Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Dress
- A wool dress (Native American Ute Indian) worn by Chipeta. The loose fitting dress has a cotton lining, binding, a round neck and a button closure at the back.
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1910.; Ute Indians--Clothing & dress--1880-1910.; Dresses--1880-1910.; Chipeta--Associated objects.
- [between 1880 and 1910]
- Women's wedding dress
- Wool day dress worn as a wedding dress. The bodice is tailored light blue wool and flannel with a mock bolero jacket. The collar is rectangular with appliqued bands of ivory and cotton lace and ivory silk. The front edge is velvet with appliqued...
- Dresses--1900-1910.; Wedding costume--1900-1910.
- 1901
- Cradleboard
- Shows a Native American (Arapaho?) cradleboard. It features decorative opaque, red, white, black and green beadwork in geometric designs. The cradleboard has a leather thong, stained wood, lining dark brown velveteen, canvas backing and 1 calico?.
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1880-1900.; Cradleboards--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Women's wedding dress
- Shows the top portion of a wool day dress worn as a wedding dress. The bodice is tailored light blue wool and flannel with a mock bolero jacket. The collar is rectangular with applique bands of ivory and cotton lace, ivory silk. On the front edge...
- Dresses--1900-1910.; Wedding costume--1900-1910.
- 1901
- Women's dress
- A women's afternoon dress ensemble with cape. The bodice is semi-tailored with Empire? style waist, sleeveless, patterned white silk faille, a high rounded neckline, a spread collar, shoulder pads, blue piping at the armhole and waistline; down the...
- Dresses--1930-1950.
- [between 1938 and 1945]
- Uintah Hotel, Mack Colo.
- View past bare poplar trees lining the sidewalk to the long one- story gable roofed Uintah Railway Hotel, Mack, Colorado, only lodging in the company town, named for John Mack, president of Barber Asphalt Paving Company and the Uintah Railway...
- Mack (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Hotels--Colorado--Mack--1900-1920.
- [between 1906 and 1911]
- Main Street Sterling, Colo
- Automobiles are parked and driving on Main Street in Sterling, Logan County, Colorado. Awnings shade businesses lining sidewalks; signs read: "Jos. M. Strutzer clothier," "Shoes," "New Method Cleaners," and "B. Schnitzer for quality clothes." The...
- Sterling (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Sterling--1910-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Sterling--1910-1920.; Streets--Colorado--Sterling--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Monarch, Chaffee Co Colo looking up Madonna Mine & ore tramway on mountain to left D & R G Ry alt 11000 ft Sept 1884 length of tram 2736 ft.
- Monarch, founded in Chaffee County, Colorado in 1878, consists of log or frame dwellings and commercial buildings lining dirt street. Surrounding hills are covered in felled timber; a tramway climbs the slopes to a mine higher up. Freight and ore...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Madonna Mine and Ore Tramway.; Monarch (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Monarch--1880-1890.; Mountain railroads--Colorado--Monarch--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Monarch--1880-1890.
- 1884
- Memorial Day '1896, Cripple Creek, Colo.
- View of large crowd lining boardwalks on both sides of street watching Memorial Day parade, Cripple Creek, Colorado; several one-story wooden framed commercial buildings line the street; business signs include: "Burkhardt Bros. Meat Market,"...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Holidays--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1896
- Walter Huston as Othello Central City
- Actor Walter Huston plays Othello in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. His costume consists of coarse fabric with satin lining and braiding.
- Huston, Walter 1884-1950--Performances--1930-1940.; Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Actors--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Costumes--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- 1934
- Walter Huston as Othello, Kenneth McKenna as Iago in "Othello" Central City Opera House, Central City
- Actors Walter Huston and Kenneth McKenna pose in Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. Huston wears draped, coarse fabric with satin lining and braiding; McKenna is in high-collared clerical garb with chain and skullcap.
- Huston, Walter 1884-1950--Performances--1930-1940.; McKenna, Kenneth--Performances--1930-1940.; Central City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Actors--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.; Costumes--Colorado--Central City--1930-1940.
