Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Pumpkin patch in fall
- An oil painting of a pumpkin patch by Henrietta Bromwell. The images in the painting include a purple shed, field, pumpkin patch, trees, shrubbery, grass and sky. The colors are yellow, green, purple and orange colors. The painting is on a unframed...
- Meadows--1910-1930.; Pumpkins--1910-1930.; Sheds--1910-1930.
- [between 1915 and 1925]
- Before the rehearsal by R. T. Zimmerman
- A photograph of a painting by R. T. Zimmerman. A group of male musicians sit at a table, other musicians and a young boy sit and stand nearby. The young boy holds a horn instrument. A woman stands at another table and pours a liquid (water?) into...
- Musical instruments--1890-1900.; Musicians--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Navajo sand painting
- Close-up view of a Native American (Navajo) sand painting. The painting depicts Yei figures in symmetrical, reciprocal positions, with one elongated figure spanning from one end of the painting to another.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1890-1910.; Navajo Indians--Spiritual life--1890-1910.; Sandpaintings--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1908]
- Navajo sand painting
- Close-up view of a Native American (Navajo) sand painting. The painting shows Yei figures in a symmetrical design.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1890-1900.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--1890-1900.; Sandpaintings--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1894]
- Building with Trees
- A landscape oil painting of a row of cottonwood trees, shrubbery, grass and a house with a chimney. Mountains are in the background and a blue sky is above. The colors Henrietta Bromwell uses in the painting include. blues, greens, pink, brown,...
- Hills--1890-1910.; Houses--1890-1910.; Trees--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Avenue in fall
- A landscape watercolor painting by Henrietta Bromwell. Images in the painting include a row of trees, a road, meadow, field of grass, a building in the background, and blue sky. The image is pale fall colors of gold, violet and gray. The painting...
- Meadows--1890-1915.; Trees--1890-1915.
- [between 1890 and 1915]
- Colorow
- Reproduction of head and shoulders portrait painting of Colorow, Native American, (White River Band) Chief of the northern Utes; he wears a hair pipe breastplate and choker.
- Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--1890-1900.; Colorow, ca. 1810-1888.
- [between 1930 and 1960?]
- New Mexico Building Panama- California Exposition San Diego 1915
- Reproduction of a watercolor painting of the New Mexico Building built for the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, California, 1915. Shows one and two story adobe Spanish Colonial building with two towers, covered balconies, and wooden...
- San Diego (Calif.)--1910-1920.; Exhibition buildings--California--San Diego--1910-1920.; Panama-California Exposition (1915 : San Diego, Calif.)
- 1915
- Arapahoes Painting Horse, Sister, etc
- Studio portrait (sitting) of Painting Horse, his sister, and a man, Native American (Arapaho) men and woman. The men wear scarves around their necks. Painting Horse's sister wears a dress and a blanket across her lap.
- Arapaho Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Women--1880-1890.; Painting Horse--Family.; Painting Horse.
- [between 1884 and 1885?]
- Empire Valley, Colo.
- The town of Empire is in the distance in this painting by Sara Holden. It was painted from the vantage of Democrat mountain, and shows the town and Empire valley.
- Empire (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Valleys--Colorado--Empire--1860-1880.
- [between 1865 and 1880]
- Cherry Creek Tavern
- Interior view of a painting in the Cherry Creek Tavern, a lesbian bar, at 1301 Lawrence Street in the Union Station neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The painting depicts a nude woman reclining. Graffiti is on the ceiling above the painting.
- Cherry Creek Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Union Station (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Oil paintings.; Interiors.; Cherry Creek Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars...
- [1980?]
- General George A. Custer, photo of painting including frame, bust
- Photograph of a painting of General George A. Custer. Painting appears to be based on photograph of Custer taken by Mathew Brady in 1865. Photograph includes frame of painting.
- Military officers--United States.; Military uniforms--United States.; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876.
- [between 1874 and 1934]
- Gunnison Post Office painting
- Interior view of the Gunnison Post Office, Colorado includes: the WPA painting "Wealth of the West," by Ila McAfee Turner. The painting depicts a cattle drive with two cowboys, a miner gold panning in a river as a burro stands by loaded with his...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1940-1950.
- [1980]
- The stable
- A landscape oil painting of a red stable with open doors, grass, trees, fence and sky. The painting is on an unframed rectangular illustration board.
- Meadows--1890-1910.; Stables--1890-1910.; Trees--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Portrait of a girl
- A profile portrait painting of a girl. She has long brown hair with a red and brown bow, a white lace collar and wears a brown dress. The background of the painting is brown. The painting is unframed.
- Girls--1880-1890.
- 1888 June 29
- Field with cattle
- A framed oil painting by Thomas Worthington Whittredge. The image in the painting is of a few cows and a man in a pasture surrounded by autumn trees. The painting is framed in a shadow box type frame that is gilded and gessoed.
- Farms--1820-1910.; Meadows--1820-1910.
- [between 1820 and 1910]
- Fast mail
- An oil painting by Denver, Colorado artist Paul Gregg. It shows a landscape a cowboy riding a horse and an airplane. The colors used in the painting include, blue, gray, yellow, orange, black and brown. This painting was used in The Denver Post.
