Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Sunrise, headframe
- View of a headframe and mine buildings and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ore cars that read: "CB & Q" on tracks at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company owned Sunrise Mine in Platte County, Wyoming. Shows cogs and pulleys between the head frame...
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company--1930-1950.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1930-1950.; Platte County (Wyo.)--1930-1950.; Mining--Wyoming--Platte County--1930-1950.; Railroad freight cars--Wyoming--Platte County--1930-1950.
- Among the mines on Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Col.
- A miner stands on ore cart tracks next to the headframe of a mine on Carbonate Hill, Leadville (Lake County) shows: buildings and tailings.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1910-1920.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Leadville--1910-1920.; Leadville (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Leadville--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1910-1920.
- 1900
- City of Victor Colo. altitude 9747 ft.
- Aerial view of Victor (Teller County), Colorado. Shows houses, a mine headframe, tailings piles and buildings in the business district. Hills and mountains are in the distance.
- Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.
- 1900
- Alpine
- View of Alpine Coal Mine structures, Gunnison County, Colorado, shows smoking stacks, headframe and piles of timber. Renamed Baldwin in 1910.
- Alpine Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- 1910
- Train starting up the grade from Eureka to Animas Forks
- Silverton Northern Railroad narrow gauge locomotives vent smoke as they begin the ascent from Eureka to Animas Forks in San Juan County, Colorado with freight and coal cars; a mine headframe and tailings piles are on the sides of the Animas River...
- Silverton Northern Railroad Company--1910-1920.; San Juan County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--San Juan County--1910-1920.
- 1910
- Spillway Burlington Ditch
- View of the Burlington Ditch in Adams County, Colorado. Well dressed men and workmen stand with equipment on the headgates of the ditch. One man crosses a temporary wooden pedestrian bridge near a spillway in the South Platte River. A headframe,...
- Adams County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Burlington Ditch (Colo.)--1910-1920.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1910-1920.; Irrigation--Colorado--Adams County--1910-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Adams County--1910-1920.; Spillways--Colorado--Adams...
- 1910 March 23
- Forbes
- View of a coal mine operation in Forbes (Las Animas County), Colorado with elevated platform, headframe, buildings, railroad cars and lumber.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Forbes--1910-1920.; Forbes (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Forbes--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Forbes--1910-1920.
- 1914
- 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
- Matchless Mine
- Image of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor's wood shack home and a headframe at the Matchless Mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, superimposed over newspaper article about her death. Once the wife of millionaire Horace Tabor, she died...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Death--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Legislators' spouses--United States--1930-1940.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Death.
- 1935
- A trip to the old tungsten mine
- View of the headframe of a tungsten mine and large metal tanks. African American female campers and counselors from Camp Nizhoni stand by the mine, probably in Gilpin County, Colorado. Shows ore car tracks.
- Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)--People--1930-1940.; Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch--People--1930-1940.; African Americans--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1940.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1930-1940.;...
- 1936
- Historic Matchless (Tabor) mine at Leadville, Colo.
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine In Leadville (Lake County), Colorado shows: mine building, headframe, tailings.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- 1938
- Taken in 1953 at 12,000 feet
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine In Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows: mine building, headframe, tailings, with Sawatch Range in background.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Sawatch Range (Colo.)--1950-1960.;...
- 1953
- 12,000 feet
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine In Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows: mine building, headframe, tailings, with Sawatch Range in background.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Sawatch Range (Colo.)--1950-1960.;...
- 1953
- Matchless mine
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine In Leadville (Lake County), Colorado shows: mine building, headframe, tailings, and car.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- 1953
- Matchless mine restoration
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows headframe, ore cart.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- 1953
- Camp Bird
- View of a metal headframe building, covered ore conveyor, and silo at Camp Bird (Ouray County), Colorado. A metal building, houses, a stream and an old wooden tipple are nearby.
- Camp Bird (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Gold mining--Colorado--Camp Bird--1960-1970.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Camp Bird--1960-1970.
- 1964
- Engineer Pass from Mineral Point
- View of the mining camp of Mineral Point (San Juan County), Colorado. Shows the abandoned headframe of a mine and wooden buildings and cabins. Engineer Pass and a dirt road are in the distance.
- Engineer Pass (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Mineral Point (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Mineral Point--1960-1970.; Mining camps--Colorado--Mineral Point--1960-1970.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--1960-1970.
- 1967
- Leadville Little Ellen Hill Fortune Mine.
- View of the abandoned buildings, headframe, tramway, and hoist of the Fortune Mine near Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.; Fortune Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Leadville (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.
- 1968
- Cripple Creek, 1969
- View west on Bennett Avenue towards Midland Terminal Railway station, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one and two-story flat-roof brick commercial buildings line the street; "The Branch" is painted on side of a building; additional signs include: "Mt....