- 1934
- St Elmo Colo. Bldg just above the "X" is the American house. White schoolhouse at extreme right, center. (this may be a copy from a Rocky Mtn views postcard photo).
- Saint Elmo, Chaffee County, Colorado, consists of frame dwellings and businesses lining dirt street. One building is either in ruins or under construction; the structure with the "X" drawn under it is the American House, a hotel. Saint Elmo was...
- Saint Elmo (Colo.)--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Hay ranch on the Bear River
- Distant view of hay or alfalfa fields in Bear River (probably Yampa River) valley, Routt County, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado; lush hay fields bordered by barren hills, cottonwood trees lining Bear River.
- Bear River (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Alfalfa--Colorado--Routt County--1900-1920.; Hay--Colorado--Routt County--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Routt County--1900-1920.
- [between 1908 and 1915]
- 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?]
- Bear Creek Canon
- View in Bear Creek Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, shows a timber bridge and trees lining the stream.
- Bear Creek Canyon (Colo.)--1890-1920.
- [between 1890 and 1920]
- Ski course at Steamboat Spgs. Colo.
- View, from downhill, of the ski course at Steamboat Springs, Colorado; spectators line the steep, snow-covered slope; shows a skier near bottom of slope, two levels of jumping platforms, and skiers lining up above the lower platform.
- Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Skiing--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1910-1930.
- [between 1916 and 1923?]
- Silver Plume
- View shows residences lining a dirt road in Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado.
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Silver Plume--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1940-1950.
- [1940?]
- Flood 1920's.
- View of the flooding Purgatoire River, Trinidad, Colorado with crowds of spectators lining the Commercial Street bridge. The bridge has stone balustrade and two cast iron lamps with white glass spherical globes on each of the four arms. Muddy river...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Floods--Colorado--Trinidad--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1929?]
- River that flooded A. T. & S. F. tracks & depot, Trinidad, Colo.
- View of the flooding Purgatoire River, Trinidad, Colorado with crowds of spectators lining the Commercial Street bridge. The bridge has stone balustrade and five cast iron lamps with white glass spherical globes on each of the four arms. Muddy...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Floods--Colorado--Trinidad--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1929?]
- Trinidad, Colo. river at flood stage
- View of the flooding Purgatoire River, Trinidad, Colorado with crowds of spectators lining the Commercial Street bridge. The bridge has stone balustrade and two cast iron lamps with white glass spherical globes on each of the four arms. Muddy river...
- Trinidad (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Floods--Colorado--Trinidad--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1929?]
- Georgetown, Col.
- View of Georgetown, Colorado, north up Rose Street. On the closer blocks of the street, long shadows of the trees lining the street fall across it. Visible are the Masonic Lodge and Fish Block at the crossing of Rose and Sixth Streets, the Cushman...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.
- 1898
- Baby carrier
- Native American (Great Plains) baby carrier with back strap, fully beaded with geometric design and hood, laces, cloth lining, doll inside.
- Indian beadwork--Great Plains--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--Great Plains--1890-1900.; Cradleboards--Great Plains--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Masonic Lodge F F & A M going west on Lincoln
- This view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest on Lincoln Street, is of a parade of some fifty men in suits, hats, and white Masonic aprons heading east on the dirt street toward the camera. A man with a waist-mounted bass drum leads....
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Celebrations--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Main Street, Breckenridge
- On Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, the Denver Hotel is on the left, with its paired gable roofs and shared low false front. It has a balcony topped porch with sawtoothed arches, and a projecting "Evans Pharmacy" sign. Pedestrians are on the...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
- [between 1892 and 1895?]
- View of Aspen Junction
- The town of Basalt, Colorado, is nestled in a valley near the Fryingpan River in Eagle County, Colorado. The view of First Street, below, shows simple, wood-frame, houses with gables and chimneys lining the dirt road. The train depot, roundhouse,...
