Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Central City, Colorado
- View of The New York Mill Company at the south end of Black Hawk leading into Central City, (Gilpin County) Colorado. Shows: mill building, smokestacks, houses, tailings, Colorado & Southern railroad tracks, and a wooden sluice with icicles.
- Colorado and Southern Railway.--1900-1910.; Sluices--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Railroad...
- [1900?]
- Farm labor camp near Palisade
- View of migrant laborers' houses near Palisade (Mesa County), Colorado. Modest frame houses are by trees and the Colorado River. Mount Garfield is in the distance.
- Migrant agricultural laborers--Housing--Colorado--Palisade--1950-1960.; Palisade (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Palisade--1950-1960.
- 1954
- Anaconda
- View across rooftops of Ananconda in Teller County, Colorado; includes wood frame gabled and hipped houses, log cabins, log houses, false fronts, lean-tos, outhouses, with wood shingle, sod, and plank board roofs; laundry hangs on clothesline in...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Privies--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Roofs--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Anaconda
- View northeast across Ananconda residences in Teller County, Colorado, includes frame gabled houses, tents, log cabins, log houses, false fronts, lean-tos, outhouses, and a smelter, with wood shingle, sod, and plank board roofs. Patches of light...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Anaconda, Col.
- View along a curve in the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks northeast across Ananconda to the treeless rounded Gold Hill, Teller County, Colorado. shows town composed of several camps including Squaw Gulch, Mound City, and Barry nestled in...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- [1895]
- Bradford house faceing [sic.] west, the portion occupied by author, orriginal [sic.] building
- Two houses are built next to one another in the town of Bradford, Colorado (Jefferson County). The larger house is a two-story, masonry residence with hipped roof, bracketed cornice, and chimneys. The second house is two stories with a front gable...
- Bradford (Colo.)--1940-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Bradford--1940-1960.
- [between 1940 and 1960]
- Glen Isle
- View of three houses in Glen Isle (Park County), Colorado. The closest house has a sign on the facing wall: "Garden spot." Two wagon wheels lean against a fence outside of it. The two other houses are identified by the artist as the Kiva house and...
- Glenisle (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Glenisle--1960-1970.
- 1964
- Building site of Swedish Hospital
- View of houses on the building site of Swedish Hospital (Swedish Medical Center) in Englewood (Arapahoe County), Colorado. Shows wood frame houses with hipped roofs.
- Swedish Hospital (Englewood, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Building sites--Colorado--Englewood--1960-1970.; Englewood (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Englewood--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1963?]
- Flood scene, group of houses partially submerged in river
- View of houses partially submerged in a flooded river, possibly the Missouri River in North Dakota. In background, more houses and buildings along the river are shown.
- Missouri River--1870-1890.; Floods--North Dakota--1870-1890.
- [between 1874 and 1889]
- Central City, Colorado
- View of frame houses and commercial buildings in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Buildings on Main Street include the Wells Fargo & Co. building with a sign on the roof that reads: "Overland Stage Line," the frame "Concert Hall, Billiard...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Business districts--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- between 1867 and 1868
- Houses at Bocca Di Ravari, Italy
- Houses at Bocca Di Ravari, just beyond Torre Iussi at the base of Hill 903. German troops held the houses and maintained a sweeping line of fire from there. The field to the right of the image was filled with mines. It was extremely difficult for...
- Bocca di Ravari (Italy)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- April 1945
- Eldora 1938
- A cluster of houses is in the right midground in this view of Eldora looking west from the Mogul Tunnel in Boulder County, Colorado. (The Mogul Tunnel was planned by John A. (Jack) Gilfillan in 1897 and was financed by Pennsylvania and New York...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Eldora (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1940.; Tunnels--Colorado--Eldora--1930-1940.
- [1938?]
- Central City
- Houses line two dirt streets in Mountain City, a small district on the outskirts of Central City, Colorado. Stone walls border the front yards of the houses. Telegraph or telephone poles run through a gulch in the foreground.
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Stone walls--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Frey's Corner, 1899
- Large rocks stand in the left foreground of this view of several small houses, probably in Central City, Colorado. Snow covers the hillside surrounding the houses.
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Rocks--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Central City, 1899
- Houses line two snow-covered streets in Mountain City, a small district on the outskirts of Central City, Colorado. Stone walls border the front yards of the houses. Telegraph or telephone poles run through a gulch in the foreground. A person...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Pedestrians--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Stone...
- [1899?]
- Street in Las Vegas, New Mexico
- Flat-roofed, adobe houses stand in long rows along a dirt road in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Vigas protrude from under the flat roofs. The windows on the houses have wood shutters. A tree stump stands in the right midground on the edge of a dirt...
- Las Vegas (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Adobe buildings--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Houses--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Mountains--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Shutters--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Streets--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Mountain City, Colo.
