Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- 12th Ave. and Grant
- View of the home of Samuel B. Morgan located at 1200 Grant Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The house is constructed of cut sandstone and features porches, a turret, rounded arch windows, and transom windows.
- Morgan, Samuel B.--Homes & haunts.; Capital Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1900?]
- 16th St. from Arapahoe, Denver
- Busy daytime view of 16th (Sixteenth) Street from Araphoe Street, Denver, Colorado; shows incomplete view of Daniels & Fisher tower possibly under last stages of construction, Whitney-Steen Company (engineers, contractors, builders) sign attached...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [1911?]
- 16th Street illumination
- Night time view of 16th (Sixteenth) Street, Denver, Colorado; illuminated signs include A.T. Lewis and Son Dry Goods (800 to 818 16th and corner of Stout), Joslin Dry Goods Company (16th and southwest corner of Curtis), the May Shoe and Clothing...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [1913?]
- 16th, Denver
- Bird's eye view northwest on 16th (Sixteenth) Street, Denver, Colorado; Kittridge building, Equitable building, steel frame for building under construction; numerous businesses including Carter Brothers Hardware (James S. & Oscar E., 301-303 16th),...
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; City & town life--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1909 or 1910]
- 17th Street, Denver
- View southeast at Tremont Street and Seventeenth Street to Brown Palace Hotel (1892); "The Albet Sechrist Mfg. Co." show rooms on left; sign for "factory 1717 Logan", lamps in showroom windows with signs for "Electro Plating", "Electric repair",...
- Brown Palace Hotel (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- 1916
- 2 views of Acoma mission
- of grass are in the foreground. Standing on top of a large mesa, the mission is thought to have been built between 1629 and 1641 by Fray Juan Ramirez.; The Pueblo Acoma Mission and convent in New Mexico is flat-roofed as shown in this photo of a...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Pueblo Indians--1910-1930.; Acoma (N.M.)--1910-1930.; Missions--1910-1930.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Ruins--New Mexico--1910-1930.
- [between 1915 and 1926?]
- 600 acres of Colorado wheat
- Colorado Front Range wheat field, possibly in the South Platte Valley.
- Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.; Wheat--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1930]
- 65 acre potatoe [sic] patch, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View of rows of potato plants in cultivated agricultural field measuring 65 acres near Carbondale, Colorado reached via Colorado Midland Railway.
- Carbondale (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.; Potatoes--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway Company.
- [between 1900 and 1919]
- [Marshall] Pass, West Side
- View of a Denver and Rio Grand Railway freight train on Marshall Pass, Saguache County, Colorado. Men stand on the locomotive and sit on boxcars. Shows loose railroad ties near the tracks, clear-cut trees and dense forests.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Marshall Pass (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Saguache County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Saguache County--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Saguache County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1886?]
- [Pike's P]eak from near Colorado City
- View of trees beside Fountain Creek near Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Snow covered Pikes Peak is in the distance.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Fountain Creek (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Streams--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- "Par-Ben-Nah," Wild Flower
- View of Par-Ben-Nah, a young Pueblo Native American woman from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; subject descends a ladder holding a basket; adobe wall of pueblo in background.
- Taos Pueblo(N.M.)--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Women--1900-1910.; Pueblos--New Mexico--Taos Pueblo--1900-1910.; Par-Ben-Nah.
- c1908
- "Phantom Curve" D. & R.G.R.W.
- Panoramic, aerial view of a Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company tracks at what is identified as "phantom curve" in Conejos County, Colorado. Shows railroad grades on hillsides, patches of snow, trees and rock formations. Probably a passenger rail...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Conejos County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Conejos County--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1886?]
- "The Loop" above Georgetown, Colo.
- View of the Georgetown Loop above Georgetown (Clear Creek County) Colorado. Shows a Colorado and Southern Railway train on a trestle and Clear Creek in a valley.
