Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Bakerville No. 252
- A mill, which appears to be under construction, in Bakerville, Colorado, in Clear Creek County is at the base of a hill. The Mill is a rectangular building with a gable and a corrugated tin roof. The front part of the structure is only framed. A...
- Bakerville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mills--Colorado--Bakerville--1870-1880.
- [about 1870?]
- Sign, Georgetown, Colorado
- View of a building in Georgetown, Colorado, on which a sign has been painted. The corrugated roof of the rectangular building reads, "Read the Great Divide, it sets people talking." A smaller shed roof attached reads, "Curran Co. adv'g signs,...
- Signs and signboards--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- East side of Divide
- A dilapidated log house and a smaller cabin stand above timberline on the east side of the Continental Divide near Carson (Hinsdale County), Colorado. A Jeep is parked near the smaller cabin.
- Carson (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Carson--1940-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Carson--1940-1950.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Carson--1940-1950.
- 1950
- Eaton factory, the Great Western Sugar Co.
- A view of the Great Western Sugar Company (formerly the Eaton Sugar Company) includes a large five-story building with a two-story attached section, a smokestack emitting smoke, a tall water tower, a yard with benches around the large building, and...
- Great Western Sugar Company--1900-1940.; Eaton (Colo.)--1900-1940.; Sugar industry--Colorado--Eaton--1900-1940.
- [between 1905 and 1940?]
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. at Mesa Verde Cliff Palace (1924)
- Wearing a bow tie, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., far left, stands with two other men, Dr. R.W. Corwin, center, and Bert Mattison, right, in front of the Round Tower of the Cliff Palace ruins at Mesa Verde National Park. The remaining ruins of the cliff...
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Spruce Tree House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--1920-1930.; Corwin, R. W.; Mattison, Bert.; Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960.
- [1924?]
- Gilpin Tramway
- The tracks of the Gilpin Tramway curve through the foreground of this view of several mines on Gunnell Hill in Central City, Colorado. A group of houses lines this portion of Eureka Street, one of the main roads through Central City. The Gunnell...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nevadaville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- [1899?]
- Bathhouse and the Colorado, Glenwood
- View of bathhouse at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, taken from southeast corner; Hotel Colorado appears at distant right.
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Bathhouses--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1900.; Resorts--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1900.; Hotel...
- [between 1891 and 1901]
- Deer Creek tank at Arch Rock
- Creek. Trees stand on the rocky hillside in the background. Camera equipment, including a case labeled "Glass," sits in the foreground next to the railroad track.; Stereographic view of a large water tank standing in the right midground next to a...
- Crossons (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Platte Canyon (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Photographic apparatus & supplies--1870-1900.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Jefferson County--1870-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--Crossons--1870-1900.; Water...
- [between 1875 and 1900?]
- Espinosa graves, cemetery, La Garita, Colorado
- View of the Espinosa graves, in the Catholic cemetery, in La Garita, Saguache county, Colorado shows a cemetery plot bordered by a metal tube fence containing a large flat slab with a smaller engraved metal plaque at the base and a replica of...
- La Garita (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Cemeteries--Colorado--La Garita--1970-1980.
- March 19, 1974
- Horse Race on Alpine Street in the '70's Alpine Street is now (1933) 6th Street.
- View of a horse race on Alpine Street (Sixth Street) in Georgetown, Colorado, on the Fourth of July. Groups of men stand in the street looking west; people sit on balconies under umbrellas. A uniformed man on a horse rides east. The street is...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Holidays--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.; Horse racing--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1879?]
- Matchless Mine
- View of the Matchless Mine in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado; shows a headframe, shop, privy, and shed, tailings, and the home of Baby Doe Tabor.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1920-1930.; Leadville (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1920-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1920-1930.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- 1928, May 24
- Baby Doe Tabor
- Studio portrait of Baby Doe Tabor in a flowered hat and earrings.
- Baby Doe, d. 1935.
- [between 1885 and 1893?]
