Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Rio Grande style blanket and beater
- View of a hand-woven Rio Grande style blanket made at a WPA sponsored weaving project in San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows a multi colored striped blanket and two chain rug beaters with wooden handles.
- Hispanic Americans--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Mexican Americans--Arts & crafts--1940-1950.; Blankets.; Tools.; Blankets--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.;...
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Amity, Colorado, the broom industry
- A man wears suspenders and a hat and stands at the doorway of a stone house with a shingle roof in Amity, a Salvation Army colony, in Prowers County, Colorado. Brooms made with straw and wooden handles are on display beside stone walls. The...
- McAbee, Frank--Homes & haunts.; Amity (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Broom & brush industry--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Brooms & brushes--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Amity--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Serving tray
- Oval silver tray with raised border relief, pierced embossed grape pattern and two handles. The surface is etched with a filigree center and monogrammed. The bottom is copper color and etched, and there are four feet on the bottom. The tray was...
- Trays--1800-1910.
- [between 1800 and 1910]
- Basket
- A Native American Jicarilla Apache Indian coiled basket. It is made of willow and has a rod and welt foundation and has two handles on both sides. A four point star pattern in brown, red, yellow and blue coloring is in the center of the basket.
- Apache baskets--1930-1940.; Apache Indians--Arts & crafts--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1930-1940.; Jicarilla Indians--Arts & crafts--1930-1940.; Baskets--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Canteen
- Native American (Zuni) pottry canteen with loop handles; circle, flower, and leaf patterns in red and brown on white paint.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1870-1890.; Zuni Indians--Arts & crafts--1870-1890.; Zuni pottery--1870-1890.; Canteens (vessels)--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890]
- Ceremonial canteen
- Native American (Zuni) earthenware ceremonial canteen with heads and handles; painted dark brown, red-brown on white-brown slip in a feather, scallop and floral pattern.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1920.; Zuni Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1920.; Zuni pottery--1880-1920.; Canteens (vessels)--1880-1920.
- [between 1880 and 1920]
- Bag
- Native American (Apache) bag with multicolor beadwork, buttons on the flap, and string handles.
- Apache Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Bags (costume accessories)--1880-1900.; Pouches--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Basket
- Native American (Ute) straw basket used as a water bottle with handles made of horsehair.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Water bottles--1880-1900.; Baskets--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Machine shop
- Interior view of a machine shop in Denver, Colorado; shows men working, a lathe, a vise, wheel valve handles, belts and pulleys.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Machine shops--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- Typesetting
- View of the typesetting room in the Rocky Mountain News Building at 1720 Welton Street in Denver, Colorado. A man works at a vice. A motor, belts, and other tools that include gears with handles are near workbenches.
- Rocky Mountain News--People--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Typesetting--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- 1902?
- Moki Indians, Wolpi Pueblo the snake dance
- Native American (Hopi) snake dance at Walpi Pueblo, First Mesa, Arizona; snake members stand in two groups; some hold snakes in their mouths while others stroke snakes with feathers, one man handles a snake; groups of unidentified Native American...
- Hopi Indians--Dance--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Snake dance--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1900.
- August, 1899
- Woven Indian water bottle, drum, pottery canteen
- Native American (Ute) round pottery canteen with plant motif, cork and rope; two sided rawhide drum with handles; woven water basket.
- Canteens (Beverage containers)--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & Crafts--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--Arts & Crafts--1890-1900.; Baskets--1890-1900.; Drums--1890-1900.
- 1895
- The water carriers
- Two young Native American (Paiute) women and a girl on the Kaibab Plateau, northern Arizona; the women carry basket water vessels on their backs by a strap that is attached to the handles and placed on their heads. They wear belted, fringed...
- Indians of North America--Arizona--1870-1880.; Southern Paiute Indians--Women--Arizona--1870-1880.; Kaibab Plateau (Ariz.)--1870-1880.; Girls--Arizona--1870-1880.; Water carriers--Arizona--1870-1880.; Women--Arizona--1870-1880.
- 1874
- Camp Boynton Beaver Park
- Members of Captain Smith's Veteran Company and members of the Insley Guards led by Major H. E. Insley, part of the opposition to the Cripple Creek Strike of 1894, pose outdoors near a trench at Camp Boynton, Beaver Park, Teller County, Colorado....
- Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1894.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Militias--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Miners' strikes--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Insley, H....
- 1894
- Gene Luby of Eagle & C.L. Danielson
- Gene Luby and C.L. Danielson of Basalt, Colorado, pose in front of a brick building. Luby wears trousers, a long-sleeved shirt, suspenders, and a tie. Danielson wears a suit, shirt, a t-shirt under the shirt, and a hat. Both men hold their arms...
