Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- View of Mammiato Alto, Italy
- View of Mammiano Alto, Italy jutting over the valley on the road to La Lima. It was a billet for the Tenth Mountain Division during the winter of 1945.
- Military camps--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- Winter 1945
- Stapleton International Airport
- Niblock-Yacovetta Terrace
- Photograph of the coal house and the road behind the Niblock-Yacovette Terrace located in Denver, Colorado. Constructed in 1891 by Isaac Percival for Thomas Niblock, an Irish immigrant, the terrace is divided in the middle by a stepped cornice and...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
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- Chautauqua Auditorium tower
- Exterior photograph of the Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Park, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of Colorado. The buildings, constructed...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- Chautauqua Auditorium tower
- Exterior photograph of the Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Park, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of Colorado. The buildings, constructed...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- Chautauqua Dining Hall
- Exterior photograph of the Chautauqua Dining Hall in Chautauqua Park, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of Colorado. The buildings,...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- Chautauqua Auditorium tower
- Exterior photograph of the Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Park, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of Colorado. The buildings, constructed...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- Chautauqua Auditorium
- Exterior photograph of the Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Park, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of Colorado. The buildings, constructed...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- Chautauqua Auditorium
- Exterior photograph of some architectural elements on the Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Park, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- Chautauqua Auditorium
- Exterior photograph of the side of the Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Park, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of Colorado. The buildings,...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- Chautauqua Auditorium after renovation
- Exterior photograph of the Chautauqua Auditorium in Chautauqua Park, after its renovation, located near Boulder, Colorado. The district is comprised of 12 buildings which form the oldest part of the main campus of the University of Colorado. The...
- Chautauquas--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Boulder.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Boulder.; Architecture--Colorado--Boulder--History.
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- View from the top of a small knoll south of the town of Turret, Chaffee County, Colorado.
- A grave is surrounded by a picket fence on a knoll in the ghost town of Turret, Colorado in Chaffee County. Brush grows around the grave and a dirt road winds toward the ghost town.
- Turret (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Graves--Colorado--Turret--1970-1980.
- Summer 1975
- Animas Forks, Colo.
- View of the remains of the bustling camp of Animas Forks in the Animas River Valley, (11,300 feet) San Juan County, Colorado; shows dilapidated wood frame structures including the two-story Walsh house on a slight slope with scattered pines and low...
- Animas Forks (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Animas Forks--1950-1960.; Roads--Colorado--Animas Forks--1950-1960.
- Summer 1957
- Jeep on Mount Mangart Road, view of mountains north of Caporetto and Plezzo
- Pictured is a jeep on the Mount Mangart road stopped to view the rugged mountains north of Caporetto and Plezzo, Slovenia. The men of the Tenth Mountain Division had a chance to go sight-seeing during the summer after the end of the war.
- Bovec (Slovenia)--1940-1950.; Kobarid, Slovenia--1940-1950.; Military life--Yugoslavia--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- Summer 1945
- Location of road to Oil House Spur - west side of Berthoud Pass
- View of the road to Oil House Spur at West Portal (also known as Idlewild and Winter Park), Colorado in Grand County. A pile of boards and debris next to a wooden fence near two wooden sheds. Car on road.
- West Portal (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Roads--Colorado--West Portal--1920-1930.
- September, 1928
- Steamboat Springs, Colorado Routt County, Pioneer Day celebration taken from Onyx Quarry? Hill toward N.E.
- Spectators gather on the slopes of Quarry Mountain and in buggies around the perimeter of a field to watch the baseball game during the Pioneer Day festivities in Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado. The Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (Moffat...
- Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company--1900-1910.; Steamboat Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Baseball--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1910.; Celebrations--Colorado--Steamboat Springs--1900-1910.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Steamboat...
- September, 1908
- Eldorado Springs flood
- Three men walk on a dirt road that borders South Boulder creek after it flooded and damaged the resort and swimming pool in Eldorado Springs, Colorado.
- Eldorado Springs (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Floods--Colorado--Eldorado Springs--1930-1940.; Resorts--Colorado--Eldorado Springs--1930-1940.
- September 4, 1938
- 8:45 AM.
- A Senior citizen group from Dallas, Texas, boards a Trailways bus in the parking lot of the Ouray Chalet Motel, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. Automobiles on road include a Model T and a 4-wheel drive vehicle.
- Ouray (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Aged persons--Colorado--Ouray--1970-1980.; Tourists--Colorado--Ouray--1970-1980.
- September 23, 1979
- D & R G W pass from cliffs above valley, Cumbres westw, passenger train at road crossing between Coxo & Cresco
- A Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad passenger train passes through a wide valley between Coxo, Conejos County, Colorado, and Cresco, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Cumbres (N.M.)--1940-1950.; Railroad passenger cars 1940-1950.
- September 21, 1948
- Ironton and the Red Mountains Ouray Co, Colo. Sept. 1888.