- Basalt (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Dwellings--Colorado--Basalt--1900-1910.; Railroads--Colorado--Basalt--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Marble - 1942
- View of residences lining a dirt road in Marble, Colorado; Whitehouse Mountain in the background.
- Marble (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Whitehouse Mountain (Gunnison County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Roads--Colorado--Marble--1940-1950.
- 1942
- 16th Street
- View on 16th (Sixteenth) Street, Denver, Colorado; shows men in suits and bowler hats and women in long skirts on sidewalk by cast metal lamp posts and a clock; automobiles, horse-drawn carriages and trolley tracks are in the thorougfare. Business...
- Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Automobiles--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1909]
- Alma
- View northwest down Pine and Main streets in Alma, Park County, Colorado; shows frame residences, sheds and businesses lining gravel streets, automobiles, and pedestrians. Sign reads "Alma Hotel." A vacant lot shows right foreground; Mount Bross...
- Alma Hotel (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Alma (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Bross, Mount (Colo.); Buildings--Colorado--Alma--1920-1940.
- [between 1925 and 1935]
- Main Street, Alma, Mt. Bross above clouds
- View northwest along upper Main Street in Alma, (10,353 feet) in Park County, Colorado, includes wood frame and false front commercial buildings lining the street. A sign on the two-story false-front at the bend in the street reads "Capital Hotel...
- Alma (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.; Restaurants--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Alma--1880-1890.; Bross, Mount (Colo.)
- 1885
- Meeker - 1950
- View of log cabins lining a dirt road in Meeker, Colorado; features medium gables, horizontal log walls, chinking, double hung windows, and single leaf doors; cabins housed soldiers.
- Meeker (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Log cabins--Colorado--Meeker--1950-1960.
- 1950
- Meeker - 1950
- View of log cabins lining a dirt road in Meeker, Colorado; features medium gables, horizontal log walls, chinking, double hung windows, and single leaf doors; cabins housed soldiers.
- Meeker (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Log cabins--Colorado--Meeker--1950-1960.
- 1950
- Anaconda, Colo. looking N. E.
- View northeast across Ananconda, Teller County, Colorado, of several camps including Squaw Gulch, Mound City, and Barry nestled in valley below Gold Hill; features wood frame gabled houses, log cabins, false fronts, and a smelter lining the dirt...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- [1899]
- Eldora Colorado Labor Day 1899 -
- Men, women and children in the middle of Main Street in Eldora, Colorado focus on the band. Street is lined with evergreen trees in honor of the Labor Day celebration.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Celebrations--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- 1899
- Orchard round Warden's Residence and no. from bell house and No 5 lower Colorado State Penitentiary, Canon City
- The Warden's residence at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, is a two-story stone building with a low-gabled roof and a faceted lookout tower and flagpole. Trees are behind a low stone wall lining the street in the foreground, and an...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- The home of Mrs. M. M. Sheetz, southwest corner of 5th and Greenwood
- This two-story random ashlar stone residence in Canon City, Colorado has a hipped gable roof and chimneys, and a covered balcony and open porch lining the inside curve of its ell shape. The portico has ornate brackets and a balcony with a birdcage...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Canon City--1880-1890.
- 1882
- Hot soda springs near state prison Canon City
- Stone buildings at the soda springs in Canon City, Colorado, were built in the 1890's with prison labor and feature incised friezes and finials, a metal roof and ridge cresting. The iron spring house has an awning reaching to the street, and a...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Springs--Colorado--Canon City--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Entrance to City Park, Denver
- A man and woman ride bikes on a path near the 21st Ave. (Twenty First Avenue) entrance to City Park in Denver, Colorado. Shows cottonwood trees lining the path, men sit on park benches and a large, ornate water fountain.
- City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Drinking fountains--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- 1897 June 8
- CB&Q car
- Express-coach, "Silver Lining". Photographed: Denver, Colo., October 24, 1936.
