Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- The Ninomiya family in their barracks room at the Amache Center
- Interior view of the Ninomiya family's barracks at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, southeastern Colorado; shows Tosh Ninomiya at a folding card table reading a newspaper with a pipe in his mouth, Mrs. Ninomiya across the table from him,...
- Ninomiya family--Homes & haunts--1940-1950.; Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention...
- 1942 December 9
- East High spotlight: vol 17 no 7
- Christmas edition of the 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.)
- 1930 December 17
- Co. G 86th Inf. preparing to fire practice round
- Two soldiers on maneuvers, members of Company G of the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, prepare to fire a practice round with 60 mm mortar from Resolution Mountain in Eagle County, Colorado. The men, identified as Thomas Boulson and Howard...
- World War, 1939-1945--American--Military personnel.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mortars (Ordnance)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Colorado--Eagle County--1940-1950.; War games--Colorado--Eagle County--1940-1950.; Boulson, Thomas J.;...
- 1944 April 3
- San Juan and Santa Clara woman preparing chili
- View of a Native American woman (Tewa) crouched, preparing chilis at either San Juan or Santa Clara Pueblo; a wooden pole and possibly ground corn or wheat stand in the corner below a small semi-circular shelf that holds two glass bottles and a...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Pueblo Indians--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Tewa Indians--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Home food processing--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Hot peppers--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- A Century of Baptist Faith: First Baptist Church of Denver
- Book created by the Fist Baptist Church of Denver regarding the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Church. Included in the book is: a history of the church beginning in 1864, as well as photographs and lists of the different...
- Eha, Walter R. (Walter Ralph), 1891-1978--Archives.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)--History.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1963 December
- The Annual: East Denver High School, 1914
- 1914 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1914
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 44, 1911 October 28
- Group of people in a park picnic
- Outdoor portrait of an African-American family preparing for a picnic in a park in Denver, Colorado.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Afro-Americans--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Families--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Picnics--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Ludlow strike
- Wives of the Ludlow coal strikers prepare food for their striking husbands, as the men stand behind them in a kitchen in Ludlow, Colorado in Las Animas County. Loaves of bread, milk, and jam are on the edge of the table.
- Ludlow (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal miners--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Cookery--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Kitchens--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.; Women--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920.
- [1913 or 1914]
- Reconnaissance of Po River from banks near San Benedetto, Italy
- Three Tenth Mountain Division, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Headquarters Company soldiers make a reconnaissance of the Po River at its banks near San Benedetto during the Italian Campaign. The banks of the river are flat. Part...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Po River (Italy)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th.
- April 23, 1945
- Skitroops from Company C line up for Mount Rainier Test Expedition support, Washington
- Skitroops from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced), Company C form a line while holding a rope in a snow covered field on Mount Rainier. According to the photographer, the troops are preparing to support the equipment testing...
- Rainier, Mount (Wash.)--1940-1950.; Ski troops--Washington (State)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- [May 1942]
- Female swimmer prepares to dive
- A woman prepares to dive off the edge of a pier. She wears a swimsuit and has a scarf over her hair. A lifeguard station is at the end of the pier.
- Bathing suits--1920-1940.; Diving--1920-1940.; Piers & wharves--1920-1940.; Women--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1940]
- The Corral at El Tovar Hotel
- Three men preparing to mount horses in corral of El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, Arizona.
- Hotel El Tovar--Facilities--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Canyons--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1900-1910.; Corrals--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1900-1910.; Horses--Arizona--Grand...
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- Star Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, Georgetown, Colo.
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, showing the Star Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, outside the fire house on Sixth (6th, Alpine) Street. The firemen appear to be preparing to take part in a parade; a cart is decorated with American flags. A uniformed man...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.; Fire stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.
- [between 1874 and 1881?]
- Urban renewal 16th St
- View of 16th (Sixteenth) Street at Tremont Place in downtown Denver, Colorado. The street is under construction in preparation for trolley buses. Signs read: "Imperial Pharmacy Drugs," "Haanstad's," and "McMeen's Candies."
- Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Road construction--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Urban renewal--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- 1940
- Georgetown, Colorado
- A view of a parade on Monday, July 5, 1897, in Georgetown, Colorado, looking east on Sixth (Alpine) Street at the corner of 6th and Argentine Streets. The Empire Hook and Ladder team is in the distance, preparing to pull their hose cart west on...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Sioux Indian camp, Mission South Dakota
- A Native American Sioux woman sits outside a canvas wall tent preparing a piece of meat for drying, Mission, South Dakota. Two pieces of meat dry on a line; children show inside the tent.
