Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- J.H. Kilday & W. Weld, prop.'s, White-House saloon, Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Interior view of White House Saloon, Cripple Creek, Colorado; J. H. Kilday & W. Weld (proprietors), group of men stand in front of bar, two men wear aprons, one of whom holds a box of open cigars; additional men stand at bar with feet propped on...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Interiors.; White House Saloon (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [1893 or 1894]
- Blizzard staff photographer, Italy
- Portrait of a photograper with a pencil thin mustache wearing army uniform, helmet and carrying a 4x5 camera with flash. Taken as he bites into a piece of bread [?]. The photographer is Pfc. Bill Thompson.
- Photographers--1940-1950.
- [1945]
- Organ of the 1st Methodist Church
- Interior view, Methodist Episcopal Church, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows a pipe organ, stained glass, and lettering: "In Memory of Daisy Scott."
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Methodist Episcopal churches--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Organs--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Broadmoor Casino
- View of the Broadmoor Casino, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows the two-story frame building with a colonnaded, pedimented entry, balustrades, a wrap-around porch/balcony, and a lawn with a bandstand pavilion or gazebo and planted...
- Broadmoor Hotel and Casino (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Broadmoor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Casinos--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Gardens--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.;...
- [between 1891 and 1897?]
- Flower Carnival Parade
- View of the Sunflower Carnival parade, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; shows a man wearing a tophat and a girl in a flower covered sleigh on a wheeled horse-drawn cart; other floats follow as spectators watch from under trees lining the...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Floats (Parades)--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890- 1910.; Sleds & sleighs--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1910.
- [between 1893 and 1906?]
- Tucker's Restaurant
- Interior view of Tuckers Restaurant, 110 East Pikes Pike Avenue, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows the dining area of the long rectangular space divided with a wood partition wall with heavy curtains. The wood dining tables have...
- Tucker's Restaurant (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dining tables--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Restaurants--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1891 and 1900]
- Tucker's Restaurant
- Interior view of Tucker's Restaurant, 110 East Pikes Pike Avenue, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows the long rectangular space divided with a wood parition wall with heavy curtains to separate the dining tables from the service...
- Tucker's Restaurant (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cigars--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Showcases--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.;...
- [between 1891 and 1900]
- Wreck of first passenger train in Anacond [sic] F & C C RY
- View of a Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad wreck near Anaconda (Teller County), Colorado; shows men, women and children looking at wrecked passenger cars. A photographer has a box camera on a tripod.
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Photojournalists--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Railroad accidents--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad Company.
- 1894, July 9
- 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
- Mo and Friend
- Portrait of the photographer with his arm around an Italian woman. He is not wearing a shirt, only khaki pants. She is wearing a red sweater and a blue skirt. Behind them another man wearing a brown shirt looks on. Taken while the photographer was...
- Military life--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- Town still in Jerry hold
- View of a small Italian town on a hill, which according to the photographer was still held by the Germans when he encountered it while serving in the Tenth Mountain Division and took the photograph. Another town is visible on a hill in the...
- Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- 1945
- Olie and myself atop Homestake
- Two Tenth Mountain Division Skiers, Olie on the left and the photographer on the right pose, at the monument marking the crest of Mount Homestake. Both are on skis, although many rocks are visible through the snow. Both are wearing dark brown...
- Homestake Peak (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Photographers--Colorado--1940-1950.; Ski troops--Colorado--1940-1950.; Soldiers--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- [1943-1944]
- Skiers lunch at Resolution Pass
- Three Tenth Mountain Division soldiers have a picnic lunch in the snow at Resolution Pass, Colorado. The man in the center looks like the photographer, Jack Caldwell. According to him, his squad, part of the 86th Regiment, Company L, was noted for...
- Picnics--Colorado--1940-1950.; Photographers--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--Resolution Pass--1940-1950.; Caldwell, John C.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- 1943
- J.B. Sturdevant [sic] (Rocky Mt. Joe) 1898
- Photographer J. B. Sturtevant, nicknamed "Rocky Mountain Joe," stands near a large camera tripod in front of a studio backdrop painted with a landscape scene. Sturtevant, born in Boston, Massachusetts, became the first regular photographer in...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Photographers--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Photographic apparatus & supplies--1890-1900.; Photographic studios--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Studio props--1890-1900.; Sturtevant, J. Bevier (Joseph Bevier),...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Kemp Cabin - Happy Valley 1894
- A group of men, women and children poses in front of the Kemp family log cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp sits with young Don and his brother Robert on the steps to the cabin. Kemp was...
- Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Collins, Edgar.; Collins, Margie Becker.; Kemp,...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Kemp Cabin - Happy Valley 1894
- A group of men, women and children poses in front of the Kemp family log cabin near Eldora in Boulder County, Colorado. Photographer Donald C. Kemp's father John H. Kemp sits with young Don and his brother Robert on the steps to the cabin. Kemp was...
- Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Family.; Kemp, Donald Campbell, 1889-1975--Homes & haunts.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Becker, Margie.; Collins, Edgar.; Kemp, John H.;...