- A view of a mountainside shows Ironton, Ouray County, Colorado, below. Small gable-roofed buildings are along a wide road with board sidewalks; the Red Mountains are behind.
- Ironton (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- September 1888
- San Juan Indians, cliff dwellings a t Manitou, Colo. roadway tepees
- Tepees and an adobe building, along the road, at the Manitou Cliff Dwelling Museum, Manitou Springs, Colorado. Shows paths, fences, and cliffs.
- Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Structures--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1910-1920.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1910-1920.; Manitou Springs...
- September 14, 1915
- Fairplay, Colorado
- The "Assay Office" in Fairplay, Colorado, in Park County is situated next to an unpaved road. The log building has a side gable. A mining tramway and other mining equipment are on hillside in the background.
- Fairplay (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Assaying--Colorado--Fairplay--1960-1970.; Mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1960-1970.
- October, 1960
- Searchlight
- Monthly newsletter produced by Trinity Methodist Church located in Denver, Colorado. Includes editorials, news bulletins, and general information regarding the youth of the church.
- Christians--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Youth--Colorado--Denver--Periodicals.; Trinity United Methodist Church (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (Denver, Colo.)--History.; Methodist...
- October 1949
- Records of the Auraria town company, from October 1858 to March 1860
- Pueblo - Rocky Ford Toll Line
- Men pose by canvas tents, buckboards, tools, and power poles, during the construction of the Pueblo -Rocky Ford Toll Line in Nepesta, Pueblo County, Colorado. They are left to right: Harry Sheldon (foreman), Bert Flack, Jim Slocum, Stan Wessel,...
- Nepesta (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Construction workers--Colorado--Nepesta--1890-1900.; Road construction--Colorado--Nepesta--1890-1900.
- November 1899
- Men from two divisions meet at Resia Pass, Austrian-Italian border
- Patrols from two divisions meet at the Austrian-Italian border taken from the Austrian side. A sign with "HALT! Grenzkontrolle" is placed on the right side of a wide dirt road. A small wooden barrier marks the border. Seven GIs from the Seventh...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company F.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- May 7, 1945
- General view of ghost town of Ashcroft
- View south along a dirt road to remains of Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, shows dilapidated log cabins and false fronts in a board valley with snowcovered Elk Mountains in background; lower slopes are covered with...
- Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Ghost towns--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
- May 23, 1940
- View of Robic, Slovenia
- Robic, Slovenia, on the road to Caporetto became headquarters for the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company, while the negotations over the Italian-Austrian-Yugoslavian border took place. The 10th was stationed...
- Garda, Lake (Italy)--1940-1950.; Military camps--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- May 1945
- Baynam in Northern Italy
- A Tenth Mountain Division soldier, Baynham, bicycles toward the camera some where in Northern Italy. The blue sign on a red and white stripped pole reads: Al. Km. 0.095 Sottopassaggio di Altezza M.4.10. Al. Km.2.255 Sottopassaggio di Altezza...
- Military life--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- May 1945
- Baptist Church, Fountain, Colo. after explosion.
- The ruins of the Baptist Church in Fountain, Colorado, lie in an open field; three carriages and horses are nearby. Other buildings are along the road behind.
- Fountain (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Baptist churches--Colorado--Fountain--1890-1900.
- May 14, 1888
- State Bridge, Colo. road bridge
- A state Highway 131 bridge spans the Colorado River and the tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad near State Bridge, Eagle County, Colorado.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1970-1980.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1970-1980.; State Bridge (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Bridges--Colorado--State Bridge--1970-1980.
- May 11, 1978
- Berthoud Falls, Colo.
- A van and car are parked outside of the "Berthoud Falls Inn Bar, Cafe, Motel" in Berthoud Falls, Colorado (Clear Creek County). The stone and wood-frame, two-story building has Swiss style architecture with steep gables and gingerbread. Snow and...
- Berthoud (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Taverns (Inns)--Colorado--Berthoud--1970-1980.
- May 10, 1978
- GIs dug in near Sassomolare, Italy
- Men from the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Company K, dig in on a ridge north of Sassomolare. According to the caption, they are protecting the left flank of the main column moving up the Porretta-Moderna Highway, a few...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company F.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 4, 1945
- Engineers rest behind a tank destroyer during an assult, Castel D'Aiano, Italy
- Ten Tenth Mountain Division 126th Mountain Enginers rest behind a tank destroyer on a mountain road while taking cover from German sniper fire. Those closest to the tank destroyer stand and sit upright while those farther from cover lie flat on the...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Tanks (Military science)--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 3, 1945
- Tank destroyer advances along a mountain road, Italy
- Three soldiers of the 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion advance a tank destroyer mounted with three inch guns along a mountain road located, according to the caption, in the Mount Terminale area. The 701st was attached to the Tenth Mountain Division...
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Tanks (Military science)--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
- March 3, 1945
- "Punchboard Hill" and the road to Abetaia, Italy
- Small sector of "Punchboard Hill" site of a heavy German artillery barage. From here troops of the Tenth Mountain Division launched an attack on German positions in the towns of Monte Della Piella, Della Vedetta, and Pietra Colora. The road in the...
