Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- A Walk on the West Side : The Story of an American High School
- Book regarding the history of West High School in Denver, Colorado from 1884 to 1984. Included are photographs of students and student publications.
- West High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1984
- Morey Musings : vol. 1
- Booklet of poetry written by students of the Morey Junior High School in Denver, Colorado. The book was sponsored by the English and Miss Agnes Govreau of the Art Department. The booklet was hand set by the boys in the printing class.
- Morey Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); School prose, American--Colorado--Denver.; Schools--Colorado--Denver.
- 1931 June
- Morey Musings
- Booklet of poetry written by students of the Morey Junior High School
- Morey Junior High School (Denver, Colo.); School prose, American--Colorado--Denver.; Schools--Colorado--Denver.
- 1934
- The Good Old Days: Grigsby Family History
- Intensive document covering the Grisby family history starting in the early 1870's in Iowa.
- 2012 June 20
- Fiftyniners' directory : Colorado Argonauts of 1858-1859. A directory of their arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, ranches; with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters.
- A transcription of two volumes originally created by Henrietta Bromwell pertaining to the lives and events surrounding the early settlers of Colorado.
- Pioneers--Colorado.; Colorado--Biography.
- 2004
- Kansas City, Mo.
- Panoramic view of Kansas City, Missouri. Shows the spire of the late gothic style St. Mary's Episcopal Church, unidentified churches, houses, apartment buildings, row houses, commercial facilities and factories. Signs and a banner read: "Low...
- Kansas City (Mo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns.; Dry goods stores.; Furniture stores.; Restaurants.
- [1906]
- Los Angeles, Cal. children of Chinatown
- Chinese children pose outside a shop in Chinatown in Los Angeles, California. The boys wear hats with silk tassels on top, loose tunics, loose pants tied at the leg, stockings and embroidered slippers. The girls wear loose tunics, loose, decorated...
- Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)--1890-1900.; Los Angeles (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Children.; Stores & shops.; Chinese.
- [1899]
- East Denver High School Annual: Class of 1918
- 1918 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1918
- Unidentified Indian man and woman, man in white man's clothes, full length
- Unidentified Dakota Native American man and woman, full length studio portrait with painted backdrop; small dog lower righthand corner; man with unbraided hair, jacket, vest, pants, scarf tied at neck, moccasins and holding a hat; woman with shawl...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.
- [188-?]
- John Grass, Dakota Chief, and McLaughlin, full length
- John Grass, Dakota Chief, and James McLaughlin, Indian Agent, full length studio portrait with painted backdrop; John Grass wears feather headdress, breastplate, fringed leather jacket, blanket around waist, and moccasins; McLaughlin in suit...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Portraits--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Grass, John.; McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923.
- [188-?]
- Evening Hi Jinks at Stead's camp "the first lift", the gag is: a volunteer and two regulars flanking him lay down and lock arms, ostensibly to be lifted by a muscled "rider." Instead the volunteer gets ice water poured in his pants.
- Joe Dekker pours ice water on a member of the Roundup Riders of the Rockies' pants, in a gag performance during the evening entertainment on the group's annual trail ride, at Stead's ranch camp near Estes Park in Larimer County, Colorado. Three...
- Roundup Riders of the Rockies (Colo.)--People--1950-1960.; Larimer County (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Entertainment--Colorado--Larimer County--1950-1960.; Organizations--Colorado--Larimer County--1950-1960.; Practical jokes--Colorado--Larimer...
- 1958 July
- CU stadium, Boulder pow wow public show Doc Gilbert, Bob Cormack (clown), Harry Gorman.
- A clown pulls a roped calf's tail at Folsom Field on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder (Boulder County), Colorado. Bob Cormack is dressed as a clown and wears face paint, a wig, and a patched jacket and pants. Gail "Doc" Gilbert wears a...
- Roundup Riders of the Rockies (Colo.)--People--1950-1960.; Boulder (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Folsom Field (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Cattle--Colorado--Boulder--1950-1960.; Clowns--1950-1960.; Entertainment--Colorado--Boulder--1950-1960.;...
- 1957 July 20
- Scenery project
- Photoprint of two watercolors of costumes used in the University of Colorado Operette, Boulder. On the left is a painting of "Ilya" warriors costumes, with Egyptian warriors on steps which rise to the left. The bodies are seen from the front, with...
- Tabor Opera House--1930-1940.; Boulder (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Costumes--1930-1940.; Interiors.; Opera houses--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theaters--Colorado--Leadville--1930-1940.; Theatrical productions--1930-1940.; Wolle, Muriel Sibell,...