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- Studio portrait
- A man poses for a half-length, studio portrait, possibly at photographer Joseph Collier's studio on Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. The man wears a bow tie, a vest and a suit coat. He has a bushy beard and no moustache.
- Men--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- J. Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery, Main Street, Central Portraits and copying, in every style of the art from life- size downward, pictures taken all kinds of weather, satisfaction guaranteed, over 200 different views published, sales room open...
- Cardboard card is an advertisement for photographer Joseph Collier's studio in Central City, Colorado. Card shows four samples of Collier's landscape photographs and states his hours of business.
- Mountains--Colorado--1870-1880.; Rock formations--Colorado--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1877?]
- Victor fire
- View of Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad engine & train in ridge cut above Victor, Colorado, during devastating fire of August 21, 1889. Shows flat bed railroad cars filled with men holding personal belongings, household goods & furniture moved by...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Victor on fire, train-load of household goods saved by F. & C.C. Ry.
- View across Victor, Colorado, from ridge cut by Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad on outskirts of town. Shows gondola cars filled with people & their household goods moved by rail to this point saved from the devastating fire of August 21, 1899;...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fires--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Victor, Colo. from west
- Distant view of Victor, Colorado, from west; includes wooden frame and log commerical buildings and residences, canvas tent with wooden frames, construction of wooden frame buildings, and sign painted on building's falsefront: "A. Reynolds, Gents...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [1894 or 1895?]
- Mary Evalyn Corwin
- Studio bust portrait of Mary Evalyn Corwin, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Profile view shows her layered, curled bangs and her coronet twist hairstyle. Corwin wears a multi-strand pearl choker necklace.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Corwin, Mary Evalyn.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1887
- Helen Turner Creswell
- Studio bust portrait of Helen Turner Creswell, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Creswell's bangs are curled and her hair is done in a coronet twist on top of her head. Her dress bodice has ribbon panels on either side of the...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Creswell, Helen Turner.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1887
- Young woman
- Studio bust portrait of an unidentified young woman, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Her hair is styled in a coronet twist with curled bangs. She wears a loose lace collar tied high on her neck and draped down in the front.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1887
- Minnie Fitzgerald
- Studio bust portrait of Minnie Antoinette Fitzgerald, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Fitzgerald's bangs are layered and curled and her hair is probably pulled back, and trimmed short above her ears. Her dress has striped or...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Fitzgerald, Minnie Antoinette.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1887
- Horace Phelps
- Studio bust portrait of Alfred Horace Phelps, a senior at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Phelps wears his hair parted on the side, and he wears a coat and a patterned cravat.
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Phelps, Alfred Horace.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1887
- Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway
- View of three elevations of Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway (also called Crippe Creek Short Line) standard gauge track in foothills above Colorado Springs, Colorado; shows passenger train on top elevation of track, tunnels eight...
- Railroad tracks--Colorado--1900-1920.; Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Quality Hill, Silverton, Colo.
- View of frame two story houses with gambrel or mansard roofs, porches with gingerbread details, and fenced yards, and possibly St. John's Episcopal church on Snowden Street, in what is identified as "Quality Hill," an area near the base of Anvil...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1910.
- [between 1898 and 1905?]
- A. Brisbois photographer & staff
- Photomontage of Alfred Brisbois, a photographer in Leadville (Lake County) Colorado, and his staff, identified as: "Miss Rose Northrupp, Reception Room," "Mr. A. Muhr, Operator Late of New York," "Mr. W. W. Cecil, 1st Printer," "Mr. C. C. Turldon,...
- Brisbois, Alfred.; Cecil, William W.; Eitner, Carl.; Muhr, Adolph F., d. 1913.; Northrupp, Rose.; Turldon, C. C.; Photographic assistants--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Men--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.;...
- 1890?
- Photographer W. W. Cecil
- Portrait of photographer William W. Cecil in Leadville (Lake County) Colorado; montage includes high wheel bicycle.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Photographers--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Cecil, William W.
- 1890?
- Photographer W. W. Cecil
- Portrait of photographer William W. Cecil in Leadville (Lake County) Colorado, wearing a bow tie and moustache.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Photographers--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.; Cecil, William W.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Cripple Creek, biography
- Head and shoulders studio portrait of a male, Cripple Creek, Colorado; man dressed in an overcoat, suit coat, shirt and striped necktie with pin on tie knot.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Hanging of Gus Mentzer, Raton, N. M.
- Gus Mentzer, co-owner of the Bank Exchange saloon hangs from a noose on a sign post in front of the Raton Bank, corner of Clark Avenue and First (1st) Street, Raton, New Mexico. Mentzer was involved in a saloon ownership dispute that led to murders...
- Raton (N.M.)--1880-1890.; Dead persons--New Mexico--Raton--1880-1890.; Hangings--New Mexico--Raton--1880-1890.; Mentzer, Gus--Death.
- [1882]
- Pack Trane [sic] on Marshall Basin Trail, Telluride, Colo
- View of pack burros, men, and a dog on a Marshall Basin trail switchback in San Miguel County, Colorado; horses pull a makeshift grader.
