Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Rattlesnake on guard on outskirts of camp, Assiniboines
- A portrait of Rattlesnake a Native American man (Assiniboine) on horseback as he guards the outskirts of a camp probably in Montana. He wears a buckskin jacket, feather on his head, moccasins and holds a rifle. He sits on a Hudson Bay blanket.
- Assiniboine Indians--Montana--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--Montana--1890-1910.; Horseback riding--Montana--1890-1910.; Warriors--Montana--1890-1910.; Rattlesnake.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- San Luis, Colo.
- View of fields on the outskirts of San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. Adobe buildings, a house trailer, a church and houses are in the town. A large mesa is near the town and painted rocks form letters that read: "San Luis, Oldest Town in...
- Hispanic Americans--Structures--1970-1980.; Mexican Americans--Structures--1970-1980.; San Luis (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Cities & towns.; Dirt roads.; Plazas.; Cities and towns--Colorado--San Luis--Pictorial works.; Dirt roads--Colorado--San...
- [between 1970 and 1980?]
- Sheridan, Wyoming
- View of the town of Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming. Shows wood frame residences, people by a bridge over Big Goose Creek, out buildings. A tent and covered wagon sit on the outskirts of town. The mountain range in the distance is probably the...
- Big Goose Creek (Wyo.)--1890-1900.; Sheridan (Wyo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Wyoming--Sheridan--1890-1900.; Streams--Wyoming--Sheridan--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1900]
- Donkey Derby
- View of automobiles parked on hillside with a crowd watching the Donkey Derby held on outskirts of Cripple Creek, Colorado; people seated atop wooden post corral and on opposite side near covered podium; distant view beyond hillside of Cripple...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Festivals--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1939]
- Donkey Derby, Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Distant view of Donkey Derby held near outskirts of Cripple Creek, Colorado; automobiles lined up behind wire fence; crowd of people around fence perimeters and behind festival stand or podium; view of town with church spire (St Peter's Catholic...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Donkeys--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1930-1940.; Festivals--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1930-1940.
- 1933
- Steamboat Springs, Colorado
- View over Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado, includes farm houses and barns with hay lofts on the outskirts of town.
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- Jane Dyde
- View of a woman and a saddled horse on the outskirts of Carson, Colorado; shows four buildings including the false fronted saloon building; features vertical plank siding and medium and steeply gabled roofs.
- Carson (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Carson--1940-1950.; Bars--Colorado--Carson--1940-1950.; Dyde, Jane.
- 1946
- Skyline Drive on the ridge northwest of Canon City, Colorado
- View of Skyline Drive and the outskirts of Canon City, Colorado; shows farms and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.); Cities & towns--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Farms--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.; Roads--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.
- 1905?
- Highgrade ore from Camp Bird mine, Ouray Colo.
- A man with horses and an ore wagon crosses the bridge over the Uncompahgre gorge on the Camp Bird road, Ouray County, Colorado.
- Ouray County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Uncompahgre Gorge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Bridges--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1910.; Horse teams--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray...
- [between 1934 and 1941]
- Pete Halls and Elmer Peterson
- Two men pose on the outskirts of Aspen, Colorado. They are dressed in shirts and ties (one wears a vest), trousers, and leather shoes. One man wears a miner's hat with a candle and the other holds a miner's candle holder. An ore cart is in the...
- Aspen (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Halls, Pete.; Peterson, Elmer.
- 1910
- Central City, Colo. 1890-1899 circ. (prints)
- Several smaller mining districts like this one formed on the outskirts of Central City, Colorado, in the late 1800s. A dirt road winds through the right foreground. A cluster of buildings stands on the hillside along a dirt road in the left...
- Central City (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Mountain City, Packard Gulch
- Part of a railroad track winds around a hillside above Mountain City in the right foreground and continues on to Central City in the distance. Mountain City was on the outskirts of Central City and was never considered its own municipality. Several...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Gregory Gulch 1947
- Two main dirt roads run through Mountain City on the outskirts of Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. Houses and buildings stand in clusters along the roads and on a hill in the right midground. Piles of tailings from the area's numerous...
- Tailings (Metallurgy)--1940-1950.; Central City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.
- [between 1947 and 1948?]
- Mountain City, Colorado
- Houses and buildings stand along dirt roads in Mountain City on the outskirts of Central City, Colorado, in the 1860s. Several mine shafthouses stand on the hills in the background. Gold was first discovered in the area in 1859 by John H. Gregory.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Mine shafts--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Houses--Colorado--Central...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Mountain City
- Two main dirt roads run through Mountain City on the outskirts of Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. Houses and buildings stand in clusters along the roads and on a hill in the right midground. Piles of tailings from the area's numerous...
- Tailings (Metallurgy)--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.; Central City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.
- [between 1947 and 1948?]
- Sells Floto and Buffalo Bill's Indians
- North American Indians and a cowboy shoot craps on tarps in a field on the outskirts of Fresno (Fresno County), California. A brewery with smokestacks is in the distance, a sign reads "S.W. Brewery & Ice..., Glorieta Beer."
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company--People--1910-1920.; Sells Floto Circus--People--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--California--Fresno--1910-1920.; Fresno (Calif.)--1910-1920.; Brewing industry--California--Fresno--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1917?]
- Stamp mill
- A man wearing a suit leans against a wood post inside a stamp mill, possibly the Buell Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling Company in Mountain City on the outskirts of Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. A small group of men stands behind him...
- Buell Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling Company--1870-1880.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1877?]