- 1932
- Boy on horseback
- A boy in a shirt, pants, suspenders and a hat and poses on horseback probably near Rifle (Garfield County), Colorado. Shows a lariat attached to the saddle.
- Garfield County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Garfield County--1890-1910.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Garfield County--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Toro, Toro! an old time Californian vaquero after a wild steer
- View of a Mexican American cowboy with a lasso on horseback. Longhorn cattle are in the distance. The vaquero wears a sombrero, a woven blanket over his shoulders, pants or chaps with buttons along the seam and fringe over boots, and a cloth mask...
- Mexican Americans--California--1890-1900.; Cowboys--California--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--California--1890-1900.; Roping--California--1890-1900.
- 1893 December 9
- Portrait of a soldier
- A man wears a World War I soldier's uniform and stands at attention in a studio portrait. The soldier holds a rifle and wears jodhpur pants, boots with gaiters, a long buttoned jacket and a felt hat.
- Soldiers--1900-1910.
- [between 1915 and 1920?]
- Horace Swartley Poley, Margaret Ferguson Poley and Sue J. Frey
- Women and a man sit and pose on a rope hammock. Margaret Ferguson Poley wears a pince-nez, a skirt, a printed blouse under a striped fitted jacket with puffed sleeves and lapels, and a scarf or tie around the collar. Sue J. Fr[e?]y wears wire...
- Hammocks--Colorado--1890-1900.; Photographers--Colorado--1890-1900.; Spouses--Colorado--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--1890-1900.; Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley); Poley, Margaret Ferguson.
- 1890?
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West
- Poster drawing of a Native American man on horseback holding his left hand to shade his eyes as he looks into the distance. He wears a buckskin shirt and pants, both with tassles. The words "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" are written across the top of...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Zouaves group
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stands on the far left of a group of Zouave posing in three rows. The back row is standing, the middle row kneeling and the front row sitting. The costume the Zouaves wear, including red, baggy pants,...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Zouaves--Clothing & dress.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1898?]
- Zouaves group
- A group of Zouaves poses in front of a backdrop with a landscape scene painted on it for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The costume the men wear, including red, baggy pants, gold-braided blue vests and red fez hats, was reportedly derived from the...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Zouaves--Clothing & dress.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1897?]
- Weeding sugar beet fields near Brighton
- A Mexican farm worker (migrant worker) uses a hoe to weed a sugar beet field near Brighton, Colorado. He wears work pants, long sleeved shirt and a straw hat. Another worker is in the distance.
- Mexicans--Colorado--Brighton--1950-1960.; Sugar beets--Colorado--Brighton--1950-1960.; Brighton (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Farming--Colorado--Brighton--1950-1960.; Migrant agricultural laborers--Mexican--Colorado--Brighton--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Buck Taylor
- William Levi "Buck" Taylor, known as the "King of the Cowboys" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, sits for a full-length studio portrait while on tour with the show in England. He is sitting on a tree stump and wears a cowboy hat and buckskin pants...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Cowboys--1880-1890.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Taylor, William Levi.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1887?]
- William F. Cody
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody poses on the back of a horse in a dirt arena for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, possibly on the show's final tour of Europe. Cody wears a dark suit coat, striped pants, and a hat with a curled brim, probably a...
- Wild west shows--1900-1920.; Horses--1900-1910.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1903?]
- Venezia
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody poses with four Native American men in a courtyard at the Doge's Palace in Venice, Italy. Sioux (Dakota) Chief Rocky Bear stands beside Buffalo Bill, he wears a feather headdress, a hairpipe bead breastplate,...
- Dakota Indians.--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Venice (Italy)--1890-1900.; Black Heart.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Rocky Bear.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.; Palazzo ducale (Venice,...
- [1890?]
- Captain Albert Jackman and Lieutenant Paul Townsend inside an Everest Tent, on Mount Rainier, Washington
- View of Captain Albert Jackman and Lieutenant Paul Townsend of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) inside a green Everest Tent during the Mount Rainier Test Expedition. Jackman is taking notes and Townsend is reading. Equipment...
- Rainier, Mount (Wash.)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--1940-1950.; Tents--Washington (State)--1940-1950.; Jackman, Albert H.; Townsend, Paul.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain...
- [May 1942]
- Captain Paul Lafferty and ski instructors, Paradise, Washington
- Captain Paul Lafferty and five ski instructors, all from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced), stand on skis at the top of a slope in the mountains near Paradise, Washington. All are wearing caps, anoraks, wool pants and shoe-packs.
- Ski troops--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Skiing--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Lafferty, Paul.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States....
