Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Morley, Las Animas County, Colorado
- View of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coal camp of Morley in Las Animas County, Colorado. The Colorado Supply Company store, doctor's office, and company boarding house occupy a large mission style structure with towers and a stucco...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1920.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1900-1920.; Company towns--Colorado--Morley--1900-1920.; Morley (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--Morley--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1907 and 1915?]
- Morrison 7 miles up Bear River (Creek) Parmby Gulch - Pennyweight Gulch.
- Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado, is dusted in snow. Tracks of the Colorado and Southern Railroad are in the foreground near a frame dwelling with a square tower and balcony. The school is on a rise, and foothills are in the background.
- Morrison (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Morrison, Colorado on wagon - Grandfather Joseph Warren lewis other man unidentified.
- Joseph Wareen Lewis and an unidentified man pose with a buckboard and horses in Morrison (Jefferson County), Colorado. Trees, fences, and sheds are in the distance.
- Morrison (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Morrison--1890-1900.; Lewis, Joseph Warren.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Hotel Imperial, Longmont, Colo. [graphic]
- View from the paved intersection, of the Hotel Imperial, (formerly the Zweck Hotel, built in 1881) 301 Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, shows the three story painted brick hotel with automobiles parked curbsides. The building features: a corner...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Hotels--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- [between 1970 and 1980]
- Myer's cabin - Montgomery, Colo.
- Well dressed men and women in Montgomery, Park County, Colorado, pose on the deck of a long, one-story log cabin. A birdcage [?] is by the double hung window. Lumber, a fence, and horses are in the foreground; dwellings and mountain slopes are in...
- Montgomery (Colo.)--1850-1870.; Log cabins--Colorado--Montgomery--1850-1870.
- [between 1859 and 1868?]
- Imperial, 3rd. & Main
- View from intersection of the Hotel Imperial, (formerly the Zweck Hotel, built 1881) 301 Main Street, Longmont, Colorado, shows the three story brick hotel with horse drawn carriages and several men. The building features: a corner entrance,...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- El Jebel
- The El Jebel Masonic Temple in Denver, Colorado, is a Moorish design by the Baerresen Brothers. The ballroom interior is an ornate variety of carved plaster and stenciling in Arabesques, scallops, knotwork, gilt, and tile. Columns support arches...
- El Jebel Temple (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ballrooms--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Vaults (Architecture)--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1907 and 1910?]
- El Jebel
- The El Jebel Masonic Temple in Denver, Colorado, has a Moorish interior, featuring plaster carved with Arabic inscriptions. Muqarnas follow the ceiling coves; the walls are stenciled with arabesques, and columns flank scalloped arches. Veined...
- El Jebel Temple (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors.
- [between 1907 and 1910?]
- El Jebel
- The El Jebel Masonic Temple in Denver, Colorado, of "The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobility of the Mystic Shrine," is a Moorish design by the Baerresen Brothers. The ballroom has ornate stenciled borders; columns support the beamed ceiling....
- El Jebel Temple (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ballrooms--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Chandeliers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors.
- [between 1907 and 1910?]
- El Jebel
- The El Jebel Masonic Temple in Denver, Colorado, a Moorish design by the Baerresen Brothers, was dedicated in 1907. The ballroom interior has ornate stenciled borders; columns support the beamed ceiling. Swinging doors lead to a room with pointed...
- El Jebel Temple (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ballrooms--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors.
- [between 1907 and 1910?]
- El Jebel
- The El Jebel Masonic Temple in Denver, Colorado, is a Moorish design by the Baerresen Brothers. The ballroom interior is an ornate variety of carved plaster and stenciling in Arabesques, scallops, knotwork, gilt, and tile. Columns support a...
- El Jebel Temple (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ballrooms--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Mezzanines--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1907 and 1910?]
- El Jebel
- The El Jebel Masonic Temple in Denver, Colorado, dedicated 1907, is a Moorish design by the Baerresen Brothers. This room interior has angled walls, carved plaster brackets, cartouches, and garlands. An arched frame holds a mirror; a leaded glass...
