Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 16, 1910 April 16
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 13, 1911 March 25
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 30, 1911 July 22
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 12, 1912 March 23
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 10, 1909 April 24
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 45, 1909 December 25
- The Good Old Days: Grigsby Family History
- Intensive document covering the Grisby family history starting in the early 1870's in Iowa.
- 2012 June 20
- Fiftyniners' directory : Colorado Argonauts of 1858-1859. A directory of their arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, ranches; with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters.
- A transcription of two volumes originally created by Henrietta Bromwell pertaining to the lives and events surrounding the early settlers of Colorado.
- Pioneers--Colorado.; Colorado--Biography.
- 2004
- 1885 Colorado State Census : Arapahoe County : Including the City of Denver and Portions of Present Day Adams and Arapahoe Counties
- Comprehensive index created of the 1885 Arapahoe County, Colorado State Census created by The Colorado Genealogical Society. Geographically included in the index is: present Denver, Arapahoe and Adams counties. Information included in the index...
- Colorado--Census--19th century.; Denver (Colo.)--Census--19th century.; Arapahoe County (Colo.)--Census--19th century.; Census records.
- 2002
- 1884 Corbett & Ballenger's 12th Annual Denver City Directory.
- 1907 Ballenger & Richards 35th Annual Denver City Directory
- 1893 Corbett & Ballenger's 21st Annual Denver City Directory
- 1873 Corbett, Hoye & Co.'s Directory of the City of Denver for 1873 Volume 1
- Colorado portrait and biography index : gathered and arranged from histories, magazines, newspaper files, land records, and many other sources, 1931, 1932, 1933, Denver.
- Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
- Colorado--Biography.
- 1933, 2005
- A. H. Jones & Co importers and jobbers of wines, brandies and cigars Dealers in Kentucky, rye and white wheat whiskeys, California Wines and brandies, Crow & Clark's Block, Holladay Street, near G, Denver, Col.
- View of A. H. Jones & Co, in Denver, Colorado; shows men posing by brick buildings with storefronts. Sign reads: "E. H. Tobey & Co."
- A. H. Jones & Co.--Buildings--1860-1880.; Denver (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Liquor stores--Colorado--Denver--1860-1880.
- [between 1860 and 1880?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Abel, Albert
- Western History Subject Index
- Abel, Albert
- The Adams Hotel
- View of the Adams Hotel at 18th (Eighteenth) and Welton Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. The four-story brick building has arched windows and decorative trim. Signs read: "The Adams" and "Soda Cigars."
- Adams, The (Hotel : Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1910]
- Adams Hotel
- View of the Adams Hotel at 1800 Welton Street in downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows a four-story brick building with contrasting trim and arched windows. A cupola sits atop a roof dome. A sign outlined in electric bulbs that reads "The Adams" hangs...
- Adams, The (Hotel : Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1902 and 1910?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Ahrens & Herbert
- Alamosa
- Several buildings were moved to Alamosa, Colorado, from Garland City in 1878. Men stand on a boardwalk, posing in front of some of them. From the left to right are Sabine, Thomas, Putnam, Hill and Anthony. Thomas has a hand trick with full sacks...
- Alamosa (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Alamosa--1870-1880.
- [1878]
- Alma Colorado, where Hilma Hanson was born in 1877
- This view west of Alma, (elevation, 10,353 feet) in Park County, Colorado, includes wood frame barns, sheds, false front commercial buildings, log cabins, smelting works with long wood piles, and a church. Lettering painted on commercial buildings...
- Alma (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mountains--Colorado--1870-1880.
- [between 1875 and 1880]
- Altman street scene
- View down a busy main street in Altman, Colorado, located three miles north of Victor, on a saddle between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, Teller County, includes men, boys, a few girls in dresses and horse-drawn wagons. Wood frame false fronts, front...
- Altman (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Albuquerque - The Alvarado
- View of the Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The building is a Mission Style structure featuring arcades, a tile roof, curvilinear gables, projecting eaves, exposed rafters, and towers. A curvilinear stucco gateway opens into a courtyard...
- Alvarado Hotel (Albuquerque, N.M.)--1900-1910.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1910.; Albuquerque (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Arcades (Architectural components)--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1900-1910.; Gates--New...
- [between 1902 and 1910?]
- Antonito
- View on Main Street in Antonito, San Luis Valley, Conejos County, Colorado; shows men in an automobile in front of brick businesses; sign reads: "Billard & Pool, All Down But Nine, Cigars, Tobacco," "Cigars," "Post Cards." Men and a dog stand on...
- Antonito (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Convertible automobiles--Colorado--Antonito--1910-1930.; Facades--Colorado--Antonito--1910-1930.; Tobacco shops--Colorado--Antonito--1910-1930.
- [between 1917 and 1925]
- Denver County Court House
- Bird's eye view of old Denver County Courthouse (also called Arapahoe County Courthouse), bounded by 15th & 16th Streets and Tremont & Court Places, Denver, Colorado; completed in 1883, demolished in 1933; well or fountain behind courthouse, early...
