Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Curley, Crow Scout, left foot on stump, full length
- Full length studio portrait of Curley, Crow male scout for General George Custer, holding rifle bag, standing with foot on rock in front of painted backdrop.
- Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1880-1890.; Rifles.; Curly.; Crow Indians.; Indians of North America--Portraits.
- Sitting Bull's camp, near Standing Rock Agency, many tepees, Missouri River in background
- View of Chief Sitting Bull's camp at the Standing Rock Agency south of Fort Yates, in Sioux County, North Dakota. The Missouri River is in the distance. Shows Native American (Sioux) tepees camped above the river bottom with drying or tanning racks...
- Missouri River--1880-1890.; Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)--1880-1890.; Curing (Preservation)--1880-1890.; Indian encampments--Dakota Territory.; Tipis--1880-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- Burro ride
- A girl with a quirt in her hand sits sidesaddle on a burro in (probably) Colorado. A man holds the reins.
- Donkeys--Colorado--1880-1890.; Girls--Colorado--1880-1890.; Sidesaddle riding--Colorado--1880-1890.
- Burro rider
- A woman rides a donkey sidesaddle in (probably) Manitou Springs (El Paso County) Colorado; a house with a covered porch and surrounded by a stone wall is in the distance.
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Donkeys--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.; Sidesaddle riding--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1890-1900.
- Western History Subject Index
- PHOTOGRAPHER. POST
- Western History Subject Index
- Photographer. Running, John
- Western History Subject Index
- Photographer. Ward, John
- Western History Subject Index
- Photographer. ALTER, C. F
- Levi E. Marshal, Colorado pioneer
- Head and shoulders portrait of Levi E. Marshall, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado with short cropped hair and a bushy mustache; fitted sack jacket buttoned all the way up to the small lapels.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Marshall, Levi E.
- 1859
- Willie E. Prindle
- Studio portrait (sitting) of a young woman, Willie Prindle. She wears a dark dress with lace trimmed fitted sleeves. The dress has a lace decorated open neck with a ribbon and a large bow. She wears a double strand necklace with a pendant. Her...
- Women--1870-1880.; Prindle, Willie.
- 1875
- Adobe old flour mill, old Albuquerque, New Mexico
- View of a steam-powered flour mill, near probably Old Town, in Albuquerque (Bernalillo County), New Mexico. The adobe and wood building has a smokestack, a wooden hopper on an outside wall, doors, and a balcony. A sign on the building reads:...
- Albuquerque (N.M.)--1870-1880.; Adobe buildings--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1870-1880.; Flour & meal industry--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1870-1880.; Mills--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1870-1880.
- 1875?
- Main Street, Gunnison, Colo.
- View of east side of Main Street from the Red Lion Inn, Gunnison, Colorado; owners of the "Stough and Davis Dry Goods and Millinery" stand at their entry with fabric displayed; a large camera is on top of their rooftop sign. Frank E. Dean and his...
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Business districts--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.
- 1882
- Loco Warm Spring Apache chief
- Studio portrait (standing) of Loco, a Native American (Warm Springs Apache) medicine man. He poses near a rifle and a blanket draped over a pedestal. He wears boot moccasins, a blanket, beaded necklace with pendant, and cloth headband.
- Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Warm Spring Apache Indians--1880-1890.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1890.; Loco, Warm Spring Apache Chief.
- 1884
- Maud & Ruby Price, Ruby the first girl born in Ruby, Colo.
- Studio portrait of the Price sisters, Maud and Ruby, in matching plaid dresses with lace collars and trim in Ruby (or Irwin), Gunnison County, Colorado.
- Ruby (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Ruby--1880-1890.; Pioneers--Colorado--Ruby--1880-1890.; Price, Maud.; Price, Ruby.
- 1885
- Tom Owens home, Irwin, Colo. Owens and wife on porch, last house left in Old Town of Irwin, lower end of Irwin
- Tom Owens and wife pose on the porch of their two-story gable- roofed clapboard home in Irwin, Gunnison County, Colorado, the last house left when the town was abruptly abandoned. She is seated on a platform rocker in a dark dress with a white...
- Owens, Tom--Homes & haunts.; Irwin (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Irwin--1880-1890.