- Airplanes--1940-1950.; Cowboys--1940-1950.; Horseback riding--1940-1950.
- 1949
- Chief Flat-Iron Sioux
- Reproduction shows a painting (by Joseph H. Sharp, Pine Ridge, South Dakota) of a Native American Sioux man identified as Chief Flat Iron.
- Dakota Indians--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Men--1900-1910.; Clothing & dress--1900-1910.; Headdresses--1900-1910.; Flat Iron.
- [1900?]
- Chief Flat-Iron Sioux
- Reproduction shows a painting (by J. H. Sharp, Pine Ridge, South Dakota) of a Native American Sioux man identified as Chief Flat Iron.
- Dakota Indians--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Men--1900-1910.; Flat Iron.
- [1900?]
- Westward Ho!
- View of a Romantic painting depicting Westward expansion. Shows wagons, pioneers, women in distress, men with guns on horses, and rugged landscape.
- Paintings--1900-1910.; Pioneers--1830-1900.; Westward movement--1830-1900.
- c1904
- Mount of the Holy Cross, Colo.
- Photograph of a Thomas Moran painting, "Mountain of the Holy Cross." Shows Mt. Holy Cross in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, Eagle County, Colorado.
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Holy Cross, Mount of the (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Paintings--1870-1890.; Streams--Colorado--Eagle County--1870-1890.
- [between 1875 and 1890?]
- Central City corner
- Reproduction of a Rebecca Enos oil painting; shows St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the Comstock mine shaft house in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Central City (Colo.)--1940-1960.
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- Hopi Snake Dance, Arizona
- Reproduction of a painting shows a Native American Hopi Pueblo Snake Dance with dancers wearing kilts and body paint, carrying snakes in their mouths and hands, Hopi Mesas, Arizona.
- Hopi Indians--Dance--Arizona--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Arizona--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Arizona--1900-1910.; Snake dance--Arizona--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- Altar at Shumankwi (?)
- Reproduction of a painting depicts a Native American Zuni Pueblo altar with men sitting inside a ceremonial room with ritual objects including pottery, prayer sticks, kachinas, feathers, and projectile points or arrowheads, New Mexico.
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Zuni Indians--Spiritual life--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Zuni (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Kivas--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Rites & ceremonies--New...
- [between 1900 and 1902?]
- Shalako (giant courier gods of the rain makers)
- Reproduction of a painting shows Native American Shalako dancers in 10 foot high costumes of blankets and masks with feathers and their escorts, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--Spiritual life--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Zuni dance--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Zuni Indians--Dance--New Mexico--Zuni--1900-1910.; Zuni (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Ceremonial...
- 1900
- Altman, Colorado
- The painting is a view of Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor, on a saddle between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, Teller County. The town is filled with wood frame residences, log cabins, sheds, false front businesses, smelters, and...
- Altman (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mountains--Colorado--1960-1970.
- [between 1963 and 1970]
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of two watercolors of costumes used in the University of Colorado Operette, Boulder. On the left is a painting of "Ilya" warriors costumes, with Egyptian warriors on steps which rise to the left. The bodies are seen from the front, with...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Boulder (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Costumes--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell,...
- 1932
- Hell Gate on the Colo. Midland Ry.
- Photograph of a painting by an unidentified artist; painting depicts Hell Gate reached via Colorado Midland Railway; double header train pulling around extremely steep canyon bend.
- Canyons--Colorado--1890-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--1890-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway.
- [between 1890 and 1919]
- Mural decoration, side of proscenium arch, Central City Opera House
- A mask lays on a sword, a hatchet, and a ank-shaped object in this painting from the prescenium arch in Central City, Colorado's opera house. A snake-like object winds through the eyes of the mask, and a chain links the sword blade and the hatchet...
- Central City Opera House--1930-1940.; Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors--1930-1940.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- 1937
- Historic Littleton Mills
- Image of a Herndon Davis painting of the Littleton Flour Mills (formerly the Rough and Ready Flour Mill), Littleton, Colorado, shows the four story brick and native stone building with spillway on the South Platte River bank.
- Littleton (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Flour & meal industry--Colorado--Littleton--1940-1950.; Mills--Colorado--Littleton--1940-1950.
- 1940
- Skinner Junior High School
- A photograph of two students painting a mural in the hall of Skinner Junior High School. There is a male student standing on a ladder painting, and a female student kneeling on stool painting. Both students are holding artist pallets and paint...
- Skinner Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; Murals.; Students.
- 1940 March
- Ebert School carousel
- Photograph of four unidentified students painting a life size paper carousel. These students are believe to have been from Ebert Elementary School. Three boys stand along the edges of the carousel painting the fence and walls. A girl stands on a...
- Ebert School (Denver, Colo.); Five Points (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- circa 1930
- Arapahoes Painting Horse
- Studio portrait (sitting) of Painting Horse, a Native American (Arapaho) man. He holds a revolver. He wears a breechcloth, scarves over his braids, and a beaded feather warbonnet headdress.
