Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Carriage from Stonewall to Trinidad
- A group of passengers stand outside the J.W. Shouse General Store in Stonewall (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man identified as Jim Ryan sits in the drivers seat of the Trinidad and Stonewall carriage. Women and children sit in the passenger...
- Stonewall (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Stonewall--1890-1910.; People--Colorado--Stonewall--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Stonewall--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1905?]
- Central City, Colorado
- and the grocery and provision store of Mason M. Seavey. In the right center foreground is the wood-frame building with a false front that housed the Chinese laundry shop where a fire started May 21, 1874 and destroyed most of the business section...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Churches--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- [between 1864 and 1870?]
- Central City, Colorado
- and residence of Harley B. Morse, the Central City Daily Register building, Washington Hall, the residence of William M. Roworth, St. James Methodist Church, residences of Henry M. Teller (one of Colorado's first senators), and Willard Teller....
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- [between 1865 and 1870?]
- Central City, 1864
- City Bakery stands farther down the block next door to the Young American Clothing Hall. Another store has the word "Stoves" painted on its front facade. On the near side of Main Street in the center midground is the two-story, wood frame building...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- [1864?]
- Central City, Colorado
- stairs extends down the hill from the academy to the Catholic church (later the site of St. Mary's of the Assumption Church built in 1892). Numerous brick buildings stand along Main Street in the midground, including the Temple of Fashion, an...
- Central City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Churches--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Cutler Academy
- Members of the Cutler Academy baseball team pose in their uniforms in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows baseball caps, gloves, catchers mask, and bats. Boys in the top row are identified as: Merriell, right field; Bentley, left...
- Cutler Academy (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--People--1900-1910.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Baseball players--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1910.
- 1906
- View of Central City area, 1899
- Several houses stand at the upper end of Eureka Street at the base of a snow-covered hill in Central City, Colorado. Workers shovel snow from the tracks of the Gilpin Tramway in the distance, possibly after the "Big Snow" in December of 1913. The...
- Central City (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Blizzards--Colorado--Central City--1910-1920.; Digging--Colorado--Central City--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1910-1920.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Central City--1910-1920.; Narrow-gage...
- [1913?]
- Hoffman Heights Development, Fire Engine
- Black and white print of two men, each holding a small boy in front of a fire engine. Man on left identified as Ned Nicholls with son Kirk. Man on right identified as Geo Wortham with son Reggie. Light colored GMC fire engine behind them,...
- Fire engines--Colorado--Aurora.; Hoffman Heights (Aurora, Colo. : Neighborhood); Aurora (Colo.)
- 1953
- Niederhut Carriage Company Workers
- Mother of Sam Melendrez
- Studio portrait of two young women. They pose in long dresses with pleated skirts and wear bows in their hair. One of the woman is identified as the mother of Sam Melendrez, a worker in the Fort Collins area.
- Hispanic Americans--1900-1910.; Women.; Melendrez, Sam--Family--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Women--Colorado--Fort Collins--Pictorial works.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Elderly man shaving, Chama, Colo.
- An elderly Hispanic American man, identified as Mr. Atencio, sits at a table in his kitchen and shaves in Chama (Costilla County), Colorado. A coffee cup with a shaving brush and a small mirror are on the table. Kitchen cabinets are on the wall.
- Hispanic Americans--1950-1960.; Mexican Americans--1950-1960.; Chama (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Older people--Colorado--Chama--Pictorial works.;...
- 1950 September
- Cripple Creek, Colo., Schuchs' Building
- Men identified as Philip Schuch Jr. and Earl Akin stand in the door of an assay office, signs read: "Pittsburg - Colorado Sampling Works and Assay Office, Philip Schuch, Jr.," Cripple Creek, Colorado. The business is housed in a false front...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Assayers--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1870-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1870-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1870-1900.; Akin, Dean.; Akin, Earl.; Schuch, Philip.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Snow at Idaho Springs, Colorado
- Pedestrians stand in deep snow drifts on a street in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A man identified as Fisher sits on a white horse. Another man identified as Frank stands in the snow nearby. Signs on commercial buildings along the...
- Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Blizzards--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1910-1920.; Commercials streets--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1910-1920.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1910-1920.; Pedestrians--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1910-1920.
