900.; First Presbyterian Church (Longmont, Colo.)
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Luby family?
- A man and children pose in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado. He wears a suit and has a soft hat with a Montana peak in his lap; a boy wears bib overalls and holds a domed hat. The girls wear bonnets and hold flowers; one sits in a wicker baby...
- Luby family--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Minturn (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Baby carriages--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Girls--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Built by John Donald for wife who left him 2nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenue.
- Possibly Mr. and Mrs. John Donald pose at their front porch with four young ladies wearing bonnets with ribbons and flowers along the sidewalk corner of a two story house on Second (2nd) Street, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. The house features a...
- Donald, John--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1920.; Ouray (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Ouray, street parades
- Four women in flowered bonnets sit in the B. P. O. Elks automobile decorated for the Fourth (4th) of July (Independence Day) parade in Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. A white elk head is mounted on the front of the car; American flags, fabric, and a...
- Elks (Fraternal order) Lodge No. 492 (Ouray, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ouray (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Festive decorations--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1904 and 1910]
- Palmer Lake
- Vacationers row boats on Palmer Lake, Palmer Lake, El Paso County, Colorado. Women and girls wear bonnets; one holds a parasol; men and boys wear staw hats. Puffs of smoke rise out of Denver & Rio Grande locomotive smokestack across the lake.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Palmer Lake (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Families--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1880-1890.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1880-1890.; Rowboats--Colorado--Palmer Lake--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1895?]
- Ouray, Colo.
- A group of women and a man pose in front of a rocky cliff face, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. They wear jackets and hats or bonnets decorated with feathers, ribbons and flowers.
- Ouray (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Sightseers--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1900.
- [between 1886 and 1900]
- School house, Rosita, Colo built during boom days - been paying for it for 60 yrs.
- Men, women, and children pose in front of the Rosita, Custer County, Colorado schoolhouse with a Newfoundland dog. They wear poke bonnets, flounces, felt hats and aprons. The school is a two-story frame building with a cross gabled roof, brick...
- Rosita (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Dogs--Colorado--Rosita--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Rosita--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Cripple Creek
- Two little girls wearing bonnets are seated near railroad tracks with view towards major mines on Bull Cliff, Cripple Creek district Teller County, Colorado; scene includes standard and narrow gauge railroad tracks, surface mine buildings, and...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Clarks break camp at Snowmass
- View in Snowmass, Piktin County, Colorado; shows a tent, a loaded surrey, and the Clark family in bonnets.
- Snowmass (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Snowmass--1910-1920.; Tents--Colorado--Snowmass--1910-1920.; Women--Colorado--Snowmass--1910-1920.; Clark family.
- 1911
- A Colorado strawberry patch
- View of large strawberry field, West Lake Ranch, possibly Adams County, Colorado; numerous men & women picking strawberries; small wooden frame shed and canvas tent, background left; straw hats & bonnets, dog seated amidst pickers, wooden baskets...
- Adams County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fruit industry--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Harvesting--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Ranches--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.; Strawberries--Colorado--Adams County--1900-1910.
- [1910.]
- Picking strawberries, Steamboat Spgs., Moffat Road
- View of large strawberry field with numerous men, women and children picking strawberries, Steamboat Springs, Colorado reached via Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (formerly Denver, Northwestern & Pacific), Moffat Road; lean-to or open shed with stacked...
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Fruit industry--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1920.; Harvesting--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1920.; Strawberries--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1920.; Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company.
- [between 1908 and 1915]
- Denver & Rio Grande city ticket office in Albany Hotel Building, 17th and Stout Streets
- The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Ticket Office is on the corner of Seventeenth and Stout Streets, in the rocco style Albany Hotel, Denver, Colorado. Men in suits and bowler hats, and ladies in bonnets are on sidewalks; newsboys stand next to a...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Newspaper carriers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Railroads--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Ticket...
- 1909 May 1
- Confederate reunion
- View of a parade in Trinidad, Colorado. Several women in replicas of 1860's dresses carrying Confederate flags and wearing bonnets, parade on the brick street. A boy with a bicycle is in the background and behind him are parked 1930's automobiles....
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Trinidad--1930-1940.
- August, 1939
- Confederate reunion
- View of three seated men in uniforms talking to each other at the convention, Trinidad, Colorado. One man holds a newspaper and gestures while the other two look at him. The jacket of one man has elaborate stitching on the arm. Women in bonnets...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Military uniforms--Confederate.; Dean, Samuel Andrew.; Rogers, Irvin B.; Sadler, James Robert.
- August, 1939
- The celebrated Mineral Springs at Manitou, Col.
- View of the Manitou Soda Spring in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest; shows the rustic gazebo with its branch uprights and benches, the boulder at the confluence of Ruxton and Fountaine qui Bouille, and a group of excursionists gathered...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Sightseers--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [between 1872 and 1875?]
- Manitou Soda Spring
- View of the Manitou Soda Spring in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest; shows the rustic gazebo with its branch uprights and benches, a frame saltbox dwelling in the background, and the boulder at the confluence of Ruxton Creek and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Sightseers--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1875?]
