Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 27, 1912 July 6
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 29, 1912 July 20
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 32, 1912 August 10
- Freight wagon
- Hispanic American sheepherders pose near sacks of wool and with freight wagons loaded with sacks of wool near the Denver and Rio Grande railroad station in Fort Garland (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows a freight car near the wood frame station.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--Buildings--1900-1910.; Hispanic Americans--1900-1910.; Mexican Americans--1900-1910.; San Luis (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons.; Railroad stations.; Shepherds.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad...
- ca. 1900
- Colorado Marriages 1858-1939 S
- Marriage records--Colorado; Colorado--Genealogy.
- The Anaconda Mine, Gold Hill, Cripple Creek
- A group of men sit on and stand near sacks filled with raw ore from the Anaconda Tunnel Mine in the Cripple Creek Mining District (Teller County), Colorado. Some of the men wear work clothes, others appear to be business men and are dressed in...
- Anaconda Tunnel Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Teller County--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Turret, Colorado
- Customers sample the goods outside of "F. A. Cole and Co., Groceries, Meats," in the mining community of Turret, Colorado in Chaffee County. They sit on apple crates and flour sacks, whittle wood, write on a pad of paper, grind coffee in a grinder,...
- Turret (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Turret--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Arrowhead depot, Moffat line
- View of the new side gable log depot at Arrow (Arrowhead), Colorado; features a projecting front entry and horizontal logs with a decorative triangular pattern under apex; sacks of chinking material stacked at end of depot; several men standing on...
- Arrow (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Arrow--1900-1910.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Warehouse, sugar factory, Greeley, Colo.
- Two men stand at opposite ends of a hand cart stacked with sacks of sugar at the Great Western sugar plant in Greeley, Colorado, in Weld County. One worker holds the handle of the cart in his right hand. Sacks of sugar are stacked to the ceiling of...
- Greeley (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Industrial facilities--Colorado--Greeley--1900-1910.; Interiors--1900-1910.; Sugar industry--Colorado--Greeley--1900-1910.; Warehouses--Colorado--Greeley--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1910?]
- Harvesting Colorado potatoes
- Men, horse-drawn equipment, and machinery harvest potatoes, somewhere in Colorado, possibly Front Range or Eastern Colorado; shows large potato field, farmworkers, a man in suit (probably farmer or overseer), another man in suit inspecting potato...
- Agricultural laborers--Colorado--1900-1920.; Agriculture--Colorado--1900-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--1900-1920.; Harvesting machinery--Colorado--1900-1920.; Horse teams--Colorado--1900-1920.; Potatoes--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Colorado World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- The Colorado registration cards are on 40 rolls of microfilm (v.1 through v.40), Denver Public Library catalog number G973.91, W893co. The draft registration cards are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are...
- 2005
- WWI Colorado Draft Registration Cards
- Index to the World War I Draft Registration Cards for Colorado between the years of 1917-1918. During World War I there were three registrations. The first, on June 5, 1917, was for all men between the ages of 21 and 31. These men were born...
- World War, 1914-1918--Colorado.; Colorado--Genealogy--Sources.; Denver (Colo.)--History, Military.; United States. Selective Service System--Sources.; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918.; United States....
- 2005
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 35, 1912 August 31
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 29, 1909 September 4
- Horse-drawn vehicles hauling sacks of unidentified material past residence
- Men drive flatbed horse-drawn wagons loaded with bags of sand past a brick house in Denver, Colorado.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1909]
- Double team with wagon loaded with sacks of an unknown material near a bridge
- A man drives a horse-drawn wagon loaded with sacks, on Alameda Avenue near the bridge over Archer canal, in Denver, Colorado.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Horse teams--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1904 and 1909]
- Anaconda mine, Gold Hill, Cripple Creek, ore sacks
- Miners pose with sacks of ore at the Anaconda mine on Gold Hill, Cripple Creek District (Teller County), Colorado.
- Anaconda Tunnel Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1880-1910.; Teller County (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Stamping paper sacks used in packaging bulk commodities for distribution to Colorado relief families.
- A woman in a white uniform and a white cap that reads: "First Aid," sits at a table and stamps paper sacks for surplus commodities at the State Grocery Warehouse at 1535 13th (Thirteenth) Street in Denver, Colorado. Piles of paper bags, an ink pad...
- United States. Work Projects Administration. Colorado.--People--1930-1950.; Public service employment--Colorado--Denver--1930-1950.; Surplus commodities--Colorado--Denver--1930-1950.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1930-1950.