- Colorado and Southern Railway--1900-1920.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Railroads--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.; Trestles--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1910.
- [between 1896 and 1910?]
- A bunch of grapes
- Close-up view of one bunch of grapes & stem, studio portrait with white background.
- Grapes--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- A busy day in the Glenwood pool, Colo. Midland Ry.
- Hot Springs Hotel, bathhouse and swimming pool, Glenwood Springs, Colorado reached via Colorado Midland Railway; primarily outdoor pool area with numerous swimmers, backside of bathhouse and hotel; valley ridge, background.
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1920.; Springs--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1920.; Swimming pools--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway.
- [between 1893 and 1919]
- A circus scene
- A man at the Flower (or Sunflower) Carnival, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, wears a dress, wig and crown, and stands atop burros. Tents fill the background.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Circuses & shows--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Clowns--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Cross dressing--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Donkeys--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.;...
- [between 1893 and 1906]
- A Colo. irrigation reservoir
- View of De Weese Reservoir in Custer County, Colorado; shows three people in foreground, dam at right, reservoir at mid-ground, and snowy peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Range in background.
- De Weese Reservoir (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Sangre De Cristo Range (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Irrigation--Colorado--Custer County--1900-1920.; Reservoirs--Colorado--Custer County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- A Colo. oat field
- View of an oat field east of Golden, Colorado; shows stacks of harvested grain, farm buildings, North and South Table Mountains, and Mount Evans.
- Croplands--Colorado--Golden--1910-1930.; Oats--Colorado--Golden--1910-1930.
- [between 1919 and 1923?]
- A Colorado irrigation ditch
- View of an irrigation ditch on farmland near the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado; two men stand on cement embankment next to sluice; mountains in distance.
- Agriculture--Colorado--1900-1920.; Irrigation--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- A Colorado potatoe [sic] field, Colo. Midland Ry.
- Large field of potato plants in Roaring Fork River valley near Carbondale, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows horse- drawn wagon parked near potato field, small irrigation ditch channeling water, and horseback rider in field.
- Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Roaring Fork River Valley (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Farming--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Farms--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- A Colorado wheat field
- Colorado wheat field, South Platte Valley; view across plains northwest to foothills and Longs Peak; shows sheaves of grain (shocked), threshing machine, and horse-drawn wagon loaded with sheaves.
- Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.; Wheat--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1930]
- A garden in Pasadena, Cal.
- View of a garden in Pasadena (Los Angeles County), California. Shows a dirt road lined with palm plants, trees and bushes.
- Pasadena (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Gardens--California--Pasadena--1880-1900.; Palms--California--Pasadena--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- A glimpse of Colo. Springs from the Short Line Tracks
- Distant view of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Plains taken from Cripple Creek Short Line; standard gauge track and push car used by L.C. McClure in foreground; Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Plains--Colorado--1900-1920.; Railroad handcars--Colorado--1900-1920.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--1900-1920.; Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- A Roarnig [sic] Fork Valley agricultural scene, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View across Roaring Fork River valley north of Carbondale, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows agricultural fields, pastures, Roaring Fork River, railroad box car, and barbed wire fence, foreground.
- Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Roaring Fork River Valley (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Barbed wire--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Croplands--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Fences--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Railroad...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- A summer camp
- Camping in the mountains of Colorado; shows large canvas tent supported by posts with awnings over front entrance and providing protection for tables with pots, pans and buckets. Three women appear under the front awning; entrance to tent is...
- Camping--Colorado--1890-1910.; Tents--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- A summer camp in Colorado
- Camp scene somewhere in Colorado amidst pine & aspen grove; large canvas tent supported by wooden posts open to front with awning extended to include "front porch", lean-to attached to side, stacked rocks framing front wall; three women inside...
- Camping--Colorado--1890-1910.; Tents--Colorado--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- A summer camp in the Rocky Mtns.
