Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Cortez
- View of Cortez (Montezuma County), Colorado; shows houses, yards, outhouses, horses and buggies, laundry, a woman, a lawn sprinkler, signs: "Charles Duff General Merchandise," "Journal Building," and Sleeping Ute Mountain.
- Cortez (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Sleeping Ute Mountain (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Backyards--Colorado--Cortez--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cortez--1900-1920.; Privies--Colorado--Cortez--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- 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?]
- Cortez, Colorado
- View of frame or brick houses and commercial buildings in Cortez (Montezuma County), Colorado. Shows fenced yards with cultivated gardens, outhouses, sheds, and timber piles near commercial buildings with signs that read: "Journal Building" and...
- Cortez (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Backyards--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Gardens--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.; Privies--Colorado--Cortez--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- The Gold Links Mine & Mill
- View of the Gold Links Mill, Ohio City (Ohio, Gunnison County), Colorado as smoke spews from smokestacks. Shows wood frame and log buildings, horses and outhouses. A road is in the distance.
- Gold Links Mine (Gunnison County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ohio City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Ohio City--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Ohio City--1900-1910.
- 1908
- Granite, between Buena Vista and Leadville
- View of the town of Granite (Chaffee County), Colorado. Shows the railroad station, wood frame commercial buildings and residences, outhouses, a bridge over the Arkansas River, and Colorado Midland Railroad tracks.
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1880-1900.; Arkansas River--1880-1900.; Granite (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Granite--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Granite--1880-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Granite--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1887 and 1895?]
- 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]
- Sopris, private houses
- View of wood frame houses at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coal camp of Sopris in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows coops, fenced yards, hornos (ovens), and outhouses. A dog is by a feed trough. Snow covers the ground.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1880-1930.; Sopris (Colo.)--1880-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.
- [between 1887 and 1928?]
- Sopris, private houses
- View of miner's houses at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coal camp of Sopris in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows coal sheds, coops, outhouses, and fenced yards. Snow covers the ground.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1890-1930.; Sopris (Colo.)--1890-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Sopris--1890-1930.
- [between 1890 and 1928?]
- Sopris, Little Italy
- Clothes hang on lines in the yards of wood frame houses at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company coal camp of Sopris in Las Animas County, Colorado. The neighborhood, identified as "Little Italy," consists of houses, outhouses, and coal sheds. Picket...
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1880-1930.; Sopris (Colo.)--1880-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Sopris--1880-1930.
- [between 1887 and 1928?]
- American Shale Refining Company (Wingett Process), on Conn Creek
- View of an American Shale Refining Company oil shale processing facility near De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; shows dormitories and outhouses. Road grade and tailings are on slopes of the Roan Cliffs.
- Oil-shale industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; De Beque (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1920-1930.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--De Beque--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Oil shale settlement
- Shacks, outhouses, and sheds comprise this colony in (probably) Colorado or Utah; men stand by a truck and tanks; desert ridges and valleys are in the distance.
- Oil-shale industry--1910-1930.; Petroleum industry--1910-1930.; Settlements--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Victor, Colo.
- Panoramic view of Victor (Teller County), Colorado. Shows the rooftops of commercial and residential buildings, outhouses, dirt roads and signs that read: "Drugs," "Shilling's Dry Goods" and "Lumber." Squaw Mountain is in the distance.
- Squaw Mountain (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Victor--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1910?]
- Sneffels and Revenue Camp
- View of the Revenue Mill and mine complex in Sneffels (Ouray County), Colorado. Shows the Revenue Mine entrance, Sneffels Creek, a bridge, a boarding house, tailings, cribbing, freight wagons, burros, horses, a livery stable owned by John...
- Revenue Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Sneffels (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.; Ore industry--Colorado--Sneffels--1890-1900.
- 1896 Aug
- Goldfield
- Panoramic view of mines, tailings embankments, and frame houses in Goldfield, (Teller County) Colorado. Shows the Town Hall building, an abandoned automobile, sheds, outhouses and dirt roads.
