Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- I. Berlin (started John Thompson Grocery)
- Studio portrait, head and shoulders, of Isaac Berlin, retail grocer of Boulder and Denver; owner of John Thompson grocery.
- Grocers--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Businessmen--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Berlin, Isaac, 1847-1918.
- [between 1886 and 1901]
- Municipal Facts: Volume 7 Numbers 5 and 6, 1924 May-June
- Portrait of a man
- Studio portrait of a man who wears a suit jacket with a diagonal geometric pattern and a necktie. His hair is parted on the side and he has a bushy moustache.
- Men--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Quilt; Log cabin
- Shows a quilt made of pieced wool, silk and cotton square blocks. The center of each block is black velvet. Seven diagonal green stripes cross the quilt; on the edge is black binding and the thread is tied, tufted and pink.
- Quilts--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Burden basket
- Shows a Native American (Apache) diagonal twined burden basket. The basket is made of willow and devil's claw with a metal rim and a leather strap dyed natural brown. Design images on the basket include horizontal bands and vertical lines.
- Apache baskets--1870-1900.; Apache Indians--Arts & crafts--1870-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1870-1900.; Baskets--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900]
- Basket
- Shows a Native American (Apache) cottonwood basket possibly used as a bowl in food preparation. It features a diagonal twined construction with devil's claw and brown natural dye.
- Apache baskets--1880-1920.; Apache Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1920.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1920.
- [between 1880 and 1920]
- Water jar
- Shows a Native American (Zuni) water jar with black and red on white coloring. Designs on the jar include crook, arrow, stripe, triangle, diagonal, bow, horn and feather.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1920.; Water bottles--1880-1920.; Zuni Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1920.; Zuni pottery--1880-1920.; Jars--1880-1920.
- [between 1880 and 1920]
- Portrait of a woman
- Studio portrait of a woman, possibly Josie Gregg. She wears a dress made of a striped fabric that is cut on the diagonal in the bodice; the shoulders have large puffed sleeves. She leans on a tennis racket.
- Women--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Yosemite, Wawona Hotel
- View of white frame buildings, part of the Wawona Hotel complex in Wawona, Yosemite National Park, California. A building known as the Long White or Clark Cottage has dormers, a veranda beneath a skirt roof, posts with curved brackets, and a...
- Wawona Hotel--Buildings--1880-1910.; Wawona (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Hotels--California--Wawona--1880-1910.
- [between 1887 and 1902?]
- Barley on the Sweet Ranch Carbondale Dist, Colo. Midland Ry
- View of barley field in Carbondale, Colorado; trampled diagonal pathway in foreground, mountains in background.
- Carbondale (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Barley--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1919]
- Catholic Church
- Exterior view of Catholic Church, Cripple Creek, Colorado; wooden frame church has diagonal siding, brick foundation, single side flush spire, four smaller spires on corners of main spire, double-wide side entry door with steps and railing, and a...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897]
- Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Catholic Church, Cripple Creek, Colorado; the wooden frame structure has diagonal siding, brick foundation, single side flush spire (top not in view), four smaller spires on corners of main spire, and Palladian window with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897]
- First Methodist Church
- Exterior view of First Methodist Church, Cripple Creek, Colorado; church is L-shaped wooden frame building with wooden diagonal siding, single spire to left of center, enclosed entryway with double-wide entry door, two-centre pointed leaded glass...
- First Methodist Church (Cripple Creek, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900]
- Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek
- Looking west on Bennett Avenue from Third (3rd )Street are one and two-story brick flat-roof commercial buildings, Cripple Creek, Colorado; buildings are decorated with cornices and pediments and many have awnings extended over storefront windows;...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900]
- Alamosa High School, burned Apr 1930
- The burned out Alamosa High School in Alamosa, Alamosa County, Colorado is a two-story brick shell, which burned April 26, 1930. Townspeople gather outside the smoke blackened brick building with its missing roof. Automobiles and trucks fill the...
- Alamosa High School (Alamosa, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Fires--Colorado--Alamosa--1930-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Alamosa--1930-1940.
- 1930
- On Denver Mtn. Park Auto Road
- View of Rocky Mountains from Overlook Point along the Denver Mountain Park Automobile Road west of Denver, Colorado; in foreground, a pine tree grows at a diagonal angle with "Overlook Point" sign posted on its trunk; mountains are in distance.
- Overlook Point (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roads--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1914 and 1920]
- Overlook Point, Denver Mountain Park Auto Road
- View of Rocky Mountains from Overlook Point along the Denver Mountain Park Automobile Road west of Denver, Colorado; in foreground, a pine tree grows at a diagonal angle with "Overlook Point" sign posted on its trunk; at center is a fenced and mown...
- Overlook Point (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roads--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1913 and 1920]
- Overlook Point, Denver Mountain Park Auto. Road
- View of the Rocky Mountains from Overlook Point along the Denver Mountain Park Automobile Road west of Denver, Colorado; in foreground, a pine tree grows at a diagonal angle, with "Overlook Point" sign posted on its trunk; pine trees at center, and...
