Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- 1933 Denver Householders' Directory and Street and Avenue Guide v.9
- 1934 Denver Householders' Directory and Street and Avenue Guide v.10
- 1935 Denver Householders' Directory and Street and Avenue Guide v.11
- 1936 Denver Householders' Directory and Street and Avenue Guide v.12
- 1937 Denver Householders' Directory and Street and Avenue Guide v.13
- 1956
- View northwest from Goat Hill over remains of Caribou (9800 feet), once a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado, includes a gravel road winding past portions of two stone walled structures and several dilapidated wood frame or log structures...
- Caribou (Colo.)--1950-1960.
- 1956
- 1967
- View northwest from Goat Hill over remains of Caribou (9800 feet), once a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado shows an improved gravel road winding upslope past portions of two stone walled structures and several dilapidated wood frame or log...
- Caribou (Colo.)--1960-1970.
- 1967
- 1980
- A jeep with a fabric roof is parked in front of a gas station with gas pumps in Gateway, Colorado. Signs nearby read, "Coors," "Pepsi," "Gateway," "Gateway Center," "Conoco," and "Gateway Motel, Night Office at Trailer in Rear." An American flag...
- Gateway (Colo.)--1980-1990.
- 1980
- 1980
- A view down a road in Gateway, Colorado, includes a gas station, a small house, a church, several parked cars and trucks, and trees. Signs include: "Speed Limit 40," "No Parking Within 10 Feet of Roadway," "Conoco," and "Gateway Motel, Night Office...
- Gateway (Colo.)--1980-1990.
- 1980
- 2706 West Colfax Avenue, Denver
- View of a office building at 2706 West Colfax Avenue (at Morrison Road) in the Sun Valley Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Sign reads: "Lyco Meat Co, 2706 West Colfax." A brick zig-zag ornament adorns the cornice; sedan automobiles are parked.
- Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Sun Valley (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Office buildings--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1981 October
- 3/4 mile up mt. toward North Empire
- Mining ruins are next to a two track dirt road near North Empire, Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Empire--1950-1960.; Empire (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Empire--1950-1960.
- 1960
- 30 ft. snowcut, Rollins Pass, Moffat Road
- Denver and Salt Lake Arrow Turn (passenger car) parked east of Corona snowshed by thirty foot snowbank cut, Rollins Pass, Colorado; shows men, women and railroad employees posed behind train, on roof and on snowbank and standard gauge track.
- Rollins Pass (Colo.); Snow removal--Colorado--1910-1930.; Snowsheds--Colorado--1910-1930.; Denver and Salt Lake Railroad Company.
- [between 1904 and 1920]
- 3601 Morrison Road, Denver
- View of a one story, brick commercial building added on to a house with a cross gabled roof, at 3601 Morrison Road in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The building has two toned decorative brick and a flat roof. Signs on windows of...
- Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Westwood (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1990-2000.
- 1990 June
- 4 Bar Ranch
- View of dirt road winding through the 4 Bar Ranch near Carbondale, Colorado; utility pole and wires, baled hay, farm buildings, and cultivated fields in distance, mountains in background, and field of clover in foreground.
- Ranches--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1919]
- 4050 Globeville Road, Denver
- View of a business at 4050 Globeville Road in Globeville, Colorado. The building is made with precast concrete twin "T" sections, and has an irregular roof line. Segmented overhead doors and a loading dock are along the side.
- Globeville (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Globeville--1990-2000.
- 1994 May
- 454 and 5 car train leaving Montrose yard
- A Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 454 vents smoke and pulls gondola cars, freight cars, and a caboose by a road crossing in Montrose (Montrose County), Colorado. A house and a barn are in the distance.
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Montrose (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad crossings--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.; Railroads--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.
- 1951 November 21
- 4th of July 1904
- Crowds gather for a Fourth (4th) of July bucking bronco contest given at Bennetts' Beaver Ranch, in Conifer, Jefferson County, Colorado. Men wearing suits and women and girls in lacy dresses and bonnets line the road; carriages and horses are near...
- Conifer (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Celebrations--Colorado--Conifer--1900-1910.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Conifer--1900-1910.; Ranches--Colorado--Conifer--1900-1910.
- 1904 July 4
- 4th Street, Saguache, Colo.
- View of 4th Street in Saguache (Saguache County), Colorado. One and two story commercial buildings line the street. Signs read: "Saguache Hotel" and "Daisy's Bookstore and the Ute Theater." Cars are parked along the road. A pipeline and a large...
- Saguache Hotel (Saguache, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Saguache (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Hotels.; Stores & shops.; Saguache Hotel (Saguache, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Hotels--Colorado--Saguache--Pictorial works.; Stores, Retail--Colorado--Saguache--Pictorial...
