Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 1 Number 11, 1909 May 1
- 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
- 1907 Ballenger & Richards 35th Annual Denver City Directory
- 1893 Corbett & Ballenger's 21st Annual Denver City Directory
- Home where Alva Adams was born in Alamosa?
- Exterior view of Alva Adams' birth place in Alamosa, Colorado. Adams was once a local retail dealer and, from 1897-1899, the Democratic Governor of Colorado. The two-story wood frame structure with intersecting gables has clapboard siding, sash...
- Adams, Alva Blanchard, b. 1875--Homes & haunts.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Alamosa--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Mexican house, Taos
- Single-story adobe residence with screen door, paned glass windows with wood shutters, vigas, and chimneys in Taos, New Mexico.
- Adobe houses--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.; Taos (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Houses--New Mexico--Taos--1900-1910.
- 1906
- Glenarm Branch, Young Men's Christian Association History
- Family portrait
- Portrait of a Spanish American family in front of their adobe house in Northern New Mexico. Shows vigas, decorative wooden posts, and shutters. The women wear simple blouses and skirts with their hair pulled back and the men wear vests or coats...
- Aged persons--New Mexico--1890-1900.; Children--New Mexico--1890-1900.; Families--New Mexico--1890-1900.; Women--New Mexico--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Albuquerque
- View of an adobe house in Albuquerque (Bernalillo County), New Mexico. Shows a building with a pitched roof, portal (porch), chimneys, and windows with wooden shutters. An adobe wall and wooden gate are beside the house.
- Albuquerque (N.M.)--1910-1930.; Adobe houses--New Mexico--Albuquerque--1910-1930.
- [between 1918 and 1925?]
- Loretto Heights service camp World War I
- A classroom of American Red Cross (ARC) students, including sisters of Academy sit around two long tables working with bandages, Loretto Heights service camp, a WWI training center, Denver, Colorado. The women wear white dresses with veils....
- American Red Cross--1910-1920.; Loretto Heights College--1910-1920.; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--Colorado--Denver.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [1917 or 1918]
- Antonito, Colorado
- View of the one-story modern log structure with low side gable, asphalt shingles, aluminum entry door and decorative shutters in Antonito, San Luis Valley, Conejos County, Colorado; sign on roof reads: "Narrow Gauge Curio and Gift Shop, Cafe,...
- Antonito (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Antonito--1970-1980.
- 1974
- Unidentified residence, entrance
- View of the entrance to an unidentified residence designed by architect Burnham Hoyt, in possibly Cherry Hills Village (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The modern style brick and wood sided house has adjoined rectangular segments, a hip roof and brick...
- Architecture--Colorado--1930-1940.; Doors & doorways--Colorado--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--1930-1940.
- [1939]
- Unidentified residence
- View of an unidentified residence designed by architect Burnham Hoyt, in possibly Cherry Hills Village (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The modern style brick and wood sided house is comprised of adjoined rectangular segments and a two story segment....
- Architecture--Colorado--1930-1940.; Driveways--Colorado--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--1930-1940.
- [1939]
- Unidentified residence, steps
- Exterior view of an unidentified residence designed by architect Burnham Hoyt, in possibly Cherry Hills Village (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The modern style brick and wood sided house has a hip roof, wooden shutters on either side of large windows...
- Architecture--Colorado--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--1930-1940.; Stairs--Colorado--1930-1940.
- [1939]
- Race Street, Denver
- A woman wearing a full-length skirt and hat walks on the sidewalk beside the home of H.S. Babcock on Race Street in Denver, Colorado. Shutters hang from the windows on the house. Curtains hang on the interior of the windows. A brick wall borders...
- Babcock, H. S.--Homes & haunts--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900?]
- Old Black Forest schoolhouse
- View of the old Black Forest schoolhouse located at 6770 Shoup Road, Black Forest (El Paso County), Colorado. The school closed in 1945 and became a county maintenance facility. The chinked log cabin with white shutters is on a new cement...
- Black Forest School (Black Forest, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Black Forest (Colo.)--1990-2000.; One-room schools.; Black Forest School (Black Forest, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Rural schools--Colorado--Black Forest--Pictorial works.; Historic...
