Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 32, 1910 August 6
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 23, 1909 July 24
- Mining machinery
- A group of men stand at the base of a tall wood headframe that extends over a mine shaft possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. The frame houses mechanical works that serve as a lift for ore cars.
- Hoisting machinery--Colorado--1900-1930.; Mining--Colorado--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930?]
- Mancos, Colorado
- People stand and pose outside the Hotel Lemmon in Mancos (Montezuma County), Colorado. A log, one story house has a sign that reads "Hotel Lemmon" on a low-pitched roof. A two story frame building is adjacent to the log structure and has a...
- Hotel Lemmon (Mancos, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mancos (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Mancos--1880-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Mancos--1880-1900.
- [between 1883 and 1895?]
- Unidentified coal town
- Aerial view of an unidentified mining town possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows a large town with substantial brick and frame buildings including a church. Smoke rises from the smoke stacks of mine processing buildings. Frame houses sit...
- Cities & towns--Colorado--1880-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- 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?]
- Jamestown, Colo.
- View of buildings on a street in Jamestown (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows frame buildings with false fronts and corrugated metal-covered, gabled roofs. A frame church with a bell tower is beside the stone town hall. The Jamestown Mercantile...
- Jamestown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Churches--Colorado--Jamestown--1940-1950.; City & town halls--Colorado--Jamestown--1940-1950.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Jamestown--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Early days of Cripple Creek mining camp
- View of restaurant in a canvas tent on a rustic log frame in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado; the canvas tent has attached signs "Lunchroom" and "Meals, 25 cents"; lettering on tent includes: "Restaurant," "Hot Soup 10 Cents," "Oysters...
- Mining camps--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Restaurants--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Ward, Colo.
- View of the Congregational Church (Community Church), a clapboard, Carpenter's Gothic building, and the frame, two-story, Columbia Hotel on a hillside in Ward (Boulder County), Colorado. An unadorned frame building with a low pitched, corrugated...
- Hotel Columbia (Ward, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Ward (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ward--1940-1950.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Ward--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Ward--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Ward, Colo.
- View of buildings on a hillside in Ward (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the frame Carpenter's Gothic Congregational Church (Community Church), log and frame buildings, a stone and timber bridge over a ravine near a building with a sign that reads...
- Ward (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Ward--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?]
- Gilpin Hotel
- View of buildings on Main Street in Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows the three story brick Gilpin Hotel with a flat roof, a second floor balcony, and a front porch. Frame and brick buildings with false fronts and flat or gabled roofs are...
- Gilpin Hotel (Blackhawk, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- The Hundley stage line to Cripple Creek, via C.M. Ry.
- Men and stagecoaches are in a valley near a frame building identified as the "Halfway House," a stop to change horses, possibly near Florissant in Teller County, Colorado. Men wear suits or work clothes and felt hats. Signs on false-front frame...
- Teller County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Stagecoaches--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1893?]
- Segundo, Co.
- Panoramic view of houses and an iron bridge over the Purgatoire River in Segundo (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows the two-story frame Jerome School building amid clustered frame buildings and probably a Colorado and Wyoming Railroad freight...
- Purgatoire River (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Segundo (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bridges--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.; Rivers--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1910?]
- The Town of Silver Cliff, Colorado
- Panoramic view of buildings in Silver Cliff (Custer County), Colorado. Signs on brick and frame commercial buildings read: "Security House" and "Stoves." Church steeples are amid frame houses. Shows snow in the Wet Mountain Valley and on streets...
- Silver Cliff (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silver Cliff--1900-1910.
- 1900?
- East Victor showing Strong, Independence, Portland and Anna Lee mines
- Panoramic view of frame mine buildings in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. A woman is in a horse-drawn buggy near a log and frame one-story house. Mine buildings on Battle Mountain are identified as the Strong Mine, the Independence Mine, the...
- Anna Lee Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Portland Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Strong Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Mine...
- [between 1890 and 1898?]
- Inter-Laken Hotel, Twin Lakes
- View of the frame Interlaken Hotel at Twin Lakes (Lake County), Colorado. The two-story building has a gabled roof, a second-story balcony, and brick chimneys. Resort buildings nearby include a log barn with horse stalls and a tack room and a frame...
- Interlaken Hotel (Twin Lakes, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Twin Lakes (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Barns--Colorado--Twin Lakes--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Twin Lakes--1880-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Twin Lakes--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1883 and 1900?]
- Black Hawk
- View of commercial buildings and the frame Presbyterian Church on a hill in Blackhawk (Black Hawk), Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows brick, log, and frame buildings on Selak Street and Gregory Street with signs that read: "Union House," "Drugs,"...
