This shingle sided structure in North Empire, Clear Creek County, Colorado, has one side of its gable roof built into the hillside; dormers are at ground level. John Dumont built the structure, used as a dormitory for employees of the Boston Mine...
North Empire (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--North Empire--1960-1970.; Lodging houses--Colorado--North Empire--1960-1970.; Dumont, John M.
View of an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe inspection (road master) car at an unidentified railroad roundhouse; shows an open Cadillac touring car, used by I. Hale, with wheels adapted to travel on railroad tracks. A locomotive is in the roundhouse.
View of a spindle and bowl made by Alberto Lobato and two hand carders used by weaver María Salomé Córdova, his mother. The spindle and bowl were used to spin the wool.
Shows a Native American Sioux circlet ornament made or found in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. It features blue and green beadwork, buckskin, a tin jingler and chicken feathers dyed red. The ornament would be used in the hair or fastened to horse...
Dakota Indians--Arts & crafts--1870-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1870-1900.; Ornament--1870-1900.
Men, actors or directors and railroad workers, are in the entrance of the Moffat Tunnel in Grand County, Colorado. The site was used as the set for the silent film "Trail of '98." A man, probably the director, wears a cap, tall boots, a suit and a...
Railroad tunnels--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Grand County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Moffat Tunnel (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Motion picture industry--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Motion...
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.)
View of Tom Botterill's Used Cars at 1270 Broadway in Denver, Colorado. Automobiles are parked near the two-story building with arched windows. Signs read: "Botterill Hudson Essex," "Tom Botterill," and "Used Cars."
Used car trade--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Automobile dealerships--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
Steamer (or Sternwheeler) Far West - used to transport Major Marcus Albert Reno's wounded soldiers from Battle at Little Bighorn to Fort Lincoln, North Dakota, in record time down Missouri River, 700 miles in 54 hours; also captained by Grant...
View of an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe inspection (road master) car in an unidentified railroad yard; shows an open Cadillac touring car, used by I. Hale, with wheels adapted to travel on railroad tracks. Freight cars and buildings are in the...
View of an unidentified mine on the side of a steep hill in Boulder County, Colorado. Men stand on and near a headframe, tailings and a stone retaining wall. A horse used to power a large winch used for the mine stands on the headframe. Men pose...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins.; Headframes (Mining); Miners.; MIning.
Shows a flute possibly made by the Jicarilla Apache Indians. The flute is decorated with light green and orange paint, buckskin strips, and cowrie shells. A tin vent regulator is attached at the bottom of the flute.
Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1920.; Flutes--1880-1920.
Shows a Native American (Ute) dance rattle. The outer portion is made of tortoise shell; other materials used include deer hoof and animal hide (buffalo?).
Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1870-1890.; Ute Indians--Arts & crafts--1870-1890.; Rattles--1870-1890.
A Native American (Sioux? or Cheyenne?) ritual shield. It is made of yellow ochre rawhide and buckskin and has red strouding, eagle feathers and a wire handle. Images of a turtle, butterflies, lizard and a bird painted in green, black, red and...
Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1860-1870.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1860-1870.; Sun dance--1860-1870.; Shields--1860-1870.
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.
Shows a silver snuff box used by William F. Cody to hold his hair pins; it may have been given to him as a snuff box. The lid is engraved, the base is made of bone.
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Associated objects.; Snuff boxes and bottles--1900-1910.
Shows two General Electric Company motors, possibly used to turn the presses at the Rocky Mountain News printing department in Denver, Colorado. A large power/switch box is on the back wall behind the motors.
A man with two horses stands beside the Antlers Hotel, Meeker, Colorado. The two story wood frame building features a false front with apex gable, clapboard siding and a side stairway leading to second floor. Built in 1884-1885 by E. S. R....
Meeker (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1880-1890.; Antlers Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
View from the water tank over Mack, Mesa County, Colorado. A company town named for John Mack, president of Barber Asphalt Paving company and the Uintah Railway Company. Two houses, the Uintah Railway office building and the Uintah Hotel show on...
Three Gilpin Tramway Company locomotives and gondola cars loaded with frozen ore park on railroad tracks outside the steam shed used to thaw the ore before sent to processing mill in winter. Two men stand on side of locomotive Quartz Hill 3 and a...
Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ore industry--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Gilpin Tramway Company.
This shingle sided structure in North Empire, Clear Creek County, Colorado, has one side of its gable roof built into the hillside. John Dumont built the structure, used as a dormitory for employees of the Boston Mine Company (active between 1872...
North Empire (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--North Empire--1960-1970.; Lodging houses--Colorado--North Empire--1960-1970.; Dumont, John M.
View of an abandoned, dilapidated, hewn log schoolhouse in the ghost town of Turret, Colorado in Chaffee County, shows a front gable, chinking, front window and door and peeling tar paper on roof.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Fokker Tri-Motor airplane named "Josephine Ford" is surrounded by well wishers on his arrival in Denver, Colorado. Admiral Byrd used this plane in his polar expeditions.
Fokker airplanes--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Airplanes--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Spectators--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957--Journeys.
View of two-story native stone structure with a windmill on its hipped roof and a tall cylindrical water tank (standpipe) in Akron, Washington County, Colorado. Building once housed city offices, jail, and the water well. Windmill and watertank no...
View at Inspiration Point, Denver, Colorado, shows Harry Rhoads, John Gates, Julia Knapp Rhoads, and possibly Julia's mother posing in a Maxwell automobile. Julia holds a folding Kodak camera, and Harry Rhoads holds a piece of string used to...
Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Photographers--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Spouses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Gates, John.; Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 81-1975.; Rhoads, Julia Knapp.
Studio portrait of Ben Pickett, brother or cousin of Bill Pickett. He holds a rope and wears cowboy boots, a vest, and wide-brimmed hat. He poses near a fur pelt on a pedestal.
African Americans--1910-1930.; Cowboys--1910-1930.; Pickett, Ben.; Pickett, Bill, ca. 1860-1932.--Family.
View of a man using "Hydraulic Chief" type nozzles to aim jets of water at an eroded bluff, in (probably) California. Another man stoops in the gold mine, wearing a raincoat.
Men pose near a sluice in Nelson Gulch, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. One man pans for gold, another looks on.
Lewis and Clark County (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Gold mining--Montana--Lewis and Clark County--1900-1910.; Hydraulic mining--Montana--Lewis and Clark County--1900-1910.; Miners--Montana--Lewis and Clark County--1900-1910.; Mining...
View of a snow-covered waterwheel used for hydraulic ore processing in Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, Colorado; sign reads: "Charles Taylor water wheel. Built & used at his mine up Ute Creek (1907-1940) Presented to the City by Alfred M....
Company G, First Regiment of Fort Collins, pose with rifles, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. The uniformed militia used the Midland Sampler building "12" as a barracks during the Western Federation of Miners strike.
Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Firearms--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Militia--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Miners' strike--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.;...
View of the old blockhouse at the Wind River Agency in Wyoming. The adobe house has a covered wooden porch and an adobe chimney.
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Wind River Indian Agency.--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Government relations--Wyoming--1930-1940.; Shoshoni Indians--Government relations--Wyoming--1930-1940.; Adobe buildings--Wyoming--1930-1940.;...
View of two Native American (Pima) kiahas stacked one on top of the other. Baskets, woven around a wood frame, these were used for carrying loads of heavy materials on a person's back. They were used extensively until the advent of the horse in the...
Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1890-1920.; Pima baskets--1890-1920.; Pima Indians--Arts & crafts--1890-1920.; Baskets--1890-1920.
View of the wooden framework for a Native American bark lodge on the Potawatomi reservation near Mayetta, Kansas.
Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians--People--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Structures--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indians--Structures--Kansas--Mayetta--1930-1940.; Mayetta (Kan.)--1930-1940.; Potawatomi Indian Reservation...
View of a building used by the Mountain States Telephone Company on Lawrence Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. The three-story brick building has arched windows and a sign that reads: "Public Pay Station."
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--Buildings--1890-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
Members of the 10th Mountain Division 2nd Battalion 85th Regiment Headquarters stand near a boat used to carry "Long Toms" across Lake Garda in Italy during the Italian campaign of World War II. Buildings, trucks, and tanks are near the water.
World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Italy--1940-1950.; Garda, Lake (Italy)--1940-1950.; Harbors--Italy--1940-1950.; Infantry--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Military personnel--Italy--1940-1950.; Sailboats--Italy--1940-1950.; United States....
Construction of the Gunnell Gold Company mill and mine in Black Hawk, Gilpin County, Colorado, later used as the Colorado Central railroad station. Shows stone building and lumber.
View of destruction caused by a dynamite blast used to create a fire break during the 1893 fire in central business district, Elk Avenue, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado; shows a large hole in the side of the old City Hall; building...
Crested Butte (Colo.)--1890-1900.; City & town halls--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.; Explosions--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Crested Butte--1890-1900.
During its declining days, the people of Eureka, Colorado, used an amalgam of train and automobile parts to create what was called a "Casey Jones." It was used to convey people to Silverton and back, and made the eight mile run downhill in a scant...
Clay C. Blough's pony is hitched to a post outside of the Cozens- Lemmon Mercantile Co. in Fraser, Colorado. Snow blankets the area and other false front buildings line the street. Mountains identified as the Snowy Range, part of the Continental...
Tools used in a prison break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, include hacksaw blades, drill brace and bits, pliers, a screwdriver, putty knife, batteries, string, wire, and tape. In a Fedora, tweed jacket and tie, associate...
Prison wardens--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Prison escapes--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.
A miniature Union Pacific train passes by a crowd of men, women and children at a Frontier Days parade in Cheyenne (Laramie County), Wyoming. Neon business signs include: "Kaufman Hardware," "Woodrick and Allen Florsheim Shoes," "The Irene Shoppe,...
Union Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations--1950-1960.; Cheyenne (Wyo.)--1950-1960.; Business districts--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1950-1960.; Commercial streets--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1950-1960.; Miniature railroads--Wyoming--Cheyenne--1950-1960.;...
Men and a boy sit or stand near a microphone during a ceremony for the completion of the the pioneer bore, a tunnel (later a water tunnel) used in the construction of the Moffat Tunnel by the Moffat Tunnel Improvement District, in Grand County or...
Moffat Tunnel (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Dedications--Colorado--1920-1930.; Governors--Colorado--1920-1930.; Mayors--Utah--Salt Lake City--1920-1930.; Tunnels--Colorado--1920-1930.; Adams, William Herbert, 1861-1954.; Neslen, C. Clarence.
Large piles of wood are stacked at the side of the Perigo Mill in Gilpin County, Colorado. The mill has several levels, and two large smokestacks supported by wires protrude from the roof. Several smaller smokestacks also protrude from the roof. A...
James Sherbondy, last of 12 captured after the 12/31/47 break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, sits in a leather chair. A man in a sleeveless sweater holds a hand-made pistol used in the escape. Framed portraits and a...
Canon City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Sherbondy, James.; Colorado State Penitentiary.