- [between 1938 and 1943?]
- Denver Public Library 1930 obituary index : Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post.
- Index of all deaths published in the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post for the year 1930. Included in the index
- Denver (Colo.)--Genealogy--Indexes.; Denver (Colo.)--Vital records.; Denver Post--Indexes.; Rocky Mountain News--Indexes.;
- 2010
- Master Property Record Parcel: 0000-05103-025-00
- Leaving for Rock Springs, Wyoming
- Six men sit in or near a flatbed truck loaded with gunny sacks. The men wear coats and caps or cowboy hats. The truck has low, wooden sides. A wooden water tank is in the distance.
- Trucks--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Men--Colorado--Pictorial works.
- [beween 1930 and 1940?]
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 26, 1910 June 25
- Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 1, 1918 March
- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 8, 1913 January 25
- Monte Vista Streets
- Stone and brick commercial buildings line the street in Monte Vista (Rio Grande County), Colorado. Shows parked cars and a truck loaded with potato sacks. Pedestrians cross the street, stand, or sit by buildings. Signs on buildings read: "Fassett,...
- Monte Vista (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Monte Vista--1910-1920.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Monte Vista--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- Monte Vista
- Stone and brick commercial buildings line the street in Monte Vista (Rio Grande County), Colorado. Shows parked cars and a truck loaded with potato sacks. Pedestrians either stand or sit by buildings. Signs on buildings read: "Fassett," "J.C....
- Monte Vista (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Monte Vista--1910-1920.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Monte Vista--1910-1920.; Sidewalks--Colorado--Monte Vista--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- Streets - Monte Vista
- Unpaved street in the commercial district of Monte Vista (Rio Grande County), Colorado. Produce sacks are stacked on a parked, flatbed truck. Shows pedestrians, cars, electric street lampposts. Signs read: "Fassett," "Hotel La Veta," "Stow's,"...
- Monte Vista (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Automobiles--Colorado--Monte Vista--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Monte Vista--1920-1930.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Monte Vista--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Red Cliff, Summit Co. Col.
- Men in a group stand on a timber sidewalk and pose beside a false front commercial building that reads: "M. Edwards, Drugs and General Merchandise, Post Office, Battle Mountain Stage Office" in Red Cliff, Eagle County (formerly Summit County),...
- Red Cliff (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Red Cliff--1880-1890.; False fronts--Colorado--Red Cliff--1880-1890.; Men--Colorado--Red Cliff--1880-1890.; Wooden sidewalks--Colorado--Red Cliff--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1883?]
- Sacked ore, Lady Belle Mine, near Eagle, Colorado
- Men load a horse-drawn skid with sacks of ore from the Lady Belle mine south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado; canvas tents are in the distance.
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Lady Belle Mine (Eagle County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Ore from Lady Belle Mine, near Eagle, Colorado
- Men pose near a horse-drawn skid loaded with sacks of ore from the Lady Belle mine south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado; one man poses with a girl. Tents are in the distance.
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Lady Belle Mine (Eagle County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Lady Belle Mine, Eagle
- Men pose with a team of horses in harness, and sacks of ore on a skid, at the Lady Belle Mine, south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado. A sign on the mine entrance reads: "Positively No Admittance."
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Lady Belle Mine (Eagle County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Horse teams--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Nick McLearn, unidentified man and Jim McLearn, Rifle
- Men, left to right: Nick McLearn, unidentified man, and Jim McLearn, sit or stand and pose on a horse-drawn wagon in Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado. Canvas sacks in the wagon have lettering that reads: "[?] Portland Cement Co." The John Deere...
- Rifle (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Business people--American--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1920.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1920.; Horse teams--Colorado--Rifle--1900-1920.; McLearn, Jim.; McLearn, Nick.
- [between 1907 and 1920?]
- Telluride, burros
- A man poses with a packtrain of burros near a two story brick commercial building on the main street of Telluride (San Miguel County), Colorado. The burros are loaded with wooden boxes and burlap sacks. Shows men, plank and frame buildings, and...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [ca. 1890]
- Silverton
- A packtrain of burros and donkeys, with bales of hay and burlap sacks, is stopped in a street in Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado. Men and boys stand near the pack train. Commercial frame buildings with false fronts are nearby. Signs on the...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.;...
- [ca. 1890]
- Agriculture crops beans harvest
- View of sacks of harvested beans near haystacks at a farm probably in Denver, Colorado. A horse-drawn wagon and a group of men are nearby.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Agricultural laborers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Beans--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Haystacks--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1915?]