- Penitentiary riot 1929
- This aerial view looking east at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, shows the prison complex with the Administration Building, its extensions, and the tag shop, gutted by fire. Inmates are in the sunken yard fronting the damaged...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Fires--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1929
- East High spotlight: vol 29 no 24
- Newspaper produced by East High School of Denver, Colorado. Included in the paper are photographs of students, articles on school events and sports.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Writings.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.; High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1942 November
- Robinson House Site Notice
- Colorado World War I Selective Service Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- The Colorado registration cards are on 40 rolls of microfilm (v.1 through v.40), Denver Public Library catalog number G973.91, W893co. The draft registration cards are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are...
- 2005
- WWI Colorado Draft Registration Cards
- Index to the World War I Draft Registration Cards for Colorado between the years of 1917-1918. During World War I there were three registrations. The first, on June 5, 1917, was for all men between the ages of 21 and 31. These men were born...
- World War, 1914-1918--Colorado.; Colorado--Genealogy--Sources.; Denver (Colo.)--History, Military.; United States. Selective Service System--Sources.; United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918.; United States....
- 2005
- Dwight Nicholson House
- View of the Boulder Victoria Historic Inn situated in the Dwight Nicholson House at 1305 Pine Street in Boulder, Colorado. The two-story Colonial Revival influenced eclectic style house has a hipped roof, a cornice with dentils and swags, a...
- Dwight Nicholson House (Boulder, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Boulder (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Hotels.; Historic buildings.; Dwight Nicholson House (Boulder, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Boulder Victoria Historic Inn (Boulder, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Boulder...
- 1994
- First Congregational Church, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- View of the front facade of the First Congregational Church located at 20 East Saint Vrain Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The three-story, Richardsonian Romanesque stone structure is dominated by an oversize square tower with a smaller bell...
- First Congregational Church (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; First Congregational Church (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Colorado Springs--Pictorial works.;...
- 2001
- Kochevar's Saloon & Gaming Hall, Crested Butte, Colo.
- View of Kochevar's Saloon located at 127 Elk Avenue in Crested Butte, Colorado. The two-story, hand-hewn square timber structure has a symmetrical clapboard false front with bracketed cornice. The second floor is defined on the facade by three...
- Kochevar's Saloon & Gaming Hall (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Kochevar's Saloon & Gaming Hall (Crested Butte, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars (Drinking...
- 1995
- MacGregor Ranch House, Estes Park, Colo.
- View of the MacGregor Ranch house located at 180 MacGregor Avenue, Estes Park, Colo. Built in 1873 by Alexander Q. MacGregor, a lawyer from Wisconsin, the structure is part of a 2,931 acre ranch situated next to Rocky Mountain National Park. The...
- Ranch houses--Colorado--Estes Park--2000-2010.; Estes Park (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Ranch houses--Colorado--Estes Park--Pictorial works.; Estes Park (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; MacGregor Ranch (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2004
- South Broadway Christian Church
- View of the South Broadway Christian Church (1891; James Miller and Wenzel Janisch, architects) at 23 Lincoln Street in the Speer neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a Romanesque Revival church constructed of rough-faced rhyolite. The church...
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--Buildings--1990-2000.; South Broadway Christian Church (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Speer (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Churches.; Christian Church (Disciples of...
- 1994
- Tivoli Student Union, formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery Auraria Higher Education Center.
- View of the blue and white Tivoli Student Union (formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery), located at 900 Auraria Parkway on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus in Denver, Colorado. The brewery was built in 1881, with subsequent additions in 1890...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--1990-2000.; Tivoli Student Union (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Historic buildings.; Skyscrapers.; Student unions.; Universities & colleges.; Auraria Higher...
- 1999
- Tivoli Student Union, formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery Auraria Higher Education Center.
- View of the Tivoli Student Union (formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery), located at 900 Auraria Parkway on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus in Denver, Colorado. The brewery was built in 1881, with subsequent additions in 1890 by Frederick...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--1990-2000.; Tivoli Student Union (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Historic buildings.; Student unions.; Universities & colleges.; Auraria Higher Education Center...
- 1999
- Tivoli Student Union, formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery Auraria Higher Education Center.
