A man walks on a rocky slope overlooking an unidentified community probably in Colorado. Shows wood frame buildings, log structures, and an industrial building probably associated with mining. Mountains are in the distance.
Aerial view of the town of Ouray (Ouray County), Colorado. Buildings include the Beaumont Hotel, Walsh Library (City Hall), and Ouray County Court House.
View down 12th (Twelfth) Street of Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado. Wood frame houses line the streets. Shows City Hall, the Grand Hotel (Imperial Grand), and the two story public school building with bell tower. Kendall Mountain is in the...
Aerial view of the valley and mountains (including Ingram Peak) above Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado; shows Smuggler-Union Mining Company (Pandora) buildings (Pandora Mill), Bridal Veil Falls, waterfalls, and Bridal Veil Creek.
Bridal Veil Creek (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Pandora (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Pandora Mill (San Miguel County, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mills--Colorado--Pandora--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Pandora--1910-1920.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Pandora--1910-1920.
View of the exterior of Cranford Hall, an administrative building on the campus of Colorado State Teachers College (University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley (Weld County), Colorado. Ivy grows on the three story masonry building; architectural...
Colorado State Teachers College--1910-1930.; Greeley (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Greeley--1910-1930.
View of an American Shale Refining Company oil shale processing facility near De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; shows dormitories and outhouses. Road grade and tailings are on slopes of the Roan Cliffs.
Oil-shale industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; De Beque (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1920-1930.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.
Men pose by an abandoned log cabin identified as the Argent Mining Company Assay Office, on the Gilmore Property in the Platoro Mining District, Conejos County, Colorado.
Conejos County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.
View of an assessment hole at the Lady Belle mine south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado; a man holds a pick.
Eagle County (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Lady Belle Mine (Eagle County, Colo.)--1890-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Eagle County--1890-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1890-1920.
Men pose by a mine entrance in the Platoro District near Stunner (Conejos County), Colorado; one has an ax, the other has a framing square. Wood, ties, and snow surround them.
Posing in Hooper, Alamosa County, Colorado, this crowd includes Black men in chef outfits. Women and children are in a variety of hats. Copper boilers and milk cans are on a table in the foreground, by an open cardboard box. Frame dwellings and...
View of Uintah Basin in (Uintah County), Utah; shows Gilsonite mining operations north of Rainbow Junction, Uintah Railway railroad tracks, the Rainbow Vein, a trestle, snow, and sandstone cliffs.
Uintah Railway--1890-1910.; Uintah County (Utah)--1890-1910.; Mining--Utah--Uintah County--1890-1910.
Hand-colored view of the mining community of Somerset in Garfield County, Colorado. Shows company houses with hipped roofs. Industrial mining buildings are in the distance. Smoke stacks extend from roof of the powerhouse.
Aerial view of the mining community of Somerset in Garfield County, Colorado. Shows company houses with hipped roofs. Industrial mining buildings are in the distance. Smoke stacks extend from roof of the powerhouse.
View of the Black Iron Mine (Empire Zinc Company) on Battle Mountain in Eagle County, Colorado; shows tailings and sheds.
Battle Mountain (Eagle County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Black Iron Mine (Eagle County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1910.
View of the Blayney-Murphy slaughterhouse at 45th (Forty-fifth) and Gilpin Streets in the Denver Union Stockyards in the Elyria-Swansea Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a concrete building with truck bays, a tower and smokestacks. An...
Delivery trucks are pulled up to the loading dock at the Boys' Warehouse on Thirteenth Avenue in Denver, Colorado. Shows a gas pump and stacks of boxes. Men relax outside an open door.
Cars are parked along 13th Avenue (Thirteenth) in Denver, Colorado. Warehouses line the gravel street. Men stand near the loading dock at the "Boys Warehouse."
Men examine a Brown retort under construction at an oil shale processing facility at the Index Shale Oil Company in De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; part of the retort is in a shed.
Index Oil Shale Company--1920-1930.; Oil-shale industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; De Beque (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Industrial facilities--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.
A man poses by oil shale processing machinery at the Index Oil Company near De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; shows a retort with a rotating tank with gear and belt drives.
Index Shale Oil Company--1920-1930.; Oil-shale industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; De Beque (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Machinery--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.
View of a mountain identified as Buttress Mountain and the Roan Cliff formations with oil shale strata near De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; also pinon pines, brush, and clouds.
Oil-shales--Colorado--Mesa County--1910-1920.; Mesa County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1910-1920.
Denver and Rio Grande box cars carry bituminous coking coal at the C. F. & I. coke ovens, Crested Butte (Gunnison County), Colorado. Smoke and fumes rise from ovens; Crested Butte mountain is in the background.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Facilities--1910-1920.; Coke-ovens--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1910-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coke industry--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Industrial...