- A train leaves a trail of smoke behind it as it crosses above Gregory Diggings in Gilpin County, Colorado. The large vein in the hillside in the right midground is where John H. Gregory first discovered gold in Colorado in 1859. Houses stand on...
- Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Canyons--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1920.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1920.
- [between 1899 and 1920?]
- Gregory Gulch, Colorado
- Fred Kruse's Grocery & Provisions Store faces a dirt road in the left foreground of this view of Gregory Gulch between Central City and Blackhawk in Gilpin County, Colorado. The gulch is the site where John H. Gregory made his historic discovery of...
- Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Gregory Gulch (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Gregory Gulch--1890-1900.
- [1898?]
- Bland
- View of a barn and houses in Bland (Sandoval County), New Mexico. A woman stands in front of one of the houses.
- Bland (N.M.)--1910-1930.; Barns--New Mexico--Bland--1910-1930.; Houses--New Mexico--Bland--1910-1930.
- [between 1918 and 1925?]
- Old Town Albuquerque, N.M.
- View of adobe houses, one with a tin pitched roof, in Old Town in Albuquerque (Bernalillo County), New Mexico. Wooden fences are between some of the houses.
- Albuquerque (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Old Town (Albuquerque, N.M.)--1900-1910.; Adobe houses--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1900-1910.; Ethnic neighborhoods--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1900-1910.; Residential streets--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1900-1910.
- 1903 January 15
- Near San Ildefonso
- View of adobe houses, a dirt road and a wire and stick fence near San Ildefonso Pueblo in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. One of the houses has a dormer, portal (porch), and tin roof.
- Santa Fe County (N.M.)--1920-1930.; Adobe houses--New Mexico--Santa Fe County--1920-1930.; Dirt roads--New Mexico--Santa Fe County--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- McCreedy Residence, Georgetown, Colorado
- View of three houses along Rose Street in Georgetown, Colorado. The middle house is brick, with a full-length gable on the left, two double-hung windows and a round window above, and a porch across the section to the right. There is a flower garden...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Fences--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- [between 1874 and 1900?]
- Residence, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of two small wood construction houses in Georgetown, Colorado, the home of the Hermit of Georgetown. Both buildings have gable roofs: the one on the left has the entrance in the long side, and the one on the right has the entrance in...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- [between 1900 and 1978?]
- H.M. West and - Bowman [residences]
- A woman holds a child and stands in front of one of two houses with porches, possibly on 3rd (Third) Avenue in Durango (La Plata County), Colorado. The houses have stick style architectural elements that include cross gabled roofs, horizontal...
- Durango (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Durango--1890-1900.; West, H. M.--Homes & haunts.
- [between 1892 and 1900?]
- Looking east across Peppersauce Flats north of Santa Fe tracks
- View of mud, debris and damaged or destroyed houses and buildings in the Pepper Sauce Bottoms area of Pueblo, Colorado, after the Arkansas River flood. The houses are washed up against larger commercial buildings. Trees and rubble are nearby.
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Building failures--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Debris--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Floods--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.;...
- [1921 June]
- Pueblo flood
- Sections of houses, sheds, fences, and debris are piled up against a railroad track embankment near the Arkansas River after a flood in Pueblo, Colorado. A bluff and damaged houses and businesses are in the distance.
- Arkansas River--1920-1930.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Buildings--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Debris--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Floods--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Rivers--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.
- 1921
- Georgetown residence
- Burros stand near houses in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A Gothic Revival house has gingerbread bargeboard trim, a covered porch and a picket fence. Shows frame houses nearby and a steep rocky slope above the valley.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Donkeys--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1880-1890.
- ca. 1889
- Sun Valley neighborhood
- View of houses and businesses in the Sun Valley neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Shows brick one and two story houses, sheds, backyards, businesses, manufacturing companies and an oil storage tank. The Hungarian Flour Company silos are in the...
- Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Sun Valley (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cities & towns.; Commercial facilities.; Houses.; Industry.
- [between 1955 and 1960?]
- Probably the Sun Valley neighborhood
- View of houses and businesses probably in the Sun Valley neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Shows houses, sheds, backyards, businesses, and manufacturing companies. Automobiles and a small dump truck are parked in the backyards. A sign reads in part:...
- Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Sun Valley (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Automobiles.; Backyards.; Houses.; Trucks.
- [between 1955 and 1960?]
- Perspective 9th Street Historic Park District
- Exterior street perspective showing two houses located at 1056 and 1068 9th Street, Auaria neighborhood, Denver, Colo. The houses are part of the 9th Street Historic Park on the Auraria Higher Education Center in Denver. The two story, wood house...
- 9th Street Historic Park (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1870-1880.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Auraria (Denver, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Houses.; Neighborhoods.
