Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- High-school twelve grades Mosca, Colo.
- The school in Mosca, Alamosa County, Colorado, is a two-story frame building with a belfry and shingle imbrication. Boys in dusters, bib overalls, kneepants and slouch hats sport a baseball bat, mitts, and balls. Girls in the fenced yard wear wide...
- Mosca (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Schools--Colorado--Mosca--1910-1920.
- 1912
- Milliken school house
- Women and children pose in Milliken, Weld County, Colorado, in the arched entry of a frame school building. They wear bib overalls, kneepants, and duster hats.
- Milliken (Colo.)--1910-1920.; School children--Colorado--Milliken--1910-1920.; Schools--Colorado--Milliken--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Minturn, Colo Church or School
- Women and children pose in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado, on the steps of a frame building with a projecting, arched entry. The boys wear sack coats and kneepants; the girls are in print dresses.
- Minturn (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Children--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Girls--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Minturn, Colo Ball Team
- A baseball team poses in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado, in uniforms featuring short billed caps, quilted kneepants, and a letter "M" on the shirts. Men sitting in front have bats; men in back have mitts. One man, in a suit with a gold chain,...
- Minturn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Baseball players--Colorado--Minturn--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Edward Kane as "Marco" Palmieri
- Actor Edward Kane poses in musician's costume as Marco, in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondoliers," in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. He wears kneepants and stockings, a wide sash and a vest, and a sack hat. He plays a mandolin.
- Kane, Edward--Performances--1930-1940.; Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Actors--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Costumes--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- 1936
- Mark Daniels as Don Alhambra.
- Actor Mark Daniels poses as Don Alhambra, in Gilbert and Sullivans' "The Gondoliers," in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. He is in 17th century pilgrim costume, with broad-brimmed hat, lace cuffs and collar, string tie, cape, kneepants, and...
- Daniels, Mark--Performances--1930-1940.; Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Actors--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Costumes--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- 1936
- Parade in Salida, Colorado
- People approach during a Fourth of July Parade in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. Uniformed men carry a United States flag, women are in white, and boys wear kneepants and duster hats.
- Salida (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Military uniforms--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Women--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.
- 1903?
- Parade in Salida, Colorado
- People approach during a Fourth of July Parade in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. Women wear puff shouldered blouses, ribbons, and carry umbrellas. A boy in kneepants wears a Slavic sailor's hat; horse-drawn wagons bring up the rear. Signs read:...
- Salida (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.;...
- 1903?
- Stanton Post 37, Salida, Colorado
- Girls hold a bier draped in bunting and flowers in a park, with a gazebo, Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. Men stand behind them in long beards wearing medals reading: "In Memoriam Stanton Post No. 37 Salida Colorado." Girls in wide brimmed,...
- Salida (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Salida--1890-1900.; Girls--Colorado--Salida--1890-1900.; Memorial rites & ceremonies--Colorado--Salida--1890-1900.; Veteran's organizations--Colorado--Salida--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Happy campers
- View of a campsite along a stream and stone roadbase, somewhere in the Colorado Rockies, shows ladies in jackets, ties, kneepants, and boots raising a toast, a man playing with a dog, a canvas tent, cooking utensils, campfire, and a thermos; pines...
- Colorado--1920-1930.; Campfires--Colorado--1920-1930.; Camping--Colorado--1920-1930.; Streams--Colorado--1920-1930.; Tents--Colorado--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Colorado College, Irving Adams
- Irving Adams poses at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, wearing kneepants and a duster hat. Palmer Hall (in background) was named for General William J. Palmer, Colorado Springs founder and college donor.
- Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909--Commemoration.; Colorado College--1910-1920.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1910- 1920.; Adams, Irving.
- 1910
- Bicycle club float
- Men in white jackets, kneepants, and dusters pose with their Sunflower Carnival Parade float and bicycles, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The float is decorated with a patterned, tasseled, paper parasol, bunting, flowers, potted palms...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Flowers--Colorado--Colorado...
- 1897
- Bicycle entry, Flower Carnival
- An entrant in the Sunflower Carnival parade poses on a bicycle in his white shirt and kneepants, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. His bicycle is decorated with white fabric woven into the spokes, a dirigible blimp with propellers...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Parades &...
- [between 1893 and 1906?]
- Flower Carnival Parade
- View of the Sunflower Carnival Parade, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows traps, buggies, horses draped in flowers, women wearing large flowered hats, one with a long braid, men in kneepants, bowler and straw hats, bicycles, man with...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Flowers--Colorado--Colorado...
- [between 1897 and 1906?]
- J. C. Connor and party
- Stockbroker J. C. and Mrs. Connor sit in the front seat of their Sunflower Carnival Parade wagon with four horse team decorated with crepe paper flowers, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The Conners and their passengers wear elaborate...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Costumes--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado...
- [between 1893 and 1906?]
