Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Finntown, Leadville, 1941
- View of Finntown mining operations with shafthouses, headframes, and tailing dumps in Stray Horse Gluch, east of Leadville, Colorado.
- Finntown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Finntown--1940-1950.
- [1941]
- Finntown, Leadville, 1941
- View of Finntown mining district's dilapidated structures in Stray Horse Gluch, east of Leadville, Colorado. Structures along dirt road lined with power poles and power lines include a log cabin with corrugated metal roof, small lean-tos, wood...
- Finntown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Finntown--1940-1950.
- [1941]
- Leadville, Finntown, 1941
- View of Finntown mining district's dilapidated structures in Stray Horse Gluch, east of Leadville, Colorado. A small six-sided structure, possibly an outhouse, sits on a grassy slope in the foreground and is made of corrugated metal siding and has...
- Finntown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Finntown--1940-1950.
- [1941]
- Big Evans Gulch
- View of the exterior of dilapidated mining structures in Big Evans Gluch, northeast of Leadville, Colorado. Wood frame buildings include a front gable with porch and wooden stairs, attached two-story side gable with double-hung pane windows, and...
- Big Evans Gulch (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Lake County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Big Evans Gulch--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Leadville, Harrison Avenue
- This view looking north on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado includes a portion of old Lake County Courthouse after the July fire. Construction men work to brace the remaining structure. Landmark buildings include the American National Bank,...
- American National Bank (Leadville, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Delaware Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1940-1950.; First Presbyterian Church (Leadville, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Vendome Hotel--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Business...
- [1942]
- Harrison Avenue, Leadville 1948
- This view looking south on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado includes several landmark buildings. The Hotel Vendome, and the Delaware Hotel, both with mansard roofs, and the American National Bank with tower dome are included. Business signs...
- American National Bank (Leadville, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Delaware Hotel (Leadville, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Vendome Hotel--1940-1950.; Signs and signboards--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.;...
- 1948
- Tabor's "The Matchless," Leadville, Colo.
- View of a head frame and surface buildings at the Matchless mine, Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Posted sign reads: "Notice! Employees allowed in this mine only."
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1941
- The Little Johnny, Leadville, Colo.
- View of a dilapidated mill building and broken ore car track at the Little Johnny mine, Leadville (Lake County), Colorado.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Little Johnny Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1940
- Mine Leadville
- View of the shafthouse, tramway, and tailings of an abandoned mine near Leadville (Lake County), Colorado.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- August 10, 1941
- Shaft houses and gallows-frame Tabor's Matchless Mine Leadville, Colo
- View of the restored headframe and mine building of the Matchless Mine near Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Mine shafts--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- June, 1941
- Jesse McDonald's home on W. 7th St.
- This view of Jesse McDonald's home on West Seventh Street in Leadville, Colorado shows a large two-story clapboard structure with multi- gabled roofs, decorative fish-scale shingles, a front porch, brick chimneys, several large one sash and transom...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1968
- Lutheran Church, Leadville [graphic]
- Exterior view of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, West Eighth and James Street, Leadville, Colorado. The Gothic Revival style features pointed-arched windows, steep front gable, clapboard sidings, stone foundation, projecting stone entry tower with...
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (Leadville, Colo.); Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Lutheran churches--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Mine office, Leadville
- View of a concrete brick, one-story mine building in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The mine office has a gabled roof, wrought iron railings and brackets, and a pediment above the doorway.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Mill at Leadville
- View of corrugated metal-sided mine buildings in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows an elevator supported by timber scaffolding, and probably a road beside unidentified mine buildings.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Metal buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mills--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Ore industry--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Mill at Leadville
- View of an unidentified mining mill in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The building is on a hillside and has tar paper siding, a slanted roof, gable dormers and randomly placed windows.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mills--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Ore industry--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- House in Leadville, Colorado
- This view of a weathered residence on West Third Street in Leadville, Colorado features a one story wood frame house with front gable and low bracketed mansard roofs on a projecting bay with four windows, a covered entry door and a decorative...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Houses in Leadville, Colorado
- Three weathered clapboard two-story houses in Leadville, Colorado, are featured in this photograph. The house on the left has decorative front gable trim, three second-story windows with front gable overhangs, an arched attic window, a first floor...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [1941]
- Houses in Leadville, Colorado
- This view of a false front residence in Leadville, Colorado, features a weathered clapboard structure with fish-scale pattern shingles on a mansard front roof, a projecting gable porch with diamond pattern shingles covering the front entry, and...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1941
- House in Leadville, Colorado
- View of a two story house in Leadville, Colorado shows the original clapboard siding covered with composite siding. There is decorative front gable trim with turned finials, three second-story windows with front gable overhangs, an arched attic...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1962
- Lace House in Leadville
- View of the facade of the Lace House in Leadville, Colorado, shows the clapboard false front structure with jigsaw carving, a paired bracketed cornice with wood shingle roof, a central entry with metal screen door and transom, two tall flanking...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Lake County Courthouse fire
- View southwest towards the burning Lake County Courthouse and Court Exchange Bar on the west side of Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado. Firemen with hoses spray smoking buildings. The two-story brick Courthouse has a low hip roof and central...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Fires--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Fireplace at Healy House, Leadville
- Interior view at Healy House Museum, in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado; decor includes a marble fireplace, a mantle clock, ornate wallpaper, and a painting of a farrier and his dog.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bedrooms--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1920.; Fireplaces--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- [between 1940 and 1941]