- 1885
- Orodell, Colorado
- A view of Orodell (Boulder County), Colorado shows a Greeley, Salt Lake, and Pacific Railway Company passenger train and track near the convergence of Boulder and Fourmile Creeks. Men stand near the train and railroad grade. A reinforced...
- Boulder Creek (Weld County and Boulder County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Orodell (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Orodell--1880-1890.; Streams--Colorado--Orodell--1880-1890.
- 1886
- W. W. Outcalt, Sam Outcalt, left
- Standing studio portrait of William and Sam Outcalt, in leather chaps, hats and bandanas with a saddle, whips and ropes. A dog lies at William's feet and a painted landscape with evergreens and mountains, serves as the backdrop, Gunnison, Colorado.
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Families--Colorado--Gunnison--1880-1890.; Outcalt, Sam.; Outcalt, William.
- 1886
- J. Morse
- Head and shoulders studio portrait of E. Morse, Gunnison, Colorado; he wears a wool sack coat with small collar, narrow lapels, with top button fastened.
- Gunnison (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Morse, E.
- 1887
- Grand Hotel Pueblo, Colorado property of J. P. Whitney 1887
- Stone trim finishes the Grand Hotel in Pueblo, Colorado. The four-story building has storefronts at the street level, and mansard corner and entry turrets with dormers, widows' walks, and bracketed cornices. A lettered panel under the central...
- Pueblo (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Pueblo--1880-1890.; Grand Hotel (Pueblo, Colo.)
- 1887
- Albany Hotel, Denver, 88
- View of the Albany Hotel at 17th (Seventeenth) and Stout Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. Shows a four-story brick building with oriel windows. Striped awnings hang over the corner entrance. A woman and girls stand on the street corner.
- Albany Hotel (Denver, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
- 1888
- Maj. McLaughlin, Rev. Cleveland, Judge Wright, Capt. Pratt, two sitting and two standing
- Full length studio portrait with painted backdrop of the Second Sioux Commission of 1888 appointed by President Grover Cleveland to further break up the Dakota Nation and reservation; left to right: Major James McLaughlin, seated (Standing Rock...
- Wright, John V.; Cleveland, William Joshua, 1845-1910.; McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923.; Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924.; United States. Sioux Commission (1888)
- 1888
- Rev. Cleveland, Judge Wright, Capt. Pratt, two sitting and one standing, full length
- Full length studio portrait with painted backdrop of the Second Sioux Commission of 1888 appointed by President Grover Cleveland to further break up the Great Sioux Nation and Territory; left to right: Reverend William J. Cleveland, seated; Judge...
- Wright, John V.; Cleveland, William Joshua, 1845-1910.; McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923.; Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924.; United States. Sioux Commission (1876)
- 1888
- Nevadaville, Bald Mt. Colo.
- People pose in Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, in a buggy, an ore wagon, with horses, near snowbanks and in a merchant's wagon with lettering: "Union Bakery." Log and frame houses and sheds cover Quartz Hill; a bridge spans Nevada Creek.
- Nevada Creek (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Nevadaville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Quartz Hill (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bridges--Colorado--Nevadaville--1880-1890.
- 1889
- Sioux Commission - Gen. Crook, Gov. Foster, Sen. Warner, all sitting, full length
- Full length portrait of the Sioux Commission of 1889, all seated, wooden railing of front porch in background; left to right: General George Crook holding carved walking stick or cane, Charles Foster of Ohio holding walking stick or cane, and...
- Crook, George, 1829-1890.; Foster, Charles, 1828-1904.; Warner, William, 1840-1916.; United States. Sioux Commission (1889)
- 1889
- Gen. Crook, wearing straw hat, bust
- General George A. Crook, 1/2 length seated portrait, wearing straw hat, bow tie, suit jacket, and vest, holding carved walking stick in one hand; portrait was copied from 1889 Sioux Commission photograph.
- Generals--1880-1890.; Military officers--United States--1880-1890.; Military uniforms--1880-1890.; Crook, George, 1829-1890.
- 1889
- Main St. Grand Junction
- View of half-timbered and frame buildings on Main Street in Grand Junction (Mesa County), Colorado. One and two-story commercial buildings have flat or low pitched roofs and signs that read: "The Fair 1890", and "[Ins]urance & Real Estate." A man...