- Mrs. Connor - J. C. Connor front seat
- View of a Sunflower Carnival Parade entry, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows Stockbroker J. C. and Mrs. Connor in the front seat of a wagon full of people and decorated with crepe paper flowers; drawn by a team of horses with...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Costumes--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Festivals--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado...
- [between 1893 and 1906?]
- Flower Carnival spectators
- A crowd sits on bleachers decorated with bannners during the Sunflower Carnival parade, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Boys in kneepants and straw hats walk along the dirt street covered with horse apples.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Spectators--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.
- [between 1893 and 1906?]
- Boy
- A boy in kneepants holds a box of candy with label: "Hayes Choc[olate]" probably in Denver, Colorado.
- Boys--Colorado--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Sister's Mustard Seeds
- Portrait of Agnes Finding Miner and Sister's Mustard Seeds in Breckenridge, Colorado. The founder of this girl's charitable organization is seated in the upper middle and wears a wide brimmed, feathered hat, white dress and dark bodice. The other...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Breckenridge--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1890?]
- Canon City Baptist church
- This frame Baptist Church on the north side of Main Street in Canon City, Colorado, has tarpaper siding and a shingled portico topped by a columned, bracketed belfry with jigsaw work. A man stands on the roof. A boy in kneepants with a conductor's...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Baptist churches--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Christian church
- This brick church on 7th (Seventh) and Harrison Streets in Canon City, Colorado, has gothic arched windows. Boys wearing kneepants, derbys and conductor's hats, and girls (some blurred) stand along the wall. A Black girl in a white dress stands...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Churches--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- The first school house erected in Canon City, 1874
- Students and teachers pose on the wooden steps of their brick school in Canon City, Colorado. They wear hats, kneepants, pleats and flounces. The building behind them has stone sills and an ornamental arch; glass in the transom is broken.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1880
- Wand exercises
- A teacher and an African-American (Black) girl and white students stand beside their desks and exercise with wooden poles in a classroom in Gilpin School at 29th (Twenty-ninth) and Stout Streets in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado....
- Gilpin School (Denver, Colo.)--People--1900-1910.; African Americans--Education--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Children exercising--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- DeMolay Patrol, Denver Chapter No. 1
- Teenaged boys, members of the Order of DeMolay, pose at Civic Center, in Denver, Colorado, wearing Moorish kneepants, vests and Fez hats. The Carnegie Library, Arapahoe County Courthouse, and Colorado State Capitol are in the background; the men...
- Freemasons--People--1920-1930.; Order of DeMolay--People--1920-1930.; Civic Center (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Teenagers--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- 1923 February
- A bull fight in Mexico
- Composite of three photos shows matadors and a bull ring in Mexico. People crowd bleachers; outfits include vests, kneepants, and capes.
- Bullfighters--Mexico--1890-1910.; Bullfighting--Mexico--1890-1910.; Spectators--Mexico--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- C.S.P. personnel riot officials
- F. E. Crawford, warden at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, hat in hands, is flanked by men dressed in suits, jodhpurs, leather gaiters, kneepants and a bow tie. One holds goggles, another a rifle. A uniformed man with a leather...
- Prison wardens--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Prison riots--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1929
- Schoolyard possibly Keota
- Women in Keota, Weld County, Colorado, supervise children playing on a swingset. A boy in kneepants has his legs through a set of gymnastic rings, and plains are in the background.
- Keota (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Children playing outdoors--Colorado--Keota--1930-1940.; Playgrounds--Colorado--Keota--1930-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Keota--1930-1940.
- June 1930
- Schoolyard possibly Keota
- A woman in Keota, Weld County, Colorado, supervises children playing on a swingset. A boy in kneepants has his legs through a set of gymnastic rings, and hangs upside down.
- Keota (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Children playing outdoors--Colorado--Keota--1930-1940.; Playgrounds--Colorado--Keota--1930-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Keota--1930-1940.
- June 1930
- CU boys basketball team standing L to R 1. Frank Goddard Dollis, 2.
- Posing in front of a painted backdrop, basketball team at the University of Colorado at Boulder has a ball in front of them with lettering: "U.C. '06." Their uniforms consist of sleeveless shirts with white letter "C" and padded jersey kneepants...
- University of Colorado (Boulder Campus)--1900-1910.; Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Basketball players--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.; Students--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- 1906
- Turner residence in Kokomo
- Well dressed, the Turners pose on the wooden steps of their one- story frame house in Kokomo, Summit County, Colorado. In kneepants and a narrow brimmed planter hat, a boy standing in a cart holds the reins of a mule. A clothesline connects to a...
- Kokomo (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Kokomo--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Boys club
- Boys pose in kneepants and suspenders, some barefoot, pointing and lunging, in Boulder, Colorado. Striped canvas tents and the frame, two- story, Chautauqua academic hall are in the background. A bald man in back is by a sign reading: "Gymnasium."
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- Aug. 1900