- Marshall Basin (Colo.)--1870-1890.; San Miguel County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Mules--Colorado--San Miguel County--1870-1890.; Packtrains--Colorado--San Miguel County--1870-1890.; Trails & paths--Colorado--San Miguel County--1870-1890.;...
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Photographer William L. Ford
- Photographer William L. Ford, stands near his camera in downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows a trash can and briefcase with lettering that reads: "Wm. L. Ford Photographer 714 18th St." A man looks through the viewfinder of the camera. Automobiles are...
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Cameras--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Photographers--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Photography--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1932 and 1938]
- Roy O. Bingham, Blizzard photographer
- Roy O. Bingham holds a canvas covered box and poses for a portrait in front of an haystack; two jeeps a leafy tree and mountains in the background. Bingham, photographer for the Blizzard, was assigned to the Tenth Mountain Division in Italy.
- Photographers--1940-1950.; Bingham, Roy O.
- [1945]
- Fred G. Zugelder, pioneer contractor
- Head and shoulders studio portrait of Frederick G. Zugelder, pioneer stone mason contractor, Gunnison, Colorado; he wears a wool sack coat and vest with a cravat.
- Masonry--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Stonemasons--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.
- [between 1883 and 1889]
- J. Morse
- Head and shoulders studio portrait of E. Morse, Gunnison, Colorado; he wears a wool sack coat with small collar, narrow lapels, with top button fastened.
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Morse, E.
- 1887
- M. L. Morrison, T. R. Morrison
- Studio portrait of M. L. and T. R. Morrison, Gunnison, Colorado; shows the brothers behind a decorative ballustrade prop with a painted backdrop of vegetation. They wear loose fitting sack coats, trousers and vests.
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Morrison, M. L.; Morrison, T. R.
- [between 1883 and 1889]
- Leander Smith Grocery
- View of the Smith Block, the grocery of Leander Smith in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado, and the Isaac Davis building; shows mansard roofs, quoins, and storefronts. Buckboards and horses are on Canon Avenue; signs read: "Groceries....
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1887 and 1889?]
- A morning street scene, Telluride, Colo.
- Pack mules loaded with supplies on Colorado Avenue, Telluride, Colorado. Street filled with mules, each loaded with wooden crates; David Wood (?) in suit and hat stands with dog near front of pack. Masons are constructing First National Bank...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897]
- Black Hawk Colo., after the flood, July 30, 1895
- View from ground level of a street crowded with people after the flood of 1895 in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows a woman seated with umbrella, one woman standing with umbrella and propped against a leaning pole, and one woman with her left arm behind...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Main Street, Gunnison, Colo.
- View of east side of Main Street from the Red Lion Inn, Gunnison, Colorado; owners of the "Stough and Davis Dry Goods and Millinery" stand at their entry with fabric displayed; a large camera is on top of their rooftop sign. Frank E. Dean and his...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.
- 1882
- Salazar family
- Daniel and Maruca Salazar pose with their adult children, Maruca Salome Salazar and Gabriel Numa Salazar in Denver, Colorado. Maruca, Director of the Museo de las Americas, has gray hair, wears a striped handwoven dress and a reboso over her...
- Hispanic Americans--2000-2010.; Mexican Americans--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Families.; Salazar family--Pictorial works.; Families--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Mexican...
- [2009?]
- Victor
- Men wear hats, suits, vests or suspenders, and pose on wooden sidewalks in front of frame commercial buildings in Victor (Teller County), Colorado. A horseshoe is above the door at the Victor Daily News building near a sign that reads "Law Office."...
- Rohde & Goss Real Estate (Victor, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Men--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Newspaper industry--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Real estate business--Colorado--Victor--1890-1900.; Rohde, W. E.
- [between 1890 to 1898?]
- At the Iron Springs, Manitou
- View of frame and stone buildings and dirt streets on a hillside in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows the Ute Iron Springs pavilion and souvenir shop with stone pillars, a hipped roof and a widows walk. A person stands in the road...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Roads--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1886 and 1891?]
- Manitou
- Panoramic view of buildings in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows the circular drive of the four-story Manitou House Hotel, the frame Hiawatha Gardens building with a sign that reads: "A Public Resort for Gentleman," the stone Denver...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1900?]
- Boulder
- View of frame houses in Boulder, Colorado. Shows wooden sidewalks and utility poles beside dirt streets. Houses and Mount Saint Gertrude Academy are on University Hill, and the buildings of the University of Colorado, Hale Science Building, Old...
- University of Colorado (Boulder Campus)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.; Universities & colleges--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1900?]
- Boulder, Colo.
- View of brick and frame houses and commercial buildings in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows the Boulder County Courthouse with a dome and finial, the Masonic Temple building, the Central School, First Presbyterian Church, and Old Main and...
- Boulder (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Boulder--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1901?]
- Trinidad, Colo.
- Panoramic view of frame and brick houses and commercial buildings in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. Trees are near the Purgatoire River. Shows the one-story adobe square enclosure of the Felipe Baca residence. The flat summit of Fishers...
- Fishers Peak (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Trinidad--1880-1890.
- 1881?