- Central City, Colorado
- in the left background. Fourteen men reportedly drowned in the Sleepy Hollow Mine in 1895 when water from an older and deeper mine burst through the wall between the two.; The shafthouse of the Gregory Buell Consolidated Mine and Milling Company...
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Tourist camps &...
- [between 1898 and 1900?]
- 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?]
- Mountain City
- A trestle for the Gilpin Tramway stands in the background of this view of Mountain City, a small area on the outskirts of Central City, Colorado. Houses stand in the foreground. Several mines dot the hillside in the background.
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1900.; Trestles--Colorado--Mountain...
- [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?]
- Gregory Monument dedication
- $20,000,000.00 in gold." Several other men are in the background watching the groundbreaking.; An older man with a long beard and wearing a suit leans down to turn a shovel full of dirt at the July 23, 1932 dedication of the Gregory Monument in...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Gold mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1930-1940.; Ground breaking ceremonies--Colorado--Mountain City--1930- 1940.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Mountain City--1930-1940.;...
- [1932]
- Mountain City, Colorado
- A rundown building with part of a sign on it stands in the foreground of this view of Mountain City, a small mining district on the outskirts of Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. The sign says "The Machinery Bargain House" and indicates that...
- Mountain City (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1920.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1920.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Mountain City--1890-1920.
- [between 1899 and 1920?]
- Silver Plume
- A burro lies on the ground on a dirt road on the outskirts of Silver Plume, a mining town west of Georgetown in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Large rocks stand in the foreground. Two wagon carts are on the dirt road in the midground. Houses line...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Silver Plume--1870-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Silver Plume--1870-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Silver Plume--1870-1900.; Mountains--Colorado--1870-1900.
- [between 1875 and 1900?]
- Buell Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company
- Large wood buckets stand in the foreground in this interior view of the Buell Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling Company in Mountain City on the outskirts of Central City, a large mining community in Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Buell Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling Company--1870-1880.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Interiors.; Mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1877?]
- Chattanooga
- Several buildings are in the midground near a group of tall pine trees in Chattanooga at the base of Red Mountain north of Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado. Small log cabins are in the foreground and the left midground on the outskirts of the...
- Chattanooga (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Gateway to Garden of the Gods from Colo. Midland Ry.
- View northeast from edge or outskirts of Manitou Springs, Colorado towards Gateway of Garden of the Gods; Colorado Midland Railway standard gauge tracks on right; Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tracks and Colorado Springs Interurban street railway...
- Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1890-1920.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Farms--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1920.; Parks--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1920.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1920.;...
- [between 1890 and 1919]
- Victor on fire, train-load of household goods saved by F. & C.C. Ry.
- View across Victor, Colorado, from ridge cut by Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad on outskirts of town. Shows gondola cars filled with people & their household goods moved by rail to this point saved from the devastating fire of August 21, 1899;...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Victor, Colo.
- View of Bob & Evelyn Brown with dog standing on ridge cut above Victor, Colorado, on outskirts of town; same location where townspeople fled for safety from August 21, 1899 fire using Florence & Cripple Creek railroad cars to move belongings;...
- Victor (Colo.)--1970-1980.
- 1971
- Southern Colorado Power Co., #90
- View of Southern Colorado Power Company's electric street railway car number 90 in service on the outskirts of Pueblo, Colorado includes a grassy slope in the background.
- Southern Colorado Power Company--1940-1950.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Street railroads--Colorado--Pueblo--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950]
- Southern Colorado Power Co. #120, Pueblo, Colo.
- View of Southern Colorado Power Company's electric street railway car number 120 in service on the outskirts of Pueblo, Colorado, includes a grassy slope in the background.
- Southern Colorado Power Company--1940-1950.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Street railroads--Colorado--Pueblo--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950]
- Front Range
- View of possibly Clear Creek and the outskirts of Golden (Jefferson County), Colorado. Shows fields, houses and trees. The Front Range is in the distance.
- Front Range (Colo. and Wyo.)--1950-1960.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses.; Streams.
- [between 1955 and 1960?]
- East High spotlight: vol 2 no 1
- Newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1925 April 15
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 22, 1909 July 17
- The Church Record: Vol. 1 No. 2
- Newsletter produced by the Central Presbyterian Church in Denver, Colorado. Included in newsletter is a sermon by different religious leaders within the church, list of new members and events of different church societies.
- Presbyterian Church--Colorado--Denver--History.; Church buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Central Presbyterian Church (Denver, Colo.); Presbyterian Church--Colorado--Denver.
- 1901 March
- The Scriptbook
- Booklet created by The Script Club of East High School in Denver, Colorado. Members of The Script Club, the writing club of East High, submitted their own works for create this booklet. Included are poems, essays, sketches and stories written by...
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High school students' writings--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1932 May
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 25, 1910 June 18
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 31, 1910 July 30
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 15, 1911 April 8
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 10, 1912 March 9
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 24, 1909 July 31
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 44, 1909 December 18
- Municipal Facts: Volume 7 Numbers 5 and 6, 1924 May-June
- Municipal Facts: Volume 6 Number 5, 1923 May
- Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 9, 1920 September
- Municipal Facts: Volume 10 Numbers 3 and 4, 1927 March-April
- Municipal Facts: Volume 13 Numbers 3 and 4, 1930 March-April
- The City of Denver: Volume 3 Number 4, 1914 November 28
- History of Denver
- Paonia outskirts
- View of Paonia (Delta County), Colorado. Shows wood frame houses, dirt streets, fruit orchards, and Denver & Rio Grande Railroad freight cars.
- Paonia (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Paonia--1910-1920.
- [between 1915 and 1920]