- View of the Tivoli Student Union (formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery), located at 900 Auraria Parkway on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus in Denver, Colorado. The brewery was built in 1881, with subsequent additions in 1890 by Frederick...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--1990-2000.; Tivoli Student Union (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Historic buildings.; Student unions.; Universities & colleges.; Auraria Higher Education Center...
- 1999
- Tivoli Student Union, formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery Auraria Higher Education Center.
- View of paint removal from the Tivoli Student Union (formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery) during exterior restoration, the building is located at 900 Auraria Parkway on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus in Denver, Colorado. The brewery was...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--2000-2010.; Tivoli Student Union (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Conservation & restoration.; Historic buildings.; Student unions.; Universities & colleges.;...
- 2004
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 4 Number 33, 1912 August 17
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 15, 1909 May 29
- Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 3, 1919 March
- Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf montage
- A photomontage of the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf railway. The first image is of railroad tracks in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado. The second image is of the railway line at Mother Grundy in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado. The third image is of a...
- Union Pacific, Denver, and Gulf Railway Company--1890-1900.; Clear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Canyons--Colorado--Jefferson...
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Taylor and Brunton Sampling Company - Cripple Creek district
- Engine no. 104, of the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railroad, is parked in front of the Taylor and Brunton Sampling Company building in Pitkin County, Colorado. "Taylor and Brunton Sampling Company" is painted on the side of the four...
- Colorado Midland Railway Company--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway--1890-1900.; Midland Terminal Railway--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Pitkin County--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Pitkin County--1890-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- Evergreen Lake and hotel
- View of a hotel and associated outbuilding on Evergreen Lakes in Lake County, Colorado. The hotel features porches on two stories. The smaller building is probably a boathouse or bathhouse and features a widows walk. Shows sailboats, rowboats and...
- Evergreen Lakes (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Lake County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1890.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1890?]
- American Nettie Mine
- View of a long wooden building built along a sheer cliff in Ouray County, Colorado. A privy extends past the edge of the cliff. A smaller wooden structure is on a lower level.
- American Nettie Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Ouray County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cliffs--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Fresno. Stemming raisins
- In this reproduction of a cabinet card tacked to corkboard, men in a factory probably in Fresno (Fresno County), California, dump boxes of raisins onto a conveyer belt, which carries the fruit to a de-stemmer. Other workers load the stemmed raisins...
- Raisin industry--California--Fresno--1900-1910.; Fresno (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Cabinet photographs--1900-1910.; Factories--California--Fresno--1900-1910.; Interiors--California--Fresno--1900-1910.; Raisins--California--Fresno--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Nebraska State Building, Omaha
- View of the Nebraska Building during the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha (Douglas County), Nebraska. The temporary structure has a wooden frame with plaster of Paris and staff overlay. The building, designed by J.H. Craddock...
- Omaha (Neb.)--1890-1900.; Exhibition buildings--Nebraska--Omaha--1890-1900.; Exhibitions--Nebraska--Omaha--1890-1900.; Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898 : Omaha, Neb.)
- [1898]
- Omaha, Agricultural Building
- View of the Agricultural Building during the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha (Douglas County), Nebraska. The structure has a wood frame with plaster of Paris and staff overlay. Designed in the Renaissance Revival style, the...
- Omaha (Neb.)--1890-1900.; Canals--Nebraska--Omaha--1890-1900.; Exhibition buildings--Nebraska--Omaha--1890-1900.; Exhibitions--Nebraska--Omaha--1890-1900.; Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898 : Omaha, Neb.)
- [1898]
- Yosemite, Wawona Hotel
- View of white frame buildings, part of the Wawona Hotel complex in Wawona, Yosemite National Park, California. A building known as the Long White or Clark Cottage has dormers, a veranda beneath a skirt roof, posts with curved brackets, and a...
- Wawona Hotel--Buildings--1880-1910.; Wawona (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1880-1910.; Hotels--California--Wawona--1880-1910.
- [between 1887 and 1902?]