- 1913 December
- Legal fraternity of Georgetown
- Men pose in front of a log building with a gabled roof and a sign that reads: "John H. McMurdy, Law Office" in Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Men wear tuxedos with silk hats or derby hats and sit on horseback or stand. Boys are nearby...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Law offices--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.; Lawyers--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.; Log buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.
- 1874
- First home of Mrs. Margaret Schneider, Seibert, Colo.
- View of sod buildings identified as a sod barn and a sod house in Seibert (Kit Carson County), Colorado. Shows a fence, a haystack, a one-story barn, a house with a low-pitched roof, and a timber arch over what is identified as a water well.
- Hawthorne, James--Homes & haunts.; Schneider, Margaret--Homes & haunts.; Seibert (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Barns--Colorado--Seibert--1880-1900.; Farmhouses--Colorado--Seibert--1880-1900.; Sod buildings--Colorado--Seibert--1880-1900.
- [between 1889 and 1900?]
- First school house, Steamboat Springs
- A teacher and students stand beside a one-story log school house in Steamboat Springs (Routt County), Colorado. The one-room school has a low-pitched timber and sod roof. The teacher, identified as "Mrs. Pritchett (Lulie Crawford Pritchett)," wears...
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1880-1890.; Teachers--Colorado--Steamboat...
- 1886
- Twin Lakes summer home
- People pose on the porch of the Dexter Cabin at the Interlaken Resort in Twin Lakes (Lake County), Colorado. Identified people include: "J.V. Dexter's wife, twin daughters, and James Dexter." The log house has a mansard, shingled roof with dormer...
- Dexter, James V.--Homes & haunts.; Twin Lakes (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Families--Colorado--Twin Lakes--1880-1900.; Log houses--Colorado--Twin Lakes--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- South Park depot at Jefferson, Colo.
- A woman and boys are near the abandoned, dilapidated Colorado & Southern Railway depot in Jefferson (Park County), Colorado. The frame depot has a gabled roof, clapboard siding and a chimney. A woman is identified as Mrs. Lorene Englert; a boy,...
- Colorado and Southern Railway--Buildings.; Jefferson (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Jefferson--1950-1960.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Jefferson--1950-1960.
- 1954 May
- Illa Lee Lodge, Indian Creek Park [sic], Safley cabin
- Women wear dresses and sit on chairs or hammocks on the porch of a log cabin in a place identified as Indian Creek Park, Colorado. A man stands on the porch and poses near a rustic log railing. The house, identified as the Safley cabin, has a...
- Houses--Colorado--1890-1910.; People--Colorado--1890-1910.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- The Palisades, Great Ute Canon
- View of rock formations identified as the Palisades, high on a distant cliff near a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. Shows a narrow clearing with stumps, trees, rocks, fallen trees in a canyon with steep rock walls.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Temple of Isis Manitou Canon
- A man with a camera poses on a rock formation identified as the Temple of Isis in a canyon identified as Manitou Canyon (Williams Canyon), El Paso County, Colorado.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Williams Canyon (El Paso County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Photographers--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1888?]
- The Grand Canon of the Colorado
- A man reclines on rocks along a trail identified as New Hance Trail (Red Canyon Trail), near an area identified as Peach Springs in the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Shows shale and limestone rock formations.
- Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Canyons--Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Cliffs--Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Rowboat on a river near the Grand Canyon
- Two men sit in a rowboat possibly on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona. This location is identified as being along New Hance Trail near an area identified as Peach Springs. Shows calm water and rock formations.
- Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Canyons--Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Rivers--Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.; Rowboats--Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Mrs. "Spider" and "Fat Tobacco," Crows, Crow Agency, Mont.
- A Native American (Crow) man, woman, and child pose at Crow Agency (Big Horn County), Montana. The man, identified as Fat Tobacco, sits on a horse beside a tepee and wears a cowboy hat, a shirt and vest and has a lariat on a saddle. The woman,...
- Crow Indians--Structures--Montana--Crow Agency--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Structures--Montana--Crow Agency--1880-1900.; Crow Agency (Mont.)--1880-1900.; Children--Montana--Crow Agency--1880-1900.; Horseback riding--Montana--Crow...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- The Lizzard [sic], Great Ute Canon
- A man sits at a table in a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. A rock formation identified as The Lizard is in the distance.
- Canyons--Colorado--1880-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- The Masonic Temple, Great Ute Canon
- Men and women ride in horse-drawn wagons in a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. A rock formation identified as the Masonic Temple is in the distance.
