Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Indian burial, scaffold and Indian woman, posed in studio
- Unidentified Dakota Native American female lying on ground posed next to staged burial on scaffolds; full length studio portrait with painted backdrop; Dakota female with braids, necklaces, fringed buckskin shirt, bracelets, woven beaded belt,...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Women--1880-1890.; Scaffold...
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Descendants of Ramirez de Salazar
- Detailed description of the descendants of New Mexico pioneering family Ramirez de Salazar.
- Hispanic Americans--New Mexico--Genealogy.; Spaniards--New Mexico--Genealogy.; Mexican Americans--New Mexico--Genealogy.; New Mexico--Genealogy.
- 2002 April
- Shrine, Walpi
- Native American (Hopi) pueblo burial mound of rocks, Walpi, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Spiritual life--Arizona--Walpi--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--Arizona--Walpi--1910-1920.; Pueblo Indians--Spiritual life--Arizona--Walpi--1910-1920.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1910-1920.; Walpi...
- [1918?]
- Farmer and Hale Mortuary, William D. Nash Mortuary burial records -- index, 1889 to 1909
- Index to the Farmer and Hale Mortuary Index located in Denver, Colorado from the years 1889 to 1909. The original registers are individually indexed. The name may be that of the deceased or the person responsible for payment of the funeral...
- Funeral homes--Colorado--Denver--Records--Indexes.; Burial--Colorado--Denver--Indexes.; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado--Denver--Records--Indexes.
- 2002
- William P. Horan Burial Index 1900-1956
- Index to burial records in the Horan Mortuary Records (WH842), a manuscript collection in the Western History Dept. Gives name, age, color/race, year of burial, page number. Additional information may be found in the records.
- Funeral homes--Colorado--Denver--Records--Indexes.; Burial--Colorado--Denver--Indexes.; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado--Denver--Records--Indexes.; Denver (Colo.)--Vital records.; W.P. Horan (Firm).; W.P. Horan & Son.; Horan Mortuary.
- 2000
- "Waiting for Gabriel's trumpet," Indian burial, Crow, Montana, near Pryor
- A covered casket (?) sits atop a wooden burial platform on a hilltop, possibly on the Native American Crow Reservation in Montana. Signs of frost line the securing ropes and platform poles.
- Crow Indians--Social life--Montana--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Montana--1890-1900.; Scaffold burial--Montana--1890-1900.
- 1900
- Dakota burial
- View of a Native American (Dakota) burial platform mounted above ground using timber supports. A shrouded casket lies tied down atop the platform.
- Dakota Indians--Spiritual life--1880-1910.; Indians of North America--1880-1910.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1910.; Scaffold burial--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Plains Indians burial
- A Native American (Plains) burial ceremony. Men and women sit and stand under a wooden platform upon which the casket rests.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--1850-1860.; Great Plains--1850-1860.; Scaffold burial--Great Plains--1850-1860.
- [between 1940 and 1960]
- Tree burial
- View of a pinon pine with a Native American burial scaffold in it probably in Montana. Oddly shaped rocks surround the tree.
- Indians of North America--1900-1920.; Scaffold burial--1900-1920.; Trees--1900-1920.; Rodman Wanamaker Expedition.
- [between 1908 and 1913]
- Indian chiefs on horseback @ consolidated Ute Indian Agency
- Chiefs Buckskin Charley, Colorow, Joseph Price, and Nanees (or George Norris) pose on horseback in front of the Consolidated Ute Indian Agency in Ignacio, La Plata County, Colorado for the secret burial of Chief Ouray. Each is dressed in ceremonial...
- Ouray--Death & burial.; Ignacio (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Indians of North America--Colorado--Ignacio--1920-1930.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.; Colorow, ca. 1810-1888.; Norris, George.; Price, Joseph, Chief.; United States. Office of Indian Affairs....
- May 24, 1925
- Utah Indian burial places
- View of Native American Ute burial ground, Utah, shows three sizes of wooden boxes on raised platforms inside a weathered picket fence.
- Indians of North America--Utah--1890-1910.; Ute Indians--Utah--1890-1900.; Cemeteries--Utah--1890-1900.; Manners & customs--Utah--1890-1900.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Utah--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Birds eye view of Battle Field Wounded Knee P.R. Agc. S.D.