- 1995
- Henry Myron Blackmer residence
- View of the Henry Myron Blackmer residence at 1212 Grant Street in Denver, Colorado; features gables, oval windows, shutters, and a classical portico.
- Blackmer, Henry Myron, 1869-1962--Homes & haunts.; Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- 1948
- Tom Botterills cottonwood home
- View of the home of Tom Botterill, Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado; features a two-story Classical Revival wood frame structure with a flat roof with balustrade, front and rear doric columns, screened in porch, dark window shutters, a trellis...
- Botterill, Thomas--Homes & haunts.; Arvada (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Arvada--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- Temple Buell mansion
- View of a Georgian Revival house at 2700 Hampden Avenue in Englewood (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The red brick house has a wooden balcony that runs the length of the facade and is supported by wooden columns. A wooden addition extends from the...
- Buell, Temple Hoyne, 1895-1990--Homes & haunts.; Foster, Alexis C.--Homes & haunts.; Englewood (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Mansions.; Buell, Temple Hoyne, 1895-1990--Homes and haunts.; Foster, Alexis C.--Homes and haunts.;...
- 1995
- Pahaska Tepee
- Men and women hike past the Pahaska Tepee, a spruce tree lodge located at Lookout Mountain Park, a Denver Mountain Park located on the top of Lookout Mountain in Jefferson County west of Denver, Colorado. The women wear jodhpurs, boots and sweaters...
- Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum--1920-1930.; Denver Mountain Parks--1920-1930.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Lookout Mountain Park (Jefferson County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Chalets--Colorado--Jefferson County--1920-1930.;...
- [between 1924 and 1930?]
- Mountain settlement
- View of a public building with canvas shutters and ridgecresting. A gazebo is to the side and pine covered slopes are in the background.
- Buildings--1880-1920.
- [between 1880 and 1920?]
- House of Wm. N. Byers, Denver
- William N. Byers poses outdoors with his family in Denver, Colorado. William Byers wears a suit with a vest and a bowtie, and sits in a chair. Elizabeth Byers has her hair parted down the center and pulled back, and wears a dress with full bishop...
- Byers, William Newton, 1831-1903--Homes and haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Families--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Byers, Elizabeth Minerva.; Byers, Frank S.; Byers, William Newton, 1831-1903.; Robinson,...
- [1862]
- Central City Masonic building
- The Central City Masonic building is a three story, brick structure with gabled roof, chimneys, arched windows with open shutters and arched entryways in Central City, Colorado. The words over the doors read "Sessler-Sauer" and "WW Tiffany."...
- Central City (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Central City--1860-1870.
- 1868
- Houses, Eureka St., Central City, 1953
- An L-shaped, clapboard, one-story house is built above a retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. It has a peaked tin roof, a chimney, and a covered porch. The rectangular windows have dark shutters, and an electrical wire is attached to the front...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- House on Eureka St., Central City, 1953
- A gothic revival home along Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado, is built above a masonry retaining wall. The L-shaped, one and one-half story, clapboard house has a gabled roof, a stovepipe chimney, and rectangular windows with shutters on...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A large, two story clapboard house is built above a retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The house has a flat roof with eaves that extend out over the sides of the roof. Two bay windows, one on the upper level and one on the lower level, have...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A two story, clapboard house with a pediment-style front gabled roof with tin covering and a chimney is seen from the side. Decorative columns are under the eaves. The house has rectangular windows with lintels and molding around them. Windows on...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A one and one-half story, clapboard house with a gabled roof, a stove pipe chimney, and gingerbread bargeboard around the eaves is built above a masonry retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The house is painted white and has two doors and...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- House, Eureka St., Central City, 1953
- Two houses built above a retaining wall stand on Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado. One house is a two-story, brick box with a flat roof, a double-bracketed cornice, a covered porch, and is separated from the other house by a white picket...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Cherrelyn car
- Conductor pulls the Cherrelyn Gravity and Broncho Street Railway horse car to the top of the hill for the return trip down to Orchard Place, from Cherrelyn, (district incorporated into Englewood) Arapahoe County, Colorado. The horse rides on the...
- Cherrelyn Gravity and Broncho Street Railway (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Horse railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Cherrelyn--1900-1910.
