Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Black Hawk - 1941
- View of rock walls and residences in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows two rows of houses on a hillside. The front row has two houses of carpenter Gothic style, L shape, and open porches. Telephone poles and wires are between the houses and the second...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Retaining walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Stone walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Boring a well in street intersection, Blanca, Colo.
- Men drill into the ground to make a well in the center of an intersection in Blanca, Colorado (Costilla County). A stepladder forms an angle over the well site; machinery is next to the well, near rows of pipe. Several men work around the machinery...
- Blanca (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Blanca--1900-1910.; Wells--Colorado--Blanca--1900-1910.
- April, 1909
- Boulder Wolle residence
- Interior view of the Muriel Sibell Wolle home, Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado; shows chairs, couches, Native American rugs, and bookshelves stuffed with notebooks. Rows of string display greeting cards.
- Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977--Homes & haunts.; Boulder (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Interiors--Colorado--Boulder--1950-1970.; Living rooms--Colorado--Boulder--1950-1970.
- [between 1950 and 1970]
- Boys in Las Vegas, New Mexico
- A group of unidentified, young boys stands in a line in front of a stone building in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The boys all wear short coats and hats. Rocks are placed in two rows to form a makeshift path in front of the group.
- Las Vegas, (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Boys--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Buildings--New Mexico--Las Vegas--1900-1910.; Coats--1900-1910.; Hats--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Boys of Class 9 A at Grant Junior High School
- Boys of Class 9 A at Grant Junior High School in Denver, Colorado. Four rows of boys are lined up for a class photograph.
- Grant Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- 1950
- Boys' Glee Club - Senior High School, Durango, Colorado
- Members of the Boys' Glee Club from Durango High School in La Plata County, Colorado, stand in rows on the steps outside of a building with paneled doors. The boys wear suits and ties.
- Durango (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Choirs (Music)--Colorado--Durango--1930-1940.; Students--Colorado--Durango--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Brief histories of the Denver Public Schools
- Compiled for the administrative offices of the Denver Public Schools, this book contains brief histories for the majority of the Public Schools in Denver, Colorado up to they year 1952.
- Denver Public Schools--History.
- 1952
- Buchtel Boulevard
- Buchtel House
- Buffalo hide, worked with quills, Piegan Indians
- View of a painted and quill-worked buffalo hide created by Native Americans of the Piegan (Blackfoot) tribe, specimen no. IV-B 206, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin, Germany. It has four rows of banded quill work above other, possibly unfinished,...
- Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Germany)--Exhibitions & displays--1900-1920.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1900-1920.; Leather painting--1900-1920.; Piegan Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1920.; Hides & skins--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- C. C. H. S. foot-ball team
- Cripple Creek High School football team of 1910 at Union Park, Cripple Creek, Colorado; two rows of young male football players with sweaters, knickers, cloth-padded helmet, lace-up boots, shin pads or thick wool socks, and turtleneck sweaters or...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Football players--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.
- 1910
- Cabbage patch
- Rows of cabbage plants in agricultural field, somewhere in Colorado, possibly Westlake (or West Lake) Ranch, Larimer County, or Eastern Colorado.
- Larimer County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Agriculture--Colorado--Larimer County--1900-1910.; Cabbage--Colorado--Larimer County--1900-1910.; Croplands--Colorado--Larimer County--1900-1910.
- [1909?]
- Calisthenics
- One African-American (Black) girl and white girls and boys stand beside desks and touch their hands to their shoulders in a classroom in Gilpin School at 29th (Twenty-ninth) and Stout Streets in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado....
- Gilpin School (Denver, Colo.)--People--1900-1910.; African Americans--Education--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Children exercising--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.;...
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. J. B. Morford 1869, J. B. Morford 1869, Mrs. Rudolph Jeske 1864, Rudolph Jeske 1864, Mrs. Jones Moore...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. Julia Mack 1875, Henry Mack 1875, Mrs. A. D. Cooper 1872, A. D. Cooper 1872, Mrs. E. B. Alling 1875, E....
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. W. A. Watson 1865, W. A. Watson 1865, Mrs. W. C. Catlin 1860, W. C. Catlin 1860, Mrs. T. S. Lowther 1876,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. L. E. Eldred 1873, L. E. Eldred 1873, Mrs. A. W. Lucas 1868, A. W. Lucas 1868, Mrs. Felix Topain 1865,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. Geo. McRay 1875, Geo. McRay 1875, Mrs. F. H. Bengley 1860, F. H. Bengley 1860, Mrs. J. A. Adams 1864, J....