- [1942]
- Corporal Eldon Metzger attaching ski climbers, Mount Rainier, Washington
- Corporal Eldon Metzger of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced), attaches ski climbers as part of the Mount Rainier Test Expedition. Metzger is wearing dark-glasses, and zinc oxide on his lips, a dark shirt and pants, suspenders, a belt...
- Ski troops--Washington--Mount Rainier--1940-1950.; Rainier, Mount (Wash.)--1940-1950.; Metzger, Eldon.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- [May 1942]
- Poley with rifle
- Horace S. Poley stands and poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted flower mural. Poley is dressed in militia for the Cripple Creek strike, he wears a hat, a pince-nez, a moustache, a long probably tweed coat with a velvet or leather...
- Militias--Colorado--1890-1900.; Photographers--Colorado--1890-1900.; Poley, H. S. (Horace Swartley)
- [1894]
- Human pyramid
- Members of the Devlin's Zouaves, in costume, form a human pyramid. Charles Orville "Dutch" Walters is in the center and stands on the shoulders of a another performer. Their costumes consist of fez hats, short jackets, baggy pants, leggings and...
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company--People--1910-1920.; Devlin's Zouaves--People--1910-1920.; Sells Floto Circus--People--1910-1920.; Acrobatics--1910-1920.; Circus performers--1910-1920.; Costumes--1910-1920.; Zouaves--United States--1910-1920.;...
- [between 1910 and 1917?]
- Navajoe Indian Dance
- View of a Native American (Navajo) Circle Dance at Fort Defiance (McKinley County), New Mexico. The men wear woven shirts and pants, hats and necklaces. Some men are on horseback and three men sit on the ground nearby. The adobe buildings and a log...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Fort Defiance--1870-1880.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--Fort Defiance--1870-1880.; Fort Defiance (N.M.)--1870-1880.; Dance--New Mexico--Fort Defiance--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--New Mexico--Fort...
- 1873
- V.P. Orapeza
- Vincente P. Orapeza, a trick roper and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, poses on horseback in a dirt arena for the show at Ambrose Park in Brooklyn, New York. He twirls a lasso in the air above him. He wears a sombrero and a dark, bolero...
- Trick roping--1890-1900.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Orapeza, Vincente.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1894?]
- Bennie Irving "The Smallest Cow Boy in the world", Buffalo Bill's Wild West
- Young Bennie Irving, nicknamed "The Smallest Cowboy in the World," poses for a full-length, studio portrait wearing a cowboy hat and holding a rope in his hands. He also wears a shirt embroidered with flowers and has a small pistol tucked into the...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Cowboys--1880-1890.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Irving, Bennie.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1886?]
- Office of W.H. Rose, Civil Engineer and Surveyor
- View of the exterior of W.H. Rose's office, in Leadville, Colorado. Rose was a civil engineer and surveyor. The small front gabled structure with board and batten construction has a panel entry door with "92" on the jamb and a sash pane window....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Offices--Colorado--Leadville--1870-1880.; Rose, W. H.
- [between 1879 and 1880]
- Great Falls, Montana
- Young men, probably Devlin's Zouaves with the Sells Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, pose seated on the ground in Great Falls (Cascade County), Montana. The young men are near a billboard that reads: "Drink American Beer." The boys...
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company--People--1910-1920.; Devlin's Zouaves--People--1910-1920.; Sells Floto Circus--People--1910-1920.; Great Falls (Mont.)--1910-1920.; Billboards--Montana--Great Falls--1910-1920.; Circus performers--Montana--Great...
- [between 1910 and 1917?]
- Buckskin Charlie - 1901 at Ignacio, Colo.
- Ute Chief Buckskin Charlie poses in front of a tepee in, probably, Ignacio, Colorado. He wears fringed pants and shirt, a feather in his hair and a choker necklace. He holds what may be a pipe in his hands. A shaggy dog sleeps next to the tepee.
- Indians of North America--Colorado--Ignacio--1890-1910.; Ute Indians--Colorado--Ignacio--1890-1910.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.
- 1901
- Buckskin Charlie & two Native American women
- Native American Ute Indian chief Buckskin Charlie poses in front of a tepee with his wife Emma Naylor Buck (To-Wee) and an unidentified Native American woman. Buckskin Charlie wears fringed pants and shirt, a feather in his hair and a choker...
- Indians of North America--Colorado--Ignacio--1890-1910.; Ute Indians--Colorado--Ignacio--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Ignacio--1890-1910.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.; To-Wee.