- Picnic in Manitou
- View of a group of picnickers near Manitou Springs, Colorado. Mostly children, this group sits and stands with their lunch pails and baskets in the foreground. An older gentleman sits in the center, and behind him two women in jackets and bonnets;...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Children--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Picnics--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [1878]
- Soda Springs, Manitou
- View of the Manitou Soda Spring in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north; shows the rustic gazebo with its branch uprights and benches, the boulder at the confluence of Ruxton and Fountaine qui Bouille, and a group gathered around the stone...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Sightseers--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1875?]
- Hunters and homestead
- Men, women, and children pose outdoors near two one story buildings. The men stand near a wooden building, upon which freshly killed birds and deer hang. Two men are on horseback. Other men hold rifles or aim them with tripods which balance the...
- Children--1890-1920.; Houses--1890-1920.; Hunting--1890-1920.; Women--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1915?]
- Hunters and homestead
- Men, women, and children pose outdoors near two one story buildings. The men stand near a wooden building, upon which freshly killed birds and deer hang. Two men are on horseback. Other men hold rifles or aim them with tripods which balance the...
- Children--1890-1920.; Horseback riding--1890-1920.; Houses--1890-1920.; Hunting--1890-1920.; Women--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1915?]
- Hunters and homestead
- Men, women, and children pose outdoors near two one story buildings. The men stand near a wooden building, upon which freshly killed birds and deer hang. Two men are on horseback. Other men hold rifles or aim them with tripods which balance the...
- Children--1890-1920.; Horseback riding--1890-1920.; Houses--1890-1920.; Hunting--1890-1920.; Women--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1915?]
- Dakota Indian mission school
- Class portrait posed outside the school building shows Native American Sioux girls and several white girls wearing print dresses and holding straw bonnets, possibly taken on the Ponca Reservation, Nebraska.
- Dakota Indians--Nebraska--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Nebraska--1880-1900.; Ponca Reservation (Neb.)--1880-1900.; Girls--Nebraska--1880-1900.; School children--Nebraska--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- C. C. Depot, Georgetown
- Large crowd gathers along Clear Creek as a Colorado Central narrow gauge excursion train pauses in front of the depot, 1106 Rose Street, Georgetown, Colorado. The men wear suits, some with top hats; women wear dresses and bonnets. Several men stand...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1890.; Colorado Central Railroad Company.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Georgetown, Colo. street scene
- View of large excursion group mounted on their horses and burros on 6th (Sixth) Street (Alpine) Georgetown, Colorado. Men wear suits and hats, women ride side saddle and have on long dresses and bonnets; one holds a child. Street is lined with wood...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1892]
- Navajo Jake (Moqui)
- A Native American (Navajo) man, identified as Navajo Jake, stands beside a four wheel wagon pulled by two mules on the Hopi Reservation, Arizona; a white man and two white women sit inside the wagon under a canopy. Navajo Jake wears a hat, shirt,...
- Indians of North America--Arizona--1880-1890.; Navajo Indians--Arizona--1880-1890.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1880-1890.; Carriages & coaches--Arizona--1880-1890.; Women--Arizona--1880-1890.
- between 1880 and 1889?
- Loretto Heights, service camp, World War I
- Women sit on wooden folding chairs around a table taking notes on the use of the telegraph, Loretto Heights service camp classroom, a WWI training center for women, Denver, Colorado. A male instructor, in a suit, sits at the head of the table. Some...
- Loretto Heights College--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Denver.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [1917 or 1918]
- During ceremonies marking battle centennial
- A woman and girls stand near a wire fence and look on as men on horseback ride in an open field, part of the Centennial of the Battle of Summit Springs, Summit Springs, Colorado. Two men on horseback carry flags. The men wear military uniforms; the...
- Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Summit Springs--1960-1970.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Summit Springs--1960-1970.; Summit Springs (Colo.), Battle of, 1869--Battlefields--1960-1970.; Summit Springs...
- [1969]
- During ceremonies marking battle centennial
- Men on horseback stand near two girls and a woman as part of a ceremony to commemorate the Battle of Summit Springs in Washington County, Colorado. Two men carry flags, one a U. S. flag. The men are dressed in military uniforms. The girls and woman...
- Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Summit Springs--1960-1970.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Summit Springs--1960-1970.; Summit Springs (Colo.), Battle of, 1869--Battlefields--1960-1970.; Summit Springs...
- 1969 July 10
- Denver parade
- Nurses who include Marie Bresnehan participate in a parade in Denver, Colorado. They carry a stretcher and wear bonnets.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Litters--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Nurses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Bresnehan, Marie.
- 1916
- Lindquist Cracker Co.
- Women sort crackers on a conveyor belt in the Lindquist Cracker and Candy Company bakery at 3512 Walnut Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. They wear smocks and bonnets. Barrels and boxes of crackers are nearby.
- Lindquist Cracker and Candy Company (Denver, Colo.)--People--1920-1930.; Conveyor belts--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Cracker industry--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.;...
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Packing crackers Merchants Biscuit Co.
- Women stand near a conveyor belt that holds crackers at the Merchants Biscuit Company bakery in Denver, Colorado. They wear smocks and bonnets. Boxes of crackers are nearby.
- Merchant's Biscuit Company (Denver, Colo.)--People--1910-1920.; Conveyor belts--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Cracker industry--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Crackers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Interiors.;...
- [between 1910 and 1920?]