- El Jebel Temple (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Chandeliers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Parlors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1907 and 1910?]
- Aimee healing during crusade in Denver Auditorium.
- Two Denver police officers stand guard as Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson prays for the an sick person, City Auditorium, Denver, Colorado. "Sister Aimee" and members or possible converts of the International Church of the Four Square Gospel raise...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- January 16, 1927
- Aimee healing during services in auditorium.
- Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson kneels and prays for the a sick woman, City Auditorium, Denver, Colorado. "Sister Aimee's" secretary, Emma Schaffer, holds up the sick woman's arm during the gospel show used to convert people to her International...
- City Auditorium (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International...
- January 17, 1927
- Aimee healing during services in Auditorium
- Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson hugs a young girl standing up from her wicker wheelchair, during an International Church of the Foursquare Gospel meeting at the City Auditorium, Denver, Colorado. "Sister Aimee" wears a white nurse uniform. Her...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Healing--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; Schaffer, Emma.; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- January 17, 1927
- Alpine
- View of Alpine Coal Mine structures, Gunnison County, Colorado, shows headframe, gondola cars full of coal, smokestacks, and a sign: "Baldwin." Renamed Baldwin in 1910.
- Alpine Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- [1910]
- Ann Bassett Willis
- Head and shoulders portrait of Ann Bassett Willis, shows her in a dark high neck dress with her hair in a bun. Known as Queen Ann Bassett, Queen of the cattle rustlers, and possibly alias Etta Place, Queen of the Outlaws.
- Criminals--1890-1910.; Women--1890-1910.; Willis, Ann Bassett.
- [between 1898 and 1910]
- Alpine
- View of Alpine Coal Mine structures, Gunnison County, Colorado, shows smoking stacks, headframe and piles of timber. Renamed Baldwin in 1910.
- Alpine Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1910
- Bonnie McCarrol thrown from Silver, Bonnie knows they let'er buck
- Action shot of cowgirl Bonnie McCarrol, popular bronc-riding champion, being thrown off bucking bronco, Silver, at the Round Up, Pendleton, Oregon. She rides "slick" like male rodeo circuit riders with stirrups hanging loose. Riding "hobbled" with...
- Pendleton (Or.)--1910-1920.; Broncos--Oregon--Pendleton--1910-1920.; Cowgirls--Oregon--Pendleton--1910-1920.; Rodeos--Oregon--Pendleton--1910-1920.; McCarrol, Bonnie.
- [1915]
- Burros packing coal to forest shaft
- Burros loaded with coal and a group of men make their way along a snowslide in Imogene Basin, Uncompahgre National Forest, Ouray County, Colorado. A mining structure with tailings shows on slope below rocky peaks.
- Imogene Basin (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Ouray County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1920.; Donkeys--Colorado--Ouray County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Cattle in a blizzard on the plains
- Image of a drawing by Charles Graham from a sketch by H. Worrall of cattle during a Colorado plains snow storm. The cattle are inside a barbwire fence.
- Blizzards--Colorado--1880-1890.; Cattle--Colorado--1880-1890.
- 1886
- Charles Bent Gov.
- Head and shoulders portrait of Charles Bent, one of the four Bent brothers who founded Bent's Fort along the Santa Fe Trail. Bent served as governor of the New Mexico province taken in the Mexican American War, until he lost his life in a 1847...
- Governors--New Mexico--1840-1850.; Bent, Charles, 1799-1847.
- March 1847
- Colorow, Ute chief
- Portrait of Chief Colorow, called Colorado, Native American Ute Indian; he wears long hair with banks tied back in a fur tail and is wrapped in a woven patterned blanket.
- Ute Indians--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Portraits--1870-1880.; Colorow, ca. 1810-1888.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- A cow boys funeral
- Cowboys gather around a grave site of a fellow cowboy. They hold their hats and some hold shovels. Their horses are behind them.
