Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Boulder oil field
- Five oil derricks dot the fenced oil field in Boulder, Colorado; a horse grazes in front of small cabins at right; clothes hang on clotheslines; fenced fields in foreground; foothills in background.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Oil wells--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1920.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920]
- Fenced enclosure at park (?)
- A boy and girl pose by a playhouse, in a fenced yard with landscaping, trees, flowers, and bushes.
- Boys--1910-1930.; Children's playhouses--1910-1930.; Girls--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Aspen Springs Realty II
- A view of The Aspen Springs Realty building and signs, on U.S. 160 outside Pagosa Springs (Archuleta County), Colorado. The area around the Realty building is wild grass and bush. The building is constructed of logs interlocking at the ends. The...
- Aspen Springs Realty II (Pagosa Springs, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Pagosa Springs (Colo.)--1990-2000.; real estate business.; Signs (Notices).; Aspen Springs Realty II (Pagosa Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Real estate office...
- 1993
- Ninth Street Historic Park after restoration, Auraria Higher Education Center.
- View of the Ninth Street Historic Park (Auraria Ninth Street Historic District) located on the Auraria Higher Education Center Campus in Denver, Colorado. The houses (1873-1890) are identified (Left to right): the Mullen House (1061 Ninth [9th]...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--1980-1990.; Auraria 9th Street Historic District (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Ninth Street Historic Park (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Conservation &...
- 1980
- Mancos, Colo.
- Panoramic view of buildings and farms in Mancos (Montezuma County), Colorado. Shows cultivated, fenced fields, barns, the frame, two-story Union Hall and Schoolhouse, and the brick George Bauer mansion. Trees are in the mountains near Weber Canyon.
- Mancos (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Mancos--1890-1900.
- 1893 July
- Mancos Valley
- Panoramic view of farms, frame barns, houses and livestock in fenced plots in Mancos (Montezuma County), Colorado. A Denver & Rio Grande Railroad freight car is on railroad tracks near an old, frame, makeshift depot building. Shows Weber Canyon and...
- Mancos (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Mancos--1890-1900.; Valleys--Colorado--Mancos--1890-1900.
- [1893?]
- Golden City, Colo.
- View of frame and log buildings in Golden (Golden City), Jefferson County, Colorado. Shows houses with fenced lots for livestock, commercial buildings with false fronts, and a bridge over Clear Creek. A man with a hat sits on a rock and poses in a...
- Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1860-1880.; Golden (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Bridges--Colorado--Golden--1860-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Golden--1860-1880.; Streams--Colorado--Golden--1860-1880.
- [between 1865 and 1872?]
- Calvary Episcopal Church
- A man and a boy, probably a priest and an acolyte, wear vestments and stand on stairs in front of the frame Calvary Episcopal Church in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The church has a gabled shingled roof, stained glass windows, a...
- Calvary Episcopal Church (Idaho Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Boys--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1880-1890.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1880-1890.; Priests--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Wall Street [sic], Colo.
- The stone and brick Wallstreet Assay Office has a steep pitched, corrugated metal roof a tall chimney, a fenced yard and a nearby wooden shed in Wallstreet (Boulder County), Colorado. The stone ruins of the Wallstreet Gold Extraction Company Mill...
- Wallstreet (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Metallurgical industry--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Wall Street [sic], Colo.
- Stone and frame buildings are beside a dirt road in Wallstreet (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the stone and brick Wallstreet Assay Office with a steep pitched, corrugated metal roof a tall chimney, a fenced yard and a nearby wooden shed. The...
- Wallstreet (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Metallurgical industry--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Wallstreet--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Segundo, Colorado
- View of a barn, coal mining buildings, and Colorado and Wyoming Railway tracks in Segundo (Las Animas County), Colorado. Horses are in a fenced yard beside a barn. Shows smoke above a coal processing plant, identical one-story frame houses in a...
- Colorado and Wyoming Railway Company--1900-1910.; Segundo (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Barns--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1910?]
- Denver, 1864
- Panoramic view of brick and frame commercial buildings in downtown Denver, Colorado and the flooded South Platte River nearby. Shows the brick Denver Mint building at 16th (Sixteenth) Street and Market Street and businesses on probably Larimer...
- Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Floods--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Rivers--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.
- 1864 May 19
- Trinidad
- Panoramic, aerial view of frame and brick houses and commercial buildings in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows bridges over the Purgatoire River, possibly the Columbian School, a stone church and downtown commercial buildings. Frame...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Trinidad--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1895?]
- Quality Hill, Silverton, Colo.
- View of frame two story houses with gambrel or mansard roofs, porches with gingerbread details, and fenced yards, and possibly St. John's Episcopal church on Snowden Street, in what is identified as "Quality Hill," an area near the base of Anvil...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1910.
- [between 1898 and 1905?]
- Silverton, Colo.
- Panoramic view of frame and brick buildings in Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado. Shows frame houses, dirt roads, fenced yards and timber sidewalks. Downtown buildings include the Silverton School with a bell tower, the Grand Imperial Hotel and...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silverton--1880-1890.
- [1885?]
- Silver Plume
- View of frame houses and commercial buildings in Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows fenced yards for livestock beside houses, dirt roads and the Diamond Tunnel, the Pelican, Dives, Baxter, the Dunkirk and the Payrock mines near the...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silver Plume--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1890?]
- Cortez, Colorado
- View of frame or brick houses and commercial buildings in Cortez (Montezuma County), Colorado. Shows fenced yards with cultivated gardens, outhouses, sheds, and timber piles near commercial buildings with signs that read: "Journal Building" and...
- Cortez (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Backyards--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Gardens--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Privies--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- Manitou, Colo.
- Panoramic view of houses, commercial buildings, and hotels in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows Hiawatha Gardens, a frame structure with gables, dormers, and a fenced, landscaped yard. The charred stone foundation of the Manitou...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1910.
- [between 1896 and 1903]
- 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?]
- Sportsman's Hotel, Cebolla
- Panoramic view of the two-story frame Sportsman's Hotel on the Gunnison River in Cebolla (Gunnison County), Colorado. A long, one-story log hotel building, fenced yards, and a horse are nearby. Shows a wooden bridge over the Gunnison River and...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1910.; Cebolla (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Gunnison River (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Bridges--Colorado--Cebolla--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Cebolla--1890-1910.; Log buildings--Colorado--Cebolla--1890-1910.;...
- [between 1894 and 1910?]
- Waunita Hot Springs Resort near Doyle, Colo.
- View of frame multi-story hotel buildings and small cottages at Waunita Hot Springs Resort in Waunita Hot Springs (Gunnison County), Colorado. Frame lodge buildings have several stories and hipped roofs. People sit in the back of a convertible car...
- Waunita Hot Springs (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Cabins--Colorado--Waunita Hot Springs--1910-1930.; Hotels--Colorado--Waunita Hot Springs--1910-1930.; Resorts--Colorado--Waunita Hot Springs--1910-1930.
- [between 1915 and 1925?]
- Catholic Church, Westcliffe, Colo.
- View of an unidentified frame Catholic Church in Westcliffe (Custer County), Colorado. The church has a four-story square bell tower with windows and a cross atop a pointed dome. A wooden barn and a two-story frame house or possibly a rectory with...
- Westcliffe (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Westcliffe--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Nevada, Colorado
- Panoramic view of mine buildings, houses, and commercial buildings in Nevadaville (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows tailings piles, mine buildings with smokestacks, and the Episcopal Church on a hillside next to a fenced cemetery.
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Nevadaville--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Nevadaville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Nevadaville--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1895?]
- Pearl St., 13th looking west
- Men and women pose on Pearl Street at the intersection of 13th (Thirteenth) Street in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. People are on the porch of the two-story Colorado House hotel with a gabled roof. The first brick commercial building in...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Boulder--1860-1870.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Boulder--1860-1870.; Corrals--Colorado--Boulder--1860-1870.; Hotels--Colorado--Boulder--1860-1870.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1860-1870.