- Canyons--Colorado--1880-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--1880-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- The Castle, Great Ute Canon
- View of a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. A tent is near a stream. A rock formation identified as The Castle is in the distance.
- Canyons--Colorado--1880-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--1880-1900.; Streams--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Attorneys of the Cripple Creek district
- Composite photograph of twenty individual studio portraits of various attorneys of the Cripple Creek district, Cripple Creek, Colorado; group of male lawyers identified on front of print from left to right, top row: Daniel A. Ferguson, James L....
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Lawyers--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Blackmer, Chauncey W.; Brinson, J. M.; Butler, James C.; Clark, Henry H.; Cole, J. C.; Consaul, Charles F.; Crump, S. D.; Emberson, A. L.; Ferguson, Daniel A.; Hangs,...
- [1901?]
- Log Cabin
- View of the Log Cabin, one of the first buildings built in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Governor Hunt built this cabin, when the Denver and Rio Grande railway arrived, in October 1871, it became the station restaurant. Identified...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1870-1880.; Log Cabin (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Governors--Colorado--1870-1880.; Log buildings--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1870-1880.; Railroad...
- [between 1871 and 1875]
- Delegation of 1872
- Portrait of Native American Utes in Denver, Colorado, with government officials, identified left to right: "O-re-kis" (Moache or Muache Ute), "Alexandro (Moache) "Corutz" "Muache Chief) "To-ha" (Moache), John Ward (interpreter), James B. Thompson...
- Indians of North America--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Moache Indians--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Ute Indians--Government relations--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Delegations--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1872
- Group portrait with Utes
- Studio portrait of two Native American (Ute) women and three white men. The woman wearing a striped dress, shawl, concho belt, earrings, and a bead necklace is identified as Mary Tobin, mother of Mollie Cloud. The other woman wears braids, a print...
- Clouds, Mollie--Family.; Festival of Mountain and Plain (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--Women--1890-1900.; Tobins, Mary.; Ward, Mr.
- 1899
- Portrait with Utes
- Studio portrait of two Native American (Ute) women and three white men. The woman wearing a striped dress, shawl, concho belt, earrings, and a bead necklace is identified as Mary Tobin, mother of Mollie Cloud. The other woman wears braids, a print...
- Clouds, Mollie--Family.; Festival of Mountain and Plain (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--Women--1890-1900.; Tobins, Mary.; Ward, Mr.
- 1899
- Patee-ne-ne-mae and Lhe-ka-kah
- View of two Native American Flathead (Salish) men. One is on a horse and is identified as Pateenenemae. He wears moccasins, leggings, a shirt decorated with fur, and a long headdress decorated with fur and eagle feathers. The other man, identified...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Salish Indians--1900-1910.; Lhe-ka-kah.; Patee-ne-ne-mae.
- 1907
- The Masonic temple. Great Ute Canon
- A horse-drawn wagon stops on a dirt road in a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. A rock formation identified as the Masonic Temple is in the background.
- Canyons--Colorado--1870-1890.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--1870-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--1870-1890.
- [between 1879 and 1882]
- Temple of Isis Manitou Canon
- A man with a camera poses on a rock formation identified as the Temple of Isis in a canyon identified as Manitou Canyon (Williams Canyon), El Paso County, Colorado.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Williams Canyon (El Paso County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Photographers--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1888?]
- Supt. Norton and Ruth R. Buffalo Bull, oldest living Ponca Indian
- A white man, identified as Superintendent Norton, poses next to a Native American (Ponca) woman, identified as Ruth R. Buffalo Bull on an open plain. Norton wears shoes, pants, an overcoat, and a hat. Ruth Buffalo Bull, described as the oldest...
- Indians of North America--1910-1920.; Ponca Indians--1910-1920.; Aged persons--1910-1920.; Women--1910-1920.; Norton, Superintendent.; Buffalo Bull, Ruth R.
- 1917?
- Peck House, Empire, Colorado
- Members of the Peck family are identified, as a group of men, women, and children pose on the front porch of the Peck House in Empire, Colorado. Those identified include: F. L. Peck, Mrs. C. P. Peck, Mrs. F. L. Peck, Frank Peck, Jr., Howark Beck,...
- Peck House (Empire, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Empire (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Empire--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1905]
- The Castle Great Ute Canon
- View of a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. A tent is near a stream. A rock formation identified as The Castle is in the distance.