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1900.; Half-timbered buildings--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1900.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Grand...
- 1890
- Gunnison Cornet Band, Champions of Gunnison, Co., 1890
- Studio portrait of the members of the Gunnison Cornet Band from Gunnison (Gunnison County), Colorado. Band members wear long trousers with a side stripe, jackets decorated with braid trim, and kepi hats. The men hold cornets, tubas, trumpets, a...
- Bands--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.; Brass instruments--1890-1900.; Drums--1890-1900.; Musicians--Colorado--Gunnison--1890-1900.
- 1890
- Main St., Grand Junction
- View of buildings along one side of Main Street, Grand Junction, Colorado, shows a row of log, wooden frame and brick one and two-story commercial business buildings with gable and flat-roofs, boardwalk and dirt street. "The Fair, 1890" is painted...
- Grand Junction (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Baseball--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Grand Junction--1890-1900.
- 1890
- Idaho Springs, Colo.
- Men in suits and women in dresses and straw hats sit on a hillside and watch a crowd of people and a partially inflated hot air balloon at Fourth of July festivities in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows houses and a freight train...
- Colorado Central Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Balloons (Aircraft)--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1890-1900.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Idaho...
- 1890 July 4
- Idaho Springs, Colo.
- A man wears a suit, holds a cane, stands near women on a hillside, and watches a crowd of people near a rising hot air balloon at Fourth of July festivities in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Shows houses and a freight train on...
- Colorado Central Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Clear Creek (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Balloons (Aircraft)--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1890-1900.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Idaho...
- 1890 July 4
- Dividing Chief Honily's effects, after his death
- Native American (Northwest) and white men sit in a tent in order to divide Chief Honily's effects, probably in Pendleton, Oregon.
- Indians of North America--Oregon--1890-1900.; Manners & customs--Oregon--1890-1900.; Tents--Oregon--1890-1900.; Honily.
- 1891
- Perl Baker
- Studio bust portrait of Perl Baker, a senior in the class of 1888 at Denver High School in Denver, Colorado. Baker wears her bangs curled and her hair pinned back. She wears a lace lappet at the collar of her blouse and a jacket with wide lapels...
- Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Students--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.; Baker, Perl.; Denver High School--People--1880-1890.; Denver Public Schools--People--1880-1890.
- 1891
- Fremont, Cripple Creek Dist.
- View of Bennett Avenue, Fremont, Colorado, July 14, 1892, prior to incorporation of town and area as Cripple Creek, Colorado; view includes canvas tent with wooden frame, and one and two-story flat-roof wooden frame commercial buildings (some with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fremont (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Capt. Dave Neumena, chief of Paiutes
- Standing studio portrait of Native American (Paiutes) man, Dave Neumena, Captain of Police at the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada. He wears a white kerchief, top coat and vest with metal buttons, pocket chain, pants, and boots. One hand rests on a...
- Indian reservation police--Nevada--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Nevada--1890-1900.; Paiute Indians--Nevada--1890-1900.; Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Nev.)--1890-1900.; Police--Nevada--1890-1900.; Neumena, Dave.
- 1892
- Wife of Big Elk
- A Native American (Cheyenne) woman and Big Elk's wife pose near a doorway, 47 miles from Fort Keogh, Montana. The women wear moccasins, dresses, and blanket shawls. Big Elk's wife wears a cloth belt and beaded necklaces.
- Cheyenne Indians--Montana--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Montana--1890-1900.; Spouses--Montana--1890-1900.; Women--Montana--1890-1900.; Big Elk--Family.
- 1892
- Telluride Hose Team No.1 The Champion, 100 yards, wet test, in southwestern Colorado, July 3" 1892
- Telluride Hose Team Number 1 on July 3, 1892, on Colorado Avenue in front of First National Bank, Telluride, Colorado, in annual race competition against Delta, Ouray, Rico and Grand Junction down one block length, that included unreeling two...
- Telluride (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Fire-fighters--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Racing--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1890-1900.
- 1892
- Spokane River
- View on the Spokane River near Spokane (Spokane County), Washington shows basalt rock formations along the rivers edge.