- Overlook Point (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roads--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1913 and 1920]
- Georgetown, Colorado, view of Sixth Street, looking east
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, east down Sixth Street, from the south side of the street. On the left are the Masonic Lodge and the Fish Block, and four cars are parked in front. The two buildings are connected, but Rose Street runs along the far...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1960-1970.
- 1960
- Interior, Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown, Colorado
- A view of the interior west end of Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown, Colorado. The altar sits atop two steps and is covered with a white cloth on which "IHS" is embroidered. Two vessels sit on the altar, and two diagonal candelabras and a cross...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Altars--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Grace Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Colo.)
- 1940?
- Extracting rubber from a rubber tree
- Workers extract rubber from a rubber tree. The tree bark is cut in diagonal lines; a bucket is next to the tree trunk.
- Rubber plantation workers--1920-1940.; Rubber plantations--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1940?]
- Dingerson and water-wheel - motive power for Courier Press replaced by electric motor by owner Ken Ohlander
- Interior view of the basement of the Georgetown Courier building in Georgetown, Colorado. Jerome (Jerry) Dingerson, in a plaid shirt and apron, grasps with both hands a vertical belt connected to an enclosed water wheel, which is connected to the...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Newspapers--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Printing presses--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Dingerson, Jerry.
- [1948?]
- 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]
- General Palmer's residence [graphic]
- Exterior view of Glen Eyrie, near Manitou Springs, Colorado, a one-story frame structure with high gabled roof, gabled entry, windows with diagonal latticing and white fabric draped behind them, and a latticed gothic arched window in the gable...
- Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909--Homes & haunts.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1870-1880.
- [between 1875 and 1880?]
- Harrison Av. west side
- This view of the west side of Harrison Avenue, in Leadville, Colorado includes a corner brick block with bracketed cornice, arch windows with keystones, diagonal corner entry and a sign "Pendery, Goddard & Taylor, attorneys at law" above the door....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Business districts--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [between 1872 and 1880]
- Breckenridge storefront
- This frame, false fronted, storefront in Breckenridge, Colorado, has dentiled cornices with end brackets at the top and topping the plate glass windows. Diagonal cut borders are under each cornice, and the store's entry is inset and flanked by...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Breckenridge--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Masonic Lodge F F & A M going west on Lincoln
- This view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest on Lincoln Street, is of a parade of some fifty men in suits, hats, and white Masonic aprons heading east on the dirt street toward the camera. A man with a waist-mounted bass drum leads....
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Celebrations--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Aspen
- View of the Christ Episcopal Church in Aspen, Colorado; features a single story, vaulted structure with square attachment, diagonal wood siding, covered double door entry at the top of stairs, large cross over the entrance, and a single rectangular...
- Christ Episcopal Church (Aspen, Colo.)--1950-1970.; Aspen (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Anglican churches--Colorado--Aspen--1950-1970.
- [between 1950 and 1966]
- Georgetown
- View of a flood in Georgetown, Colorado. The steeple of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church and the Catholic school, near Main Street, are visible in the distance. Water fills the foreground and surges around rocky patches of earth, houses,...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1917.; Floods--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1917.
- [between 1880 and 1917?]
- Town in valley
- Panoramic view of a small town in a valley, possibly near Georgetown, Colorado. A railroad track and a frozen river run parallel into a town which has a major street that is diagonal to the sides of the valley. Wood construction buildings are...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- McClellan House, 1940
- View of the McClellan House on Taos Street, Georgetown, Colorado, built in the early 1870s by Erskine McClellan. The wood-construction house's gable end faces the street; painted shingles fill the point, under the eaves, and there are four tall...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; McClellan, Erskine--Homes & haunts.
- 1940
- Control of the amount of rock fed into the mill circuit at Urad Mine was controlled by four slusher drifts such as the one shown here
- A man runs a slusher through mine drift in a tunnel of the Urad mine, Clear Creek County, Colorado. The huge scoop would drag the debris to a shaft in the floor, where it would fall onto a waiting conveyor belt and be transported out of the mine.
- Mining machinery--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1960-1980.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Urad Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1960-1980.; Interiors--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1960-1980.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek...
- [between 1963 and 1974]
- Colo. City Vol. Hose Co. team
- Colorado City Hose Team pose in front of the diagonal batten door outside the brick fire station, South Twenty-sixth and Cucharas streets, El Paso County, Colorado. The men stand wearing dark underwear shirts and shorts with arms crossed and their...
- Colorado City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910.; Men--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910.
- September 1901
- Colo. City Vol. Hose Co. in running postion
- Colorado City Hose Team are harnessed to their hose cart with flexed muscles outside the fire station, South 26th (twenty-sixth) Street at Cucharas, El Paso County, Colorado. The captain in a light colored turleneck sweater and long pants stands in...
- Colorado City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Colorado City--1900- 1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910.
- 1901
- Cascade Hotel at Cascade Colo., D. N. Heizer, prop.