- Railroads--Cars--1930-1940.; Railroads--Trains--Pictorial works--1936.; Railroad cars--Colorado--Denver.; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
- 1936
- Lace House, Black Hawk
- View of the north side of the Lace House, Black Hawk, Colorado. Shows the intricate, modified egg and dart woodwork along the porch frieze; other jigsaw design at the porch posts and along the bargeboard lining the eaves; board and batten siding,...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1980.
- [between 1964 and 1974]
- Detail of cornice decoration, house in Black Hawk, cor. of road by railway tracks and the Dory Hill Road
- View of decorative woodwork on Carpenter Gothic house in Blackhawk, Colorado; the "gingerbread" style of architecture includes flowers and leaves lining the porch frieze and the roof line under the chimney, and an ornate bracket at the support post.
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1920-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1920-1970.
- [19--?]
- The house at Gregory Point - (Black Hawk) home of Mr. and Mrs. Frederich Kruse 188?-1939, Ben Draper, March 1940
- Front view of two-story horizonal-clapboard Kruse residence in Black Hawk, Colorado, featuring three front bays, sawtooth gables, two chimneys, open first-story porch with posts supporting a projecting roof, and balustrades making up the bargeboard...
- Kruse, Frederich--Homes & haunts--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1940.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1930-1940.
- [between 1931 and 1939]
- Central City, Colo. 1900-
- The steeple of St. Mary's Catholic Church stands in the right foreground of this view of Central City, Colorado. The rooftops of buildings lining Pine Street are also in the foreground. St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the Central City public high...
- Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Fox holes
- View of foxholes lining an italian hillside. Small groups of Tenth Mountain Division soldiers work or rest around their fox holes. Men in jeeps drive down a road in the middle of the image. Trees on the hill are leafless, but the ground is covered...
- Foxholes--Italy--1940-1950.; 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]
- Lava buttes at Hot Sulphur Spgs.
- A fence borders the sides of a wide, grassy path leading toward the Lava Buttes at Hot Sulphur Springs in Colorado. The fence has log posts and log rails lining its top. Wire also connects the posts.
- Hot Sulphur Springs (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Fences--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1900-1920.; Trails & paths--Colorado--Hot Sulphur Springs--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Cathedral in Santa Fe
- steeple on each tower. (The steeples were never built.) A large, round, stained-glass window stands between the two towers.; Two men walk on the sidewalk in front of the St. Francis Cathedral on Cathedral Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Trees with...
- Cathedral of San Francisco de Asis (Santa Fe, N.M.)--1900-1920.; Santa Fe (N.M.)--1900-1920.; Cathedrals--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.; Men--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.; Streets--New Mexico--Santa Fe--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1911?]
- Street opposite McClure house
- Men lounge in spindle chairs and on the fence lining the sidewalk in Canon City, Colorado. Frame, gable roofed businesses and trees flank them; a sign over hanging blankets reads: "Monitor-".
- Canon City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Canon City--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Occidental Hotel
- View southeast of front facade of Occidental Hotel, corner of Fourth and Silver Streets, Lake City, Colorado, a two-story wooden false front structure with central veranda (formerly the American Hotel). Shows two automobiles parked diagonally in...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Hotels--Colorado--Lake City--1930-1940.; Occidental Hotel (Lake City, Colo.)
- 1935
- Tapping out one of the most dramatic and spectacular moments of the steelworker's routine
- Interior view of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Pueblo, Colorado, a steel and iron manufacturing plant; shows molten steel streaming into ladle from blast furnace with slag ladles nearby.
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Interiors.; Steel industry--Colorado--Pueblo--1950-1970.; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
- [between 1950 and 1970?]
- Black Hawk and Central, Colo. Central R.R.
- View northwest up Gregory Gulch from Swede Hill in Colorado. Shows the towns of Black Hawk, Mountain City, and Central City in the distance; narrow gauge train trestle over Gregory Street, Presbyterian church and schoolhouse on Bate's Hill,...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gregory Gulch (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [188-?]