- Spokane County (Wash.)--1890-1900.; Spokane River (Idaho and Wash.)--1890-1900.; Rivers--Washington--Spokane County--1890-1900.; Rock formations--Washington--Spokane County--1890-1900.
- 1892 May 7
- Winter in Cripple Creek
- Rows of one and two-story flat-roof wooden frame commercial buildings (many with false fronts) on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; horse-drawn wagon frame, possibly an ox wagon, loaded with timber, wooden and metal barrels is on dirt road;...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1892 November 24
- Cabin of S. J. Roberts, Cripple-Creek, Colo.
- Three men pose by a log cabin belonging to S. J. Roberts, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one man with pants tucked into knee-high boots stands near miner's pick, broom, and sledge hammer (possibly S. J. Roberts); men sit holding a flute or fife and a...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Roberts, S. J.
- 1893
- Main Street after the flood of 1893
- Workmen with shovels and picks on Main Street around 3:45 p.m. as pedestrians watch them clear the street after the flood. The men are wearing hats and workclothes; the onlookers are wearing suits and dresses, two are carrying umbrellas. Main...
- Central City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1890-1900.
- 1893
- Freighting in the Rocky Mountains, Hull Transfer Co.'s teams, Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Several horse and mule-drawn teams pulling covered wagons and freight wagons block traffic on Bennett Avenue between First (1st) and Second (2nd) Streets, Cripple Creek, Colorado; teams identified as Hull Transfer Company, stop in front of Grant...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Moving & storage trade--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890- 1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple...
- 1893 March 13
- Cripple Creek, Colo. first train into the "great gold camp"
- View of the first train into Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows Denver and Rio Grande locomotive 39, a baggage car and passenger cars surrounded by a crowd of people. Mine buildings are on the hillsides. Horse-drawn carriages and piles...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Spectators--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1894 July 1
- Cripple Creek, Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1
- Anaconda firemen pose with their hose wagon in front of two Cripple Creek businesses in Teller County, Colorado. Two boys stand on a ladder leaning on side of wagon with two fireman helmets on top. Small girl in a fancy dress and bonnet sits on...
- Anaconda (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Facades--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Anaconda--1890-1900.
- 1894 May 20
- Cripple Creek, Colo.
- View across rooftops of Cripple Creek, Colorado from hillside on edge of town; scene includes row of outhouses, vertical slat wooden frame outbuildings and residences, post corral, and stone root cellar with sod roof built into hillside; clothes...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Privies--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1894 May 7
- Old friends, Newport '95
- Two harnessed oxen stand next to a building in Newport, Rhode Island. The oxen have cloth blankets covering their backs.
- Newport (R.I.)--1890-1900.; Ox teams--Rhode Island--Newport--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Eldora pioneers, 1895
- Men and boys (early settlers) and their dogs pose in front of a log cabin in Eldora, Colorado. A two-horse team stands nearby.
- Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Pioneers--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Headquarters of the Happy Valley Placer Company, Eldorado camp
- Men and boys stand or sit beside a horse-drawn buggy and a log cabin, possibly the home of John H. Kemp, in Eldora (Eldorado) in the Grand Island Mining District of Boulder County, Colorado. Men beside a wooden fence are identified left to right...
- Happy Valley Placer Company (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Boys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Log...
- 1895
- Black Hawk Colo., after the flood, July 30, 1895
- View from ground level of a street crowded with people after the flood of 1895 in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows a woman seated with umbrella, one woman standing with umbrella and propped against a leaning pole, and one woman with her left arm behind...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Black Hawk, Colo. Flood
- View west on Gregory Street in Black Hawk, Colorado, after the flood of 1895; shows flood debris such as planks, posts, rocks, dirt and silt. Three men are holding shovels and working on clearing the street as water continues to pour past them in a...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Floods--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1900.
- 1895
- Eldorado Camp
- View of the mining settlement of Eldorado Camp (Happy Valley, Eldora), in the Grand Island Mining District in Boulder County, Colorado. Shows log houses, a storefront, pine trees and snow.
- Happy Valley Placer Company (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Eldora (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Settlements--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.; Valleys--Colorado--Eldora--1890-1900.
- 1895