Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Canon City High School, 1884
- These young men of the first High School graduating class (1884) in Canon City, Colorado, are identified as follows: Clyde C. Dawson (left), Geo. Brewster (standing), Henry Topping (left sitting), Frank H. Megee (right sitting), Judge James L....
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1884
- Durango and La Plata Peaks from the Reservoir D & R.G.R.R. No. 442
- Panoramic view of the town of Durango, Colorado, in La Plata County. The La Plata peaks are in the background.
- Durango (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1899]
- Granite City on the Arkansas looking north
- The Arkansas River winds through the mining community of Granite, Colorado, in Chaffee County. A bridge spans the river. Buildings of the commuity are on both sides of the valley.
- Granite (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bridges--Colorado--Granite--1880-1890.; Arkansas River.
- [1880?]
- Petrified stumps near South Park near Florissant, Colo
- View of a petrified tree stump in Florissant (Teller County), Colorado.
- Florissant (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Petrified wood--Colorado--Florissant--1860-1880.
- [betweem 1864 and 1877]
- Fall River, Colo. Clear Creek Canon
- Clear Creek flows past the town of Fall River, Colorado, in Clear Creek County. A dirt road is parallel to the river.
- Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1860-1880.; Fall River (Colo. : Town)--1860-1880.
- [between 1864 and 1877]
- Fall River, Colorado
- Clear Creek and Fall River flow through and near the town of Fall River (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
- Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1860-1880.; Fall River (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1860-1880.; Fall River (Colo. : Town)--1860-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Fall River--1860-1880.; Streams--Colorado--Fall River--1860-1880.
- [between 1860 and 1880]
- 1878 Lawrence Street, Central City, Colorado
- right background.; Stereographic view of the offices of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co.'s Express on the second level of a brick building on Lawrence Street in Central City, Colorado. On the first level of the building are the offices of the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1877?]
- Residences in Central City, Colorado
- A horse-drawn carriage with two young men sitting in it is stopped in front of a two-story brick house in Central City, Colorado. A man and a woman stand on the front porch leaning against support columns. A wood fence borders the property of the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Porches--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1877?]
- Glen Eyrie
- Exterior view of Glen Eyrie, near Manitou Springs, Colorado. This three story frame residence remodelled since first built in 1871 by General William Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs and prominent Manitou citizen, has a gabled roof, a...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909--Homes & haunts.
- [between 1883 and 1886?]
- Birdseye view of Black Hawk
- A bird's eye view of Black Hawk, Colorado, looking west up Gregory Gulch and taken from Swede Hill; shows Gregory Street from east to west: Black Hawk Cracker Bakery, Ed. C. Hughes' Meat Market, Hardware and Stoves, Drugs. Flagpole is prominent in...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [1872]
- Central City, Colorado
- View of Central City, Colorado, taken probably in the early 1860s; shows many wood structures, most of which burned in the fire of 1874.
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- [1860?]
- Central City, Colorado, ca. 1866
- Central City, Colorado; shows mostly wood frame houses. Most of the structures in the image burned with the fire of 1874.
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.
- [1866?]
- Hydraulic mining
- View of a placer mine district; shows eroded embankments, a stream, frame buildings, trestle flumes, and pine forest.
- Mining camps--Colorado--1860-1890.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--1860-1890.; Mining--Colorado--1860-1890.
- [between 1860 and 1890?]
- From H. C. Brown house on Bdwy between 17 & 18
- Rooftop view of Denver, Colorado. Houses line the dirt streets.
- Denver (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.; Residential streets--Colorado--Denver--1870-1880.
- 1872
- Brownville near Georgetown
- These mining sheds are possibly near Brownsville, in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Large piles of cordwood line the dirt roads among the sheds and dwellings, all situated on a steep, rocky slope.
- Brownsville (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1880-1900.
- [between 1886 and 1898]
- Snowbound
- Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad locomotives and a freight car stop amid snowbanks between Conover and Ridgeway (Winneshiek County), Iowa.
- Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company--1870-1880.; Winneshiek (Iowa)--1870-1880.; Railroads--Iowa--Winneshiek County--1870-1880.; Snow--Iowa--Winneshiek County--1870-1880.
- [1873]
- Snowbound
- Men pose atop a Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad locomotive amid snowbanks between Conover and Ridgeway (Winneshiek County), Iowa.
- Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company--1870-1880.; Winneshiek (Iowa)--1870-1880.; Railroad locomotives--Iowa--Winneshiek County--1870-1880.; Snow--Iowa--Winneshiek County--1870-1880.
- [1873]
- Snowbound
- A Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad locomotive and freight cars stop amid snowbanks and drifts between Conover and Ridgeway (Winneshiek County), Iowa.
- Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company--1870-1880.; Winneshiek (Iowa)--1870-1880.; Railroads--Iowa--Winneshiek County--1870-1880.; Snow--Iowa--Winneshiek County--1870-1880.
- [1873]
- Mountain campers
- People pose at a campsite, a man is on horseback. Shows a tent and an awning, and a portable cooking cabinet. The men and women wear hats, the women wear long dresses.
- Camping--1870-1890.; Horseback riding--1870-1890.; Storage furniture--1870-1890.; Tents--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Ft Benton, Mont
- A ferry boat crosses the Missouri River at Fort Benton (Chouteau County), Montana; town buildings are on the river bank.
- Fort Benton (Mont.)--1880-1900.; Missouri River--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Montana--Fort Benton--1880-1900.; Ferries--Montana--Fort Benton--1880-1900.; Rivers--Montana--Fort Benton--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Glen Eyrie
- Exterior view of Glen Eyrie, near Manitou Springs, Colorado. This three story frame residence remodelled since first built in 1871 by General William Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs and prominent Manitou citizen, has a faceted tower with a...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909--Homes & haunts.