- Goldfield (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Goldfield--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Goldfield--1930-1940.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Goldfield--1930-1940.
- 1933 November 10
- Animas Forks
- View of the town of Animas Forks (San Juan County), Colorado. Shows a mule drawn wagon, men and women, wood frame structures, tents, log cabins, gabled houses, false fronts, outhouses, and the two-story Walsh residence. A tall narrow shed in the...
- Animas Forks (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Animas Forks--1890-1900.; City & town life--Colorado--Animas Forks--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Animas Forks--1890-1900.; Ore industry--Colorado--Animas Forks--1890-1900.
- [ca. 1890]
- Animas Forks
- A man wearing a vest and straw hat sits outside of the town of Animas Forks (San Juan County), Colorado. A footbridge extends over a fork of the Animas River. The town consists of wood frame structures, tents, log cabins, gabled houses, false...
- Animas Forks (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Animas Forks--1870-1880.
- [between 1875 and 1880?]
- Tent city, Coronado Beach, Cal.
- People walk near streetcar tracks among the striped tents of the tent city at Coronado Beach (San Diego County), California. Shows electric street lights and probably outhouses with surrounding vegetation. The Hotel del Coronado is in the distance.
- Hotel del Coronado (Coronado, Calif.)--1900-1910.; Coronado (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--California--Coronado--1900-1910.; Street railroad tracks--California--Coronado--1900-1910.; Tents--California--Coronado--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Pueblo, Colo. The Old Town
- View of the Old Town area (also called Goat Hill, Smelter Hill, and Old Mexico) in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows a hillside community of tightly clustered one-story adobe residences and shacks with sod & metal roofs. Yards are divided by...
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Adobe houses--Colorado--Pueblo--1900-1910.; Huts--Colorado--Pueblo--1900-1910.; Neighborhoods--Colorado--Pueblo--1900-1910.
- 1900
- Hezron, Colo
- View of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coal mining camp of Hezron in Huerfano County, Colorado. Shows company houses with hipped-roofs, probably a company store, privies (outhouses), and a barn.
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1900-1920.; Company towns--Colorado--Hezron Camp--1900-1920.; Hezron Camp (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Hezron Camp--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Hezron Camp--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Morley, Las Animas County, Colorado
- View of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coal camp of Morley in Las Animas County, Colorado. The Colorado Supply Company store, doctor's office, and company boarding house occupy a large mission style structure with towers and a stucco...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1920.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1900-1920.; Company towns--Colorado--Morley--1900-1920.; Morley (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Morley--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1907 and 1915?]
- Delta, Colorado
- View of the town of Delta (Delta County), Colorado. Shows houses, outhouses, and coal sheds. Prominent buildings in town include the public school, high school, Baptist Church, Presbyterian Church and the steeple of the First Methodist Church. A...
- Delta (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Churches--Colorado--Delta--1900-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Delta--1900-1920.; Wooden sidewalks--Colorado--Delta--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1912?]
- Leadville, Carbonate Hill
- This snowy view over rooftops of wood frame and log structures to Carbonate Hill mines, Leadville, Colorado includes one and two-story residences, sheds, outhouses, and two-story false fronts. Signs for a market and a hotel are displayed.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1885]
- Kubler
- View over the company log houses with shingle roofs, near the Kubler Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado; shows wash tubs, laundry lines and outhouses around the cabins and mountain peaks in distance.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining camps--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Labor housing--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1913
- The Curtis coal mine
- View of the Curtis coal mining camp in northwestern Colorado; shows tents, wooden buildings, outhouses, and a corral. Dust or smoke rises from mine at right.
- Coal mining--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [1915?]
- Logging between Durango, Colo. and Farmington, N. M.