- 1866
- Sopris, private houses
- View of wood frame houses at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coal camp of Sopris in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows coops, fenced yards, hornos (ovens), and outhouses. A dog is by a feed trough. Snow covers the ground.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1880-1930.; Sopris (Colo.)--1880-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.
- [between 1887 and 1928?]
- Sopris, private houses
- View of miner's houses at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coal camp of Sopris in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows coal sheds, coops, outhouses, and fenced yards. Snow covers the ground.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1890-1930.; Sopris (Colo.)--1890-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1930.
- [between 1890 and 1928?]
- Town of Platoro, Conejos Co., Colo.
- View of the town of Platoro (Conejos County), Colorado. Shows log cabin buildings and fenced enclosures. Mountains are in the distance.
- Platoro (Colo.)--1880-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Platoro--1880-1920.; Log buildings--Colorado--Platoro--1880-1920.
- [between 1880 and 1920?]
- Dog and rabbit in yard
- View of a dog, probably an English setter, he points at a rabbit in a fenced yard possibly in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado.
- Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Dogs--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Rabbits--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Dog in yard
- A dog, probably an English setter, is reclined in a grassy, fenced yard, possibly in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado. A house is in the distance.
- Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Dogs--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Our shanty
- A woman, identified as Mrs. John Reider, sits and poses with a dog on the steps of a house in Grand Junction (Mesa County), Colorado. Shows a cross gabled house with a screened porch, bay windows, clapboard siding with a sunburst below the eaves,...
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Dogs--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1910.; Reider, John, Mrs.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Las Animas, Colo.
- Panoramic view shows teams of oxen hitched to covered wagons on a race track at the Bent County Fair in Las Animas (Bent County), Colorado. Crowds of men, women and children are beside the fenced track; shows parked cars and people in a frame...
- Las Animas (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cover wagons--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.; Fairs--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.; Ox teams--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1909 and 1915?]
- Prowers Co. Fair, Lamar
- Men pose beside teams of horses and a car at the Prowers County Fair in Lamar (Prowers County), Colorado. Horses are harnessed to wood frames in the center of a fenced racetrack at the fair. Spectators are on bleachers or beside the fence nearby.
- Lamar (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.; Fairs--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.; Horse teams--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.; Spectators--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.
- 1911, August 23-25
- At Bent Co. Fair
- Panoramic view of teams of oxen hitched to covered wagons on a race track at the Bent County Fair in Las Animas (Bent County), Colorado. Shows crowds of men, women and children beside a fenced track, parked cars and people in a frame announcer's...
- Las Animas (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cover wagons--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.; Fairs--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.; Ox teams--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Colorado--Las Animas--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1909 and 1910?]
- Prowers Co. Fair, Lamar
- Teams of horses harnessed to wood frames, a car, men and a saddled horse are in the center of a circular, fenced racetrack at the Prowers County Fairgrounds in Lamar, Colorado. Spectators sit in bleachers.
- Lamar (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Horse teams--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.; Spectators--Colorado--Lamar--1910-1920.
- 1911, August 23-25
- Denver Ordnance Plant, parked cars
- Cars are parked in the parking lot at the Denver Ordnance Plant (Remington Ordnance Plant, later the Denver Federal Center) in Lakewood (Jefferson County), Colorado. People in work clothes walk in the distance. A white building with windows and...
- Denver Ordnance Plant--Buildings--1940-1950.; Lakewood (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Ordnance industry--Colorado--Lakewood--1940-1950.; Parking lots--Colorado--Lakewood--1940-1950.
- [1941?]
- Geo. Porter & Co.
- Interior view of George Porter's general store, which also served as the post office in Sneffels (Ouray County), Colorado. Shows display cases, boxes of merchandise, canned goods, stove, lanterns, wall posters, advertisements, calendar elk antlers,...
- Sneffels (Colo.)--1890-1900.; General stores--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.
- 1896 Aug
- Colorado Springs, Colorado and Pikes Peak
- A view of Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows wood frame houses with fenced yards, unpaved streets and horse-drawn carriages. Pikes Peak is in the distance.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Woman seated in a rocking chair outside doing needlepoint
- A woman does needlepoint in a rocking chair near a house in the mountains of Colorado. A large fenced meadow is nearby.