- Black Hawk (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Black Hawk--1860-1870.
- [1864]
- Central City, Colorado Territory
- Panoramic view of frame and brick buildings on Main Street in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows houses and businesses with gabled roofs and false fronts and signs that read: "O.K. Store, Wholesale & Retail," "Central City Bakery,"...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- 1864
- 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?]
- Larimer Street, Denver
- View of brick and frame commercial buildings on Larimer Street at 15th (Fifteenth) Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. Men stand and pose on wooden sidewalks outside stores. A two-story brick building has arched windows with stone sills and...
- Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.
- [between 1860 and 1865?]
- Amity, Colo., colony wagon shop and livery stable
- View of a frame livery barn with a gabled roof and false-front and a frame building with a sign that reads: "Wagon Shop" in Amity, a Salvation Army colony, in Prowers County, Colorado. A wooden wagon and a carriage are parked under the livery roof,...
- Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Stables--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Workshops--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1903?]
- Cripple Creek
- View of a brick warehouse and a frame horseshoeing business on East Warren Street in Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Men and a woman pose on the wooden sidewalk, and a man is on a horse-drawn wagon with lettering that reads: "W.J[?]. Hill,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Warehouses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Workshops--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Shinkle, Frank S.
- 1904?
- Tolland, Colo.
- View of Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway tracks beside frame buildings and South Boulder Creek in Tolland (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows log or frame houses and barns in the valley. A man stands beside a wagon near a dirt road. A bridge is...
- Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway--1900-1920.; South Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Tolland (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Tolland--1900-1920.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Tolland--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1903 and 1913?]
- 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?]
- Red Mountain after the fire, Aug. 12, 1892
- View of frame buildings and tailings piles at Red Mountain (Ouray County), Colorado. Men stand beside a log cabin with a canvas tent roof. Shows charred tree stumps and probably burned building foundations. Log cabins and frame structures, and...
- Red Mountain (Ouray County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Red Mountain--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Red Mountain--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Red Mountain--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Red Mountain--1890-1900.
- [1892]
- Pagosa Springs
- Panoramic view of frame houses and buildings in Pagosa Springs (Archuleta County), Colorado. Shows a church, frame and log houses, brick commercial buildings, a trestle over the San Juan River, and smokestacks at probably the Pagosa Lumber Company...
- Pagosa Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Pagosa Springs--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Pagosa Springs--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1910?]
- Main St. Telluride, Colo.
- View of commercial buildings on Main Street (Colorado Avenue) in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. Shows multi-story frame or brick commercial buildings with striped awnings, the stone First National Bank with a square tower, and utility...
- Ajax Peak (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.
- [1902?]
- Marshal [sic] Basin looking north
- View of frame mine buildings, tailings piles and steep mountain slopes above timberline in Marshall Basin (San Miguel County), Colorado. A narrow road grade is on talus. Shows possibly buildings of the Smuggler-Union Mine among frame structures in...
- Basins (Geology)--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1890.; Marshall Basin (Colo.)--1880-1890.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1890.; Valleys--Colorado--San Miguel County--1880-1890.
- [1889?]
- Telluride, Colo.
- Men pose on the balcony of a frame building with a false front, or on horse-drawn sleighs stacked with bales of hay in Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. A frame commercial building has dormers, a gabled roof, a false front, first and second...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Feed stores--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Hay--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Sleds & sleighs--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Stables--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Winter--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Georgetown, Colo.
- Panoramic, aerial view of frame and brick buildings in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows the frame Hammil House on Argentine Street with adjacent stone carriage houses and the brick Fish Block and Masonic building downtown. Densely...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.
- [between 1891 and 1892]
- Del Norte, Colorado
- View of frame and brick buildings on a street in Del Norte (Rio Grande County), Colorado. A man wears a suit and hat and sits on a hillside and looks at the town. Shows false-front frame buildings on a commercial street with signs that include:...
- Del Norte (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Del Norte--1880-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Del Norte--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1895?]
- Collbran looking northeast
- Panoramic view of frame and log buildings, barns, and houses in Collbran (Mesa County), Colorado. The frame Collbran Congregational Church on West High Street has a rose window, a steep pitched roof, and a bell tower. Utility poles and hitching...
- Collbran (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Collbran--1900-1920.
- [between 1903 and 1915?]
- Arlington Hotel and bath house
- View of the frame, two-story Arlington Hotel and bath house buildings in Pagosa Springs (Archuleta County), Colorado. The Hotel building has a flat roof and brackets at the cornice. The brick and frame bath house has a hipped roof with signs that...