- View to the northeast of Lieutenant Sydney A. Cloman, First Infantry, on his horse on the Wounded Knee battleground among the frozen bodies of the slain Native American Lakota Sioux on the snow including Chief Big Foot on the left, Pine Ridge...
- United States. Army. Infantry, 1st.--People--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded...
- [1891? January 3]
- Bureal [i.e. Burial] of the dead at the battlefield of Wounded Knee S.D.
- A civilian burial party and U.S. Army officers pose over a mass grave trench with bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux killed at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
- Dakota Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--189-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Pine Ridge Indian...
- [1891 January 3?]
- Indian widow at her husband's grave
- A Native American woman mourns the death of her husband. She holds a human skull and appears to be symbolically feeding it while others are scattered on the ground around her. Behind her are several burial platforms.
- Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1860-1870.; Manners & customs--1860-1870.; Scaffold burial--1860-1870.
- 1870?
- Indian funeral
- A group of Native Americans sit near a burial platform performing funeral rites. The platform is supported by poles at each corner, and the body of the deceased is covered with a cloth.
- Indians of North America--1860-1880.; Scaffold burial--1860-1880.
- [between 1940 and 1970?]
- Indian burial, bodies in trees
- Dakota Native American burial custom; two trees with several wrapped bodies on stick platforms in branches.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Indian burial, scaffold in foreground, tepee frame in background
- Dakota Native American burial custom; bodies wrapped in blankets atop scaffold and another body wrapped in blankets laying inside tepee frame of poles; ridge in distance.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Indian burial, scaffold in foreground
- Dakota Native American burial custom; scaffold with three wrapped bodies atop in foreground including one smaller body with bent branches covering it; tepee frame of poles with one wrapped body inside frame right background.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Indian burial, scaffold in foreground, tepee frame in background
- Dakota Native American burial custom; three wrapped bodies atop scaffold in left foreground including smaller body with bent branches framing body; tepee frame of poles with wrapped body inside tepee frame right foreground; view of edge of ridge...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Indian burial, bodies in trees
- Dakota Native American burial custom; two trees each with one wrapped body on scaffolding on branches; tree on right might have an additional second body.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Indian burial, scaffold in foreground, tepee frame in back
- View of Dakota burial custom; scaffold with wrapped bodies in foreground and tipi frame in background.
- Dakota Indians--1870-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1870-1890.; Tipis--1870-1890.
- [between 1874 and 1889]
- Indian burial, scaffold in foreground, tepee frame in back
- View of Dakota burial custom; scaffold with wrapped bodies in foreground and tipi frame in background.
- Dakota Indians--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1870-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1870-1890.; Tipis--1870-1890.
- [between 1874 and 1889]
- Indian burial, scaffold in foreground, tepee frame in back
- View of Dakota burial custom; scaffold with wrapped bodies in foreground and tipi frame in background.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.; Tipis--1880-1890.
- [between 1874 and 1889]
- Tepee frame showing wrapped bodies on Indian burial ground
- View of Dakota burial custom; tipi frame with wrapped bodies inside on the ground.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1870-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1880-1890.; Tipis--1880-1890.
- [between 1874 and 1889]
- Tepee frame showing wrapped bodies on Indian burial ground
- View of Dakota burial custom; tipi frame with wrapped bodies inside on the ground.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1870-1890.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1870-1890.; Tipis--1880-1890.
- [between 1874 and 1889]
- Western History Subject Index
- Burials
- Western History Subject Index
- Denver. Cemeteries. Calvary
- Philip Zang family plot with memorial and markers
- View of Philip Zang family burial plot in Riverside Cemetery (incorporated 1876) at 5201 Brighton Boulevard in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a tall gray granite memorial topped with a draped urn and two beveled markers....
- Riverside Cemetery (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Elyria Swansea neighborhood (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Cemeteries.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments.; Friederich, Philip, 189-1847--Tomb.; Zang, Philip, 1826-1899--Tomb.;...
- 2003
- Chavez Plaza Cemetery, Huerfano County, Colo.