- Embroidery--Colorado--1900-1920.; Rocking chairs--Colorado--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Couple standing at edge of newly dug grave
- A man and woman pose in front of the graves of probably two children and beside a grave surrounded by a wooden fence in Colorado. The three graves have floral tributes. The fenced grave has a U.S. flag on it.
- Graves--Colorado--1910-1920.; Spouses--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Blocks cu petit camp (Blocks in the little camp)
- Framed lithograph shows prisoners in fenced area of "Block 60" and "Block 55" at the World War II, Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany.
- Concentration camps--Germany--1940-1950.; Holocaust victims--Germany--1940-1950.; Buchenwald (Concentration camp); World War, 1939-1945.
- 1944
- An Ostrich at Pasadena ostrich farm
- An Ostrich identified as Mr. McKinley stands in a fenced enclosure at an ostrich farm in Pasadena (Los Angeles County), California. Farm buildings and trees are in the distance.
- Ostrich farms--California--Pasadena--1890-1900.; Pasadena (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Ostriches--California--Pasadena--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900?]
- Bakersfield. Santa Fe oil district
- This reproduction of a cabinet card tacked to corkboard shows wooden oil derricks and canvas tents in an oil field near Bakersfield (Kern County), California. Shows a farm house and outbuildings, fenced pasture and animals and hay stacked around a...
- Bakersfield (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Cabinet photographs--1900-1910.; Farmhouses--California--Bakersfield--1900-1910.; Oil wells--California--Bakersfield--1900-1910.; Petroleum industry--California--Bakersfield--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Colorado Spr's and Pike's Peak
- View of Pike's Peak and Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. A footbridge, a bridge, and a dirt road are beside a railroad bridge and tracks. A Pullman passenger car and a streetcar are at a stone depot. Signs read "Pike's Peak Lunch House....
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1883 and 1898]
- Marshalltown C. & N.W. Ry. station
- View of the brick and stone Chicago & North Western Railway Company station building and covered platform at Marshalltown (Marshall County), Iowa. Men wear overalls or suits and pose on and beside an engine that reads "C. & N.W. R." and "381." An...
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company--1890-1900.; Afro-Americans--Men--Iowa--Marshalltown--1890-1900.; Marshalltown (Iowa)--1890-1900.; Flowers--Iowa--Marshalltown--1890-1900.; Lawns--Iowa--Marshalltown--1890-1900.; Railroad...
- [1898?]
- Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak range
- View of Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado and snow-covered Pikes Peak. Shows frame houses, fenced yards, commercial buildings, and dirt streets. The stone Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe and Colorado Midland Railway depot is near Pikes...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Colorado Midland Railway Company--1880-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1888 and 1900?]
- Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak range
- Panoramic view of frame houses, fenced yards, and streets in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. A railroad bridge is over Kiowa Street. Downtown church spires include the First Baptist Church and the First Methodist Episcopal Church. A...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1900.; Residential streets--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1888 and 1900?]
- Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak range
- View of houses and buildings north of downtown Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Frame houses have porches and fenced yards, and laundry is on clothes lines. The stone tower of the First Presbyterian Church and the tower with dormers of...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak range
- View of frame houses, wooden fenced yards, and mountains of the Front Range in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Colorado Springs High School with stone turrets and a square clock tower is at the corner of Nevada Avenue and Platte...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1898]
- Durango
- Panoramic view of Durango and a smelter and smoke at the base of probably Smelter Mountain (La Plata County), Colorado. Shows streets fenced yards, frame and brick houses, and commercial buildings.
- Durango (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Smelter Mountain (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Durango--1890-1900.; Smelters--Colorado--Durango--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1900?]
- Ostrich Farm - Mr. and Mrs. McKinley
- Two Ostriches identified as Mr. and Mrs. McKinley stands in a fenced enclosure at an ostrich farm in Pasadena (Los Angeles County), California. Farm buildings and trees are in the distance.
- Ostrich farms--California--Pasadena--1890-1900.; Pasadena (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Ostriches--California--Pasadena--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900?]