Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Boulder Historical Society
- Caroline Bancroft proudly displays her book to two members of the Boulder Historical Society, Dr. J. B. Schoolland and Martin R. Parsons. She wears a plaid skirt, a scarf, a hat, and glasses. The men wear suits. Bancroft books are displayed on...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Historical societies--Colorado--Boulder--1950-1960.; Interiors.; Bancroft, Caroline.; Parsons, Martin R.; Schoolland, J. B.; Boulder Historical Society.
- January 22, 1959
- 1137 Pearl Street
- Posing in sack suits, hats, ties and gold chains, in Boulder, Colorado, these men are identified from left to right as: Hi Washburn, John Bester, Mell Sundstrag, Mr Bottoms, Barkley Sanders (or T.F. Wagner). The storefront behind them has window...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Facades--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Art gallery
- Funded by a grant from local art admirer Frank Lounsberry, the art hall at Chautauqua in Boulder, Colorado, is a frame, twenty-two foot square, cottage-roofed structure with a faceted turret-entry, and transom windows all around. Lettering above...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Art exhibitions--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- 1900
- Boulder City Mills
- "Boulder City Mills." is lettered on the side of this two-story, gable roofed frame structure in Boulder, Colorado. A smokestack rises from a flat-roofed brick extension; bushes, rocky bank, and Boulder Creek are in the foreground. Topping a hill...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Boulder Milling & Elevator Company
- Mill buildings in Boulder, Colorado, are of brick and corrugated tin, and have gable, flat, mansard (with dormers), or monitor roofs. Full burlap sacks, brooms, and bales of straw are on the wooden dock, fronted by bare trees with stumps painted...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Chautauqua art hall
- In Boulder, Colorado, wood panelling finishes the interior walls of the Art Hall at the Boulder Chautauqua. Portraits and landscapes hang in oval and rectangular frames. Others are on the floor, leaning, and plaster busts top pedestals.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Chautauqua art hall
- In Boulder, Colorado, wood panelling finishes the interior walls of the art hall at the Boulder Chautauqua. Portraits and landscapes hang in oval and rectangular frames. Plaster busts top pedestals; a folding chair is between them.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Art exhibitions--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Boys club
- Boys pose in kneepants and suspenders, some barefoot, pointing and lunging, in Boulder, Colorado. Striped canvas tents and the frame, two- story, Chautauqua academic hall are in the background. A bald man in back is by a sign reading: "Gymnasium."
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- Aug. 1900
- Chautauqua
- In Boulder, Colorado, wood panelling finishes the interior walls of the art hall at the Boulder Chautauqua. Portraits and landscapes hang in oval and rectangular frames. A sculpture of a draped woman with a deer and a plaster bust top pedestals; a...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Art exhibitions--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.; Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Flour mill
- Wooden beams, drive belts, and hanging lamps with frosted glass shades borne on curving rods fill the interior of the Boulder Milling and Elevator Company in Boulder, Colorado. Metal sifting cabinets with hoppers and flywheels are against the...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Interior Brown mercantile company, 1409 Pearl
- Hardwood shelves of crockery and tins line interior walls of this mercantile in Boulder, Colorado. Stacked, wood tables are crowded with canning jars, dinnerware, and cooking utensils. Tin buckets and lamps hang from the ceiling; crates in the...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Men--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895?]
- Interior James Kelley Grocery in the '80's
- Wallpaper and cabinets full of tins, boxes, dishes and soap comprise the interior of this business in Boulder, Colorado. Glass display cases top both counters; a cloth reads: "Marguerite;" posters are on the back wall. Posing from left to right are...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Interior of Fonda drug store
- Hardwood cabinets filled with apothecary bottles, jars, tins, and cannisters line the interior walls of Fonda's Pioneer Drug Store in Boulder, Colorado. Men pose in the store. Eben G. Fine pours liquid from a glass beaker into a glass container....
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Fine, Eben G.; Fonda's Pioneer Drug Store.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Interior Brown mercantile store, 1409 Pearl
- Buckets, birdcages, and a hammock hang from the ceiling of this mercantile in Boulder, Colorado. Wall shelves are filled with lamps and china; tables are stacked with dinnerware. A.S. Brown sits on a cast iron stove, Charles Rittmaster wears a...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mercantile facilities--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Poley drug store, Howard's resturant location [sic]
- Ornate hardwood cabinetwork finishes the interior of this business in Boulder, Colorado, filled with apothecary jars, bottles, and cannisters. Cigar boxes in curved glass display cases and a scale top the counter, and whisk brooms hang from it....
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Rocky Mountain Paint Shop
- Children pose with a dog and a burro in blinders on a dirt street in Boulder, Colorado. A woman in a plaid blouse stands in the door of the storefront behind them. The sign above depicts a country scene with a waterfall and a troubadour on...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Artists materials--1880-1890.; Facades--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Rutter and Hankins store 15th and Pearl Jas Hankins, Chas Turner, Jim Kelly, J.J. McCabe, Chas Nutter, Arthur Allen.
