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Curated Galleries

Interior view of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (Corporation), Pueblo, Colorado, a steel and iron manufacturing plant; shows male employee operating a machine which produces steel wire from steel rods.

A young man sits in the bed of a truck loaded with sugar beets parked in sugar beet field in Northern Colorado. Shows a line of large beets displayed along the chained sideboard of the truck bed.

Interior of the Denver Tramway Company machine shop; a worker operates a large drill press.

The Working West

Wartime bride scrapbook pages with visible phonebook pages. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)

Wartime bride scrapbook pages. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)

Wartime bride scrapbook cover. Scrapbook made from old telephone book. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)

Scrapbook pages from the Gertrude Reasor Papers

View of a car on the Taylor State Road, in Glenwood Canyon (Eagle or Garfield County) Colorado; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks are across the Colorado River.

View of Addie Mellon and Harry Fisher Rhoads, parents of Harry M. Rhoads, with an electric automobile in front of City Park pavilion, Denver, Colorado.

A small boy cries, climbing the side of his crib.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Harry Rhoads

AdaWoman

View east from Pikes Peak on a moonlight night, shows the lights of Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado and snowcovered foothills. Image taken by AdAmAn Club member Harry Standley, during the annual mountaineering trek to the top of the 14,110 foot mountain to set off fireworks on New Years Eve.

Two AdAmAn club members stand in front of a ice wall with icycles and prepare for the annual New Year's Eve Pikes Peak climb, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. The men wear parkas and mittens; one has a backpack with an antenna, the other holds an ice- climbing pick, a "Motorola," portable radio and a coiled rope.

AdAmAn Club's Colorado New Year's Tradition

Firefighters amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center, New York City

Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) deck crew guides a fighter jet,

Gusty Chocknok, skipper of the salmon gillnetter F/V Helen Marg, operating in Bristol Bay, Alaska

Museum on Main Street: The Way We Worked Exhibit

Exhibit held September 3-November 2, 2014

Exhibit held September 3-November 2, 2014

Representative John P. Saylor (R-PA) widely distributed this map to constituents and other stakeholders depicting the areas proposed for designation in H.R. 11703, the first wilderness bill to garner significant attention, which he introduced on June 11, 1956. Exhibit held September 3-November 2, 2014

Legacy of Wilderness Maps

View of an Idle 12 Club function. A group of African American (Black) men pose in front of a stage at a dance hall in Denver, Colorado. The men wear tuxedos and bow ties. A jazz band is on the stage in the distance. On the wall near the stage a sign reads "Stag Show, Feb. 1955."

Interior view of the Cooper home in Idaho Springs, Colorado, shows six musicians playing their instruments. Included are: coronet, valve trombone, piano, clarinet, and two violins. The upright piano has a decorative wooden engraving on the facing board and a star patterned cloth draped over it. A doll on top of the piano is leaning against a basket of flowers.

Joe Manns Orch. at jail at Lakeside

Sound Check: Musicians in Colorado

Studio portrait of Buckskin Charlie, a Native American man (Ute); dress includes fur, a hair pipe choker, a moustache, and a Rutherford Hayes Indian Peace Medal.

Studio portrait of Frank P. Stewart, owner of a confectionery store and a resident of Georgetown (Clear Creek County), Colorado. He wears a dark corduroy jacket, an upright, round collar and a tie with a stickpin. He has a full, waxed mustache, is balding and his hair is combed back and parted on the side.

Notable Moustaches of the West

Dancers from the Georgia Land School of Dancing pose for a group photo in Denver, Colorado. The women, part of the Georgia Lane Group, wear short fringed skirts, bikini tops with sheer fabric overlays, and have their hair marcelled (waved). The woman posed at the extreme left is Sarah Francis "Sally" Orr.

Portrait of Denver Community Players in Denver, Colorado; William Myatt is in a jester costume, a woman in a satin flapper outfit looks on.

A studio portrait of Grayce Smith a possible student at North High School and a member of the Kismet Club. She has her hair slicked back and is wearing a black stain top with white lace pinned to it. She wearing a triple strand pearl necklace.

Ladies' hairstyles of the 1920s