- 2009
- 4UR Ranch
- View of the buildings of the 4UR Ranch in Wagon Wheel Gap (Mineral County), Colorado. Clapboard and log buildings are in a green field. A barn is nearby. The Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine is in the distance. Shows a fence and a dirt road.
- 4UR Ranch (Wagon Wheel, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Wagon Wheel Gap (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Dude ranches.; 4UR Ranch (Wagon Wheel, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Dude ranches--Colorado--Wagon Wheel Gap--Pictorial works.; Wagon Wheel Gap (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2009
- 527 D & R G Hospital
- The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hospital in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, is a brick building with a porch, balcony, a frame wing with bargeboard, and dormers. Dirt road is in the foreground.
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Hospital (Salida, Colo.)--1900- 1910.; Salida (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hospitals--Colorado--Salida--1900-1910.
- [between 1903 and 1910?]
- 5901 Middlefield, Littleton
- View of an apartment building complex at 5901 S. Middlefield Road in Littleton (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The two story wood-sided building has second story balconies, brick chimneys, and paved walkways with arched bridges that cross a ditch....
- Littleton (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Housing developments--Colorado--Littleton--1990-2000.; Lilies--Colorado--Littleton--1990-2000.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Littleton--1990-2000.
- 1990 July
- 75mm howitzer in action
- Six soldiers of the Tenth Mountain Division fire a 75mm howitzer uphill from a shelter made of sandbags. One gives orders to fire while the others crouch against the blast. In the background downslope are a few Italian farm houses, a dirt road, a...
- Mountain warfare--1940-1950.; Artillery (Weaponry)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- [1945]
- 75mm. pack howitzers in action along Lake Garda, Italy
- The Tenth Mountain Division drove German troops ahead of them along the east shore road of Lake Garda and harrassed German truck convoys that were moving north along the west shore road by firing at them with either tanks or 75 mm. pack howitzers.
- Garda, Lake (Italy)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- April 1945
- 8050 Brighton Road, Commerce City
- View of a duplex at 8050 Brighton Road in Commerce City, Colorado. The one story brick structure has wrought iron and corrugated Fiberglas awnings. A frame house is nearby; a compact car is parked, and a sign reads: "Offered by Van Schaack, Dave...
- Commerce City (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Duplexes--Colorado--Commerce City--1990-2000.
- 1990 August
- 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
- ? - view of residences (unidentified)
- View of brick residences along a road with tramway tracks, Colorado. Street signs read "So. 11th St." and "W. 13th Av."
- Houses--Colorado--1890-1900.; Street railroad tracks--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- [Pik]es Peak carriage road near the toll gate
- A man sits in a horse-drawn buggy on a road on Pikes Peak in El Paso County, Colorado. Rock formations are nearby.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Roads--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- [Pikes Peak] carriage road
- View a dirt road on Pikes Peak in El Paso County, Colorado. Mountains are in the distance.
- Roads, Earth--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.; El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Roads--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- [Wagon on mountain road] [art original].
- Gouache painting, American.
- [n.d.]
- "Apple blossoms filled the air" -- death waits
- Photograph of apple blossoms. Trees were blooming in April as the Tenth Mountain Division prepared for a new offensive against the Germans from the hidden valleys behind Monte Della Spe, and Della Casellana, and near the towns of Tora, Campidello...
- Spring--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- April 1945
- "Bobtail Lode" at Central City [sic], Colorado
- View of frame mine buildings at the Bobtail Mine in Blackhawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows road grades, tailings piles, mine entrances, log cabins and frame buildings with smokestacks on a treeless hillside.
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Bobtail Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.; Tailing embankments--Colorado--Blackhawk--1860-1870.
- [between 1867 and 1868]
- "Hands up", an incident of travel on the plains
- Bandits in hats and face masks hold up a stagecoach at gun point on a road at night. Stagecoach drivers and a passenger hold their hands up. Two bandits hold the reins of the two teams of spooked horses.
- Criminals--1880-1890.; Horse teams--1880-1890.; Robberies--1880-1890.; Stagecoaches--1880-1890.
- 1885 August 29
- "If I Were White" by Clarence F. Holmes (unofficial title)
- "Johnnie" Cheyenne Canon.
- A donkey stands in a meadow near Stratton Park, North Cheyenne Canyon, El Paso County, Colorado. The donkey wears a bridle, saddle, and blanket. A horse stands in the distance.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Donkeys--Colorado--El Paso County--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- "Lower" Fulford
- Two buildings sit next to a two-track road on a hill in Lower Fulford, Colorado; one is a log gable-roofed building with a dormer, double-hung windows, and a paneled door, and the other is a weathered false front log building with a sagging roof....
