Professor Tom Noel waves from the front porch of Murder By The Book (1936), a book shop at 1574 Pearl Street, in the Platt Park neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The shop is in a Queen Anne style house with prominent front and side gables and...
Murder By The Book (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Platt Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Bookstores.; Murder By The Book (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bookstores--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Denver...
View of the facade of West Moncrieff Place (1895), located in the West Highland neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Home of murder victim Phillip Peters and known as "The Spiderman House," the Queen Anne Cottage Style house features a fish scale...
Peters, Philip, d. 1941--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Montclair (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Houses.; Coneys, Theodore, 1882-1967--Homes & haunts.; Coneys, Theodore, 1882-1967--Homes and haunts.; Peters, Philip, d. 1941--Homes and...
View of a murder scene in Denver, Colorado; shows the body of an unidentified woman, a roll top desk, a telephone, a spittoon, and an overturned chair.
Denver (Colo.)--1910-1940.; Dead persons--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.; Homicides--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.; Victims--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.
Two women are escorted from a home in Denver. One women is being led out by a police officer and the other woman is being led out by a man in plain clothes. They may be leaving the scene of a murder or suicide.
Three handcuffed Mexican American youths on their way to Canon City, pose as they prepare to be transported to prison, Brighton (Adams County), Colorado. The men were sentenced to hang for the brutal murder of George F. Arnold, age 74. They are...
View of the Hinsdale County Courthouse located at 137 Henson Street in Lake City, Colorado. The two-story courthouse has a front gable, decorative brackets and lap-siding. In 1885, the courthouse was the site of one of Colorado's most notorious...
Court Houses--Colorado--Lake City--2000-2010.; Lake City (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Courthouses--Colorado--Lake City--Pictorial works.; Lake City (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
A poster from the United States Government Printing Office issued by the office of war information. It is an official war poster with an image of a young woman. The text reads "Wanted! for murder Her careless talk costs lives".
View of Red Cliff (or Redcliff), Summit (or Eagle) County, Colorado; shows frame buildings, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tracks, and Turkey Creek. Landmarks include the church, Eagle Hotel, Quartzite Hotel, Star Hotel, homes of Dr. A. G. Mays and...
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Red Cliff (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Red Cliff--1880-1890.
Three men stand outside of the Denver City Jail during the Brown Palace murder trial in Denver, Colorado. They wear suits, vests and hats. One man holds a cigar. The man in the center, with a rolled piece of paper in his hand, is the defendant,...
Brave Bear's wife and brother, Native American (Sioux) woman and man, pose outdoors near a tepee in an Indian encampment, possibly near Fort Randall, South Dakota. Men in military uniforms stand near tepees.
Dakota Indians--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Indian encampments--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Soldiers--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Tipis--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Women--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Brave...
View of the Center Theater entrance and marquee at 1621 Curtis Street in Denver, Colorado; shows neon sign and lettering: "Vaudeville Sensational Nude Dancer Flo Ash - Held Over," "The Watkins Twins," "Norman Nasarr," "The Junior Wranglers," "Wade...
Center Theater (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1940.; Electric signs--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.; Marquees--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Denver--1910-1940.
View of the former Douglas Hotel at 4050 Walnut Street in the Cole neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows an abandoned building with broken windows and deteriorated paper advertisements for Barnes Circus and Jap Rose Soap. Sign painted on the side...
Douglas Hotel (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cole (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
Orville J. Turley, escapee from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, lays dead in the snow. Convicted for the 1915 murder of Emma G. Wise in Denver, this was how his second escape attempt ended. Men in Fedoras and trenchcoats and guards...
Canon City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Prison escapes--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.
John Major Young, Black, handcuffed, and in a white suit jacket, passes through an interior door at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Men follow him and a guard holds the door in the foreground. Convicted of killing service station...
Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Young, John Major.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
Henry Stone poses in leg irons. This member of the 13th (Thirteenth) Missouri Cavalry confessed to the murder of two men. Over 3000 people attended his execution in Denver, Colorado Territory, on May 24, 1866.
Sanford Dougan, was lynched by a mob after being accused of murder in Denver, Colorado. He hangs from a tree and is dressed in a coat, slacks and boots. Shows a hat on the ground, handcuffs, a noose, and a hatchet stuck in the tree trunk. Frame and...
Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Dead persons--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Hangings--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Dougan, Sanford.
began operating in the summer of 1899 but was forced to close down a few months later when Bailey's main financial backer in New York City was killed in a fire. In desperation, Bailey turned to his family for financial backing. The treatment...
Ore-dressing plants--Colorado--Eldora--1900-1910.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Eldora (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Log buildings--Colorado--Eldora--1900-1910.
Court, four of the nine men were released for lack of evidence. The remaining men were found not guilty. The Bailey Mill was never operated for any extended periods of time after Bailey's death. Several different owners tried varying ore treatment...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dams--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Kemp, John H.
Ocean Wave Bridge, north of town, over the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River, Lake City, Colorado, a wood-beam and plank suspension bridge. George Betts and James Browning were hanged by a lynch mob on April 26, 1882 for the murder of Sheriff...
Gunnison River (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Lake City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Lake City--1890-1900.
Margaret Fliedner sits in a heavy wooden chair in the shell of a gas chamber manufactured by an unidentified iron works in Denver, Colorado. The chamber is ready for shipment to the Colorado State Penitentiary.
Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Gas chambers--Colorado--1930-1940.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Fliedner, Margaret.