Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 1, 1912 October 12
- 1920 Corbett & Ballenger's 48th Annual Denver City Directory
- Western History Subject Index
- Barbed Wire
- Aerial construction, attaching guy wire
- Two workers hang from a Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company telephone pole in a rural area in Denver. A crew of workers on the ground tighten the guy wire. A man stands by a barbed wire fence near a sign that reads: "Otto Vogel." An...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--1910-1920.; Linemen--Colorado--1910-1920.; Utility poles--Colorado--1910-1920.
- 1914
- Ribbons of gold under slanting ribbons of sunshine, the metamorphosis of steel wire is completed
- Interior view of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (Corporation), Pueblo, Colorado, a steel and iron manufacturing plant; shows male employee operating a machine which produces steel wire from steel rods.
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Interiors.; Steel industry--Colorado--Pueblo--1950-1970.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
- [between 1950 and 1970?]
- The City of Denver: Volume 1 Number 24, 1913 September 27
- Knife
- A Native American (Plains Indian) knife. It has a bone handle and iron blade with a slated end, curved and rounded handle and a fine wire wrapped around the upper part of the blade.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1860-1870.; Knives--1860-1970.
- [between 1860 and 1870]
- Ouray railroad station
- View of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad depot, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, shows the weathered depot with flared eaves, decorative brackets, wainscot, and shingles.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Ouray (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Ouray--1940-1950.; Railroads--Colorado--Ouray--1940-1950.
- [between 1940 and 1948]
- Oil house spur track - west side Berthoud Pass
- The narrow gauge tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad are blocked by a wire fence near West Portal, Colorado (also known as Idlewild and Winter Park) in Grand County. A wooden fence with barbed wire on top encloses an area next to the...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1920-1930.; West Portal (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Fences--Colorado--West Portal--1920-1930.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--West Portal--1920-1930.
- September, 1928
- Tramway on Riva Ridge, Italy
- View of the tramway (loaded with supplies, an Army officer, an Army photographer, and Sergeant Paul Long) on Riva Ridge, Italy, during the Italian Campaign. Also pictured, a group of approximately 10 other soldiers stand on the landing deck or man...
- Medicine, Military--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Aerial tramways--Italy--1940-1950.; Medical aspects of war--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- February 21, 1945
- Denver business, mining machinery supplies
- View of The Mine and Smelter Supply Company building, Denver, Colorado. It is a three story brick building with a decorative cornice and advertisements in many of the windows. They read in part: "Pipe fitting, Brass goods, Machinery supplies,...
- Mine & Smelter Supply Company (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- Off for a ride at Woods Lake, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View of horseback riders at Woods Lake Resort, eight miles from Thomasville, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; men and women ride saddled horses; men, women, and children sit on deck of a large log cabin; combination wire and barbed...
- Thomasville (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Woods Lake (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Thomasville--1900-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Thomasville--1900-1920.; Resorts--Colorado--Thomasville--1900-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway Company.
- [between 1903 and 1919]
- Margaret Jane Ferguson Poley and Horace S. Poley
- A man and woman stand and smile arm in arm beside a log pile and a clapboard building. Margaret Jane Ferguson Poley wears a cap, wire rimmed glasses, a tea length dress with a ruffled v-neck, stockings and laced shoes. Horace S. Poley wears a suit...
- Photographers--Colorado--1930-1940.; Women--Colorado--1930-1940.; Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley); Poley, Margaret Ferguson.
- 1939 June
- Public Service Company, Sterling
- View of Public Service Company of Colorado's Steam Plant, Sterling, Colorado, a two-story industrial building with large smokestack & electrical transformer sub-station at side; shows utility poles & high wire fence topped by barb wire with sign...
- Sterling (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Power plants--Colorado--Sterling--1960-1970.; Public utility companies--Colorado--Sterling--1960-1970.
- between 1963 and 1965
- Life saving fence
- A man hangs from a life preserver suspended in the air by an apparatus hanging from a wire during a rehearsal for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He holds his arms up in the air and rests his feet on a wire hanging between two log poles. (One of the...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Rescues--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- Catholic cemetery, La Garita, Colorado
- Close-up view of a flat grave marker in the Catholic cemetery, in La Garita, Saguache County, Colorado, shows a slab gravestone covering the grave, with a small shrine with a Virgin Mary figurine and wire fencing woven with flowers. The cemetery...
- La Garita (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Cemeteries--Colorado--La Garita--1970-1980.
- March 19, 1974
- County Court, Leadville, Colorado, 1912
- In this interior view of the Lake County Courthouse in Leadville, Colorado, a man in suit, vest and tie sits in a high back chair behind a wooden desk. A wire letter holder, pen and ink set, desk calendar and a big book sit on his desk. Charts...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Leadville--1910-1920.; Interiors.