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1960-1970.
- 1969 December 17
- Little Johnny [sic] Mine, Leadville
- View of the abandoned Little Jonny Mine in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Shows tailings piles, mine buildings and possibly a headframe. The Sawatch Range is in the distance.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Little Jonny Mine (Leadville, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Leadville--1970-1980.
- 1977
- Rico, Colorado, headframe of mine at north end of town and west of Main Street, view northward
- View of a head frame and attached shelter at an unidentified mine in Rico, Dolores County, Colorado.
- Rico (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Rico--1980-1990.; Mining--Colorado--Rico--1980-1990.
- 1982
- Pre-1963 Colorado mining fatalities
- An alphabetical listing of people who were killed in mining accidents in Colorado from 1884, when state legislation first required mining companies to report their accidents, through 1962.
- Mine accidents--Colorado. ; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado. ; Colorado--Vital records.
- 1995
- Argo Mill & Mine
- View of the Argo Mill building at 2517 Riverside Drive in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The five-story building is red, and includes a headframe and ore processing facility. The building has large white letters on the top level that...
- Argo Tunnel Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--2000-2010.; MIning.; Mills.; Ore industry.; Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Idaho Springs--Pictorial works.; Factories--Colorado--Idaho Springs--Pictorial...
- 2002
- Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood Canon, Utah
- View of frame buildings and ore piles of the Emma Silver Mines Company at Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon (Salt Lake County), Utah. Men pose on a porch near an American flag and flag pole and probably a headframe. Wagon roads are in the hillside...
- Emma Silver Mines Company--1870-1880.; Alta (Utah)--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Utah--Alta--1870-1880.; Log cabins--Utah--Alta--1870-1880.; Mine buildings--Utah--Alta--1870-1880.; Mining--Utah--Alta--1870-1880.; United States Geological...
- [1873?]
- Cripple Creek from the mines on Gold Hill
- Distant view of Cripple Creek, Colorado from Gold Hill with Mount Pisgah in background; mine headframe and wooden frame surface buildings are in foreground.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pisgah, Mount (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1895 or 1896]
- View of Victor
- View of Victor, Colorado, from hillside near Midland Terminal railroad station; includes two-story brick commercial buildings, business district, one-story wooden frame residences along hillside, Gold Coin Mine, smokestack & headframe, side and...
- Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.
- [1899 or 1900]
- Alpine
- View of Alpine Coal Mine structures, Gunnison County, Colorado, shows headframe, gondola cars full of coal, smokestacks, and a sign: "Baldwin." Renamed Baldwin in 1910.
- Alpine Mine (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gunnison County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Gunnison County--1910-1920.
- [1910]
- Forbes
- Coal mine operation with raised platform, headframe, railroad car and tracks in Forbes (Las Animas County), Colorado.
- Forbes (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Forbes--1910-1920.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Forbes--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Forbes--1910-1920.
- [1914?]
- Leadville, 1937
- Snowy view of tall dilapidated wood frame mining structures including a headframe and shafthouse in Leadville, Colorado. Snow covers the ground and roofs, icicles hang from the eaves.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.
- [1937]
- Finntown, Leadville, 1941
- View of Finntown mining district's dilapidated structures in Stray Horse Gluch, east of Leadville, Colorado. Structures along dirt road lined with power poles and power lines include a log cabin with corrugated metal roof, small lean-tos, wood...
- Finntown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Finntown--1940-1950.
- [1941]
- Matchless mine
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine In Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows: mine building, headframe, hoist, tailings, and pond.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.;...
- [1950?]
- Matchless mine, Leadville
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine In Leadville, Lake County, Colorado shows: mine building, headframe, tailings, with Sawatch Range in background.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- [1950?]
- House and Matchless mine
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado with headframe, mine building, snow covered tailings.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- [1950?]
- Ruins of the famous (Tabor) Matchless mine
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado with mine buildings, headframe, and tailings.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- [1950?]
- Matchless mine
- View of Baby Doe Tabor's cabin at the Matchless Mine in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado with mine building, headframe, snow covered tailings.
- Abandoned mines--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Leadville (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cabins--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1950-1960.; Baby Doe, d. 1935--Homes & haunts.
- [1950?]
- Mining site
- Men sit and pose on a porch of an adobe or stone building. A mine building, headframe, and smokestack are near deteriorated stone buildings, possibly in Nevada. Sagebrush and grass are on rocky hillsides.
- Houses--Nevada--1860-1890.; Mining--Nevada--1860-1890.; United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881)
- [between 1867 and 1890?]
