Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Clothesline in snowbanks
- View of a deep cut made through snowbanks to reach a clothesline in Leadville, Colorado. The clothesline is constructed of a post with a cross-T board and lines. Snowcovered evergreens and a two story house's rooftop are in the background.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Clotheslines--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1930.; Snow--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930]
- Clothesline in snowbanks
- View of a cut made through snowbanks in order to reach a clothesline in Leadville, Colorado. The clothesline is constructed of a post with a cross-T board and four lines. A snow-covered evergreen is behind the post. A two story house, possibly the...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Clotheslines--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1930.; Snow--Colorado--Leadville--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930]
- Jim Town
- View of one-story log cabins with low-pitched roofs in Jimtown (later Creede) in Mineral County, Colorado. Shows children and a horse near laundry on a clothesline and a canvas tent with a metal chimney. Some crudely constructed cabins are...
- Creede (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Children--Colorado--Creede--1880-1890.; Log cabins--Colorado--Creede--1880-1890.; Tents--Colorado--Creede--1880-1890.
- [between 1888 and 1890?]
- Apartment House No. 1
- Women, children, and men pose near the porch of a two-story frame house in Hahns Peak (Routt County), Colorado. Women wear calico dresses with puffed sleeves and stand beside girls in dresses and boys with caps. Men wear suits or vests and hats;...
- Hahns Peak (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Children--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Breckenridge residence [graphic]
- Men, women, and children stand and pose near log cabins in Breckenridge (Summit County), Colorado. Buildings have gabled, shingled roofs. Children look out of an upper story window. Women wear long, flounced dresses with box pleats and pose with a...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.; Log cabins--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Hotel, Hahn's Peak
- Men and women pose outside a three-story Hotel in Hahns Peak (Routt County), Colorado. Men and women sit or stand on the porch of a frame building with a gabled roof and a corner entrance on Main Street. A log cabin and laundry on a clothesline are...
- Hahns Peak (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Hahns Peak--1900-1920.
- [between 1901 and 1912]
- Homelands of member of Salvation Army Colony, Amity, Colo.
- View of a frame farm house with a hipped roof and a dormer window on a farm in Amity (Prowers County), Colorado. Shows a dog by the doorway, laundry on a clothesline, a carriage near the house, and haystacks behind trees on the farm.
- Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Farmhouses--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Farms--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Georgetown, Colorado
- View of frame and brick buildings and houses in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows the brick Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church with arched windows and a spire with a cross finial, and the two story Saint Joseph's hospital with a...
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (Georgetown, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Churches--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1914?]
- Irrigated lands near Pueblo
- View of a farm house, barn, and fenced, cultivated fields near Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. The frame house has a gabled, shingled roof, and laundry is on a clothesline. Plows and farm equipment are on the side of a dirt road. Houses and...
- Pueblo County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--Pueblo County--1900-1920.; Farmhouses--Colorado--Pueblo County--1900-1920.; Farms--Colorado--Pueblo County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1915?]
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Pueblo
- Smoke rises from smokestacks and blast furnaces at the Minnequa Plant of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe freight cars are on tracks over an irrigation...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1920.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1900-1920.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1900-1920.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Factories--Colorado--Pueblo--1900-1920.; Irrigation...
- [between 1908 and 1920?]
- Cripple Creek
- Overlook view of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows buildings and houses, signs read: "Drugs", "Shillings Dry Goods", "Groceries, Miners Supplies", and "I. W. Harper Whiskey." Laundry hangs from a clothesline.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1899 June 14
- Unidentified buildings
- Shows a group of unidentified wood shacks on the plains. A wash tub and clothing is next to one door, clothes hang out to dry on a clothesline and a surrey is in the background.
- Houses--1890-1920.; Huts--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920]
- Coxey army scenes
- Participants in Coxey's Army have a meal in camp as they pass through Colorado. An American flag is staked in the ground, laundry hangs on a clothesline.