- 1901
- Buckskin Charlie of Ignacio Colorado
- Ute Chief, Buckskin Charlie poses in front of a tepee in Ignacio, Colorado. He wears fringed pants and shirt, a feather in his hair and a choker necklace. He holds what may be a pipe in his hands. A shaggy dog sleeps next to the tepee.
- Indians of North America--Colorado--Ignacio--1890-1910.; Ute Indians--Colorado--Ignacio--1890-1910.; Buckskin Charlie, Ute Chief.
- 1901 March
- Participants taking the emetic at Walpi
- Native American (Hopi) snake dancers in body paint and kilts stand or lean over the side of a cliff vomiting; white men in shirts, pants, boots and hats look on, Walpi Pueblo, Arizona. Spectators sit on buildings.
- Hopi Indians--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1930.; Indians of North America--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1930.; Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)--1890-1930.; Walpi (Ariz.)--1890-1930.; Snake dance--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1930.; Spectators--Arizona--Walpi--1890-1930.
- [between 1895 and 1925?]
- Unid. Indian wearing badge Allegheny, Penn.
- Shows an unidentified Native American man in ceremonial dress seated next to a residence in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He wears a stripped shirt, long pants decorated with bands of beads down the sides, a cone shaped headdress that is decorated with...
- Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Allegheny--1890-1910.; Allegheny (Pa.)--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- 2 unid. men in front of tipi
- Two unidentified Native American men pose in front of tipi. One man wears a wide brimmed hat, long shirt tied with a beaded belt, pants with beadwork down the sides, a scarf and beaded moccasins. The other man wears a long print shirt with beaded...
- Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Tipis--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Four men, unid.
- Four unidentified Native American Indian men pose in ceremonial clothing. One man holds a drum and a shield (?) and another holds a staff. They all wear pants, shirts, headdresses and beaded moccasins.
- Indians of North America--Colorado--1900-1910.; Headdresses--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Camp gathering
- Men, women and children pose in a meadow at a camp of probably the officers of the 22nd (twenty-second) infantry at Fort Keogh (Custer County), Montana. A canvas tent has a stencil with a rifle insignia and reads: "22". Men hold cigars and wear...
- Fort Keogh (Mont.)--1890-1900.; Children--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Military camps--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Military officers--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Tents--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Women--Montana--Fort...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- The Ghost Dance by the Ogallala Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota
- Native American (Dakota, Ogalala) men and women stand in a row and perform the Ghost Dance at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. One man who is possibly in a trance has braids and a hair pipe breast plate, and dances apart from the...
- Dakota Indians--Dance--Dance--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Dance--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Oglala Indians--Dance--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Ceremonial dancers--Dance--South...
- 1890 December 6
- Rocky Bear on horseback
- Sioux Chief Rocky Bear poses on horseback in front of a backdrop with a landscape scene painted on it. He wears a feather headdress and a buckskin shirt and pants with beads and tassels adorning them. He holds a long spear in his left hand. Rocky...
- Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress--1880-1900.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Rocky Bear.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Two Native American men
- Two Native American men pose in the foreground while touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Europe. The man on the right has one feather on the back of his head and wears a loin cloth and bands with bells on them around his knees. He is...
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1889?]
- Men with horse and buggy
- Two members of the cast of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show pose with a horse and buggy in front of a backdrop painted with a landscape scene. One man stands in the left foreground holding onto the horse's bridle. He has a thick moustache and wears a...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Carriages & coaches.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- Man with horse
- A man stands in the right foreground holding the bridle of a dark horse in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The man wears knee- length riding boots and striped pants. He has a moustache. A small dog lies on a blanket at the man's feet. A...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Cowboys--1880-1900.; Horses--1880-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [between 1885 and 1900?]
- My class, Paradise, Washington
- Five men from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) ski through deep snow on a slight slope near Paradise, Washington. All are wearing caps, anoraks, wool pants, and shoe-packs. All were in the photographer's skiing class.
- Ski troops--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Skiing--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--Paradise--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain...
- [1942]
- Nate Salsbury portrait
- Nate Salsbury poses for a three-quarter length, studio portrait. He is wearing a dark coat and has a gray beard and moustache. A watch fob hangs from his vest pocket, and he holds his hands in his pants pockets. Salsbury was an actor and managed...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Actors--1890-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1901?]
- WHJ as he reached Salt Lake in the fall of 1866
- Portrait of William Henry Jackson as he appeared upon his arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a season as a bullwhacker on the Overland Trails. He is dressed in a ragged hat, coat and pants. He has on high boots and holds a bullwhip. Lettering...
- Bullockies--1860-1870.; Photographers--1860-1870.; Watercolors--1930-1940.; Whips--1860-1870.; Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942.
- [between 1932 and 1938?]