- Arlington Hotel (Pagosa Springs, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Pagosa Springs (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Bathhouses--Colorado--Pagosa Springs--1900-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Pagosa Springs--1900-1920.
- [between 1907 and 1920?]
- 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?]
- A scene at Manitou Springs, D. & R.G.R.R.
- People stand near the Soda Spring Pavilion and a gazebo near a bridge over Fountain Creek in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows the frame Cliff House Hotel with awnings over windows, frame Victorian houses, and trees on hillsides.
- Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Soda Spring Pavilion (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gazebos--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1885 and 1889]
- Iron Springs Hotel and [?]
- View of the Iron Springs Hotel in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The multi-story frame hotel has a mansard roof, dormer windows, and a porch. Frame houses and the Ute Iron Spring Chateau with a faceted conical roof and finial are in...
- Iron Springs Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1883 and 1890?]
- Georgetown, Colo.
- View of frame buildings and houses in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows the frame Barton House hotel, the Victorian Hamill House, a mine smokestack, cabins, timber piles, and dirt roads. Snow is on mountains above the Clear Creek...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.
- [1873?]
- Hot Sulphur Springs
- Men wear suits and sit or stand near a canvas tent beside coffee pots and a fire pit in Hot Sulphur Springs (Grand County), Colorado. The Willows, Frank Byers' three-story frame house with dormers, a hipped roof, and porches, is beside log cabins,...
- Byers, Frank S.--Homes & haunts.; Hot Sulphur Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Hot Sulphur Springs
- A man stands on a footbridge with rope sides over the Colorado River in Hot Sulphur Springs (Grand County), Colorado. Shows frame buildings at the hot springs and the Frank Byers ranch. The three-story "Willows" frame house is near a sagebrush...
- Byers, Frank S.--Homes & haunts.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1890-1900.; Hot Sulphur Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1890-1900.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1890-1900.;...
- 1899
- Central City
- View of frame houses and buildings on Main and Eureka Streets in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Buildings have gabled roofs or false fronts and signs read: "Concert Hall, Billiard Rooms," "J.H. Lutz, Star Store," and "Drug Store." The...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- 1863 or 1864
- Central City, Colorado
- View of frame and brick buildings on Main Street in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Two-story commercial buildings with flat roofs have signs that read: "Connor House," "Roworth & Co. Hardware, Groceries," "City Bookstore," "Pharmacy,...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- 1869
- Mines - Unid.
- View of a mine, probably in Colorado. Shows head frame, smokestacks, trestle, water tank, and other wood frame mine buildings.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Nevadaville [graphic]
- View of the town of Nevadaville (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows wood frame commercial buildings and residences, the Methodist Episcopal Church, a school, outhouses, a head frame near a tailings pile, narrow gauge tracks and wagons.
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Nevadaville--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Nevadaville--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1901]
- Coal mine
- View of a frame tipple and mine buildings at an unidentified coal mine in probably Las Animas County, Colorado. People stand near coal cars on train tracks near the tipple. Shows tailings piles, a railroad bridge and frame buildings on a hillside.
- Las Animas County (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1920.; Tipples--Colorado--Las Animas County--1890-1920.
- [between 1895 and 1915?]
- Mexican Settlement
- View of adobe and frame buildings in the coal mining camp of Starkville (Las Animas County), Colorado. Adobe and frame houses have timber rafters (vigas) and dirt roofs. People stand near buildings.
- Mining camps--Colorado--Starkville--1890-1920.; Starkville (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Adobe buildings--Colorado--Starkville--1890-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Starkville--1890-1920.
- [between 1896 and 1915?]
- East Jamestown
- View of frame buildings and a water wheel in Jamestown (Boulder County), Colorado. Men and women stand and pose near the frame Martins Hotel. Shows a horse drawn wagon on a road beside a house with a picket fence, and a water wheel at the Golden...
- Jamestown (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Jamestown--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Jamestown--1890-1910.; Waterwheels--Colorado--Jamestown--1890-1910.
- [between 1897 and 1910?]
- Houses in Lake City
- A woman, in a leather coat with fringe and possibly quill or bead work, poses in a yard at a house in Lake City (Hinsdale County), Colorado. A man, possibly Mr. Haugh, sits on the front porch of a frame house. Shows a garden, a picket fence and...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Couples--Colorado--Lake City--1880-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Lake City--1880-1900.; Yards--Colorado--Lake City--1880-1900.
- [between 1889 and 1900?]