- Rock formations--Colorado--1880-1900.; Streams--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- The Lizzard [sic] Great Ute Canon
- A man sits at a table in a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. A rock formation identified as The Lizard is in the distance.
- Canyons--Colorado--1880-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Logan School, 5th grade, 1891, Denver, H.S. Phillips
- A fifth grade class and teachers pose on the steps of Logan School at Logan & Bayaud Streets in the Speer neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The man at the top left of the picture is identified as Homer Phillips; a girl student in the front row...
- Logan School (Denver, Colo.)--People--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Speer (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1890-1900.; School children--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.;...
- 1891
- The Palisades, Great Ute Canon
- View of rock formations identified as the Palisades, high on a distant cliff near a canyon identified as Great Ute Canyon, Colorado. Shows a narrow clearing with stumps, trees, rocks, fallen trees in a canyon with steep solid rock walls.
- Canyons--Colorado--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Chair of Ester Hobard Morris
- An elderly woman identified as Mrs. M.C. Keith sits in a large hand-carved wood chair probably in Lander, Wyoming. Mrs. Keith wears a hat, floral dress, dark colored coat, and holds a purse on her lap. The chair is identified as having once...
- Lander (Wyo.)--1930-1950.; Chairs--Wyoming--Lander--1930-1950.; Women--Wyoming--Lander--1930-1950.; Morris, Esther Hobart, 1814-1902--Associated objects.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Largest hay barn in the state of Wyoming, Colonel Torry's M Ranch
- View of men in front of a log barn, at what is identified as Colonel Torry's M Ranch, in Hat Creek (Niobrara County), Wyoming. The barn has a gabled roof, a transom over a main entrance and cupolas with vents. Men are identified left to right as:...
- Hat Creek (Wyo. : Town)--1880-1890.; Barns--Wyoming--Hat Creek--1880-1890.; Log buildings--Wyoming--Hat Creek--1880-1890.; Men--Wyoming--Hat Creek--1880-1890.
- 1882
- 1905 Southern Interscholastic League champions
- Teenage boys from the Cutler Academy baseball team in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado pose as the 1905 Southern Interscholastic League champions. Team members in the top row are identified as: McRae, catcher; Wilfley, center field;...
- Cutler Academy (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--People--1900-1910.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Baseball players--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1910.
- 1905
- Denver parks workers
- Denver park workers sit or stand in probably a park in Denver, Colorado. Men wear overalls, blue jeans, denim or wool jackets and hats or caps and pose for a group portrait. Identified gardeners and greenhouse staff include "Loyd," "Bill Barrie,"...
- Denver (Colo.). Dept. of Parks and Recreation.--People--1930-1940.; African Americans--Men--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Gardeners--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Employees--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- 1935?
- Unidentified man with long gray beard, 1/2 length studio portrait
- Unidentified male, middle aged, with long gray beard, 1/2 length seated studio portrait, wearing suit jacket. Mistakenly identified as Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly.
- Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928.
- [188-?]
- White Cow Walking, Dakota, 1/2 length
- White Cow Walking, Dakota female, 1/2 length studio portrait, wearing braided hair, breastplate, and blanket wrapped around shoulders; originally identified as Walking Cow, Crow but later identified as Sitting Bull's daughter, White Cow Walking.
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Women--Portraits--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Family.; White Cow Walking.
- [188-?]
- White Cow Walking, Dakota, similar view
- White Cow Walking, Dakota female, 1/2 length studio portrait, wearing hair braided, breastplate, blanket wrapped around shoulders, and belt; originally identified as Walking Cow, Crow but later identified as Sitting Bull's daughter, White Cow...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Women--Portraits--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Family.; White Cow Walking.
- [188-?]
- Airplane view of flooded area from 3rd St.
- Aerial view of a flooded Arkansas River, damaged buildings and rail yards in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows the Pueblo Smelter, the Nuckolls Packing Company building, standing water identified as "Death Lake", a flooded Missouri Pacific...
- Ridgway, Arthur Osbourne, 1870-1953.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Disasters--1920-1930.; Arkansas River--1920-1930.; Pueblo (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Business districts--Colorado--Pueblo--1920-1930.; Cities &...
- 1921 June
- Black Hawk, Colo.
- Blackhawk lies at the mouth of Chase Gulch near Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. A railroad track forks in the foreground with one portion leading to the Polar Star Mill at right. The Empire Mill stands in the midground, and the Boiler Room...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]