A group of men stand on the porch of the Bank of Moffat, in the town of Moffat, Saguache County, Colorado. A man identified C. E. Logan leans with his foot on a post. Signs in the windows of the bank building read: "Bank of Moffat, Capital Stock...
Bank of Moffat (Moffat, Colo.)--1900-1930.; Moffat (Colo.)--1900-1930.; Banks--Colorado--Moffat--1900-1930.; Men--Colorado--Moffat--1900-1930.; Logan, C. E.
View of a building identified as the Century Building in Durango (La Plata County), Colorado. Pedestrians stand on the sidewalk near Parson Drug store. A sign mounted above striped awnings reads: "Nathan's." Signs painted on the second story...
A man poses on the steps of the Chamberlin Observatory at Fillmore Street and Warren Avenue on the Campus of the University of Denver, in Colorado. The Richardsonian Romanesque structure, designed by Robert S. Roeschlaub, is constructed from...
Chamberlin Observatory (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1910.; University of Denver (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Astronomical observatories--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
Boys in overalls and straw hats use hoes to enlarge an irrigation ditch near the Cherry Tree Home (Amity Colony Children's Home) in Amity (Prowers County), Colorado. The home sits behind the boys. Shows a two-story structure with mansard roof, a...
Cherry Tree Home (Amity, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Digging--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Orphanages--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
View of the Cliff House hotel in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The four-story frame building has a wrap around open porch, balcony, dormers, bay windows, and awnings. Guests sit on the porch. Horse drawn carriages and a car are on the...
Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1900-1920.
Men work by a railroad ore car at the C. F. & I. coke ovens, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Facilities--1910-1920.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Coke-ovens--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coke industry--Colorado--Crested Butte--1910-1920.;...
View of the Colorado State Normal School (Western State College) between Colorado St., Georgia Avenue, and Escalante Drive in Gunnison (Gunnison County), Colorado. The school is a two and one-half story brick structure with a pedimented portico,...
Gunnison (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Teachers' colleges--Colorado--Gunnison--1910-1930.; Colorado State Normal School--1910-1930.
View of the Congress Hotel located between 7th and 8th Streets on Santa Fe Avenue in Pueblo, Colorado. The hotel includes two buildings. One structure is a four story brick structure with a mansard roof and dormers. A sign at the roof line reads...
Congress Hotel (Pueblo, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Pueblo--1910-1920.
View of Eagle River Canyon (Eagle County), Colorado; shows the Eagle River, Denver and Rio Grande railroad tracks, the Belden tunnel, the Belden-Gilman zinc mine and buildings, and the town of Gilman atop the escarpment.
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1910-1930.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Eagle County--1910-1930.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Gilman (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Cliffs--Colorado--Eagle County--1910-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle...
View of oil shale processing facilities at the Index Shale Oil Company in De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; also shows a retort with machinery, pipes, and sheds.
Index Oil Shale Company--1920-1930.; Oil-shale industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; De Beque (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Industrial facilities--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.
Aerial view of the town of De Beque (DeBeque) in Mesa County, Colorado. Roan Creek meanders through the wide valley. The Roan Cliffs and South Shale Ridge are in the distance.
De Beque (Colo.)--1930-1960.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1930-1960.; Roan Creek (Colo.)--1930-1960.; Roan Creek (Mesa County, Colo.)--1930-1960.; Cities & towns--Colorado--De Beque--1930-1960.; Streams--Colorado--De Beque--1930-1960.
View of the Denver County Courthouse (Arapahoe County Courthouse) on Fifteenth (15th) and Tremont Street in Denver, Colorado. The structure is a stone Italianate building with entablature, copper dome, and a cupola. Pedestrians are on the sidewalk...
Arapahoe County Courthouse (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
View of a diorama showing the town of Ordway in Crowley County, Colorado; shows tilled fields, streets, houses, and the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks and cars. A metal plate below the diorama reads: "1000 Acre Irrigated Alfalfa Field, Ordway,...
View of the Carnegie Library at 1188 East 2nd (Second) Avenue in Durango (La Plata County), Colorado. The one-story Beaux-Arts Mediterranean Revival building, designed by William E. and Arthur A. Fisher, has a stucco exterior and red tile roof.
View of Mercy Hospital in Durango, Colorado. The hospital, founded by the Sisters of Mercy, is a three story Richardsonian Romanesque building. The structure features arched windows and a recessed porch. A cross is mounted above the main entrance.
View of a settlement near the Lady Belle mine south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado; men, women, and girls pose by canvas tents and an automobile. A pennant reads: "Eagle Colorado;" a sign on the tent reads: "Meals All Hours."
View of a settlement near the Lady Belle mine south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado; men pose by a frame building, horse and buggy, and an automobile. A sign on a canvas tent reads: "Room and Board."
Eagle County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.; Settlements--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.