- 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
- Longmont's First Congregational Church building at Fourth and Coffman
- Exterior of First Congregational Church, 4th Avenue and Coffman Street, Longmont, Colorado, built in 1874-1875; features wood frame board and batten construction, front gable, arched leaded windows, central open belltower and pointed steeple with...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1870-1890.; First Congregational Church (Longmont, Colo.)
- [between 1875 and 1890]
- Longmont, Colo., street scene, residence section [graphic]
- View of a residential section in Longmont, Colorado, shows a corner two-story brick residence with decorative half timbering. Smaller brick and wood frame homes neighbor the more ornate one.
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- 1926 November 30
- Looking west on Chestnut St., Leadville, 1879
- Looking west on Chestnut Street with distant snowcovered Mount Massive in Leadville, Colorado, is a dirt street lined predominantly with wood frame false fronts. Horse-drawn flatbed and covered wagons and pedestrians make the street a busy one. A...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Building construction--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Streets--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.
- [1879]
- Greene Street, Silverton
- View of Silverton, Colorado, west side of Greene Street, south from Fourteenth (14th) Street. A large mule train heads north, loaded with bundles. Men stand and are mounted on horses and mules. Street scene includes a boardwalk, ditch, elevated...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mules--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.
- 1894
- Ferry at Alhandra, Vernal-Myton Stage Road Denver & Salt Lake R. R.
- View of a ferry crossing at Alhandra along the Vernal-Myton, Utah Stage Road; a man stands at the helm of the ferry which carries an automobile and three male passengers; the ferry is hooked to a pulley on an overhead cable.
- Alhandra (Utah)--1910-1920.; Ferries--Utah--Alhandra--1910-1920.; Roads--Utah--Alhandra--1910-1920.
- [1915?]
- Stree [sic] scene Vernal Utah Denver & Salt Lake R. R.
- View of intersection of Uintah Avenue and cross street in Vernal, Utah; shows two children on horseback in front of the Ashley Co-op, businesses (baths, meat market, hardware store, post office, and bank), and two horse-drawn buggies (one with...
- Vernal (Utah)--1910-1920.; Business districts--Utah--Vernal--1910-1920.; Children riding horses--Utah--Vernal--1910-1920.; Streets--Utah--Vernal--1910-1920.; Women--Utah--Vernal--1910-1920.
- [1915?]
- Hotel Stanley, Estes Park
- View of the Hotel Stanley in Estes Park, Colorado (completed in 1909); complex includes main hotel, two smaller buildings, and stable; pine trees in foreground; mountains in background.
- Estes Park (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Estes Park--1910-1920.
- [between 1911 and 1920]
- Long's Peak Inn, Estes Park
- Exterior view of the Longs Peak Inn at Estes Park, Colorado (rebuilt in 1906; burned in 1949); shows dirt road leads to large log cabin-style inn with automobile parked in front; sign at doorway reads "ice cream"; smaller log cabin structure at...
- Longs Peak Inn (Estes Park, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Lodges--Colorado--Estes Park--1910-1920.
- [between 1911 and 1920]
- Minturn, Colo
- These one-story frame residences in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado, have covered porches, bay windows, and double hung windows. Picket fence encloses the yard of the smaller house; slopes are in the background.
- Minturn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Minturn--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Conqueror Boarding House at North Empire
- The Conqueror Boarding House in North Empire, Clear Creek County, Colorado, is a three-story frame building with a gable roof, dormer, covered porch, and stone foundation. Wooden steps lead up the slope; doors and windows are missing. The smaller...
- North Empire (Colo.)--1940-1960.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--North Empire--1960-1970.; Lodging houses--Colorado--North Empire--1960-1970.; Pryor, W. S.
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- Catholic Church
- Exterior view of Catholic Church, Cripple Creek, Colorado; wooden frame church has diagonal siding, brick foundation, single side flush spire, four smaller spires on corners of main spire, double-wide side entry door with steps and railing, and a...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897]
- Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Catholic Church, Cripple Creek, Colorado; the wooden frame structure has diagonal siding, brick foundation, single side flush spire (top not in view), four smaller spires on corners of main spire, and Palladian window with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1897]