View of the construction of a headgate for the Vallejos Ditch (1854), part of the Ditch No.5, USDA Special Improvement Project for the Vallejos Ditch irrigation system, in San Pablo (Costilla County), Colorado. Two men work near a wooden concrete...
San Pablo (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Construction.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Irrigation canals and flumes--Colorado--San Pablo--Design and construction--Pictorial...
View of the construction of a headgate for the Vallejos Ditch (1854), part of the Ditch No.5, USDA Special Improvement Project for the Vallejos Ditch irrigation system, in San Pablo (Costilla County), Colorado. Two men work near a wooden concrete...
San Pablo (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Construction.; Irrigation canals and flumes--Colorado--San Pablo--Design and construction--Pictorial works.; San Pablo (Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
Man stands on the headgate of the Croke Canal in Jefferson County, Colorado; irrigation water rushes through sluices; foothill of the Front Range are in background.
Two men open the headgates at a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Vallejos Ditch System, Ditch No.5, a USDA Special Improvement Project in San Pedro (Costilla County), Colorado. Four men look on, George G. Romero is second from the right,...
San Pedro (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Romero, George G.--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Irrigation canals...
Four men pose around a sign for the completed Vallejos Ditch System, Ditch No.5 USDA Special Improvement Project in San Pedro (Costilla County), Colorado. The sign reads: "USDA," "Vallejos Ditch System Ditch No. 5," "Special Project," "ASCS,"...
San Pedro (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Signs (Notices).; Events.; Romero, George G.--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Signs and...
A man stands on a stone diversion ditch headgate at Bessemer Ditch beside probably the St. Charles River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Stone levees are at the edge of the water, and trees are in the river valley. Railroad tracks are beside...
Ditches--Colorado--Pueblo--1890-1910.; Bessemer Ditch (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Saint Charles River (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Canals--Colorado--Pueblo--1890-1910.; Levees--Colorado--Pueblo--1890-1910.; Railroad...
View of a concrete water diversion conduit and headgate at an irrigation project constructed by Thompson Pipe & Steel Company near Glenwood Springs (Garfield County), Colorado.
Garfield County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Irrigation canals & flumes--Colorado--Garfield County--1930-1950.
A Man, women, and children stand near the headgate of the Inca Canal, near the Animas river, probably New Mexico. The wood and cement dam allows a stream of water through. Driftwood is piled near the edge of the river. Everyone wears a hat.
A man stands on the headgate of the Croke Canal in Jefferson County, Colorado; irrigation water rushes through sluices; foothills of the Front Range in background.
View of the concrete lined Vallejos Ditch, after the USDA. Ditch no. 5 Special Improvement Project for the Vallejos Ditch system in San Pablo (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows a headgate in the irrigation ditch. Sagebrush and pinon covered hills...
Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; San Pablo (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Irrigation canals and flumes--Colorado--San Pablo--Pictorial works.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains...
View of an acequia (irrigation ditch), possibly part of the Vallejos Ditch system in the San Luis Valley in Costilla County, Colorado. Shows grass and weeds. A wooden headgate is in the ditch. Sagebrush and pinon covered hills and the Sangre de...
Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1990-2000.; Costilla County (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Irrigation canals and flumes--Colorado--Costilla County--Pictorial works.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--Pictorial works.; Costilla County...
Hispanic American George G. Romero kneels beside the Vallejos Ditch near an old headgate, prior to the USDA Ditch no. 5 Special Improvement Project for the Vallejos Ditch System, in San Pablo (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows graded earth beside...
San Pablo (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Construction.; Romero, George G.--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.;...
Close-up view of a map of Garfield County, Colorado. The boundary of a drainage project that includes Buzzard Creek Canal, Natural Channel Tunnel, a headgate, and the Hunter Mesa District is drawn on the map.
Maps--1910-1930.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1910-1930.
A man wears a jacket, tie and a hat, and poses on top of two headgates on a concrete conduit constructed by Thompson Pipe & Steel Company for a water diversion or irrigation project near Glenwood Springs (Garfield County), Colorado.
Garfield County (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Irrigation canals & flumes--Colorado--Garfield County--1930-1950.
Outdoor portrait of a group of husbands and wives on a weir on the South Platte River in Denver, Colorado. The women wear dresses and wide-brimmed decorated hats.
Weirs--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Spouses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
Outdoor portrait of a woman who sits on a railroad bridge over Archer Canal in Denver, Colorado. She wears a dress and decorated hat. Industrial buildings and a flow control dam are in the distance.
Mount Vernon Creek, in Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado, is diverted here into the Harriman irrigation canal. Tracks of the Colorado and Southern Railroad are in the foreground; trees and buildings are in the background, including the Methodist...
Morrison (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mount Vernon Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Irrigation--Colorado--Morrison--1890-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Morrison--1890-1900.
View of an irrigation canal and head gate in Montrose or Delta County, Colorado; shows fruit trees (in bloom), frame and log houses, and a picket fence.
Men crowd an irrigation canal, watching water pour through sluices of the Burlington Ditch in Adams County, Colorado; cement-mixing construction equipment is nearby.
Adams County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Burlington Ditch (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Irrigation--Colorado--Adams County--1910-1920.
View of a broken head gate and the Arkansas River after a flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows concrete retaining walls at a water works facility, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks, flood water and an eroded riverbed.
Ridgway, Arthur Osbourne, 1870-1953.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Disasters--1920-1930.; Arkansas River--1920-1930.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Floods--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Railroad...
The primary objective of this index is to contain a comprehensive listing of place names or sites in Colorado that would direct the researcher
to recent and readily available publications. Included in this publication for each site or place name,...
Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
Colorado--Biography.
1933, 2005
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