- 1912
- Library at Grant Junior High School
- Library at Grant Junior High School in Denver, Colorado. Four students sit at a table in the school's library reading the school's newspaper 'The Grant Junior Live Wire,' behind them two students look at the books on the library shelves.
- Libraries.; Grant Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- undated
- Western History Subject Index
- Barbed wire
- Western History Subject Index
- Barbed wire
- The Aeronaut Joins the Circus: The Yearbook of 1926
- South Denver High School yearbook for 1926.
- South High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; High schools--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1926
- Western History Subject Index
- Barbed wire
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 46, 1910 November 12
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 20, 1911 May 13
- Agriculture - crops - fencing
- View of fruit trees in bloom in Denver, Colorado; shows barbed wire fence.
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Barbed wire--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Fences--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Orchards--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- A Roarnig [sic] Fork Valley agricultural scene, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View across Roaring Fork River valley north of Carbondale, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows agricultural fields, pastures, Roaring Fork River, railroad box car, and barbed wire fence, foreground.
- Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Roaring Fork River Valley (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Barbed wire--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Croplands--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Fences--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.; Railroad...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- A hazard to life a broken limb hangin [sic] over a live wire
- A tree limb hangs over an electrical wire after a snowstorm in Denver, Colorado. Shows heavily damaged trees.
- Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Blizzards--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Disasters--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Snow--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Trees--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Paisan collecting copper wire near Le Costa Ridge, Italy
- In the foreground of the photograph a paisan, a man from one of the local villages, is collecting copper telephone wire that the Tenth Mountain Division and, or the German army had used for field communications. The 10th successfully attacked the...
- Military life--Italy--Le Costa Ridge--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- April 1945
- Wire Bridge at Riggins
- View of sheep on a wood and wire bridge over the Little Salmon River at Riggins (Idaho County), Idaho. Mountains are in the distance.
- Little Salmon River (Idaho)--1910-1920.; Riggins (Idaho)--1910-1920.; Bridges--Idaho--Riggins--1910-1920.; Rivers--Idaho--Riggins--1910-1920.; Sheep--Idaho--Riggins--1910-1920.
- 1915
- Pike's Peak from Divide, Colo. Midland
- Agricultural fields viewed from Colorado Midland Railway near Divide, Colorado; Pikes Peak, distant background; barbed wire fence enclosing cut and stacked crops.
- Divide (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Barbed wire--Colorado--1890-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--1890-1920.; Fences--Colorado--1890-1920.; Mountains--Colorado--1890-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway.
- [between 1890 and 1919]
- Western History Subject Index
- Barbed wire
- Western History Subject Index
- Barbed wire
- Western History Subject Index
- Wire Gold
- Western History Subject Index
- Wire taping
- Western History Subject Index
- Wire tapping
- Denver Public Library microfilm obituaries 1944-1959.
- Index of all deaths published in the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post, and other newspapers for the years 1944-1959.
- Denver (Colo.)--Genealogy--Indexes.; Denver (Colo.)--Vital records.; Denver Post--Indexes.; Rocky Mountain News--Indexes.;
- 2010
- Casimiro Barela's house
- People pose on the porch of Senator Casimiro Barela's house in probably Barela (Las Animas County), Colorado. Shows a cross gabled adobe house with a covered porch, wood and wire fence and out buildings.
- Barela, Casimiro--Homes & haunts--1890-1900.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--1890-1900.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--1890-1900.; Barela (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Adobe buildings.; Barela, Casimiro--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works.; Mexican...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Saint Joseph Redemptorist Catholic Church Lincoln Park.
- View of Saint Joseph Church ( St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church of Denver, Saint Joseph Redemptorist Catholic Church) located at 605 West 6th (Sixth) Ave. (NE corner Galapago St.), in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The parish was...
- St. Joseph Church (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Lincoln Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--2000-2010.; Catholic churches.; Deterioration of buildings.; Historic buildings.; Windows.; St. Joseph Church (Denver,...
- ca. 2004
- Jacobo Trujillo
- Studio portrait of Jacobo Trujillo, sons of Acacio Trujillo and half brother to Jose and Andy Trujillo. He poses with his hand on a bent wire chair and wears a cap, a long double breasted jacket, knickers and dark hose.
- Mexican Americans--1950-1960.; Hispanic Americans--1950-1960.; Boys.; Trujillo, Jacobo--Pictorial works.; Trujillo, Acacio--Family--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.;...
- [1959?]