- Hill Side mine
- Six men, three women, and three children pose at the Hillside mine near Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Possessions include a tent, a rocker, horses, and a headframe above a shaft which has a full ore bucket attached.
- Hillside Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1870-1890.; Teller County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Children--Colorado--Teller County--1870-1890.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Teller County--1870-1890.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Teller County--1870-1890.;...
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- Best friend
- Miners, one on horseback, pose near a wood frame building, in the Leadville Mining District, probably in Lake County, Colorado. Shows a headframe and the Sawatch Mountain Range.
- Lake County (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Lake County--1870-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Lake County--1870-1890.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Lake County--1870-1890.
- [between 1875 and 1890?]
- Last Dollar Mine
- Groups of miners poses on a tipple, and near a headframe at the Last Dollar Mine near Independence in Teller County, Colorado. Two men are on tailings piles; one man sits on a fallen log. Shows frame buildings with smokestacks, cribbing near a...
- Last Dollar Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Teller County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Miners at Rugby Mine
- Two men stand near a headframe and mining equipment at the Rugby Mine in Huerfano County, Colorado. The workers stand near barrels and a boiler mechanism.
- Huerfano (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Rugby Mine (Huerfano County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Coal mining--Colorado--Huerfano--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Huerfano--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Prospect shaft on east side of Grouse Mtn., Cripple Creek
- Two miners stand near a headframe at a mining prospect on Grouse Mountain in the Cripple Creek mining district (Teller County), Colorado. A horse is hitched to a winch. The town of Victor is in the distance.
- Grouse Mountain (Teller County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Teller County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hoisting machinery--Teller County--Colorado--1880-1900.; Horses--Teller County--Colorado--1880-1900.; Miners--Teller County--Colorado--1880-1900.; Mining--Teller...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- General view of the Home mine and famous mines surrounding it
- Miners pose on the headframe of the Home mine, Teller County, Colorado. Hand written identification of other mines in the area reads: "Norfolk," "W. P. H.," and, "Forrest Queen."
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Teller County--1880-1900.; Forest Queen Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Home Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Norfolk Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Teller County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hoisting...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- The Eureka Coal Mine, C.B. McKean & Son, prop., Rinn, Colo. Shipping point, Idaho switch, B. & M. R. R. R.
- Men pose by a horse drawn wagon and a headframe and coal tipple at the Eureka Coal Mine in Rinn (Weld County), Colorado; another man is on an elevated platform on the headframe.
- Rinn (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Coal mining--Colorado--Rinn--1880-1900.; Headframes (Mining)--Colorado--Rinn--1880-1900.; Tipples--Colorado--Rinn--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Shaft house interior Central City, Colo.
- Miners and a hoistman, or hoisting engineer, pose in a shaft house near Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. The machinery includes the headframe, hoist, side crank engines, and bucket.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1880-1900.; Central City (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Central City--1880-1900.; Interiors--Colorado--Central City--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Robert E. Lee Mine, Leadville
- View of the headframe and buildings of the Robert E. Lee Mine, Leadville (Lake County), Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Robert E. Lee Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1885]
- Yankee Girl mines
- View of the Yankee Girl Mine, Guston (Ouray County), Colorado; shows mine buildings, the headframe building and ore processing facilities, tailings, a house, railroad tracks and a boxcar.
- Guston (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Yankee Girl Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Guston--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Guston--1880-1890.; Ore industry--Colorado--Guston--1880-1890.; Railroad...
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- Yankee Girl Mine
- Miners stand beside an ore cart at the Yankee Girl Mine, Guston (OurayCounty), Colorado. Shows a burro pack train and the headframe of the mine.
- Guston (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Yankee Girl Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Guston--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Guston--1880-1900.; Packtrains--Colorado--Guston--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- The Silver Cord Mine
- View of the Silver Cord Mine with frame mine buildings on terraces, a headframe tipple, log buttressing, and cabins, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Silver Cord Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Tipples--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Yankee Girl Mine, Red Mountain
- View of the Yankee Girl Mine, Guston (Ouray County), Colorado. Shows mine buildings, the headframe building, ore processing facilities, tailings, a house, railroad tracks, and a boxcar with numbers and letters "1620 R.G.S."
- Guston (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Yankee Girl Mine (Ouray County, Colo.)--1880-1900.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Guston--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Guston--1880-1900.; Ore industry--Colorado--Guston--1880-1900.; Railroad...
- [between 1887 and 1900?]
- Unidentified mine, Boulder County
- View of an unidentified mine on the side of a steep hill in Boulder County, Colorado. Men stand on and near a headframe, tailings and a stone retaining wall. A horse used to power a large winch used for the mine stands on the headframe. Men pose...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins.; Headframes (Mining); Miners.; MIning.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]