- Fulford (Colo.)--1960-1970.
- [1960?]
- "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
- "Seeing Denver", tour bus
- View of an open electric tour coach with well-dressed men, women and children passengers on a dirt road in probably City Park in Denver, Colorado. An inscription on the side and front of the bus reads "Seeing Denver." Two employees of the bus...
- City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Passengers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Sightseers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- "The Colorado" Glenwood
- Northward view of the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; a road at left leads to the hotel; the tree-lined hot springs pool is visible at right.
- Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1900.; Resorts--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Glenwood Springs--1890-1900.; Hotel Colorado (Glenwood Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1893 and 1901]
- "The Delight Makers" home. Tyuonyi, the most interesting ruin in Pajarito Park
- View of the Native American (Anasazi) Tyuonyi ruins in Pajarito Park (later Bandelier National Monument), New Mexico. A circular group of foundations of Pueblo style buildings circumscribe possibly three round kiva holes. A wooden rail fence...
- Indians of North America--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1900-1920.; Pueblo Indians--Antiquities & archaeological sites--New Mexico--1900-1920.; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1900-1920.; Archaeological sites--New...
- [between 1900 and 1916]
- A beautiful landscape - ask F.D.
- Men pour water into radiators of Model F Ford vehicles while women stand near boulders and trees on a road probably near Livermore (Larimer County), Colorado.
- Ford Model F automobile--Colorado--Larimer County--1900-1910.; Larimer County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Convertible automobiles--Colorado--Larimer County--1900-1910.; Roads--Colorado--Larimer County--1900-1910.
- 1905
- A bit of corduroy road three miles to the top
- A man poses on the back of a horse-drawn covered wagon in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. The wagon is parked on a log road.
- Gore Range (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Covered wagons--Colorado--1890-1900.; Roads--Colorado--1890-1900.; Transportation--Colorado--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900]
- A bit of mountain trail, near Aspen, Colo.
- View of a stream in Pitkin County, Colorado; shows dirt road and flumes used in hydraulic gold placer mining.
- Pitkin County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Flumes--Colorado--Pitkin County--1880-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Pitkin County--1880-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Pitkin County--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Pitkin County--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- A bit of the old Fall River Road
- View of a switchback on the Fall River Road near Fall River Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park (Larimer County), Colorado; a woman poses in the distance.
- Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Rocky Mountain National Park--1900-1920.; National parks & reserves--Colorado--Rocky Mountain National Park--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- A canyon in mountains near Denver
- View of a road grade beside a creek in an unidentified canyon, possibly in Boulder County, Colorado. Shows trees, rock walls in the canyon and fallen trees in the creek.
- Canyons--Colorado--1860-1870.; Dirt roads--Colorado--1860-1870.; Streams--Colorado--1860-1870.
- [between 1867 and 1868]
- A car on the Pikes Peak Highway
- Two people sit and stand in an automobile on the Pikes Peak Carriage Road, El Paso County, Colorado. The road winds around a hairpin turn. Mesas are in the distance.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Roads--Colorado--El Paso County--1900-1920.
- [between 1909 and 1915?]
- A Century of Baptist Faith: First Baptist Church of Denver
- Book created by the Fist Baptist Church of Denver regarding the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Church. Included in the book is: a history of the church beginning in 1864, as well as photographs and lists of the different...
- Eha, Walter R. (Walter Ralph), 1891-1978--Archives.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)--History.; First Baptist Church (Denver, Colo.)
- 1963 December
- A Colo. dairy
- View of a dairy farm, probably Hazelwood Dairy; shows wood-frame residence with brick foundation, a wood-frame dairy barn, and cows along dirt road; a women and dog sit on front porch, a man stands next to barbed wire fence and horse-drawn...
- Cattle--Colorado--1900-1920.; Dairy farming--Colorado--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920]
- A drive in Estes Park
- View of an aspen tree-lined dirt road in Estes Park, Colorado.
- Estes Park (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roads--Colorado--Estes Park--1910-1920.
- [between 1911 and 1920?]
- A driveway in Washington Park, Denver
- View of a road in Washington Park in Denver, Colorado. Landscaping by S.R. DeBoer includes Ponderosa Pine, deciduous trees and shrubs. Shows a bridge over a ditch.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Washington Park (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Parks--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.; Roads--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- A fine crop of rocks
- Men and women sit in convertible automobiles on a dirt road probably in Larimer County, Colorado.
- Convertible automobiles--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1910]