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- Exterior view of the west facade of the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. The three-story wood frame building was built in 1878 by August R. Meyer and features...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- In this interior view of the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, a cast iron stove sit in front of a sunlit window with long tie-back curtains. The stove has raised legs and...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- In this interior view of a room in the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, is a close view of a dilapidated wooden rocker with an upholstered back, and a trunk with leather...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- Exterior view of the north facade of the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. The three-story wood frame building was built in 1878 by August R. Meyer and features...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- In this interior view of the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, there is a wooden rocker with scroll handles, an open writing desk and a fluffy dog in front of a sunlit pane...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- Exterior detail of an addition on the north side of the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. The one-story wood frame addition to the 1878 three-story August Meyer house...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1940
- In this interior view of a room in the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado there is a Franklin cast iron stove before restoration. It is dirty, missing the left top door and...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- Interior view of a corner of a room at the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. The room includes a wooden dresser with highback mirror, an armless chair to the left of...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bedrooms--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1920.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- Interior view of the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. The view includes a Franklin cast iron stove with skirt base foot rail, wooden chairs with decorative spindles,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- Interior view of a corner of a room in the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. Sunlight streams in a window of the room furnished with a dresser, two trunks and a round...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- Interior view of a bedroom of the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, includes a wardrobe with open doors displaying petticoats and dresses on wire hangers, an upholstered...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bedrooms--1880-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- Interior view of a corner of a room in the Healy House State Museum on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado. Sunlight streams in one of two windows and an open trunk with bonnet box and side...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- In this interior view of a bedroom in the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, is a room with patterned wall paper and carpet and a rocker with an upholstered back and a seat...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bedrooms--1880-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- In this interior view of a room in the Healy House Museum, at the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, sunlight streams in a window casting light over a sewing machine toward a dresser and two mannequin...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Lake County Courthouse fire
- In this view toward the southwest in Leadville, Colorado, the burning Lake County Courthouse and Court Exchange Bar on the west side of Harrison Avenue can be seen. Fireman with hoses spray the smoking buildings. The two story brick Courthouse with...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Fires--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Lake County Courthouse fire
- In this view of the burning Court Exchange Bar on the west side of Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, dark smoke billows from the building while townspeople look on from the street. Men holding a firehose spray water through a window. A chef...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Fires--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Healy House, Leadville, 1941
- In this interior view of a bedroom in the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado, a glare of sunlight comes through the window on the left side, illuminating a rocker with an...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bedrooms--1880-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1941
- Lake County Courthouse fire
- In this view of the burning Court Exchange Bar and the buildings between the Lake County Courthouse and the Fox Theater on the west side of Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, dark smoke billows from the courthouse while townspeople look on...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Fires--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Lake County Courthouse fire
- In this view of the burning Court Exchange Bar on the west side of Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, dark smoke billows from the building while townspeople look on from the street. Men holding a firehose spray water through a window. A chef...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Fires--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942 June 29
- Leadville, 1940, Healy House
- In this interior view of the dining room in the Healy House Museum, on the northwest corner of Harrison Avenue and East Tenth Street in Leadville, Colorado there is a black walnut sideboard with a mirror, ornately carved handles and decorative...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dining rooms--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Healy House State Museum.
- 1940
- Great Old Western Hotel, Leadville, 1941
- This view across a paved street to the Great/Old Western Hotel in Leadville, Colorado includes a log cabin with saddle corner notching, gabled roof and pronounced chinking. A picket fence is to the left of a larger two-story structure which has a...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [1941]
- Leadville 1942
- View west across Leadville, Colorado with Mount Massive of the Continental Divide in the background. The town is filled with wood frame residences, barns, sheds, mining operations with crushers, Stringtown smelters, smokestacks, and tailing dumps....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [1942]
- Leadville
- A woman poses on Capitol Hill in Leadville, Colorado. She wears a skirt, a matching top buttoned assymetrically, a wide belt, a textured jacket, and a fitted hat. Under her left arm is an artist's pad of drawing paper. She carries two small boxes...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Artists--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.; Women--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [1941?]
- Residence in Leadville, Colorado in 1941
- This view of the exterior of a large clapboard two-story residence in Leadville, Colorado shows a wood frame building with a front gable with porch and upper balustrade, an attached two-story side gable, double-hung pane windows, four brick...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Three houses in Leadville
- View of three wood frame houses on West Fourth Street in Leadville, Colorado. In the right foreground is a close-up of a small L- shaped house with a front gable and intersecting side gable. The corner front porch has turned posts, a spindle frieze...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1962
- Victorian style home in Leadville, Colorado
- Detail of the corner tower of a two-story Victorian house in Leadville, Colorado, includes decorative patterned shingles on the tower with a conical roof topped by a finial, tall narrow windows with drip moldings, clapboard siding, a brick chimney,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [1941]
- View from Pitts' front window
- View from the front window of the John and Ann Pitts' house across a wire fence with a gate, past tree trunks and a street with two parked automobiles to a two-story house in Leadville, Colorado. The house has front gable and clapboard siding,...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1968
- Clapboard house in Leadville
- This weathered clapboard two-story house in Leadville, Colorado, has decorative front gable trim with turned finial, three second-story windows with front gable overhangs, arched attic window, first floor large window flanked by two small...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- [1941]