- View over a logging camp between Durango, Colorado and Farmington, New Mexico. A Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad train is loaded with stacks of cut timber ready for the lumber mill. Logger shacks, cabins, tents and outhouses are scattered...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1900-1910.; Log buildings--Colorado--1900-1910.; Logs--Colorado--1900-1910.; Lumber industry--Colorado--1900-1910.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- Cripple Creek
- Rows of wooden frame buildings along hillside, Cripple Creek, Colorado; residences are square shaped with low and medium gable, flat and hipped roofs; man stands on roof of shanty; outhouses appear across distant hillside.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1895?]
- #129 Fruit Sheds on 2nd Street
- View of fruit warehouses in Paonia, Colorado in Delta County. Scaffolding and boards are in front of the building in the foreground. Planks, boards, and debris litter the foreground in front of the outhouses. Other warehouses in the background.
- Paonia (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Food industry--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1920.; Food storage buildings--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1920.
- [1911?]
- No. 62 Ophir, Colo, West End
- Ophir, Ouray County, Colorado, consists of frame houses, outhouses, and mining facilities. Frame towers support cables on pulleys; ore buckets hang at intervals. Laundry is in fenced yards; a schoolhouse tops a rise; mules stand by piled firewood....
- Ophir (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ophir--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Russell Gulch, Colorado
- View of Russell Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado, shows a few people around frame houses, some with laundry, outhouses, a stone storefront, ore car tracks, mines with tailings.
- Russell Gulch (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Colorado, 1895
- View northeast towards Cripple Creek, Colorado from hillside; scene includes railroad narrow gauge spurs, engine with passenger cars, hopper and freight box cars on additional spurs, wooden frame residences on hillside, canvas tent on wooden frame,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1894 or 1895]
- Cripple Creek, Colo.
- View across rooftops of Cripple Creek, Colorado from hillside on edge of town; scene includes row of outhouses, vertical slat wooden frame outbuildings and residences, post corral, and stone root cellar with sod roof built into hillside; clothes...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Privies--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1894 May 7
- Cripple Creek, F. & C. C. R. R.
- Distant view west towards sparsely settled Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes split rail fence, Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad narrow gauge track with box freight cars and hopper cars, outhouses, one-story wooden frame gabled residences,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1894?]
- Silver Plume
- View along the Colorado and Southern Railroad tracks in Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado, shows residences, outhouses, a portion of the train depot, the schoolhouse (background), and Republican Mountain.
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1890-1900.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Silver Plume--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Miner homes crowd close to Frederick Coal Mine
- View of Valdez, Las Animas County, Colorado; shows dwellings, outhouses, gondola cars, the coal dump, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- Valdez (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Coal mining--Colorado--Valdez--1960-1970.
- 1960
- View on Fryer Hill, Leadville
- Reproduction of ink rendering; shows Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, with houses, mining facilities, clotheslines, and outhouses.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- Spring 1880
- Decker's on the South Platte, C. & S. Ry.
- Bird's eye view of Deckers, Douglas County, Colorado; shows South Platte River, frame buildings, houses, outhouses, and rickety plank footbridges.
- Deckers (Colo.)--1900-1920.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Deckers--1900-1920.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Deckers--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Deckers--1900-1920.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Sparlin Colo., Denver & Salt Lake R. R.
- View of Sparlin, Colorado, a coal-mining town reached via the Moffat Road; shows train track through valley and a row of small identical cottages with outhouses in back.
- Sparlin (Colo.)--1910-1920.
- [1915?]
- Picnic grounds, Denver Mtn. Park
- Picnic in Denver Mountain Park west of Denver, Colorado; shows creek (probably Bear Creek), a group around a picnic table, canvas tarp stretched across two car tops, and outhouses on hillside behind road.
- Parks--Colorado--1910-1920.; Picnics--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [1917]
- Old State Bridge over Rio Grand, Alamosa, Colorado, 12, 42' spans
- The old state bridge crosses the icy Rio Grande River near Alamosa, Colorado. The suspended wooden trussed bridge has twelve forty- two foot spans. Widely scattered structures along the river include log cabins, wood frame residences, barns, sheds,...