- United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- Church at Pietra Colora, Italy
- View of the Church at Pietra Colora, Italy, and the artillery damage to it, taken from outside. A Tenth Mountain Division soldier stands in the road at the base of the church. The 10th captured the town on March 5, 1945.
- Churches--Italy--Pietra Colora--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; War damage--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- Residential District, Castel D'Aiano
- View of the residential district of Castel D'Aiano, Italy, which suffered heavy shelling from both the Germans and the Tenth Mountain Division. The town was located at an important road junction and was captured by the 10th on March 5, 1945.
- Castel d'Aiano (Italy)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- View of supply road between Gaggio Montano and Malandrone taken from Pietra Colora, Italy
- View of the Tenth Mountain Division's approach and supply road during the March 3rd attack between Gaggio Montano, Abetaia, and Malandrone taken from Pietra Colora. Until the 10th captured Pietra Colora from the Germans, this road suffered heavy...
- Pietra Colora (Italy)--1940-1950.; Mountains--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- March 1945
- N.D.H.S. Exponent, March 1892, Vol. II, No. 1
- Newspaper devoted to the interest of North Denver High School . It has four pages of articles covering the following subjects: school clubs, sports, military, around school, and class socials. The front cover has a picture of the high school. The...
- North High School (Denver, Colo.)--Periodicals.
- March 1892
- Jefferson, Colo.
- A cow grazes next to the tracks of the Colorado & Southern Railroad at Jefferson, Colorado, in Park County. The depot building has clapboard siding, a gable, a square bay, and two chimneys.
- Jefferson (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Jefferson--1930-1940.
- June, 1937
- Iliff, Colo. flood [sic] June 1 & 2, 1935
- An aerial view of a flood in Iliff, Colorado, shows rippling water covering fields; houses and farm buildings are surrounded. A gas station and a dirt road are still dry except for a washed-out area; clusters of people and automobiles are along the...
- Iliff (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Floods--Colorado--Iliff--1930-1950.
- June, 1935
- Hancock, Colorado
- A dirt road (former railroad bed) winds past a dilapidated water tank of the Colorado and Southern Railroad in the abandoned stop of Hancock, Colorado, in Chaffee County. An abandoned building, which has a tall, stovepipe chimney, is in the...
- Hancock (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Hancock--1940-1950.; Water tanks--Colorado--Hancock--1940-1950.; Colorado and Southern Railway.
- June 9, 1940
- Holy Cross N. F.
- Small abandoned and dilapidated wood buildings are at the base of a hill in Independence, Pitkin County, Colorado. The hillside, marked by two horizontal roads, has only a few trees, and new trees have been planted. A snowy mountain is in the...
- Independence (Pitkin County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Independence--1930-1940.
- June 5, 1939
- Waldorf mine and road to Argentine pass and Vidler Tunnel, Summit County
- View of Waldorf / Vidler mines and the Continental Divide, Clear Creek County, Colorado, (11,666 feet); shows frame buildings, water tank, ore carts, mine dumps and tailings. Road parallels Argentine Central Railway narrow gauge tracks and spur to...
- Argentine Central Railway Company--1900-1910.; Waldorf (Colo.)--1900-1910.
- June 21, 1908
- Formation (Suzid)
- View taken from above showing soldiers in formation in a green field near a road at the base of a mountain. Taken after victory in Italy.
- Military parades & ceremonies--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- June 1945
- Glenwood Canon - state wagon road on north bank of Grand (Colorado) River
- View of the Colorado River, in Glenwood Canyon, Garfield County, Colorado; shows the Taylor State Road, a power pole, and Denver and Rio Grande Railroad track grade.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company.--1900-1910.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1900-1910.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Glenwood Canyon (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Garfield County--1900-1910.;...
- June 19, 1909
- 14th Street Viaduct Construction
- Shows a construction crew paving the 14th (Fourteenth) Street viaduct in Denver, Colorado. The workers use shovels, gravel, wheelbarrows and water hoses. Bags of sand or concrete and the iron fence used on the viaduct are stacked nearby. A few of...
- African Americans--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Pavements--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridge construction--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.; Construction...
- June 1899
- Erie Colorado
- A view of Erie, Weld County, Colorado, includes a group of wood houses on flat terrain, with a mountain range in the distance, and a dirt road and trees in front. A large building has a sign reading, "Erie House;" others are marked "Feed and...
- Erie (Colo.)--1870-1880.
- June 1876
- View of Caporetto, Italy
- View of Caporetto taken from a road. To the right of the road are some stone buildings and farm fields, farther in the distance is the town. Behind the town are foothills and a church built in the hills. Rugged mountains lie directly behind the...
- Caporetto (Italy)--1940-1950.; Mountains--Italy--1940-1950.
- June 10, 1945