- Coxey's Army--1890-1900.; Camping--Colorado--1890-1900.; Eating & drinking--Colorado--1890-1900.; Unemployed--Colorado--1890-1900.
- 1894 March
- A packers camp, Po'Keepsie Gulch
- View of a mining camp with tent, clothesline, and man and woman, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado. A man stands with a pack train of burros, they carry chairs and household goods.
- Mining camps--Colorado--San Juan County--1880-1900.; Poughkeepsie Gulch (Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Juan County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--San Juan County--1880-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--San Juan County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Ludlow
- View of the tent city and the people of Ludlow, Colorado in Las Animas County, the site of the coal strikes and the subsequent massacre. Laundry hangs from the clothesline in the foreground.
- Ludlow (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Miner's strikes--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Tents--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.
- April 20, 1914
- Wellsville Hot Springs
- View of buildings at the Wellsville Hot Springs in Wellsville, Fremont County, Colorado. Clothes hang on a clothesline in front of a tent and a clapboard house while a man saws wood near a shed. The bathhouse is in the background.
- Wellsville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Wellsville Warm Spring (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bathhouses--Colorado--Wellsville--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Wellsville--1900-1910.; Clotheslines--Colorado--Wellsville--1900-1910.;...
- [1905?]
- Central City home interior
- The back porch of a Central City home is framed in a dark, round border. The house is brick and has two rectangular windows and lattice work on the right side of the porch. Wood steps lead up to the porch with a wood railing. A planter is next to...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1930-1950.; Porches--Colorado--Central City--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Central City, Colorado
- A two story, vernacular wood frame house with a chimney and windows with shutters is above the Rocky Mountain Brewery on a hillside in Central City, Colorado. A small outhouse with a sloped roof is behind the house. A clothesline, which has items...
- Rocky Mountain Brewery (Central City, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Central City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Brewing industry--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- Georgetown, Colo. looking north
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, north, the year that the two settlements of Georgetown and Elizabethtown merged into the city of Georgetown. The Hamill House (in its earliest form) with a white fence is visible; behind the house the Hall smelter can...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- 1867
- House on California Street
- View of a house at 2540 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A clothesline pole is nearby.
- Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1981 October
- Georgetown, Colo, 26
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, looking south toward the valley leading to Silver Plume, where the High Bridge of the Georgetown Loop is visible. In the foreground is Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, priest's residence, and hospital located at...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of Georgetown, Colorado, looking south toward the valley leading to Silver Plume, where the High Bridge of the Georgetown Loop is visible. In the foreground is Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, priest's residence, and hospital...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Wooden cabin
- View of a Native American (Shoshone) one story wooden house. The house has a stove pipe and a lean-to extension. Laundry hangs on a clothesline near the house. A pile of wood is in the distance.
- Indians of North America--Structures--1880-1910.; Shoshoni Indians--Structures--1880-1910.; Houses--1880-1910.; Log buildings--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Packers Camp. Po Keepsie Gulch
- View of a mining camp with tent, clothesline, and man and woman, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado. A man stands with a pack train of burros, they carry chairs and household goods.
- Mining camps--Colorado--San Juan County--1880-1900.; Poughkeepsie Gulch (Colo.)--1880-1900.; San Juan County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--San Juan County--1880-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--San Juan County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- St. scene at Ft. Lupton camp
- Boys, girls, and a man stand near laundry on a clothesline near Fort Lupton (Weld County), Colorado. One-story cinder block houses with pitched roofs are nearby. An automobile is parked in the distance.
- Labor camps--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1960-1970.; Fort Lupton (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Clotheslines--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1960-1970.; Migrant agricultural laborers--Colorado--Fort Lupton--1960-1970.
- 1962
- Manzanola Colo migratory labor camp
- View of migrant workers' houses near Manzanola (Otero County), Colorado. Laundry hangs on a clothesline. Automobiles are parked nearby.
- Labor camps--Colorado--Manzanola--1960-1970.; Migrant agricultural laborers--Housing--Colorado--Manzanola--1960-1970.; Manzanola (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Manzanola--1960-1970.