- Assaying, cupeling
- Men work in an assay office, probably in Colorado. Shows an assayer pouring ore into a cupel over a stove. Shows barrels, sacks, sifters, tins, mortars and pestles, tongs, and graduated sizes of cupels in the laboratory.
- Assayers--Colorado--1890-1900.; Assaying--Colorado--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [1897?]
- Starkville
- A group of men and boys stand near a two story frame clapboard building in the mining camp of Starkville (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man, probably of Hispanic heritage, stands near a sack of flour. Other sacks are stacked nearby. A dog sits...
- Company towns--Colorado--Starkville--1890-1910.; Starkville (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Starkville--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Starkville--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Farmer's Mill
- Men with their horse-drawn wagons full of sacks of grain or flour pose in front of Farmer's Mill, built 1886, on south Main Street, Longmont. The mill consists of a brick three-story building with low gable roof and arched windows with a tall grain...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Grain industry--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.; Mills--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1890.
- [betweem 1880 and 1890]
- Cripple Creek, Colo. Hastings [sic] Market 1st & Bennet [sic]
- Exterior view of C. C. Irwin Groceries (formerly H. A. Hastain's Market), 135 Bennett Avenue, Bell Brothers Building, First (1st) Street and Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; three horse-drawn wagons are parked in front of building packed...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Bell Brothers Building (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [1905 or 1906]
- Great Western Sugar
- Interior view of a Great Western Sugar Company warehouse in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado. Sacks of sugar are piled to the ceiling; each is printed with the words "Extra Fine Dry Granulated Sugar."
- Fort Collins (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Factories--Colorado--Fort Collins--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Sugar industry--Colorado--Fort Collins--1900-1910.; Great Western Sugar Company.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Street view, Cripple Creek
- Street scene of frame commercial buildings (possibly First (1st) Street or Carr Avenue), Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes a mine cart with railing, gunny sacks, wooden barrel, two large iron pots stacked in front of buildings on snow-covered...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Burro train, Ouray, Colo.
- A pack train of burros loaded with full sacks stands in front of the Beaumont Hotel, Main (Third, 3rd) Street, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. Signs on hotel include: "First National Bank" and "Thatcher Brothers."
- Beaumont Hotel (Ouray, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ouray (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1890.; Packtrains--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1890.
- [between 1887 and 1900]
- Ouray street scene
- Two men mounted on horses pose with their pack train, including two burros loaded with sacks, in front of "Orr Photo Service" on 6th (Sixth) Avenue, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. The photo studio is a board- and- batten building with front gables...
- Orr Photo Service (Ouray, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ouray (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Packtrains--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Photographic studios--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.
- [between 1901 and 1910]
- Arrival of mail, Virginius highest established P. O. in U. S., altitude 12,500.
- A postman in a sack jacket and bowler hat poses with his burro loaded with a mail sack, at the Virginius Mine, Mount Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado. Three men sit in background; sacks of ore are near the ore cart tracks, and a...
- Ouray (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Ouray--1890-1900.; Letter carriers--Colorado--Ouray--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray--1890-1900.
- July 10, 1890
- Cripple Creek
- One and two-story commercial brick flat-roof buildings line the west side of South Second (2d) Street prior to 1896 fires, between Bennett and Myers Avenues, Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes horse-drawn wagon filled with gunney sacks, men...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1893]
- Early Portland plant
- Men pose in Portland, Fremont County, Colorado, by a horse-drawn wagon and truck loaded with full burlap sacks; wheelbarrows lie on rail tracks; a boom with wires and lumber are in the background. The Geddes & Seerie Stone Co. chose this site in...
- Geddes & Seerie Stone Company (Portland, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Portland (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Platte Station, Colorado
- Men pose on and around stacks of bullion and full burlap sacks, Platte Station, Park County, Colorado. A man in a suit and bowler hat sits on the ingots.
- Platte Station (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Site of Ouray Herald
- The Deutsch brothers and a young boy stand in the entry of their specialty grocery store, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. Goods displayed include: brooms, wash tubs, buckets, pyramids of canned goods, box of cabbage, wooden crates of produce, sacks...
- Ouray (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Families--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1900.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Greeley Bt. Dist., Windsor, Colo., looking east
- View of the Colorado and Southern Railroad depot and tracks, Windsor, Weld County, Colorado. Crates, milk cans, sacks and hand trucks are on the dock.
- Windsor (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Loading docks--Colorado--Windsor--1920-1930.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Windsor--1920-1930.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Windsor--1920-1930.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- May 24, 1920
- 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]