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Portrait of a man
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Group of men one with bicycle along stream
[between 1904 and 1915?]
Portrait of a man
[between 1890 and 1905?]
Miner's cabin, Camp Bird mine, Ouray County
[between 1880 and 1890?]

Hipster or History?

Beulah mountain park (Pueblo) Ap 1939
1939
Cranmer Park, Denver
[between 1930 and 1950?]
Dinosaur skeleton - Denver Museum of Natural History
[1935]
A good illustration of the use of tin cans and pressure cookers on a small canning unit
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Waldorf, Colo. altitude: 11,666 feet at Post Office
[between 1930 and 1940]
Colorado Museum of Natural History display
[between 1933 and 1939?]
Shove Memorial Chapel, Colo. College, Colo. Springs Campus scene with Pikes Peak in the middle background.
[between 1931 and 1940]
Aspen 1930's ski course construction
[between 1930 and 1940]
Native stone construction work done at Pueblo by WPA workers is exemplified in this foot-bridge built over Lake Clara in Mineral Palace Park. Similar stone was used in numerous WPA built structures at the State Fair Grounds and in parks.
[between 1938 and 1940?]
Found in excavating at Ft Casper [i.e. Caspar]
1936 March 23

Works Progress Administration Photographs

August 24-26, 1895
[August 1895.]
Bullfight arena [graphic]
[between 1920 and 1925?]
Bullfight at Gillett, Colo.
[August 1895.]
Bullfight at Gillett, Colo. Charlie Meadows, man on right on horse
[August 1895.]
Gillett, Colorado two bulls were killed before the Deputy Sheriff stopped the show
[August 1895.]
Those taking part were all brought up by Mr. Wolfe
[August 1895]

Colorado Bullfighting

White City rides
[between 1908 and 1920?]
Lakeside Park
[between 1908 and 1920]
Lakeside Park
[between 1908 and 1920]
The Schutes [sic], White City, Denver
[between 1908 and 1910]
Lakeside, Eddie Brittain & Tom Gerun in scooters
1934 July 1
Grandstand softball park at Lakeside Amusement Park
1936 June 28
Casino Tower at Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1910 and 1930?]
Steam train at Lakeside in Denver, Colorado
[between 1920 and 1930]
Aerial view of Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1920 and 1940?]
El Patio Ballroom at Lakeside Amusement Park at night
1927 May 30
Swimming pool at Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Aerial view of Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1910 and 1930?]
Dance at the El Patio Ballroom, Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1910 and 1920?]
Flapper Lane at Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1920 and 1930?]
El Patio ballroom at Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1910 and 1920?]
Kay Kyser and his orchestra at El Patio ballroom, Lakeside Amusement Park
1937 August
Lakeside Park train, miniature engine number 44, engine type 4-4- 0
1931
Lakeside, Tom Gerun & orchestra on roly [sic] coaster
1934 July 1
Princess Colorado contest Lakeside
[between 1920 and 1930?]
Roller coaster and ballroom at Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1910 and 1930?]
Staride ferris wheel at Lakeside Amusement Park
[between 1920 and 1940?]

Lakeside Amusement Park

Goldfield
[between 1894 and 1900]
Hughy
[between 1890 and 1900?]
Stone Cabin, Jenny Lind Gulch
[1948?]
Old Man Topping and the first log cabin in Cripple Creek
[between 1892 and 1895]
First house in Cripple Creek, Poverty Gulch
[between 1892 and 1895]
Tutt and Penrose Cabin built 1891 Cripple Creek, Colo.
Feb. 1894
St. Peter's guide at home, Colorado
[between 1882 and 1900?]
Log cabin home of Martha & Mary Crane, Cripple Creek, Colo.
1909
Hepburn's cabin, Miners Basin, La Sal Mt's.
1897 August 10
Elkhorn palace, near Rosita, Colo.
[between 1870 and 1880?]
Gunnison, first house on Gunnison townsite located on west side of railroad track of Crested Butte branch, and slightly east (?) of Tomichi Avenue
1876

Tiny Houses

Native American women, Yosemite National Park
[between 1890 and 1910?]
Shanti [sic] town
[between 1930 and 1940?]
Denver 19th & Clay - squatters
1939 May 1
Sade Rhoads and daughter, "Mitzi," or Mary Elizabeth camping
[between 1920 and 1925?]
"Mrs. Oleo Margarine" with daughter "Melissa" behind them is a geodesic dome made of wood & tar - impregnated wood fiber
December 26, 1965
Clard Svenson of Drop City stands inside a half-finished geodesic dome that eventually will become a theater for psychedelics
1967 August 6
Droppers enjoy quiet moment of relaxation on hillside & just outside a window of a geodesic dome home
1967 August 5
Miss Elizabeth Kuhn taught school in this building in Turret in 1929
Summer 1974
Nevadaville Simmons' house - Letcher St log cabin inside one of the oldest houses in Nevadaville built in early '60's.
[between 1938 and 1940?]
Oldest house in the United States, Santa Fe, N.M.
[between 1899 and 1905?]
House of Henry Gillespie, later known as Ghost House
[between 1960 and 1970]

Wow Photo Wednesday~ Ramshackle Houses

Sun room, Crawford Hill house
[between 1910 and 1920]
Interior Crawford Hill house
[between 1910 and 1920]
Dining room, Crawford Hill house
[between 1910 and 1920]
Interior Hotel Campion, Twin Lakes, Colo. Midland Ry.
[between 1895 and 1900]
Section of Rotunda "The Colorado" Glenwood
[between 1893 and 1901]
Interior view of Trinidad Country Club, Trinidad, Colorado
[between 1921 and 1925?]
Reception hall looking north toward dining room, built 1912, still standing 1923 [Frederick Warshauer residence].
[between 1960 and 1980]
The great drawing room is called by experts one of the finest examples of Elizabethan interior architecture in U. S.
1948
Back room library Bancroft residence 1755 Grant
between 1890 and 1900
Judge Benedict's house on 1200 Pennsylvania - the library
1899
Spanish patio - Denver residence (may be Evans house)
1940
Claude Kedzie Boettcher residence
[between 1950 and 1970?]

Luxury Interiors of the West

Concrete section of Community canal near swimming pool in Elderado [sic] Spgs.
March 22, 1909
Diving - Eldorado (?)
[between 1906 and 1930?]
Diving - Eldorado (?)
[between 1906 and 1930?]
Eldorado springs, Colorado crazy stairs
[between 1910 and 1925]
Eldorado, rock cut on the road up the canon
[between 1920 and 1960?]

Pool Party In Eldorado Canyon

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