- Basalt (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Danielson, C. L.; Luby, Gene.
- [1955?]
- Company store, Congress mine
- Miners, businessmen, and boys pose on the porch of the Congress mine's Company Store, Yavapai County, Arizona. One of the boys is rolling a barrel of water, rations of which sold for one dollar per month. Signs read: "We sell Hamilton-Brown Shoe...
- Congress Mine (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Congress Post Office (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Arizona--Yavapai County--1890-1900.; General stores--Arizona--Yavapai County--1890-1900.; Mining--Arizona--Yavapai County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Georgetown
- View of group of men in suits with their burros loaded with full sacks on a Georgetown, Colorado, street. Long handles (shovels?) show on one burro load. A dog sits on side of group. Wood frame residences, other structures and a picket fence show...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- [between 1879 and 1892]
- Cook Mine Gregory Gulch Central City, Colo.
- Hoistmen, or hoisting engineers, pose in the shaft house of the Cook Mine, owned by the Fifty Gold Mines Company, near Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. The machinery includes a side crank engine, hoist, gauges, and brake handles.
- Fifty Gold Mines Corporation.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1880-1910.; Central City (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Central City--1880-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Central City--1880-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Central...
- [between 1880 and 1910]
- Back lobby or card room, Hotel Jerome, Aspen, Colorado
- View of an interior room supported by two columns in Hotel Jerome, Aspen, Colorado; features modern and antique furniture, coffee table with antique lamp, small shaded lamps, chests with brass handles, and ceramic pitchers; upholstered parlor...
- Hotel Jerome (Aspen, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Aspen (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Lobbies--Colorado--Aspen--1940-1950.
- 1946
- Totem poles
- Close-up view of miniature totem poles, knives with totem pole handles, charms, and a trinket that depicts a Native American (Northwest Coast) man and a Husky dog.
- Indians of North America--1920-1930.; Totem poles--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Guest chamber at Nast Hotel
- Interior view of guest room at Nast Hotel, Nast, Colorado reached via Colorado Midland Railway; painted rustic log furniture including bed, dresser with mirror & brass handles, chair, settee or loveseat, & stand-alone closet with drape; log beams...
- Nast (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Nast--1900-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Nast--1900-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway Company.
- [between 1900 and 1919]
- Black walnut sideboard, Healy House
- A black walnut sideboard with mirror, an ornately carved top and handles and decorative wooden fish on the doors stands in the dining room of the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Buffets (Furniture); Dining rooms--1880-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- [between 1940 and 1941]
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- In this interior view of the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, there is a wooden rocker with scroll handles, an open writing desk and a fluffy dog in front of a sunlit pane...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Sergeant's desk
- Interior walls of a sergeant's office at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, are hung with a pendulum clock in a wood case, framed schedules, and a safe. A wooden balustrade crosses the foreground, and a man in a trenchcoat standing by...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Offices--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Leadville, 1940, Healy House
- In this interior view of the dining room in the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado there is a black walnut sideboard with a mirror, ornately carved handles and decorative...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dining rooms--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Chief Ouray's squaw, Chipeta
- Chipeta, a Native American (Ute) woman, poses next to rounded woven baskets with leather handles. She holds a small woven basket and wears a long calico skirt or dress with a pattern of grapes, blossoms, and leaves; a woven, patterned shawl with...
- Indians of North America--Women--1900-1910.; Ute Indians--Women--1900-1910.; Baskets--1900-1910.; Women--1900-1910.; Chipeta.
- 1907
- Batteries, sugar factory, Greeley, Colorado
- Workers stand around the equipment in the Great Western Sugar factory in Greeley, Colorado in Weld County. Valves with large, metal handles surround a metal grate. A large shaft connects a duct in the ceiling to one in the floor.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Industrial facilities--Colorado--Greeley--1900-1920.; Interiors.; Sugar industry--Colorado--Greeley--1900-1920.
- [between 1902 and 1920?]
- Performers
- Seventeen women performers of the "Broom Brigade" cast pose in two rows. Each wears a costume of a long-sleeved bodice with a mandarin collar, a cross piece across the breast, a full, pleated skirt with a dark band around the skirt, and a Civil War...
- Greeley (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Actresses--1880-1890.
- 1885
- Doughnut girl at work
- Red Cross doughnut girl, Deborah Bankart, poses standing by an automatic doughnut making machine with one full and one partially-filled tray of doughnuts before her, which she handles with two sticks. She wears a sweater vest over a shirt and a...