- Shelved canned goods line interior walls of this store in Boulder, Colorado. Posters depict a man and a woman and read: "Bartlett's Blue." Crates of fruit are displayed (some with netting), and baskets hang on the wall. Hardwood cases with curved...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; General stores--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Tenth and Walnut
- Men drive buckboards in muddy street fronting a business in Boulder, Colorado. Another poses in a gauge arched door in the side of this one-story, brick building with glass storefront and corbeled cornice. Lettering on it reads: "Roberts & Cobb...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; General stores--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- The Cabinet Janes and Sturtevant
- Cabinetcards in frames are on the wall of this flat-roofed plank shed in Boulder, Colorado. Rectangular photoplates lean against the wall and a woman stands in the door. Men and boys pose in the area, on the boardwalk. A gable roofed brick building...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Photography stores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1895?]
- Welch Block
- Stone pediments and sills finish this two-story brick commercial building in Boulder, Colorado, and chimneys rise from the roof. Lettering in the corner mitre of the bracketed cornice reads: "Welch 1877 (?);" other signs read: "Buckeye harvester...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Buildings--Colorado--Boulder--1870-1880.
- [between 1877 and 1880?]
- Whitney drug store
- Ornate spandrels top colonettes between windows of this storefront in Boulder, Colorado. A beaded mortar and pestle in the foreground tops a pole, and men posing on the sidewalk are dapper in their suits, gold chains and bowlers. Adjacent steps...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drugstores--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Woolworth main entrance
- Men in suits pose on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado. The storefront behind them has ornate wood pilasters flanking the entry; a thermometer is mounted on the doorframe. Framed prints and books are displayed behind the plate glass, and lettering...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Ben Williams, blacksmith shop, 2031 12th
- Men and a little girl pose at the open, double doors of this blacksmith business in Boulder, Colorado. They wear leather aprons. The frame, gable roofed building with brick chimneys has a false front and ornate signs: "Plows harrows Weir sulkies...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Forge shops--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Yount mill at mouth of Boulder [canyon], operated by water power
- Built on the sloping bank of Boulder Creek, this gambrel-roofed frame flour mill, operated by water power, in Boulder, Colorado, is supported at the end by piers. A horse and wagon are in the foreground, and a frame residence with an open porch is...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mills--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Ben Williams, blacksmith, 12th street
- Buckboards and wagon frames (one on sawhorses) crowd the yard of this business on Twelfth Street in Boulder, Colorado. Men pose in a line; behind them frame shop buildings are topped with chimneys and a sign reading: "Williams Blacksmith."
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Forge shops--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Boulder and the Flatirons
- Residences and civic buildings of Boulder Colorado include the Court House, a five-story structure with a cupola, towers with widow's walks, projecting bays, and a portico, and the Masonic Temple, a stone building with arched windows, pediments,...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Boulder--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Boulder Brick Works located north of Northside Junior High.
- Masonry enclosures in Boulder, Colorado, have a flat roof, a plank shed, or stacked bricks in them. The gable-roofed shop has a saltbox mill-housing, and brick or metal smokestacks. A field with a circular divot, dwellings, tilled fields, bare...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- C.E. Coulehan in his pioneer store, now Hubbell's seed store
- Men pose among stacks of full burlap bags in Boulder, Colorado, wearing vests, ties, straw and derby hats. Hanging from the glossy interior ceiling, a sign reads: "Agents of Baker Wire Co." Barrels, a spindle chair, and a bar handle truck crowd the...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Boulder--1870-1880.
- [between 1873 and 1880?]
- This bakery was located on the south side of Pearl in the 1200 block
- Bread loaves in bushel baskets and on tables flank the entry of this frame storefront in Boulder, Colorado. A man and boys pose on the boardwalk in the door, with barrels behind them and a projecting "Bakery" sign above. Lettering on the retracted...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bakeries--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Mr and Mrs Charles S Turner in their plumbing store at 1125 Pearl
- Wallpaper and wainscoting finish the interior of this business in Boulder, Colorado. Charles Turner leans on a roll-top desk where Mrs. Turner sits, in a puff sleeved dress with a bow at the waist. An Italian revival chair is by the hardwood and...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Offices--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Plumbing fixtures--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- 1898
- 1100 block on Pearl, south side
- Frame and brick false fronted stores line Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado. Men and boys pose on the boardwalk in suits, bowlers, and a chef's apron and hat. Cornice lettering reads: "Bush & Co. Jewelers.," and a pole edging the dirt street bears...
- Shold, P. M.; Boulder (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Boulder--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Yount flour mill in Mouth of Boulder Canon University in distance.
- Panoramic view of the town of Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County. University of Colorado is in background.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880?]
- Boulder, Colorado
- Panoramic view of the town of Boulder, Colorado in Boulder County.
- Boulder (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880?]