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: W. B. Felton 1869, D. J. Houston 1868, Sam Shepard 1875, Thos. Thornton, Jesse R. Wright, Dr. T. D. Palmer,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. Henry Sartor 1873, Henry Sartor 1873, Mrs. G. B. Harvey 1859, G. B. Harvey 1859, Mrs. B. F. Rockafellow...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. W. H. McClure 1864, W. H. Mclure 1864, Mrs. Ben Shaefer, Ben Shaefer, Mrs. George R. Shaeffer 1878,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Thos. Pennington, Louis Hemmerle 1874, L. J. Hyde, D. A. Bradbury 1873, Mrs. Truman Blancett, Truman Blancett,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. L. L. Harding 1878, L L Harding 1878, Mrs. T. M. Harding 1878, T. M. Harding 1875, Mrs. C. E. Waldo,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: RIGHT to LEFT: Mrs. Thos. Prescott, Thos. Prescott, Mrs. Geo. Rouse, George Rouse, Mrs. J. S. Bowlby 1878, J. S. Bowlby 1878,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Hugh D. Connor, J. E. Brown 1881, Mrs. A. Flornoy, A. Flornoy, Mrs. Jas. Pennington 1881, Jas. Pennington...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. A. Sartor - 1864, Alex Curtis, Peter Mulock, E.A. Dowd, Geo. W. Roe, J.W. Milsom, Fred Kober, Adam...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. M. D. Swisher 1860, M. D. Swisher 1860, Mrs. Wm. Sheperd 1868, Wm. Sheperd 1868, Mrs. W. R. Fowler 1860,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Mrs. Geo. D Sowers, Geo. D. Sowers, Mrs. J.B. Self, Rev. J.B. Self, Mrs. Lyman Robison 1880, Lyman Robison...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Came to Canon City
- Eighteen studio portraits from Canon City, Colorado, are montaged in rows and identified with dates of arrival as follows: left to right: Tom Johnson 1864, Mrs. Colonel Johnson 1864, Elisha Fassett 1870, Mrs. Lewis Jones 1864, Lewis Jones 1864,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Camp Bird mine, dining room
- Camp Bird dining hall interior, Camp Bird, Ouray County, Colorado; rows of tables, with benches and chairs, are set with dinnerware (plates, cups, and saucers).
- Camp Bird (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Camp Bird Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Dining rooms--Colorado--Camp Bird--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Camp Bird--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Camp Bird--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Camp Goldfield, N.G.C., Cripple Creek District
- View of "Camp Goldfield," headquarters of the Colorado National Guard during the Western Federation of Miners labor strike. Shows rows of tents, mine buildings, probably Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad cars and a trestle, smokestacks, and the...
- Colorado. National Guard--Structures--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Military camps--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.;...
- 1903
- Camp of Colo. State Militia, Bull Hill, Colo. [?] 12 [?]
- Panoramic view, probably during a mining labor strike, of frame buildings in the town of Altman (Teller County), Colorado and tents in rows at a military encampment in a nearby meadow. A flagpole with an American flag is near tents, and soldiers in...
- Altman (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.; Military camps--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.; Militias--Colorado--Altman--1890-1900.
- [1894]
- Camp Weld Council, Denver
- Group portrait of the Camp Weld Council, Denver, Colorado, shows white and Native American men arranged in three rows. Identification: "Standing (back row) l. to rt.: 1. unidentified, 2. unidentified, 3. John Simpson Smith, interpreter, 4. White...
- Arapaho Indians--1860-1870.; Cheyenne Indians--1860-1870.; Indians of North America--1860-1870.; Organizations--1860-1870.
- September 28, 1864
- Campement de Chug-Creek (16 novembre 1867), sur la route du fort Laramie a Chayennes
- A military encampment on Chug Creek, near Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Tents and wagons are lined up in rows; people and horsemen mill about.
- Indians of North America--Government relations--1860-1870.; Military camps--1860-1870.
- 1868
- Capital Prize Mill, Georgetown, Colo.
- Rows of pipe and wheel valves inside the Capital Prize Tunnel and mill in Georgetown, Clear Creek County, Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1910.; Capital Prize Tunnel (Georgetown, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Georgetown--1900-1910.;...
- [1900?]
- Capitol Hill neighborhood: prepared by R. Laurie Simmons and Thomas H. Simmons
- Cathedral in Santa Fe
- steeple on each tower. (The steeples were never built.) A large, round, stained-glass window stands between the two towers.; Two men walk on the sidewalk in front of the St. Francis Cathedral on Cathedral Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Trees with...
- Cathedral of San Francisco de Asis (Santa Fe, N.M.)--1900-1920.; Santa Fe (N.M.)--1900-1920.; Cathedrals--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.; Men--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.; Streets--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1911?]
- Cemetery, Colorado Heights University
- View of the private cemetery that contains the graves of the founding Sisters of Loretto at what used to be Loretto Heights College on the Colorado Heights University campus at 3001 South Federal Boulevard in Denver Colorado. Rows of gravestones...