- Doughnuts--Italy--1940-1950.; Military life--Italy--1940-1950.; Bankart, Deborah.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- February 1945
- Archaeology, Colorado
- Six large, pottery pots stand against a dark, wrinkled cloth backdrop. Three of the pots sit in a row on a ledge slightly above the other three. Some of the pots have small handles on them, and some of them have small holes poked next to their...
- Indian pottery--North America--1900-1930.; Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--Four Corners Region--1900-1930.
- [between 1907 and 1931?]
- Archaeology, Colorado
- A large, pottery vessel sits on a dark, wrinkled cloth backdrop that is pinned to a bookshelf. The piece has two small knobs for handles and a large mouth. There are several cracks on the surface. Notebooks and folders are piled on the shelves...
- Indian pottery--North America--1900-1930.; Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--Four Corners Region--1900-1930.
- [between 1907 and 1931?]
- Archaeology, Colorado
- Six ancient pieces of pottery, mostly with broken handles, are set in two rows of three against a dark, wrinkled cloth backdrop. The back row sits on a ledge slightly raised above the front row. Some of the pieces have lines decorating them.
- Indian pottery--North America--1900-1930.; Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--Four Corners Region--1900-1930.
- [between 1907 and 1931?]
- Pottery burner, Laguna, N.M. on the Santa Fe Ry.
- Woman from Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, standing beside rock kiln; shows black and white pottery (bowls and pots with handles) on sheet of tin metal on ground next to dog, woven basket in front of kiln, rock wall surrounding kiln, Atchison, Topeka...
- Laguna (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Pottery--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Portrait, Bowman-White House, Georgetown, Colorado
- Interior view of a figure seated in 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...
- Bowman, John Henry--Homes & haunts.; White, John James--Homes & haunts.; White, Mellie Bowman--Homes & haunts.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1930-1950.; Interiors.; Women--Colorado--Georgetown--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Albany Hotel lobby
- Interior view of the front entrance and lobby at the Albany Hotel, after remodeling designed by architect Burnham Hoyt, at 17th (Seventeenth) and Stout Streets in Denver, Colorado. The modern style hotel has a steel, revolving door and a glass...
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Doors & doorways--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Lobbies--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Revolving...
- [1936]
- Albany Hotel, coffee shop
- Interior view of the coffee shop at the Albany Hotel, after remodeling designed by architect Burnham Hoyt, at 17th (Seventeenth) and Stout Streets in Denver, Colorado. The modern style decor includes round pillars, a glass display case, and rows of...
- Coffee shops--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Dining rooms--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Dining tables--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.;...
- [1936]
- Leadville, Healy House, 1941
- This interior view of the Healy House on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East 10th (Tenth) Street in Leadville, Colorado shows sunlight streaming in the windows of a room with a four legged table covered with a cloth, with a glass...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.
- [1941]
- Leadville, Healy House, 1941
- Interior view of the Healy House on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East 10th (Tenth) Street in Leadville, Colorado. Sunlight streams in the windows of a room with a four legged table, covered with a cloth, with a glass lantern, wicker...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.
- [1941]
- Alfred Bromfield residence, pantry
- Interior view of the pantry in the Alfred J. Bromfield Jr. residence, a modern style house designed by architect Burnham Hoyt, at 4975 South University Boulevard in Englewood (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The kitchen pantry has a row of wood or...
- Englewood (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Architecture--Colorado--Englewood--1930-1940.; Cupboards--Colorado--Englewood--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Englewood--1930-1940.; Interiors--Colorado--Englewood--1930-1940.;...
- [1936]
- Meeker Museum Greeley
- Rifles are mounted on the doorframes of this museum in Greeley, Colorado. The window is cracked, and over the door is an oxyoke. A metal box with handles hangs under the frame and corrugated tin eaves.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1930-1960.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Greeley--1930-1960.; Meeker Museum (Greeley, Colo.)
- [between 1930 and 1960?]
- Municipal Facts: Volume 12 Numbers 8 and 8, 1929 July-August
- First Plymouth Congregational Church Woman's Association Yearbook: 1933-1934
- Book published by the First Plymouth Congregational Church Woman's Association detailing the social events and gatherings of the Association and church as a whole for 1933 and 1934.
- Church societies--Periodicals.; Clubs--Colorado--Englewood--Periodicals.; First Plymouth Congregational Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1934
- The Urban Dweller: A Publication by Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods Inc.
- 1905 Corbett & Ballenger's 32nd Annual Denver City Directory
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 23, 1910 June 4
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 45, 1910 November 5
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 41, 1911 October 7
- The City of Denver: Volume 2 Number 10, 1914 February 28
- The City of Denver: Volume 2 Number 18, 1914 June 27
- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 24, 1913 September 27