- Hunt, Alexander Cameron 1825-1894.--Homes & haunts.; Rio Grande--1900-1910.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bridges--Colorado--Alamosa--1900-1910.
- [1906]
- Curtis Coal Mine
- View of the Curtis Coal Mine works, El Paso County, Colorado. A Wooden building with a slanted floor stands on wooden beams, raised above the ground. Two wooden trestle bridges, one leading from the mine and another from the side of the building,...
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Cabins--Colorado--El Paso County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--El Paso County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1915?]
- Snowy rooftops in Leadville
- This view of snowcovered gabled rooftops with brick chimneys and stovepipes in Leadville, Colorado, includes residences, sheds, barns, and outhouses. A ladder is hung on the shed in the right foreground.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Snow--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.
- 1937
- Decker's on the South Platte, C. & S. Ry.
- Bird's eye view of Deckers, Colorado, and South Platte River reached via Colorado and Southern Railway; shows wooden frame buildings and residences, outhouses, rickety wooden plank footbridge and bridge, and man seated on rock outcropping in...
- Deckers (Colo.)--1900-1920.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1900-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Deckers--1900-1920.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Deckers--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Deckers--1900-1920.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Barry, Colo., from Gold Hill no. 472
- A panorama of the mining camp of Barry, Colorado, in Teller County, a component camp of Anaconda, shows a main street surrounded by wood-frame, commercial storefronts with false fronts and one-story, wood- frame, box-shaped structures with gables....
- Barry (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Barry--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Barry--1890-1900.
- April 4, 1893
- Hog millet in Colorado
- Two men stand in thigh high millet field on eastern Colorado plains; farm in background includes house, sheds, barn, outhouses, and a tractor.
- Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.; Farms--Colorado--1920-1930.; Millet--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [1921]
- Georgetown & vicinity
- View northeast from Leavenworth Mountain over Georgetown, Colorado, shows scattered wood frame residences, sheds, outhouses, a few lob cabins and false fronts. The Hall Smelter with smoking stack is on Chimney Rock; the Hamill House with a picket...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- [between 1867 and 1869]
- Georgetown & vicinity
- View southeast from over Georgetown, Colorado, shows wood frame residences, sheds, outhouses, a few log cabins and false fronts. A smelter with smoking stack shows on Chimney Rock; Hamill House is east of Chimney Rock. Some frame construction is in...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- [between 1867 and 1869]
- Gladstone - 1945 back row of houses
- View of a row of dilapidated houses in Gladstone, Colorado; features a line of houses on one side of a dirt path, and outhouses in a row on the opposite side of the path; broken lumber and debris scattered in the middle of the path; fog is overhead.
- Gladstone (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Gladstone--1940-1950.; Privies--Colorado--Gladstone--1940-1950.
- 1945
- Camp Weaver
- View down mainstreet of the mining company town of Weaver, McKinley County, New Mexico; shows clapboard homes, outhouses, and smoking tipple stacks. Railroad box cars are on track leading to coal screening plant.
- Weaver (N.M.)--1900-1920.; Coal mining--New Mexico--Weaver--1900-1920.; Houses--New Mexico--Weaver--1900-1920.; Mining--New Mexico--Weaver--1900-1920.; Tipples--New Mexico--Weaver--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Altman, 10,650 ft. alt. highest inc. city in the world Pike's Peak
- View of the northwest side of Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor in Teller County, includes small wood frame residences, sheds, outhouses, false front businesses, smelters, mines, and tailing dumps. Business signs include: "Geo...
- Murphy, James G.--Homes & haunts.; Taylor, Nellie--Homes & haunts.; Altman (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1898]
- Altman, Colo., highest incorporated town in the world, elevation 11,146 feet. Pike's Peak in background.
- View of Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor, on a saddle between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, Teller County, includes wood frame residences, log cabins, sheds, false front businesses, smelters, and mines, and tailing dumps. Business...
- Altman (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1884