- View of a campsite in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado; large canvas tent is supported by wooden posts with awning extended over front door to make a "covered porch;" three women sit underneath awning (one weaves reed or cane, one reads, one...
- Camping--Colorado--1900-1910.; Camps--Colorado--1900-1910.; Tents--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [1905]
- A threshing scene in Colorado
- Threshing machinery and equipment in an agricultural field possibly in northeastern Colorado; horse-drawn wagon with load of cut grain, steam-powered thresher, men operating machinery, sacks of grain stacked aside.
- Carts & wagons--Colorado--1900-1910.; Threshing machines--Colorado--1900-1910.; Threshing--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- A vista of Mt. Sopris, Colo. Midland Ry.
- Mount Sopris, elevation 12,823, northwest outpost of Elks Range of Rocky Mountains near Glenwood Springs and Carbondale, Colorado reached via Colorado Midland Railway; dirt road, foreground; snow covered peak framed by trees; Roaring Fork River...
- Sopris, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Mountains--Colorado--1890-1920.; Roads--Colorado--1890-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway.
- [between 1890 and 1919]
- A. M. Stevenson
- Studio portrait, head and shoulders, of Archibald McNichol Stevenson, Denver lawyer and politician; Colorado state senator from Pitkin (1887-91); arrived in Colorado 1880.
- Lawyers--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Politicians--Colorado--Denver--1880-1900.; Stevenson, Archibald McNichol, 1858-1922.
- [between 1886 and 1901]
- A.E. Sheible, Jimmy Thomas, Joe Hart
- Albert E. Scheibel, secretary for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, stands with Jimmy Thomas and Joe Hart in the bleachers of a grandstand for the show at Earl's Court in England. Thomas rests his foot on a bleacher next to a basket with a sign...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Grandstands--1890-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Hart, Joe.; Scheibel, Albert.; Thomas, Jimmy.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1892?]
- Acoma, N.M.
- View of dirt and rock street, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico; shows two-story pueblo walls constructed of adobe and rock, log ladders extending to second stories, two burros standing next to bundled firewood stacked by beehive oven, and meat or venison...
- Acoma (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Pueblos--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Streets--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Across the gorge - Platte Canon near Deansbury
- A Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad bridge spans the Platte River in the Platte Canyon, Douglas County, Colorado.
- Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company--1880-1900.; Douglas County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Platte Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1900.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1880-1900.; Canyons--Colorado--Douglas County--1880-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1884 and 1900?]
- Across the gorge - Platte Canon near Deansbury
- A Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company bridge spans the South Platte River near Deansbury in the Platte Canyon, Douglas County, Colorado. Shows high canyon walls and trees.
- Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Douglas County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Platte Canyon (Colo.)--1880-1890.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--Douglas County--1880-1890.; Railroad...
- [between 1881 and 1885?]
- Adams Falls, Grand Lake
- Adams Falls (or possibly Ouzel Falls named by Enos Mills after Ouzel bird or "water dipper"), Grand Lake, Colorado; shows rocky and narrow cascading waterfall. The Falls was reached via Moffat Road, Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway (later...
- Adams Falls (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Grand Lake (Colo.)--1900-1920.
- [between 1905 and 1920]
- Adele Voughle cowgirl
- Studio portrait of a woman in cowpuncher's costume; outfit includes woolies (chaps), a bull whip, pistol, bandana, bridle, and wide brimmed hat with Montana peak.
- Clothing & dress--1880-1900.; Cowgirls--1880-1900.; Women--1880-1900.; Voughle, Adele.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Adelle Underwood Dean M. City Ind
- Studio portrait (sitting) of Adelle Underwood Dean of Michigan City, Indiana. She wears a lace collar and brooch.
- Dean, Adelle Underwood.; Women--1850-1870.
- [between 1854 and 1865]
- Aerial view of Trinidad
- Aerial view of Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows homes, commercial buildings, and churches.
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Trinidad--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920?]
- Agricultural scene on the Colo. Midland Ry.