- Arapaho Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Headdresses.; Painting Horse.
- [between 1884 and 1885]
- Arapahoes Black Coal, Coolidge, and Painting Horse
- Studio portrait (sitting and standing) of Black Coal, Coolidge, and Painting Horse, Native American (Arapaho) men. Black Coal and Painting Horse wear scarves over their braids. Coolidge wears a watch chain.
- Arapaho Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Black Coal.; Coolidge.; Painting Horse.
- [1880-1890]
- Painting murals West High School
- A man and boy pose with a large painting of a cowboy and horse at West High School in Denver, Colorado. The painting is on an easel.
- West High School (Denver, Colo.)--People--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Artists--American--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Murals--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1931 and 1935]
- Charles H. Harmon painting of Georgetown Loop
- Photograph of a painting by Charles H. Harmon; Georgetown Loop, High Bridge and Argentine Central Railway; numerous painted trains on track, some retouched by McClure.
- Railroads--Colorado--1900-1920.; Harmon, Charles H.; Argentine Central Railway Company.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Ciriaco Arellano early immigrant to Colorado and self-taught artist displays two of his paintings.
- Ciriaco Arellano, a Mexican immigrant to Colorado and self tough artist, poses with two of his paintings in probably Denver, Colorado. The painting on the left shows a herd of sheep caught in a blizzard, the one on the right is the Mexican national...
- Hispanic Americans--1930-1940.; Mexican Americans--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Artists.; Paintings.; Arellano, Ciriaco--Pictorial works.; Arellano, Ciriaco.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Mexican American...
- ca.1930
- Landscape painting
- A landscape oil painting by Henrietta Bromwell of a pathway on a mountain; trees and mountains are in the background. The painting is on rectangular paper with blue, green, violet and yellow oil paints.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Art painting knight on horse
- Close-up view of a painting that depicts a lancer on horseback. He holds a shield and lance and wears armor.
- Lancers--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Art painting knight on horse Twenty-ninth Triennial Conclave
- Close-up view of a painting that depicts a lancer on horseback. He holds a lance, shield, and wears armor.
- Lancers--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Photograph of a painting of a horse
- Photograph of a painting, shows a saddled horse near a group of wood buildings.
- Horses--1900-1930.
- [between 1904 and 1925]
- Photo of a painting of a dog
- Photograph of a painting, shows a dog sitting near a wooden doghouse.
- Dogs--1900-1930.
- [between 1904 and 1925]
- Navajo sand painting
- Reproduction of a book illustration of a Native American (Navajo) man at work on a sand painting. The man crouches near a stucco building and a wooden pole fence.
- Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Navajo Indians--Spiritual life--1890-1920.; Sandpaintings--1890-1920.; Shamans--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1908]
- Indian working on sand painting at Santa Fe, New Mexico
- A Native American (Navajo) man works on a sand painting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Spectators look on. The sand painting depicts yei figures.
- Indians of North America--Spiritual life--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1920-1940.; Navajo Indians--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1920-1940.; Santa Fe (N.M.)--1920-1940.; Sandpaintings--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1940]
- General George A. Custer, photo of painting in an album, bust
- Photograph of a painting of General George A. Custer. Painting appears to be based on photograph of Custer taken by Mathew Brady in 1865. Photonegative shows another picture frame in the background and table covering.
- Military officers--United States.; Military uniforms--United States.; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876.
- [between 1874 and 1934]
- Mr. Block is looking at stage
- Image of a painting by Herndon Davis, a Denver artist (1901- 1962), interior of the Apex Miners' Hall, seven miles northwest of Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado; shows Don Block looking at the theater stage with painted backdrop, side draped...
- Apex (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.; States (Platforms)--Colorado--Apex--1940-1950.; Theaters--Colorado--Apex--1940-1950.
- [1946?]
- Littleton Mill - survivor of yesteryear
- This watercolor and gouache painting shows the Littleton Flour Mills (formerly the Rough and Ready Flour Mill), Littleton, Colorado; the four story brick and native stone building has a spillway on the South Platte River bank.
- Littleton Flour Mills (Littleton, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Littleton (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Flour & meal industry--Colorado--Littleton--1940-1950.; Mills--Colorado--Littleton--1940-1950.
- 1940
- Hindry (J.B.) house
- Watercolor painting shows the John B. Hindry residence, 5500 North Washington Street, in Denver, Colorado; features quoins, bay window, portico, and a cornice.
- Hindry, John B.--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- 1940
- Woodbury (Roger Williams) mansion
- This watercolor and graphite painting shows the Roger Williams Woodbury house at West 25th (Twenty-fifth) Avenue and Alcott Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The Queen Anne style house has a covered porch, tower,...
- Woodbury, Roger Williams, 1841-1903--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Jefferson Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- 1940
- Fisher house - survivors of yesteryear
- This watercolor and gouache painting shows the William Garrett Fisher house at 1600 Logan Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The neoclassical style building has columns and a semi-circular portico.
- Fisher, William Garrett, 1844-1897--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- 1940