- Bonfils, Pancratia, Mother, 1851-1916--Tomb--2010-2020.; Sisters of Loretto--Tomb--2010-2020.; Colorado Heights University--2010-2020.; Denver (Colo.)--2010-2020. .; Cemeteries.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments.; Bonfils,...
- 2010
- Central City
- Exterior of a two-story brick, flat-roofed building, the lower part of which is not completely visible in Central City, Colorado. Its distinguishing features include, arched windows, stone window sills, an arched doorway, embellishments between the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- 1938
- Central City 1890s. Funeral procession
- A long funeral procession led by a band walks down Main Street in Central City, Colorado, probably during the 1890s, possibly for Sheriff R. B. Williams who was fatally shot by Samuel Covington, a quartz hauler from Nevadaville, in April of 1896....
- Horse-drawn vehicles--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Sheriffs--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bands--1890-1900.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Funeral...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Central City Catholic choir annual picnic
- The men and women of the Central City Catholic Choir sit in four rows and pose for a photo in front of an evergreen forest in Colorado. The women wear long dresses and large hats. The men wear dark suits and hats. A hill covered with trees is in...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Choirs (Music)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Central City Opera House interior
- View, from the stage, of the seating section of the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Rows of wooden chairs with arched backs and spindles are in three sections, with two aisles running from stage to lobby. Exit doors are on...
- Central City Opera House--1930-1950.; Central City (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Interiors--1930-1950.; Opera houses--Colorado--Central City--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950]
- Ceremonies marking completion of paving of Frederick, Colo's entire 4 1/2 mile street system
- Long shadows are cast by rows of chairs set up in an intersection to celebrate the paving of the entire four and one-half mile street system in Frederick, Colorado. Scene includes people seated and standing, a woman near the microphone on a table...
- Frederick (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Business districts--Colorado--Frederick--1960-1970.; Celebrations--Colorado--Frederick--1960-1970.; Streets--Colorado--Frederick--1960-1970.
- October 2, 1966
- Chairs used in Clear Creek County Courthouse
- View of twelve elaborately decorated rocking chairs lined up in two rows of six, the chairs used for jurors at the Clear Creek County Court House in Georgetown, Colorado. The chairs sit in a brightly illuminated room with concrete block walls and a...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1950-1980.; Chairs--Colorado--Georgetown--1950-1980.; Courthouses--Colorado--Georgetown--1950-1980.; Interiors.
- [between 1950 and 1980?]
- Cherry Creek Tavern
- View of the back bar of the Cherry Creek Tavern, a lesbian bar at 1301 Lawrence Street in the Union Station neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The bar has a red flocked wall-paper behind rows of liquor bottles. A red, white, and green paper garland...
- Cherry Creek Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Union Station neighborhood (Denver, Colo.); Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Bars (Furniture).; Interiors.; Cherry Creek Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars...
- [1980?]
- Chief's robe, Minitari indians.
- Native American (Hidatsa) painted bison hide shows: battle episodes in two rows of hunters on horseback with spears or bows and arrows and shields; some with long scarfs. Collected by Maximilian Prince of Wied from the upper Missouri riverbanks...
- Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867--Associated objects.; Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Germany)--Exhibitions & displays--1900-1910.; Hidatsa Indians--Arts & crafts--1840-1850.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1840-1850.; Leather...
- [1900?]
- Christmas pageant at Boyd School, 1941
- A group of children performs a Christmas pageant on the stage of Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado. Children in the center wear a uniform of pants, jackets and hats with round brims. They hold flashlights and stand on risers with one child in the...
- Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Christmas decorations--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Pageants--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Schools--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Christmas pageant at Boyd, 1941
- A group of children performs a Christmas pageant on the stage of Boyd School in Alamosa, Colorado. Children in the center wear a uniform of pants, jackets and hats with round brims. They stand on risers with one child in the top row, and rows...
- Alamosa (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Christmas decorations--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Pageants--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.; Schools--Colorado--Alamosa--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Circus tent interior
- Interior view of a Sells Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show tent. A woman in a dress stands beside a child, a man poses on a stage prop, and probably a boy stands on a pedestal on the far side of a circus ring. The tent is supported by...
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company--Facilities--1910-1920.; Sells Floto Circus--Facilities--1910-1920.; Interiors--1910-1920.; Show tents--1910-1920.
- [between 1913 and 1915?]
- Citizenship picnic at Collier Park Gertude Fonda, teacher
- A group of "new" Longmont citizens pose under a shade tree, during their Citizenship Picnic, Collyer Park, Colorado. They form four rows; children sit on grass, next row sits in chairs with end kneeling and back rows stand.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Immigrants--Colorado--Longmont--1930-1940.; Parks--Colorado--Longmont--1930-1940.; Picnics--Colorado--Longmont--1930-1940.
- 1939 July 2