- 1961 September 7
- Housing
- View of a trash pile and laundry on a clothesline at a migrant worker camp in Colorado. A one-story house is in the distance.
- Labor camps--Colorado--1960-1970.; Migrant agricultural laborers--Housing--Colorado--1960-1970.; Clotheslines--Colorado--1960-1970.; Refuse--Colorado--1960-1970.
- 1961
- Anaconda
- View across rooftops of Ananconda in Teller County, Colorado; includes wood frame gabled and hipped houses, log cabins, log houses, false fronts, lean-tos, outhouses, with wood shingle, sod, and plank board roofs; laundry hangs on clothesline in...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Privies--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Roofs--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Anaconda
- View northeast across Ananconda residences in Teller County, Colorado, includes frame gabled houses, tents, log cabins, log houses, false fronts, lean-tos, outhouses, and a smelter, with wood shingle, sod, and plank board roofs. Patches of light...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Weze 3020 Lafayette backyard
- Weze Hopkins poses near a fence and clothesline in the backyard of a house at 3020 Lafayette Street in Denver, Colorado. A ladder is attached to the fence.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Hopkins, Weze.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Del Norte
- A small gable-roofed clapboard church in Del Norte, Rio Grande, Colorado, has double doors in a vestibule on the front, and a simple cross at the apex of the roof, over the vestibule. Tall trees are near the entrance, and sunlit laundry hangs on a...
- Del Norte (Colo.)--1940-1970.; Churches--Colorado--Del Norte--1940-1970.
- [between 1940 and 1970?]
- Denver Urban Renewal, Curtis Park
- A woman poses as she hangs clothes on a clothesline at Denver Housing Authority Curtis Park public housing, in Denver, Colorado.
- Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Clotheslines--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Housing--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Chas. Huntington, East Lake Camp
- Charles Huntington, in a rain slicker and hat, stands in front of a wire fence and a clothesline where a pair of pants hang, in East Lake Camp, Eagle County, Colorado. Tree stumps, trees and brush are behind the fence.
- East Lake Camp (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Camps--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1910.; Huntington, Charles.
- 1908
- Wilina Hall, Edna Huntington (cousin), Eva Bangs, East Lake in front of cook shack
- Three women, Wilina Hall, Edna Huntington, and Eva Bangs, wear long skirts and blouses with ruffles, a collar, or lace, and sit in front of a rustic board cook shack in East Lake Camp, Eagle County, Colorado. A clothesline with a pair of pants...
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; East Lake Camp (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--East Lake Camp--1900-1910.
- 1908
- Shanti [sic] town
- View of shanties on a dirt road near probably 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue and Clay Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Houses are made of wood and corrugated metal and have chimneys and roofs patched with shingles and sheet...
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Jefferson Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1930-1940.; Huts--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Shanti [sic] town
- A man wears a v-neck sweater, pants, and a hat and smokes a pipe in front of a shanty at probably 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue between Bryant and Clay Streets in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Houses are made of wood, corrugated...
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Jefferson Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1930-1940.; Huts--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Men--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- East end
- Mine tunnel entrances and ore car tracks are in a mountain valley near frame buildings. Houses have gabled roofs and brick chimneys. A building has a square stone cupola with a finial. Timber fences, laundry on a clothesline, and tree stumps are...
- Houses--1860-1870.; Mine railroads--1860-1870.; Mining--1860-1870.
- 1866
- Camp Nizhoni
- Two African American campers sit and wash their clothes in a wash tub on the grounds of Camp Nizhoni in Lincoln Hills (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows clothes on a clothesline with clothespins.
- Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--Facilities--1930-1940.; African Americans--Colorado--Lincoln Hills--1930-1940.; Lincoln Hills (Colo.)--1930-1940.;...
- 1937
- Elkhorn Station, Nebraska
- View of frame and log buildings and probably a Union Pacific Railroad water tower at Elkhorn Station in Douglas County, Nebraska. Shows people near buildings, a horse-drawn wagon, laundry on a clothesline, livestock in a meadow, and grassy hills.