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- Superintendent's residence, Climax, Colorado
- Facade view of a newly constructed company superintendent's residence of the molybdenum mine operation, Climax, (11,320 feet) Fremont Pass, Continental Divide, Lake County, Colorado; shows a two-story stucco house with brick trim, bracketed hip...
- Climax (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Climax--1930-1940.
- [1936]
- Colorado Springs residence
- Two women pose with a dog, that is half shaved, in the yard of a two story home in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The house features wood shingle siding, window lattice, awnings and shutters and a livery stable in back yard.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dogs--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1891 and 1900]
- Broken Bar M Ranch
- View of a two-story wood frame farmhouse Conifer, Jefferson County, Colorado; features a hip roof with intersecting gables, roof cresting, lightening rods, weather vane, imbrication, bay window, shutters and porches with a fence surrounding; built...
- Conifer (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Farmhouses--Colorado--Conifer--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1965]
- Home of Courtney Riley Cooper, Idaho Springs, Colo.
- A stone wall and steps are in front of the two-story Colonial Revival style residence of Courtney Ryley Cooper in Idaho Springs (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The house has a balcony over the entry porch, columns, and shutters. The numbers "1122"...
- Cooper, Courtney Ryley, 1886-1940.--Homes & haunts.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1930-1940.
- 1938
- Marion Street residence
- View of a house at 154 Marion Street in the Country Club neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; it has shutters and a covered porch.
- Country Club (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1960-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Architectural field survey #37 roll 1
- View of a house at 2915 Champa Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story brick house has a covered porch, decorative shutters, and window trim.
- Curtis Park (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.
- [1976]
- Stout Street - Face Block Project 1981-1982
- View of 2440 Stout Street in the Curtis Park neighborhood (Five Points) in Denver, Colorado; shows people installing shutters under a covered porch.
- Curtis Park (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Maintenance & repair--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1981 June
- Dakota Indian mission school
- White men, a woman, and children pose outside a two-story house with some open shutters and windows, possibly on the Ponca Reservation, Nebraska.
- Dakota Indians--Education--Nebraska--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--Education--Nebraska--1880-1900.; Ponca Reservation (Neb.)--1880-1900.; Children--Nebraska--1880-1900.; Missions--Nebraska--1880-1900.; Women--Nebraska--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Safely's residence
- View of the Safely home in Denver, Colorado. The house has a small porch, decorative trimmed eaves, and shutters.
- Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Safely family--Homes & haunts.
- 1864
- Between 17th and 18th on Glenarm
- View of a building at 1750 Glenarm Place in downtown Denver, Colorado. The two-story brick building has arched windows and shutters, a balcony with columns, and two chimneys. Automobiles are parked nearby.
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Buildings--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Possibly designed by Bert L. Rhoads
- View of an unidentified single story, stucco home on East Virginia Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The house has a tiled roof, a large porch with columns, and window shutters.
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Possibly designed by Bert L. Rhoads
- View of an unidentified single story, stucco home on East Virginia Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The house has a tiled roof, a large porch with columns, and window shutters.
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Architectural field survey #30 roll 2
- View of a duplex at 4444 and 4451 Cherokee Street in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one-story stucco building has covered entryways and decorative shutters.
- Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Globeville (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Duplexes--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.
- [1976]
- Residences at 1438 - 1444 Niagara Street
- View of houses at 1438 through 1444 Niagara Street in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one-story houses have fish scale shingles, decorative shutters, and decorative brick work.
- Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Montclair (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.
- 1976
- Monaco Street residence
- View of a house at 10th (Tenth) and Monaco Street in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features used brick, shutters, and bay windows.
- Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Montclair (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.
- 1976
- Kearney Street residence
- View of a house at 785 Kearney Street in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; it has shutters and shingle imbrication. Snow covers the ground.
- Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Montclair (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1970-1980.
- 1976
- 1892 Ballenger & Richards 20th Annual Denver City Directory
- 1896 Ballenger & Richards 24th Annual Denver City Directory
- 1911 Corbett & Ballenger's 39th Annual Denver City Directory
- 1915 Corbett & Ballenger's 43rd Annual Denver City Directory