- Andy and Angela Trujillo
- Studio portrait of Andy Trujillo and his daughter Angela from Fort Collins (Larimer County), Colorado. The young man wears a suit and tie. He sits in a wire chair and holds his infant daughter who sits on a table with spindle legs. Angela wears a...
- Hispanic Americans--1910-1920.; Families.; Infants.; Trujillo, Andy--Pictorial works.; Trujillo, Angela--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Fathers and daughters--Colorado--Fort Collins--Pictorial works.;...
- [between 1910 and 1915?]
- Conejos, Colo.
- View of a dirt road in Conejos (Conejos County), Colorado. Shows adobe houses, a post and wire fence and flowers. A church is in the distance.
- Conejos (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Cities & towns.; Dirt roads.; Cities and towns--Colorado--Conejos--Pictorial works.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Conejos--Pictorial works.; Conejos (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1967
- Velásquez homestead, San Rafael, Colo.
- View of the Velásquez Homestead in San Rafael (Conejos County), Colorado. The one story territorial style adobe structure has boarded up windows on the facade and stucco crumbling from the exterior. Vigas protrude through the adobe bricks on...
- Velásquez family--Homes & haunts--2000-2010.; San Rafael (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses.; Abandoned buildings.; Velásquez family--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works.; Adobe houses--Colorado--San Rafael--Pictorial works.; Abandoned...
- 1992
- Cherry Creek Grange # 58
- View of the Cherry Creek Grange near Parker Road and East Arapahoe Road in Littleton (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The one story stuccoed building has tall arched windows and a hipped tile roof. A sign over the door reads: "Cherry Creek Grange." ...
- Colorado State Grange Cherry Creek Grange No. 58 (Arapahoe County, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Englewood (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Farmer's groups.; Buildings.; Colorado State Grange. Cherry Creek Grange No. 58 (Arapahoe County, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 1976
- Geer homestead barn
- View of the Geer Homestead barn in Jamestown (Boulder County), Colorado. The building is constructed of vertical wood planks with a low stone foundation and a plank roof. The barn has an open hayloft door, two large double doors and a single small...
- Geer family--Homes & haunts--1990-2000.; Jamestown (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Barns; Geer family--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works.; Barns--Colorado--Jamestown--Pictorial works.; Jamestown (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1999
- Parking sign, Riverside Park, Salida
- View of a parking sign in Riverside Park at Sackett and F Street in Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado. It reads: " No Parking From Here to Eternity" with "Eternity" scratched on to the sign by hand. The pole of the sign has scratched off paint. A...
- Salida (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Signs (Notices).; Signs and signboards--Colorado--Salida--Pictorial works.; Salida (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1994
- Checking the mailbox
- A Hispanic American man and a teenage boy ride their horse toward a mailbox on a dirt road near San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. A dog runs beside the horse. The metal mailbox is mounted on an upright logs. A wood and wire fence is along side...
- Hispanic Americans--1950-1960.; Mexican Americans--1950-1960.; Costilla County (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Horseback riding.; Teenagers.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Hispanic American...
- 1950 September
- Dirt road near Chama Canyon
- View of a dirt road near Chama Canyon, above Chama (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows telephone poles, post and wire fences, sagebrush, chamisa, adobe buildings, and a bridge. A mesa or plateau is in the distance.
- Costilla County (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Adobe houses--Colorado--Costilla County--Pictorial works.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Costilla County--Pictorial works.; Costilla County (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- [1950]
- Country Acres Mobile Park, Delta, Colo.
- View of Country Acres Mobile Home Park at 1205 Highway 50 in Delta (Delta County), Colorado. Six mobile homes line the edge of the park. Each structure has a small propane tank and power lines border part of the property. A post and wire fence...
- Country Acres Mobile Home Park (Delta, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Delta (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Country Acres Mobile Home Park (Delta, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Mobile home parks--Colorado--Delta--Pictorial works.; Mobile homes--Colorado--Delta--Pictorial...
- 1992
- Children's Fountain City Park, Denver
- View of a detail of the Children's Fountain in City Park, Denver, Colorado. The statue is a copy (1912) by French sculptor Max Blondet, of a Henry C. Charpeot original in Düsseldorf, Germany. The Italian white marble statue features three...
- City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Sculpture.; Vandalism.; Sculpture--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Vandalism--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; City Park (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Denver...
- 1985
- 2814 Champa St. Owned by George Apodaca until 1978 and known as "The Indian House" locally
- View of 2814 Champa Street, in the Five Points Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The eclectic style brick house has a fish scale, gable roof, a front dormer with a gambrel roof, gabled side dormers and a covered porch with brick pillars and a...
- Curtis Park (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Dormers.; Historic buildings.; Houses.; Dormers--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.;...
- 1978