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Mission (S.D.)--1930-1940.; Children--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Food drying--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Home food...
- [1936?]
- Sioux Indian camp, Mission South Dakota
- A Native American Sioux woman sits outside a canvas wall tent preparing a piece of meat for drying, Mission, South Dakota. Two pieces of meat dry on a line; children show inside the tent.
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Mission (S.D.)--1930-1940.; Children--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Food drying--South Dakota--Mission--1930-1940.; Home food...
- [1936?]
- Potawattomie [i. e. Potawatomi] dice game Potawattomie [i. e. Potawatomi] reservation near Mayetta, Kan.
- Mrs. William Wapp, Mrs. Josey McKenney (Kit-tas), and Mrs. Rosan Potts (Ke-o-ko-mo-quah), Native American (Potawatomi, Prairie Band) women, play a dice game near a bark shelter on a reservation near Mayetta, Kansas. The women sit in a circle around...
- Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians--People--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indians--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mayetta (Kan.)--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indian Reservation (Kan.)--1930-1940.;...
- May, 1936
- 4th of July 100 yard dash, 1911
- View of a line of people at the end of the street preparing to run the one hundred yard dash on unpaved Hyman Avenue in Aspen, Colorado; shows two story commercial storefronts on both sides of the street and telephone poles and lines; Smuggler...
- Aspen (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Racing--Colorado--Aspen--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Aspen--1910-1920.
- [1911]
- The escape of the Cheyenne from the prison at Fort Robinson - incidents of their pursuit and massacre
- A series of drawings shows: 1) Native Americans (Cheyenne) preparing for battle, 2) their escape from Fort Robinson, and 3) the engagement of Captain Wessels. Headings for each of the three drawings read: "The imprisoned Cheyenne fortifying their...
- Cheyenne Indians--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Escapes--1870-1880.
- [between 1940 and 1970?]
- Cabin interior, Gore Range, "Our breakfast on top"
- Interior view of a miner's cabin in the Gore Range, Colorado, shows three men preparing to eat their breakfast. One man stands at a wood burning stove and tends his food while two others sit at a table eating. Cans of "Java" are on the table.
- Cookery--Colorado--1880-1900.; Eating & drinking--Colorado--1880-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Miners at work
- Nine hard rock miners and one mine supervisor working underground preparing blasting holes with rock hammers and chisels; area appears to be lit by candles on miners' hats and on tunnel walls.
- Mining--Colorado--1900.; Mining--Colorado.
- [ca.1900]
- D&RGW train (Narrow Gauge), engine number 487, engine type 2-8-2 and engine number 483, engine type 2-8-2
- Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion; 11 cars. Photographed: preparing to leave Chama, N.M., for Cumbres, Colo., May 30, 1966.
- Locomotives--1960-1970.; Railroads--Trains--Pictorial works--1966.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad locomotives--New Mexico--Chama.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway Company.; Railroads, Narrow-gage.
- 1966
- MT train, engine number 61, engine type 2-8-2
- Westbound freight train. Photographed: preparing to leave Colorado City, Colo., May 28, 1941.
- Locomotives--1940-1950.; Railroads--Trains--Pictorial works--1941.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Colorado City.; Midland Terminal Railway.
- 1941
- Durango, Colo.
- View looking down on Durango, Colorado, in La Plata County; shows spectators on boardwalk watching workers dig into the ground to install a cistern, wagons and other machinery around hole, and commercial storefronts along Main Street.
- Durango (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cisterns--Colorado--Durango--1880-1890.
- 1881
- Construction site of Swedish Hospital
- Construction workers position a steel girder near a house they are preparing to remove from the construction site of Swedish Hospital (Swedish Medical Center) in Englewood (Arapahoe County), Colorado. One man controls a winch that lowers the beam....
- Swedish Hospital (Englewood, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Building sites--Colorado--Englewood--1960-1970.; Englewood (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Construction workers--Colorado--Englewood--1960-1970.; Girders--Colorado--Englewood--1960-1970.; Hoisting...
- [between 1960 and 1963?]