- Colorado Midland Railway standard gauge tracks rounding bend in cultivated valley; agricultural horse-drawn wagon bringing in harvest, left foreground; fields are cut and bundled in stacks or piles.
- Carts & wagons--Colorado--1890-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--1890-1920.; Valleys--Colorado--1890-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway.
- [between 1890 and 1919]
- Ah-Ne-Pitch, Tom-as Cita, Ma-rez
- Full-length, seated studio portrait of a Ute Native American family; from left to right: wife--Ah-Ne-Pitch, baby--Tom-As Cita, and husband--Ma-Rez; the baby is in a cradleboard.
- Indians of North America--Portraits--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Children--1890-1900.; Ah-ne-pitch.; Ma-rez, Ute Indian.; Tomas-cita.
- c1899
- Alamosa, Colo., S.E.Cor. 6th & Hunt
- The first general store and outfit station along the new Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tracks at South 6th (Sixth) Street in Alamosa, Colorado. Two false fronts have large painted block letter signs: "Field & Hill, Schuttler Wagons" and "Field &...
- Broadwell House (Alamosa, Colo.)--1900-1950.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1900-1950.; General stores--Colorado--Alamosa--1900-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Alamosa--1900-1950.
- [between 1907 and 1941]
- Alfalfa and wheat
- Colorado Front Range alfalfa field, possibly in the South Platte Valley; shows field of cut alfalfa, ranch with frame gable house, wagons, sheds, planted tree windbreaks, haystacks, and cut and shieved wheat piles in background.
- Alfalfa--Colorado--1920-1930.; Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1930]
- Alfalfa stacks Sweet Ranch Carbondale Dist, Colo. Midland Ry
- View of alfalfa stacks with stacking pole in fenced field in Carbondale, Colorado; at left is horse-drawn wagon with driver and two people on horseback; Mount Sopris in background.
- Carbondale (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Sopris, Mount (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Alfalfa--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.; Harvesting--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1919]
- Alfalfa
- Colorado Front Range alfalfa field, in the South Platte Valley; shows man in derby hat next to a waist high pile and haystacks in distance.
- Alfalfa--Colorado--1920-1930.; Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1930]
- Alfalfa
- Colorado Front Range alfalfa field, possibly in the South Platte Valley; shows large hay stacks in field of cut alfalfa in piles and frame gable house with tree windbreak.
- Alfalfa--Colorado--1920-1930.; Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1930]
- Alfalfa
- Colorado Front Range alfalfa field, possibly in the South Platte Valley; shows two men standing in alfalfa and large hay stacks.
- Alfalfa--Colorado--1920-1930.; Croplands--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [between 1925 and 1930]
- Alice (Rio Grande County), Glory hole
- View shows dilapidated buildings and tailings piles from the Glory Hole mine, Alice (Rio Grande County), Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--1940-1960.; Mining--Colorado--1940-1960.
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- Alice, view looking southwest
- Southwest across Alice, in Clear Creek County, Colorado is one of the largest mining camps in the Fall River valley below Saint (St.) Mary's Glacier, settled in the early 1880s. Widely scattered ruins of the small boom town include mines and...
- Alice (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Alice--1910-1920.
- 1911
- Allenspark citizens at Clara Belle mine while it was still in operation
- A group of Allenspark citizens pose around an ore cart on a cable at Clara Belle mine, eight miles north of Ward, in Boulder County, Colorado. The group includes young boys and one small girl, women in long skirts and bonnets, and men in white...
- Allenspark (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Allenspark--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900]
- Alpine Station
- View of the Alpine railroad station, Alpine, Chaffee County, Colorado, a combination frame depot, freight room and living quarters with a large group of men on the wooden plank depot platform with piles of bundled canvas sacks; shows Denver South...
- Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railway Company--1880-1890.; Alpine (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Alpine--1880-1890.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Alpine--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Alpine--1880-1890.
- [1882]