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Curated Galleries

View of the garages and tool shed at the Willis Case Municipal Golf Course (formerly Rocky Mountain Golf Course) in Denver, Colorado. Round and rectangular planters are near the buildings.

View of the women's restroom at Berkeley Park in Denver, Colorado. The stone building has a tiled roof and a painted sign that reads: "Ladies".

View of a water pump house at the Wellshire Golf Course (Wellshire Country Club) in Denver, Colorado. A sign that reads "Danger" is on a door of the building.

The Parks Album

View of a Cherry Creek flood in Denver, Colorado after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break; shows an expanse of water and landscaping at the Sunken Gardens.

View of a Cherry Creek flood in Denver, Colorado after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break; shows the Broadway Street bridge, people, and a car dealership with a smokestack and signs: "Continental, Buick."

View of a Cherry Creek flood in Denver, Colorado after the Castlewood Canyon Dam break; shows muddy water, landscaping, and people.

1933 Cherry Creek Flood

A young woman poses in a costume that includes shorts, high heels, print fabric, and a stovepipe hat.

Studio portrait of E. M. Winterbourne. He wears glasses, a suit, and tie.

Colorado City Hose Team pose in front of the diagonal batten door outside the brick fire station, South Twenty-sixth and Cucharas streets, El Paso County, Colorado. The men stand wearing dark underwear shirts and shorts with arms crossed and their brass hose nozzle proudly on display in front of them.

Hipster or History?

Oak Street filled with mud and debris from the disastrous Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado. Jack Hawkins' two-story wood frame Victorian with front wraparound porch and second-story bay window tilts on side from flood waters; smaller wood frame structure with front intersecting gables destroyed in foreground; cliffs in background.

View northwest down Colorado Avenue after the Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado; shows First National Bank Building on corner of Fir and Colorado, three false front businesses, the Sheridan Hotel, the San Miguel County Courthouse, and mud and debris- filled street. Townspeople are near the bank and in distance in front of the Sheridan with a horse and automobile; electric and telephones lines cross street; chairs and tables are part of debris.

View north up mud and debris-filled street from the disastrous Cornet Creek flood on July 27, 1914, Telluride, Colorado; shows two-story false front, Iowa House on corner, and residence across street.

The Cornet Creek Flood of 1914

Children eat at tables in a W.P.A. nursery school in Denver, Colorado; food includes cake and tin cups of milk.

Work Projects Administration (WPA) railroad construction workers in overalls and fedoras use a hammers and a crowbar to install rails at a switch on railroad tracks near Lowry Air Force Base in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a railroad signal and a culvert beside the tracks. The tracks were constructed to connect Lowry to the Union Pacific Railroad line.

African American soldiers in uniform and women laugh as they stand near, or sit on, a piano at a W.P.A. armed forces center in Denver, Colorado. The women wear dresses, one has on strap heeled shoes.

Works Progress Administration Photographs

A small group of people are gathered in a bullfight arena.

The bullfight on August 24 or 25, 1895, takes place in the bullring built at the race track in Gillett, Colorado, for the occasion. Joe Wolfe was the organizer of the event which caused a scandal because of its cruelty to animals. The bull lunges as the matador waves his cape; another bullfighter is in the ring and a mounted picador carries a lances. Spectators are in the stands behind the wood fence.

The bullfight on August 24 or 25, 1895, takes place in the bullring built at the race track in Gillett, Colorado, for the occasion. Joe Wolfe was the organizer of the event which caused a scandal because of its cruelty to animals. A bullfighter waves his cape at the bull, who paws the ground, while the matador looks on. The mounted picadors carry lances; one of the horsemen is seven-foot-tall, long-haired Charlie Meadows, Joe Wolfe's partner. Spectators are in the stands behind the wood fence.

Colorado Bullfighting

View of concession stands at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado. Signs read: "Penny Arcade," "Fun Palace," "Skee Roll Alley," "Shooting Gallery," and "Sea Planes."

Men, women and children swim in the indoor pool at Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado. A girl prepares to go down a slide, and boys and men line up on a platform to use the diving board. Spectators lean against a fence.

View of Lakeside Amusement Park in Lakeside (Jefferson County), Colorado; people walk by a pavilion and the boat house. Lake Rhoda and Lakewood are in the background.

Lakeside Amusement Park

First house in Poverty Gulch, Cripple Creek, Colorado; house is possibly Robert Womack's cabin in Fremont (prior to Cripple Creek incorporation) or Andy Frazier's cabin in Squaw Gulch; the one-story rounded log cabin built into the hillside has a low gable sod roof; three men wearing three-piece suits and knee high boots pose outside cabin; one man leans on miner's pick while another man, wearing a derby hat, sits on stump; additional picks and shovel are near front side entrance of cabin.

A prospector with a sledgehammer stands outside his chink and log cabin in Teller County, Colorado; shows a cast-iron stove outside the door of the cabin, a jug, broom, lunch pail, pans, cans, and a dog and her puppies under a table.

Harry Leonard and Spencer Penrose stand in front of Tutt and Penrose cabin, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one-story log cabin built in 1891 with low gable and sod roof; two saddled horses are teethered to corner of cabin; cabin includes stovepipe and wooden plank leading to front door; sparsely settled hillsides are in the background.

Tiny Houses

Old Olsen's log and plank shack residence Petersburg (later Englewood), Arapahoe County, Colorado, includes a hand pump and washtub.

View of dilapidated cabins in Independence (Pitkin County), Colorado; features barren hills with new growth.

A dilapidated log and sheet metal shack stands on the verge of collapse at the Montezuma Mine, Pitkin County, Colorado.

Wow Photo Wednesday~ Ramshackle Houses