- View of the Chavez Plaza Cemetery, known also as the San Jose Canon Cemetery, the San Jose de Los Chavez Cemetery, or the Los Chavez Cemetery located near the town of Gardner in Huerfano County, Colo. The earliest gravestone dates to 1877 with the...
- Chavez Plaza Cemetery (Huerfano County, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Huerfano County--1970-1980.; Huerfano County (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Chavez Plaza Cemetery (Huerfano County, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Huerfano...
- 1977
- Garfield Monument
- View of the stone Garfield Monument on the edge of the Toltec Gorge (Rio Arriba County), New Mexico. Incised letters on the shrine read: "In Memoriam James Abram Garfield President of the United States Died September 19, 1881. Mourned By All the...
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881--Monuments.; Rio Arriba County (N.M.)--1880-1900.; Toltec Gorge (N.M.)--1880-1900.; Monuments & memorials--New Mexico--Rio Arriba County--1880-1900.
- [between 1881 and 1900?]
- Child's moccasin
- A pair of children's moccasins (Native American Sioux) used in a burial. They are possibly lined with cloth and decorated with red, blue, yellow, black and green beadwork on the outside. The moccasins were found or purchased in Pine Ridge, South...
- Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1870-1890.; Dakota Indians--Clothing dress--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing dress--1870-1890.; Moccasins--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890]
- Garfield mem. mon., Toltec Gorge
- View of the Garfield Monument in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Incised letters on this shrine to the assassinated president read: "In memoriam James Abram Garfield President of the United States died September 19, 1881. Mourned by all the people....
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881--Monuments.; Rio Arriba County (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Toltec Gorge (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--New Mexico--Rio Arriba County--1880-1890.; Monuments & memorials--New Mexico--Rio Arriba County--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1885?]
- Moccasin Bend
- Composite image of an area identified as Moccasin Bend west of Chattanooga (Hamilton County), Tennessee. Shows the tree lined banks of the Tennessee River and agricultural fields. Moccasin Bend, a Native American burial ground is in the distance.
- Hamilton County (Tenn.)--1880-1910.; Moccasin Bend (Tenn.)--1880-1910.; Tennessee River--1880-1910.; Croplands--Tennessee--Hamilton County--1880-1910.; Rivers--Tennessee--Hamilton County--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Breckenridge
- View of graves at the Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado, cemetery; shows burial markers, a cross, and metal fence.
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Breckenridge--1930-1970.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Colorado--Breckenridge--1930- 1970.
- [between 1933 and 1970]
- Old Indian church, Pueblo Laguna N.M.
- View of the Laguna Pueblo mission church, New Mexico, shows a walled burial ground in front of the two-story adobe building with stepped parapet, two bells and a cross.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Laguna --1870-1910.; Laguna Indians--1870-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--New Mexico--Laguna--1870-1910.; Laguna (N.M.)--1870-1910.; Catholic churches--New Mexico--Laguna--1870-1910.;...
- [between 1879 and 1903]
- Laguna
- View of the Native American Laguna Pueblo Indian mission Church of San Jose, New Mexico, shows an adobe building with walled burial ground, stepped parapet, two bells and a cross.
- Church of San Jose (Laguna, N.M.)--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Laguna --1880-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--New Mexico--Laguna--1880-1900.; Laguna (N.M.)--1880-1900.; Catholic churches--New...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- San Juan
- View of the Native American San Juan Pueblo mission church, New Mexico, shows a stuccoed adobe building with an arched parapet, two bells, wooden doors and a walled burial ground with a wooden cross.
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1890.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1890.; Tewa Indians--1880-1890.; San Juan Pueblo (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Catholic churches--New Mexico--San Juan Pueblo--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Old mission in ruins
- View of the Native American Santa Clara Pueblo mission ruins, New Mexico, shows a collapsed roof and sides with front entry wall partially standing; cross grave markers remain in front cemetery burial ground.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1910-1930.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1910-1930.; Tewa Indians--New Mexico--Santa Clara Pueblo--1910-1930.; Santa Clara Pueblo (N.M.)--1910-1930.;...