- Elkhorn Station (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Nebraska--Elkhorn Station--1860-1870.; Water tanks--Nebraska--Elkhorn Station--1860-1870.
- 1867
- A packers camp, Po'Keepsie Gulch [sic]
- View of an encampment in Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado; men and a woman pose with pack burros, a tent, chairs, picks, a washtub, and laundry on a clothesline.
- Donkeys--Colorado--San Juan County--1890-1910.; Mining camps--Colorado--San Juan County--1890-1910.; Poughkeepsie Gulch (Colo.)--1890-1910.; San Juan County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--San Juan County--1890-1910.; Pack...
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- House with screened-in porch
- Two men stand in front of a screened-in porch of a house built among a grove of trees. A clothesline spans between two trees in front of them.
- Houses--1910-1930.
- [between 1915 and 1931?]
- Poncha Springs
- hill. Additional buildings are in the plain in the distance.; Stereographic view of a woman standing with two young men in the right midground near a house at Poncha Springs, west of Salida in Chaffee County, Colorado. Several tents are set up in...
- Poncha Springs (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Clotheslines--Colorado--Poncha Springs--1870-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Poncha Springs--1870-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Poncha Springs--1870-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Poncha Springs--1870-1900.;...
- [between 1875 and 1900?]
- View of the north side of the city, Pueblo, Colorado
- View of the northside of Pueblo, Colorado; shows business and residence including laundry drying on clothesline; signs painted on sides or attached to buildings: "Fifth Avenue Hotel," "Bank," and "Appel & Walker, One Price, Clothiers & Furnishers,...
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1900-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Laguna, N.M. on the Santa Fe Ry.
- View of Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, reached via Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway railroad line; shows three levels of adobe and rock- constructed pueblo walls, courtyard area with rock walls on different levels, wooden trough, log ladders...
- Laguna (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Summer camp in Platte Cañon, C. & S. Ry.
- Two campsites near Crossons, Colorado, in Platte Canyon near Colorado and Southern Railway narrow gauge tracks and siding; open freight car with lumber and box car number 070 with two men looking out from doorway; water tower behind railroad cars;...
- Crossons (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Camping--Colorado--Crossons--1900-1920.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Crossons--1900-1920.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Miners Union Hospital
- Exterior view of B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge at the corner of Columbia and Pine Street, Telluride, Colorado (used for two years by the Western Federation of Miner's under the direction of Local President Vincent St. John and later occupied by the Miner's...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Hospitals--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Miners' Union Hospital (Telluride, Colo.)
- [between 1903 and 1908]
- Victor, residences
- Exterior rear view of four residences on a slope, Victor, Colorado; four rectangular wooden frame residences, horizontal plank, two two-story with high gable roof, single chimneys offset right; third with mansard roof and cast iron cresting; fourth...
- Victor (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Victor--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Portrait, Bowman-White House, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of of the Bowman-White House in Georgetown, Colorado, at 901 Rose Street. The house was built in 1892 by John Henry Bowman, who arrived in Georgetown with his family in the 1880s. The house was passed on to his daughter, Mellie, and...
- Bowman, John Henry--Homes & haunts.; White, John James--Homes & haunts.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1950-1960.; Women--Colorado--Georgetown--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- Turner residence in Kokomo
- Well dressed, the Turners pose on the wooden steps of their one- story frame house in Kokomo, Summit County, Colorado. In kneepants and a narrow brimmed planter hat, a boy standing in a cart holds the reins of a mule. A clothesline connects to a...
- Kokomo (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Kokomo--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Tree-shaded Boulder and the curious Flatirons S from Lovers' Hill, Colo.
- Foothills and the Flatirons rise behind Boulder, Colorado. Frame houses in the foreground have hipped gable-roofs, dormers, chimneys, stovepipes, and laundry on a clothesline. The Courthouse, with its cupola and corner towers, is in the midground,...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1909?]