- Arapahoe County Courthouse (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1909 or 1910]
- Denver County Court House
- Bird's eye view of old Denver County Courthouse (also called Arapahoe County Courthouse), bounded by 15th & 16th Streets and Tremont & Court Places, Denver, Colorado; completed in 1883, demolished in 1933; well or fountain behind courthouse, early...
- Arapahoe County Courthouse (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Courthouses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [1909 or 1910]
- Cooper Avenue, Aspen
- Carriages and coaches are parked along unpaved, dusty Cooper Avenue in Aspen, Colorado. Signs on buildings read: "Turley - Arley Furniture - Queensware," "Hooper Bros. Jewelers," "E.W. Fleming," and "Cigars & Tobacco." Telegraph posts are on...
- Aspen (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Aspen--1880-1900.
- [between 1886 and 1892]
- Lawrence Street, Denver, Colo
- View of Lawrence Street, Auraria in Denver, Colorado; shows office buildings and horse and buggy traffic. A female wooden model is by the McClelland (or McLellan?) Block; signs read: "Joslins," "Cigars."
- Auraria (Denver, Colo.)--1870-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Denver--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Bacon, B E
- Group posed in costume
- Men pose in swimming suits including tank-top shirts, shorts, police badges, and cigars.
- Bathing suits--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Toll gate, Bear Creek Falls
- Men on horseback or beside a horse drawn wagon pose at a toll gate on the Otto Mears toll road between Ouray and Silverton in Ouray County, Colorado. A log toll house has a covered porch and a sign that reads: "[?] Whiskey and Fine Cigars." A log...
- Bear Creek (Ouray County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Ouray County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Gates--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Log buildings--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Streams--Colorado--Ouray...
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Becker, J H
- Western History Subject Index
- Begging. Denver
- Black Hawk, Colo.
- A flagpole bearing the American flag stands on the street. Several mines and shafthouses dot the hillsides surrounding the town.; Horse-drawn wagons travel up and down Gregory Street in Blackhawk, Colorado, in Gilpin County. Signs are on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Blackhawk, Colorado, 1880-1899 (prints)
- The large Gregory-Buell Mill complex is in the foreground in this view of Blackhawk in Gilpin County, Colorado. Several businesses face Gregory Street in the left foreground, including "The Colorado Shoe" and the Black Hawk Bakery, which has an...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Bakeries--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Mills--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Presbyterian...
- [between 1899 and 1910?]
- Main Street Black Hawk, Colo., v915
- View west up Gregory Street and Gregory Gulch, Black Hawk, Colorado. Sign on building reads: "Mountain Inn Ice Cold Drinks, Cigars, Tobacco, Notions, Fountain Service." Planks cover the cement flume, serve as a sidewalk, and prevent flooding by...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1920-1930.
- [192-?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Blair, T W
- 114 E. Pikes Peak Avenue,
- Stockbrokers, and Charles Berry, R. S. Zimmerman, and Charles D. Hopkins, pose on the sidewalk in front of "The Board of Trade and Mining Exchange," East Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The Midland Block storefront...
- Board of Trade and Mining Exchange (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commodity exchanges--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Stock exchanges--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.;...
- June 1897
- Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado
- Frame and brick storefronts on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, have false fronts and signs reading: "Cigars tobacco and smokers articles," "Fresh oysters," "Fruit confectionary," "K. S. Peak agent for Snyders Distillery," "Stoves & tinware,"...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Boulder--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Boulder County. Colorado. Business Manufacturing
- Butchers and grocers outing in mountains
- Outdoor portrait of men and boys in Colorado; shows medals, ribbons, bow ties, cigars, a beer stein, and hats.
- Boys--Colorado--1900-1920.; Men--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1904 and 1920?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Bradshear
- Western History Subject Index
- Brasher brothers
- Western History Subject Index
- Brasher brothers
- Breckenridge, Colorado
- View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest, includes the tracks of the Colorado and Southern Railroad in the foreground, with mine tailings and hydraulic dredge in a water filled pit. Dwellings and commercial buildings follow; one has an...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Breckenridge--1910-1920.
- [betwen 1910 and 1919?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Brown, William
- Buena Vista Main St.
- Frame commercial buildings line Main Street in Buena Vista, Colorado. The boardwalk has men, barrels and nail kegs on it; wagons and a Labrador dog are in the dirt street. Signs read: "Tents," "Hardware," "Board of Trade," "Cooper's Place,"...
- Buena Vista (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Buena Vista--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Buena Vista
- Main Street, in Buena Vista, Colorado, is lined on both sides with frame, false-fronted businesses. Men, horses, and wagons are on the boardwalks and in the street, which has piles of rock in its center. Signs read: Morris wine & beer hall, Little...
- Buena Vista (Colo.)--1885-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Buena Vista--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1890?]
- Men in front of circus tents
- Members of the Sells Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show pose near tents. The men wear hats, some smoke cigars.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company--People--1910-1920.; Sells Floto Circus--People--1910-1920.; Circuses & shows--1910-1920.; Men--1910-1920.; Smoking--1910-1920.; Wild west shows--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1917?]