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- New Mexico, missions, Santo Domingo
- View of the Native American Santo Domingo Pueblo mission church, New Mexico, shows the adobe building with walled cemetery burial ground, stepped parapet with bell and cross, and horse painting on upper balcony.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1880-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1880-1900.; Santo Domingo Pueblo (N.M.)--1880-1900.; Tewa Indians--Structures--New Mexico--Santo...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- New Mexico, mission, Sia
- Native Americans sit on the wall fence of the Zia Pueblo mission church, New Mexico, in front of a wooden Christian cross in the burial ground. The adobe church has a whitewashed facade and a parapet with a bell and cross.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Zia Pueblo--1880-1910.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Zia Pueblo--1880-1910.; Sia Indians--New Mexico--Zia Pueblo--1880-1910.; Zia Pueblo (N.M.)--1880-1910.; Catholic churches--New Mexico--Zia...
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Sia
- View of the Native American Zia Pueblo mission church, New Mexico, shows the adobe structure with a parapet, bell, cross and front walled burial ground.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Zia Pueblo--1880-1900.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Zia Pueblo--1880-1900.; Sia Indians--New Mexico--Zia Pueblo--1880-1900.; Zia Pueblo (N.M.)--1880-1900.; Catholic churches--New Mexico--Zia...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Birds eye view of complete battle ground at Wounded Knee S.D.
- Bird's eye view to the west across the valley of the Wounded Knee battleground with slain American Lakota Sioux and burial party barely visible above cottonwoods along the creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Wounded Knee...
- [1891? January 3]
- Big Foot
- View of the slain body of Chief Big Foot, Native American, Miniconjou Lakota Sioux, propped up in the snow on the Wounded Knee battleground, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. U. S. soldiers, civilian burial party members, and a stovepipe from...
- United States. Army.; Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Miniconjou Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.;...
- [1891? January 3]
- Birds eeye [i.e. eye] view of the battle field at Wounded Knee S.D., Dec. 1890
- View over the battlefield at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, shows frozen bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux on the snow covered ground with the civilian burial party with horses and a wagon in the distance.
- Dakota Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Wounded Knee...
- [January 1891]
- Gathering up the dead of the battlefield of Wounded Knee S.D.
- A civilian burial party stands by their wagon filled with the frozen bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux, in a ravine south of the camp at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Mounted U.S. Army officers look on from hill...
- Dakota Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Wounded Knee...
- [1891? January 3]
- Birds eys [i.e. eye] view of battlefield at Wounded Knee S.D. looking S.W.
- View northwest over the battle field at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, shows the burial party, including a Native American Sioux woman, at the west end of the snow covered camp with frozen bodies and tepee pole...
- Dakota Indians--Women--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee...
- [1891? January 3]
- Indians, Pueblo Santo Domingo, missions
- View of the Santo Domingo mission church, New Mexico, shows the Native American adobe building with walled cemetery burial ground, stepped parapet, bell, cross, balcony, and painting on front facade.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1880-1910.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1880-1910.; Santo Domingo Pueblo (N.M.)--1880-1910.; Tewa Indians--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1880-1910.;...
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Santa [sic] Domingo
- View of the Santo Domingo mission church, New Mexico, shows the Native American adobe building featuring a stepped parapet, bell, cross, balcony, vigas, and access ladders with a walled cemetery burial ground.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1910-1920.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1910-1920.; Santo Domingo Pueblo (N.M.)--1910-1920.; Tewa Indians--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1910-1920.;...
- [1913]
- Santa [sic] Domingo
- View of Santo Domingo mission church, New Mexico, shows the painted Native American adobe building featuring a stepped parapet, bell, cross, and horse painting on the upper balcony with walled cemetery burial ground.
- Indians of North America--Structures--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1910-1920.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1910-1920.; Santo Domingo Pueblo (N.M.)--1910-1920.; Tewa Indians--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Tabor grave, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
- View of the Tabor burial plot at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Denver, Colorado; tombstone inscription reads: "TABOR," "Unknown to fame until approaching the age of fifty, chance suddenly brought him considerable wealth and reputation. A few years later...
- Denver (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Colorado--Denver--1960-1970.; Baby Doe, d. 1935.--Tomb.; Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, 1830-1899.--Tomb.
- 1965