- [between 1883 and 1886?]
- Trapper's Lake
- View of Trappers Lake, in the Flat Tops Wilderness area, Garfield County, Colorado. The Amphitheatre (Amphitheater Butte) is reflected in the water.
- Amphitheatre (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Flat Tops Wilderness (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Trappers Lake (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Buttes--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1920.;...
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Leadville, 1933 scenery project
- Photoprint of two watercolors of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The paintings depict Rococo room interiors; one has a doorway, the other has a fireplace with a grate inside and a mirror above. In December, 1933, a group of...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Leadville, 1933 scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's opera house scenery. The painting depicts a scene with marble columns, balustrade and archways with a castle in the background with onion and hemispheric domes. Draped curtains frame the scene. In...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting has four elements of room interiors. The two end ones have marble columns, draped curtains, and decorative borders above the wainscot. The center left one...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting depicts a front gabled house with trees and clouds. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage manager, and professors set up original...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting is of four flats of a penitentiary set, including stone block walls, two flats with iron doors, an arched transom window with bars, and one flat with large...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting includes a formal garden scene used with Metroplitan Opera Company productions, a balustrade, foliage and potted urns, a fountain, tall trees, and a castle...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting depicts a Rococo interior with an ornate doorway and cupids atop the decoration. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage manager, and...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting has two elements. The large one contains marble columns and draped curtains, with decorative borders above kick molding. The smaller band depicts the bottom...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting depicts sea waves with large clouds in the sky. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage manager, and professors set up original canvas...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting includes a road crossing a river with tree lined banks. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage manager, and professors set up original...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting is of original flats used for forest and garden sets with tropical vegetation and nymphs. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting depicts a forest with tops of tree branches forming an archway. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage manager, and professors set up...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting depicts ancient ruins with columns, arches, and stairways around water and a raised stone plaza area with an inscription which is partly visible "So [?] the...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The painting depicts a mountain scene with a winding road along a river and a waterfall in the background. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of two watercolors of Leadville, Colorado's Tabor Opera House scenery. The paintings is of decorative interior wall painting and moldings. In December, 1933, a group of students, a former Tabor stage manager, and professors set up...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of a watercolor of Leadvill, Colorado's opera house scenery. The painting is a part of the "Gothic set", used during the Elks era (after 1903). The scene looks down the East Fifth Street business district to the Leadville Courthouse on...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977.
- 1933
- Canon City Penitentia[ry]
- Aerial view of stone buildings and a stone wall with rounded, corner guard towers at Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City (Fremont County), Colorado. Shows two and three-story brick buildings, the administration building with a smokestack, and...
- Colorado State Penitentiary--Buildings--1880-1890.; Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1885
- Marsh Park - Grape Creek Canon
- Marsh (Park) in Fremont County, Colorado, a meadow beside Grape Creek, has a dwelling, outbuilding, and watertank. Dry, scrub dotted hills surround.
- Marsh (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Glen Park, Colo. Chatauqua
- View overlooking Glen Park (El Paso County), Colorado shows residences, commercial buildings, and mountain scenery.
- Glen Park (Colo.)--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1923?]
- Platte Station, Colorado
- Men pose on and around stacks of bullion and full burlap sacks, Platte Station, Park County, Colorado. A man in a suit and bowler hat sits on the ingots.
- Platte Station (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Leadville, Colo
- Bird's eye view rendering shows Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, with vignettes of municipal buildings, mining facilities, and scenery. Printing reads: "Court House, Post Office, Tabor Opera House, Central School, Ninth St. School, Seventh St....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- 1882
- Colorado mining
- View of two arrastras, large horizontal wheels, powered by water brought in by flumes, somewhere in early mining camp in Colorado. The wheels were possibly used for crushing ore or as a sluice box.
- Mining--Colorado--1870-1880.
- 1876
- Pikes Peak Ave, Colorado Springs
- View west of Pikes Peak Avenue, in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, shows the dirt street, brick businesses, streetcar tracks, pedestrians, buggies, The Antlers Hotel with six stories, an arcaded entry and twin square towers at end of...
- Antlers Hotel (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1910.
- 1905?
- Bryce Canyon - men on rim
- Six men gather on a rock on the canyon rim, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, and look out over the scenery.
- Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)--1910-1930.; National parks & reserves--Utah--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Fisher's Peak
- View of Trinidad, Colorado, from Simpsons Rest, looking southeast. Near the bed of the Purgatoire River is an adobe, one story square enclosure that was the original residence of Felipe Baca. Fisher's Peak is in the background.
- Fisher's Peak (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1878?]
- Georgetown, taken from Giffith Mt.
- Stereograph view of Georgetown, Colorado, looking southwest; shows a large boulder on Griffith Mountain in deep shadow, the Methodist Church, fenced town blocks, the smokestack on Chimney Rock, valley leading to Silver Plume, Leavenworth and...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- 1874
- R. O. Old's Residence, Georgetown
- Exterior view of the residence of Robert Orchard Old, located near Georgetown, Colorado. Owned later by John Grafton Rogers and taken down in 1965, the house is one-story wood construction with a steep gable roof and a porch with arches across the...
- Old, Robert Orchard--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.
- [between 1874 and 1875?]
- Glenwood Canyon
- View in Glenwood Canyon (Garfield County), Colorado, shows the Colorado River, a portion of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and canyon scenery.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1920-1930.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1920-1930.; Glenwood Canyon (Colo.)--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930]