- Cowboys--1890-1910.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--1890-1910.; Graves--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Crowd in Denver Auditorium waiting to be healed
- Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and members of her International Church of the Foursquare Gospel pray over the sick lying on cots, City Auditorium, Denver, Colorado.
- City Auditorium (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Sick persons--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International...
- January 17, 1927
- Doc Susie headed for college at Cripple Creek home
- Susan Anderson, at age 23, (1870-1960) stands outside her log cabin in Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado. Two men sit on log stumps next to neatly stacked split firewood. An ax is in a large log on cross stands. Susan graduated from medical...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Physicians--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1893?
- During crusade held at Denver Auditorium
- Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson preaches from a ornate wooden lectern decorated with live roses, crusading for converts for her International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, City Auditorium, Denver, Colorado. She wears a nurse uniform and cape.
- City Auditorium (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- January 16, 1927
- Flashlight photo of Sacred dance of the Geronimo Apache Indians
- A figure in a mask and one with a walking stick dance around a large fire, while a group of Apache girls stand together on opposite side of fire. Spectators, some wrapped in blankets, sit in ring to watch the puberty ceremony. A walled tent and a...
- Puberty rites--1890-1910.; Apache Indians--1890-1910.; Girls--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Denver Pacific Railway
- Side view of the Walter Scott Cheeseman locomotive of the Denver Pacific Railway; pulled first passenger train to Denver from Cheyenne on July 24, 1870. Line built by Cheeseman and other Denver men.
- Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company--1890-1900.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Flood
- View of the flood along the South Platte River, Denver, Colorado; general view from a helicopter shows the railroad yards south of the 14th (Fourteenth) Street Viaduct, the Colorado and Southern Railway shops, and other facilities with rip tracks...
- Denver (Colo.)--1960-1970.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1960-1970.; Floods--Colorado--Denver--1960-1970.; Railroad shops & yards--Colorado--Denver--1960-1970.
- June 17, 1965
- In Denver, Civic Center Capitol Building in background.
- Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with members of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel gather on Civic Center, Denver, Colorado. "Sister Aimee" wears a white nurse uniform with a blue cape.
- Civic center (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- August 12, 1937
- In Denver, Civic Center
- Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with members of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel gather on Civic Center, Denver, Colorado. "Sister Aimee" wears a white nurse uniform with a blue cape and talks with a policeman and another man.
- Civic center (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- August 12, 1937
- In my fighting clothes
- Standing portrait of Nat Love, in front of a painted studio backdrop. A Black cowboy, also known as Dead Wood Dick for his shooting abilities, later became a Pullman porter. He wears long hair, a wide brim hat, leather chaps, bullet (ammo) belt and...
- African Americans--1890-1900.; Cowboys--1890-1900.; Railroad porters--1890-1900.; Love, Nat.
- [between 1894 and 1899]
- John Cleveland Osgood
- Head and shoulders portrait of John Cleveland Osgood, mining magnate in Crystal River Valley, founder of the Colorado Fuel Company, and idealist who created model workers' village of Redstone. He wears a suit with a vest and bow tie; his hair and...
- Osgood, John Cleveland, 1851-1926.
- [between 1910 and 1925]
- Joseph L. Wescott
- Outdoor standing portrait of Joseph L. Wescott, one of Grand Lake's original settlers, includes the photographer's shadow. Wescott wears trousers, vest, and a wide brim hat.
- Wescott, Joseph L.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- The Gilpin Tramway Co.
- 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.
- [1900 or 1901]
- Kate Lee
- Standing portrait of Kate Lee, a Black woman, daughter of Jeremiah Lee; she props a book up on a tall table beside her; her dark dress is tightly belted high on her waist; she wears a bow in her hair and drop earings.
- African Americans--Women--1890-1900.; Lee, Kate.