- Exterior facade view of the Ramona Hotel, a popular Ute Pass resort, at the foot of Pikes Peak on the Midland Terminal Railroad and on the Pikes Peak Highway, Cascade, (Cascade Canon) El Paso County, Colorado, shows the three-story hotel with a...
- Cascade (El Paso county, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Cascade--1880-1900.; Ramona Hotel (Cascade, Colo.)
- [between 1889 and 1900]
- Arrow, Colorado
- A woman in a dark dress with light lace collar and cuffs and a hat stands on platform of log depot at Arrow (Arrowhead), Colorado. Two other male passengers stand beyond her. The station features horizontal logs with chinking and a front gable...
- Arrow (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Arrow--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- Old jail, famous landmark at old ghost mining town of Ashcroft
- Exterior of the jail in Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, features horizontal flush boards and a diagonal board door with heavy hinges; built into a slight slope surrounded by bare aspens.
- Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Jails--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
- May 23, 1940
- Leadville Opera House, 1933
- This interior view of the Tabor Opera House stage, in Leadville, Colorado, was taken from an upper balcony. The stage has a painted flat of an interior with a bay window and wainscoting, framed by marble columns and a painted draped curtain. The...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Dr. J. W. Rockefeller & Dr. J. D. Walker, in Dr. R's office in Crested Butte, Gunnison Co., Colo., 1896
- John W. Rockefeller, (left) long time Crested Butte, Colorado doctor, banker and electric company businessman sits back in his chair, while Dr. Walker sits beside him on top of his desk. The office includes diagonal board paneling, wainscot,...
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Interiors.; Offices--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Como round house
- View of the dilapidated six stall stone roundhouse, Como yards, Park County, Colorado, shows missing stones and doors. Stone arches with keystones, frame the large diagonal board doors. The railroad tracks have long been pulled and overgrown with...
- Como (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Railroad roundhouses--Colorado--Como--1960-1970.
- 1960
- Late 1950's, roundhouse
- View of the dilapidated six stall stone roundhouse, Como yards, Park County, Colorado, shows stone arches with keystones framing the large diagonal board doors and a fence surrounding the building. The railroad tracks have long been pulled and...
- Como (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad roundhouses--Colorado--Como--1950-1960.
- [between 1955 and 1959]
- St. George's Episcopal Church
- Exterior view of St. George's Episcopal Church, West Fourth and Pine Streets, Leadville, Colorado. Built in 1881, at a cost of $18,000, this wood frame church features a steep central front gable with Gothic characteristics including side...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Churches--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1950.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1950.
- [between 1935 and 1945?]
- Jefferson Community Church [graphic]
- Exterior view of a former schoolhouse used as the Jefferson Community Church in Jefferson (Park County), Colorado. The wood frame building has clapboard siding, shingle hipped roof, brick chimney and a belltower with diagonal pattern shingles. The...
- Jefferson (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Churches.; Jefferson Community Church (Jefferson, Colo.)
- 1981
- St. George's Church, Leadville
- Exterior view of St. George's Episcopal Church on West Fourth and Pine Streets, Leadville, Colorado. Built in 1881, at a cost of $18,000, this wood frame church features a steep central front gable with Gothic characteristics including side...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.
- 1938
- August Von Rissling
- Portrait of August Von Rissling seated in a wooden chair in Leadville, Colorado. Possibly taken outside on dirt with a drop painted with a balustrade. Von Rissling wears chaps with fringe, a sack jacket and vest and a hat tilted on his head. His...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Von Rissling, August.
- [1879]
- J.L. Hill, miner
- In this portrait of J.L. Hill, a miner, taken in Leadville, Colorado, Mr. Hill wears an overcoat with wide lapels and a jacket or vest with a striped collarless shirt buttoned to the neckband. His hair is slicked back and he has a full beard and...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Hill, J. L., Miner.
- [1877 April 23]
- Capetowners Club
- An African American (Black) couple, members of the Capetowners Club, sit at a bar probably in the Five Points neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. The woman holds a cocktail in her hand and wears a satin floral print dress with a diagonal cut neckline...
- Capetowners Club (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; African Americans--Organizations--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.; Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Bars--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.; Couples--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- Portrait of a man, Leadville, Colorado
- A man seated for a studio portrait in Leadville, Colorado, wears a sack coat with matching vest and cravat. His hair is slicked down and he has a full beard and mustache.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- Portrait of a youth and his guardian, Leadville, Colorado
- In this studio portrait of a young man standing with a seated older man in Leadville, Colorado, both men wear coats, vests and hats. Both smoke cigars and have tucked their trouser legs inside their boots. The younger man wears a bandana around...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- Woody's cabin Ferndale, Colorado
- A log cabin, belonging to Ella H. Woodward, stands amid pine trees in Ferndale, Colorado. It features diagonal log walls, a screened-in porch, and a sign on the side of the building that reads: "Private Keep Out Prevent Fires."
- Woodward, Ella H.--Homes & haunts.; Ferndale (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Log cabins--Colorado--Ferndale--1930-1940.
- 1936