- between 1973 and 1975
- Panorama of Denver West
- Frame houses, multi-story commercial buildings and church steeples in downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows probably a bell tower, a building with battlements and a flat roof, and houses with gabled or hipped roofs.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Neighborhoods--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1881?]
- Panorama of Denver, No. 1
- Aerial view of houses on probably Grant Street near 17th (Seventeenth) Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows dirt roads and Victorian houses with gabled or hipped roofs and chimneys. Wagon roads curve through open...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Residential streets--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1886]
- Panorama of Denver
- Bird's eye view of houses and buildings in Denver, Colorado. The brick Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist (also known as Saint John's Church in the Wilderness and St. John's Episcopal Cathedral) with domed cupolas and a round window is at the...
- Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist (Denver, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cathedrals--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Episcopal churches--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1885?]
- Jarvis Hall
- View of houses and the frame Jarvis Hall, an Episcopal boys school, with a bell tower, on 20th (Twentieth) Street between Welton and Glenarm Streets in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Nearby houses include a brick house with a...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Church schools--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1886?]
- View of Eureka, Colorado taken from the top of the Sunnyside Mill
- Viewed from the side of the mountain, the town of Eureka, Colorado, is made up of small houses for the families of workers at the Sunnyside Mine four miles above. A large house is at the base of the hill, with railroad tracks and cars nearby;...
- Eureka (Colo.)--1870-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Eureka--1870-1940.
- [between 1873 and 1938?]
- 1st High St. Lee House - upper right Central City, Colo.
- View looking up First Street in Central City, Colorado in Gilpin County. Houses, including the Lake house and the Lee house, built above stone retaining walls.
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- [between 1932 and 1937?]
- Ninth Street Historic Park Auraria Higher Education Center
- View of houses on 9th (Ninth) Street in the Ninth Street Historic Park (Auraria Ninth Street Historic District) located on the Auraria Higher Education Center Campus in Denver, Colorado. Houses are identified (left to right): the Mullen House (1061...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--2000-2010.; Auraria 9th Street Historic District (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Ninth Street Historic Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Conservation &...
- 2000
- Sign for Snell's Subdivision Historic District, Denver
- View of the sign for Snell's Subdivision Historic District located in the Congress Park neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The metal sign has letters that read: "Denver Landmark Commission, City & County of Denver, Snell's Subdivision Historic...
- Congress Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Signs (Notices); Historic districts--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Signs and signboards--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Congress Park (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial...
- ca. 2006
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 46, 1910 November 12
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 17, 1911 April 22
- 1909-1922 Index to the Denver Municipal Facts
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 8, 1910 February 19
- Hastings Colo., Victor Fuel Co. camp looking east
- Aerial view of Hastings a Victor American Fuel Company coal camp in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows tipple, washer, and screening plant. Company houses line the road that cuts through the canyon. Possibly a school or church is on a hill....
- Victor American Fuel Company (Colo.)--Buildings--1880-1910.; Hastings (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.; Company towns--Colorado--Hastings--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Cardiff
- View of the coal bins above the Colorado Midland Railway tracks in Cardiff (Garfield County), Colorado. Shows miners houses and boarding houses, and the post office in a long building with a false front near the railroad tracks. The schoolhouse...
- Cardiff (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cardiff--1880-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--Cardiff--1880-1910.
- [between 1888 and 1902?]
- Idaho Springs Colo., C.& S. Ry.
- Panoramic view of commercial buildings and houses in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows tracks of the Colorado Central Railroad Company, a multi-story mill or mine building with dormer windows and smokestacks, frame houses and...
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1890-1900.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1890-1900.; Commercial buildings--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1890-1900.; Mine...
- [between 1890 and 1898?]
- Segundo, Colorado
- Panoramic view of buildings and houses in Segundo (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows a swingset on a playground at the Jerome School and one-story frame houses with gabled roofs. A bridge is over the Purgatoire River, and probably a Colorado and...
- Colorado and Wyoming Railway Company--1900-1910.; Coke-ovens--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.; Purgatoire River (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Segundo (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bridges--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Segundo--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1901 and 1910?]
- 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?]
- 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?]
- Boulder, Colo.
- View of houses and downtown buildings in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the Boulder County Courthouse with a rounded dome and finial, the "American House" Hotel, the First Methodist Church with central and side spires, the flat-roofed...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1888 and 1889?]
- Rouse tipple
- View of a Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tipple in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coal camp of Rouse (Huerfano County), Colorado. Shows freight cars on tracks, coal mine buildings, smoke, and smokestacks. Probably company houses are near the...
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1890-1910.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1910.; Company towns--Colorado--Rouse--1890-1910.; Rouse (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Rouse--1890-1910.; Coal...
- [between 1899 and 1910?]