- [between 1860 and 1868]
- Kubler
- View of Kubler Mine structures, Gunnison County, Colorado, shows railroad tracks and a tall smokestack.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- [between 1920 and 1936]
- Kubler
- A miner uses a pick ax and shovel to fill an ore cart with the shiny bituminous coal, inside the Kubler Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado. Timber uprights brace the ceiling.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Ore industry--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1913
- Kubler
- A young Black girl stands next to a storage box outside of the neatly constructed company log houses with shingle roofs, near the Kubler Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado. Wash tubs, laundry line and a broom show around the cabins.
- Kubler Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; African Americans--Children--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Mining camps--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1913
- Major General Grenville M. Dodge Commander Department of the Missouri.
- Head, shoulders and chest portrait of Major General Grenville M. Dodge, shows the commander with a full beard wearing a military issue double breasted winter coat, a bow tie and hat. Dodge was a civil and military engineer and Chief Engineer of the...
- Military officers--1860-1870.; Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916.
- 1865
- Miner's still
- A miner smokes a pipe as he sits next to rigged liquor still, possibly in Colorado. Hoses come from a wooden barrel set on stack of beams and wooden crates. The hoses lead to buckets in a freshly dug trench, the shovel is beside the man. Bottles,...
- Miners--Colorado--1910-1920.; Stills (Distilleries)--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1915 and 1920]
- Joslins
- View of the five story Joslin Department store on the corner of Curtis and 16th (Sixteenth) Street, Denver, Colorado, includes the A. C. Foster Building (University Building), Rialto Theater, Kress building, street cars, pedestrians and automobiles.
- Joslins (Firm)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Department stores--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- May 2, 1930
- Mrs. Nat Collins
- Head and shoulders portrait of Mrs. Nat Collins, the cattle queen of Montana, with a large flower corsage on her dress. First woman in Montana to raise, ship, and accompany her stock to Chicago Market.
- Ranchers--Montana--1910-1920.; Women--Montana--1910-1920.; Collins, Nat Mrs.
- 1911
- Ouray, head chief of the Utes
- Portrait of Chief Ouray, Native American Indian, spokesman for the Utes, peacekeeper between his people and ever increasing number of white settlers. He wears long neat braids, thin facial hair, a tailored vest and shirt with a beaded choker around...
- Ute Indians--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Portraits--1870-1880.; Ouray.
- [between 1877 and 1880]
- Parade on Broadway
- Members of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, founded by Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, parade south on Broadway, past R. R. Hall Inc. Cadillac, LaSalle Sales and Service, Denver, Colorado. Banners read: "Aimee Semple McPherson,...
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Evangelists--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
- August 12, 1937
- Ute camp
- Two Ute Indians pose outside their teepee constructed over a tree and poles, Colorado. Firewood and cooking pots are on ground; two more teepees and saddled horses are in background.
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1880-1900.; Outdoor cookery--Colorado--1880-1900.; Tipis--Colorado--1880-1900.; Ute Indians--Colorado--1880-1900.
- [between 1885 and 1895]
- Writing home to... and he got her, too, Oz wagon, two day camp
- Wagon boss, Stan (Stanford) Sherman, sits with his back resting on camp supplies and writes a letter; another man reaches for food [?] inside a wooden box, at their two day camp, Colorado. Their wagon is equipped with rope; a large sheet of canvas...
- Carts & wagons--Colorado--1900-1910.; Sherman, Stan.
- June 1903
- School interior
- Interior view of log school house in Colorado. A teacher stands over her students who are seated at their desks reading books. Paper weavings and pictures of women dressed in high fashion are tacked to the wall.
- Interiors.; Log buildings--Colorado--1890-1900.; School children--Colorado--1890-1900.; Schools--Colorado--1890-1900.; Teachers--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Bowie Coal Mines end of shaker, lump and nut beams
- Chunks of coal move on conveyor belts inside a Alexander Bowie Coal Mine structure, (formerly Juanita Coal and Coke) Delta County, Colorado.
- Bowie Coal Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Delta County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Delta County--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]