- Group of Indians standing in straight row, full length
- Group of Native American Dakota males in loin cloths, straps of bells, moccasins, and feathers in hair preparing to dance; probably Standing Rock Agency, Dakota Territory, possibly ration day when Native Americans would stay several days to feast...
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Dance--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- Soldiers with mules in the Italian hills
- Shows sixteen mules with roughly twice as many Tenth Mountain Division soldiers either resting or preparing for the next advance during the Italian Campaign. Hills are covered with leafless trees.
- Mules--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- [1945]
- Eating while listening for German artillery
- Two GIs eat rations from their mess kits around a jeep. One sits in the passenger seat using the hood as a table while the other stands behind him using a small bench at the rear of the jeep to hold his plate and cup. They eat among the rubble of a...
- Pietra Colora (Italy)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Italy--1940-1950.; War damage--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--Italy.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- 1945
- WPA workers in Coal Creek Canyon
- Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers in overalls or jeans, gloves, and hats hold shovels and walk in the flood damaged creek bed in Coal Creek Canyon (Jefferson County), Colorado. Shows flood debris, sand and the eroded edges of Coal Creek.
- United States. Works Progress Administration of Colorado--1930-1940.; Coal Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Floods--Colorado--Jefferson County--1930-1940.; Laborers--Colorado--Jefferson County--1930-1940.;...
- 1938 Sept. 6
- RGS narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 461, engine type 2-8-2
- Three-quarter view of left side of engine, from front end; preparing to set out two boxcars; snow. Photographed: Placerville, Colorado, November 19, 1951.
- Railroads--Trains--Colorado--Placerville--1950-1960.; Placerville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Placerville--1950-1960.; Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
- 1951
- RGS narrow gauge locomotive, engine number 461, engine type 2-8-2
- Three-quarter view of left side of engine, from front end; preparing to set out two boxcars; snow. Photographed: Placerville, Colorado, November 19, 1951.
- Railroads--Trains--Colorado--Placerville--1950-1960.; Placerville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Placerville--1950-1960.; Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
- 1951
- Gathering for the twilight race
- A group of unidentified Native Americans on horseback is gathered on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, possibly preparing for a twilight race. Many of the men wear wide-brimmed hats. Several men standing on the ground hold...
- Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Montana--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1907?]
- Rendezvous - Indians and trappers, upper Green River, Wyo.
- View of a rendezvous near the Green River in Sublette County, Wyoming. Shows mountain men (trappers) and North American Indians, on horseback and on foot, near groups of tepees located along the river. A horse pulls a travois near a group of Indian...
- Indians of North America--Wyoming--Sublette County--1820-1840.; Green River (Wyo.-Utah)--1820-1840.; Sublette County (Wyo.)--1820-1840.; Wind River Range (Wyo.)--1820-1840.; Fur trade--Wyoming--Sublette County--1820-1840.; Indian...
- [between 1932 and 1938?]
- War dance
- A large group of Native Americans is gathered in a dirt arena for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Earl's Court in England, possibly preparing to reenact a war dance. Several people in the right midground work to set up a teepee. Another teepee is...
- Indians of North America--Dance--1890-1920.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Tipis.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- South High School Girls Home Economics Class
- Students in an all girl Home Economics class sitting at table set for a meal and preparing meals at individual stoves at South High School in Denver, Colorado.
- Cooking, American.; South High School (Denver, Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- undated
- South High School Boys Home Economics Class
- Students from an all boy Home Economics class work on preparing food at South High School in Denver, Colorado.
- Cooking, American.; South High School (Denver, Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- undated
- Denver Neighborhood History Project, 1993-94: Five Points Neighborhood
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 7, 1912 February 17
- The City of Denver: Volume 3 Number 1, 1914 November 14
- The City of Denver: Volume 2 Number 5, 1913 December 13
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 44, 1909 December 18
- Municipal Facts: Volume 10 Numbers 7 and 8, 1927 July-August
- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 18, 1913 June 28
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 5, 1910 January 29
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 11, 1910 March 12
- 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment re-enforced, Company C preparing to support the Mount Rainier Test Expedition, Paradise, Washington
- Men from 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced), Company C line up beside their skis as they prepare to support the Mount Rainier Test Expedition. Behind them is Paradise Lodge, obscured by tremendous snow drifts.
- Ski troops--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Skiing--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain...
- Spring 1942
- East Denver High School Annual: 1909
- 1909 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1909
- Annual: East Denver High School, 1917
- 1917 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1917